>No motivation to go to the gym >Go anyway >Workout

>>42722637
Because I thought it would make my life better.

It didn't.

I'm turning 24 soon, 3 years of lifting - my life is absolute garbage and I could just disappear.

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>>42722666

>>42722635
I fight against my thoughts. If my thoughts are negative and I ask myself

"why even continue?"

I fight those thoughts back and I do anything to scare them away

I think of my mom and why she had brought me into this world. She did not bring me to this world for me to be a whiny bitch. I am here to fulfill a certain task, and being a little cunt is definitely not the one.

fight against your mind anon. Get fucking aggressive. Don't let it win against you.

>>42722715
Do you have the one anon remade? With a better typeface.

>>42722635
You need a holiday. Go traveling somewhere for a few months. A working holiday if you can't afford it

When I feel down like this I personally just go jogging for two miles and then sit back and listen to dadrock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij5CYIfR4_M

is a good mix. You're probably more into a slump about your life more so than actually working out or weight lifting. Try changing things up a little bit. Also if you're drinking or ingesting a lot of caffeine I'd probably cut back on that as well. Don't worry, anon, life will always make you feel like shit due to repetition. Constantly trying to find another thing to drive you makes you experience that much less.

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>>42722763

You need to put some fucking purpose in your life. Passion. Do something worthwhile. Do something to make the world a better place. There's a lot of fucked up stuff going on in this world. Go take a fucking stand against that. Lift for yourself and fight for everyone else. Only by balancing those two things can you really be fulfilled as a person.

>>42722635
The lack of sleep is chronic?

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Same here,yesterday i tried to workout and i end up doing 2 sets of squats and leaving with tears in my eyes.I dont know what the fuck happened,i just had like inner conflict with negative thoughts and i couldnt force myself to do it

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>>42722780
Thanks man

>>42722794
Different Anon here, but how do I find a purpose or a passion?

I'm a 21 year old minimum wage slave and I dropped out of community college. Couldn't fucking stand being there. I don't want to work a menial job my whole life, I want to feel important or like I'm needed.

>>42722635
same her havent gone lifting since... 2 months again

>>42722794
Not OP though. I did my bachelors in a field I have no interest in anymore and I only a couple of shifts a week as a dishwasher at a hotel. I don't have any career ambitions other than to stop feeling sad all the time desu. I sleep well and eat healthy in addition to lifting.

>>42722635
>No motivation to go to the gym
>Go anyway
>Workout is always shit, no matter how much I try and hype myself up, take pre-workout etc.
>Can't sleep properly, keep waking up at night
>Don't even feel like eating, have to force myself to eat, have a big plate of stake and potatoes in front of me and I've taken two bites in the last hour

It was pretty much the same for me. I decided to hop on gear and nothing has changed (besides my weight and strength)

>>42722850
The key is to stop living purely for yourself. Stop thinking about what you can do to improve your own life. Start thinking about what you can do to improve the world. In doing so, you will naturally improve your own life too.
Look at all the fucked up stuff going on in the world. Find an issue you are really passionate about. It doesn't fucking matter what issue. Have a problem with the central banks controlling everything? Unjust wars of aggression? Ecological destruction? Factory farming? Government overreach? Censorship? Denial of the right to keep and bear arms? Pick some issue that makes you really, really fucking mad. And then do all you can to fight against that. Fight it with all you've fucking got. Put your life into it. Then you'll be doing something that you know is meaningful. You can take up some hobby or passion for yourself but then you'll just get bored of it eventually. Go this route instead and it will be something you'll never get bored of because it's something that has objective meaning, something that affects others, not only yourself. Not only will the world be better off for it, but you'll be a hell of a lot better off for it to. Just imagine the world we could live in if even 1% of people thought this way. Think of how much you can ACCOMPLISH with your life if you put your entire fucking life into something that's important to you. First you have to get mad, really fucking mad, about some issue in the world. Then go all in to put an end to it.

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>>42722874
I assume you are >>42722850 but if different anon, this >>42722893 applies to you as well.

>>42722635
>spend entire childhood in deep depression
>get meds
>they dont work
>get new meds
>still doesnt work
>one more try
>works
and thats the story of how i dont feel bad almost ever anymore. you should really try it if the problem persists.

Low test

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We motiviational thread now.

>>42722635
my motivation went down since my breakup, second one with the same girl

>>42722905
>relying on medication instead of your own will and passion to overcome depression
Fuck that. Don't be that fucking weak and pathetic.

>>42722635
I'll sit down with a notebook and write down what think are my problems. Once i see the problems in a piece of paper I try to find the solution for them. Sounds dumb but it help me go through tough times.

>>42722937
>t. someone without depression
Do whatever lets you continue to function.

>>42722850
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. Live in the moment, try to enjoy life and avoid becoming bitter. This is a gross over simplification but will point you in the right direction.

>>42722970
Nah I had severe doctor-diagnosed depression. Refused medication because despite severe depression I still had a little self-respect, did basically what this anon said >>42722893 and now I'm happy as fuck with my life.

>>42722893
LETS FUCKING GO EXTREMELY PISSED OFF WORKOUT MODE ACTIVATE

>>42722980
What do you do to change the world?

Too many (You)'s to hand out so just gonna speak my mind.

Volunteer. Go to a pet shelter or a kids daycare or nursing home and put in 3 hours per week helping other people, it makes you feel like your life is worth a shit. If you're anything like me, you'll end up loving it and apply for a job, then end up pursuing a career in the field if you have no other occupational ambitions.

>>42723024
Yeah this is definitely a good route. You could go the route of volunteering, activism, lobbying, getting involved in political groups or think tanks, you could be a speaker and give speeches about issues you find important at universities and such, you could travel the world speaking and motivating others to better the world in regards to whatever issue you are passionate about, etc

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>>42722780

>>42723066
What is that guy and what is that picture from?

>>42723132

World of Warcraft.

>>42722635
Sounds like maybe real mental health issues, see a therapist.

>>42722893
>>42723024

different anon here

thinking about the world, how unfair it is and the grand scheme of things only makes me even more depressed

what makes it even worse is that I have no real reason to be depressed

>>42723132
game of thrones

>>42722893
>Think of how much you can ACCOMPLISH with your life if you put your entire fucking life into something that's important to you.

I care about weightlifting and starting to "REALLY CARE ABOUT IT" is a bit late at 24 when the good lifters all start when they're teenagers.

>>42723169
Show those young punks what's up dude

>>42723155
>thinking about the world, how unfair it is and the grand scheme of things only makes me even more depressed
That's because you're not doing anything about it. It might seem overwhelming when looking at all of it so pick a specific issue and go fucking fight for your beliefs and values. Look at past leaders who made great change in the world, endeavor to be like them. Godhood awaits the worthy.

>>42723195

Even girls half my age and weight lift the same as me.

>>42722666
The power of the Sei Sei Morty, it is the Sei Sei and it has c-ch-BURRRRPS-chosen you Morty.

>>42723169
>missing the point of the post

>>42723209
Important. You can obviously still be depressed after cutting all this stuff out, but don't be surprised if you're depressed while still doing these things.

>>42722635
Go to a doctor

You could be depressed in which case medication will probably help (sometimes you have to try a few different meds). There are also a number of physiological conditions that could contribute to symptoms like this; a blood test would be a good idea

>>42722980
guy on meds here. i believe you and believe its possible for most people to do shit like that through massive action. the thing is i was also a schizo and had a massive psychotic episode. they put me in a hospital, forced me to take medication, and then put me in with other schizos for like a month before i got released. so basically some people do need medication to function. your belief that taking meds is un honorable or whatever is a bit silly. you would take medicine for things that i dont have to worry about. This doesnt mean your ailment is imaginary

>>42722742
best advice here. our thoughts can be our worst enemies sometimes.

>>42723263
>medication will probably help
Not as much as putting purpose and passion into your life. And that comes without the fucked up side effects of drugs.

>>42722635
This is textbook depression. Go to the doctors

>>42723318
Unfortunately a lack of passion for things and a lack of sense of purpose are textbook symptoms of depression... Of course if OP can find passion or purpose that's great and will probably make him feel a lot better but it's rarely that easy for people woth moderate or severe depression. Medication can seem like an "easy way out" but.... If you're depressed why the fuck would you not take an easy way out? Does anyone actually want to be depressed? If you can alleviate the depression by medication it will be VASTLY easier to return to enjoying life, having a sense of purpose, and to make lasting changes that will lower the chance of falling into depression again.

Side effects aren't a given, generally people end up trying a few different medications at different dosages to find the best balance of benefit and side effects.

>>42722637
>>42722715
Cringe

>>42723439
this. if you think you're getting real motivation from pictures on /fit/ you're a fucking dolt

>>42723375
I didn't say it would be easy, I said it would be worthwhile. Do you want to be dependent on drugs that just cover up the underlying depression or do you want to TRULY overcome it the hard, meaningful way?

Anyone got the pic that says shup up and train and its literally a pic of a train

>>42723493
Like I said, the drugs facilitate changing your habits, lifestyle, and attitude. Generally people who have been depressed for a while (1 year+) are perfectly aware of their lack of purpose, passion etc, they just can't find any way to regain it (and are also often sick of people telling them that they "just need to find something they really love" or whatever). Most people don't stay on them for life (a year or two is fairly typical).

>>42723132
Goodfellas.

>>42723532
Gregg Plitt might have it

>>42722903
If you're going to try, otherwise, go all the way. don't even start.

>>42722635
OP, there is a reason for all of this. think about it.
take a break, find the issues and start solving them from the easiest to the most difficult ones.
if nothing works go to a doctor, it may be depression
you can make it, OP

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>>42723209
This pic stopped me from fapping, thanks anon

>>42723209
>>42723894
For real I was fapping like 2 times a week, then I gave in and went back to old habbits. There is definitely a noticeable difference of not fapping all the time.

you have to be more confident OP just be yourself

>>42722742
Feeling Good-David Burns

>>42723493
The medicine gives you a life without the tendency to over-react, be anxious, and be affected less by stressful events. It gives you an opportunity to think. Meds do not ever cure depression, just supress it enough so people can realize that there is a different life behind the dark haze that the medicine temporarily rid. That is why you see those who are truly fucked up and getting higher doses of meds desiring and received ng but never disciplining themselves towards actually living the life without meds and its side effects.

Meds give depressed people a goal. It takes as much willpower to overcome severe depression on a heavily medicated person, as a person with mild or short-term depression. It's just up to the user to ultimately decide, when given insight into a worry free life, if theyd like to continue that way of life and eventually thinking

>>42722905
you're a faggot

>>42724439
what if yourself is a gay autistic nigger

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>>42723209
>tfw i literally do all of those except drinking and pills
I can't believe it took a shitty jpg on a zimbabwean cymbal emporium to put that into perspective.

>>42723132
tekken

>>42722666
define "garbage"?

>>42722635
Sounds like depression anon.

>>42727096
On this topic I just started prozac for the first time.
Got too close to actually necking it so I decided to actually go seek help.
We're all gonna make it anons.

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>>42722666
Amateur!
>27
>lifting since 2009
>still lift and force myself to do it
>doing cardio only for now because sprain shoulder
>next week I'll be back at it
>lift through depression,fat as fuck still permabulk however lift still
we gonna make it senpai

>>42723209
why that nigger got jeans on the treadmill

>>42722635
stop being a little bitch and dig deep, turn your sadness into anger and channel it to lift some heavy shit, good music helps too

>>42722850
I felt the same way. I got a job where I was important, irreplaceable. This also meant I was always there. Always dealing with the stressful situations and help was delayed to those that needed it the most. It cracked me over time. I wished for nothing but the most menial again.

And I'm actually doing that now. I work as a system administrator. I basically look at four different assembly lines, six different computers and a workflow chart and fix any of them that seem off. And I'm generally not the one that even fixes them, but rather reports them.

I'm completely unneeded. I work Mon-Fri. I get to see my family this labor day weekend and I get to sleep at night.

Do I get the same amount of respect when I get a haircut and they ask what I do? No. But I can live with myself again.

If you want an easy way to get into a important line of work, becoming an EMT-B is easy. Wasn't my path, but I kinda just fell into mine. You can become an EMT in a semester at community college or even less. Do that and see if you can handle it, and if you can, you can do a whole lot more.

>>42723132
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

>>42723132
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

>>42723737
Thumbnail of your pic looks like an emu lola

>>42727436
Fucking all of this. Do not live to work. "Irreplacable" means "Unpromotable".

>>42722937
>relying on some fucking medication to overcome a sickness

Depression is literally an imbalance of chemicals in your head. Especially if you have been that way since a child. Meds didn't work for me, but im glad to hear anon is doing better. Telling someone to not be weak becuase of a gentitic illneas is fucking retarded. We are not taking about "ohhh my girls left me i feel sad" but "I haven't seen the meaning in life since I was 9 years old." Do you know how fucking draining that is. Fuck you pussy, for even putting a shred pf doubt in his head that he's doing the right thing you're a piece of shit.

>tfw when I got more warts, infections, and other problems after going to the gym than gains
>tfw I have an infection in my bellybutton right now that won't go away
>tfw my self esteem has dropped even lower
>tfw I wasted over 1000€ in gym subscriptions, supplements and medicines and got nothing in return
>tfw I didn't get any female attention but I got multiple faggots testing me in the locker room

>>42722937
Type I diabetics are pussies for using insulin.
>this is how retarded you sound

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Now ask yourself, are you a man?

I know this is not /r, but does anyone of you have the motivational image of the antique statue with a text that goes something like this: "the body is the breathing image of ones self respect"?

Thanks anons!!

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>>42730663
Go, and lift!

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sometimes all i really want are friends. I feel alone. but then i remember that nobody ive met is really ever on the same page as me and all subscribe to the "lets go drinking and clubbing and smoke weed sex sex sex" mentality. Youre all i have /fit/

>>42730817
Godspeed to us, fellow anon!

>>42722635

weed. just dont overdo it

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>>42730846
This but include anime because it most closely approaches the platonic form of friendship

>>42727170
posts like this used to work for me, the thing is now I am /fit/ and actually happy with my body for once. I get respect from other people and even get hit on by qts occasionally. and I guess that is the reason why I want to quit because I am happy right now.

If you hate the world, hate yourself and have something to prove it is easy going hard every single day. If you are happy and content and just want to sit on the couch watching tv shows with your gf then it becomes hard to keep on going. and I dont know if I even have the strength for that.

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>>42722850
>Wants to feel important in a couple of years like everyone else.
>Soon inevitably realize how important social ties and money are needed to advance in the world.
>"I want to feel needed somewhere."
You're only going to get that place if you grind a profession you like or that makes you money. Only then does one take the step up to manhood and takes on the responsibility of caring for others.

>>42722892
Didn't your balls shrink too anon?

>>42722635
>don't even feel like eating

This has been me for a year. While I still love every aspect of lifting, I have no appetite and have even gone multiple times with just having a bowl of oats for breakfast and nothing else all day.

I turn 30 in 9 days. Is this part of being old?

>>42722635

Actually it sounds like you are overtrained. Take a week off the gym and see how you feel. Make sure you eat plenty of good food, and sleep as much as possible during this week

>>42722635
i feel you anon, recently only thing i've managed to do is go to shitpost on 4chin

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>>42731809
>but include anime
i only said sometimes friendo, what do you think im doing the rest of the time

>>42733038
DELET THIS :(

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>>42733210
no worries, she is your wife and she consents

i unironically miss smoking weed with her
was never a fan of it and with 25 it was a pleasant surprise that smoking it with someone you allegedly loved could be so much fun

>>42730846
What are you interests anon?
I'm not a normie by an means but I smoke weed about once a month and go drinking twice a month.
People are far more vulnerable when intoxicated and they show more humanity, a lot of people get drunk just to relax and feel like they can make friends.
I don't live near any clubbing culture, and I have certainly never had sex, but most people have social problems and judging them for drinking alcohol to help is cuntish.

>>42727184
>>42727180
>>42727148
Am I the only one who reads those in Arnold's voice with his whacky Skyrim accent?

>>42723209
>but weed cures cancer!

>>42722635
clean up your room

>>42734262
>>42734262
>judging them for drinking alcohol
you dont know how much college kids drink then

I like working on cars, I like camping/hiking/innawoods, I like sports but to clarify I like talking about playing sports and the different training you go through as an athlete, I could care less about Jaquan Tyrese Ta'Javier the 5th's 2nd quarter intercepted 12.378 yard run on wednesday october 25th 2006 at 9:31pm. I like history, sometimes I like to have talks about existentialism and purpose of life but thats usually when I'm at a party and the clock strikes 12 and I get a "wtf am i doing here with these fags right now" moment and I go step outside. I like working out obviously and bettering myself, and its fun to have somebody to talk to that shit about like I'm doing here with you right now. That may seem pretentious that I'm putting things that basic and boring so high as to say people arent on my page, but you have to understand; the only thing these people talk about are Drake's new album or how much pussy they get/got/will get. The bar is set very low familia, and I hate coming off as pretentious but i just cant stand it. Try as hard I I may, I don't fit in, for better or for worse

>>42735129
Are you pursuing a degree?
I'm asking because I got to college and don't go through this because of 2 reasons.
>Commuter college, less partying
>STEM masterrace
People who are successful in the sciences I'm in or pre-med don't have time to party all the time.
MAYBE once a week but they can't get too wasted as the next day has to be productive.

It really is the type of people you are with, none of the people I am with talk about sex because it's considered immature to brag about things.
They also might talk about a new song/album for a couple days tops, a lot of people near me seem to be in older prog so that's cool.

You are obviously being around people that you don't fit in with so it's depressing, I'm assuming you are an americunt as well so you really could be doing better.

>know a guy who wears sunglasses indoors, cap, and basketball shorts everywhere
>go to his house and everyone gets drunk
>he talks about baseball for 2+ hours
>he then talks about his depression, dead friend, and how he's afraid of dying and leaving his family

People are people m8, once some humanity is shown people become closer and are FAR easier to get along with.

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>>42722666
Felt exactly the same way before I started exercising. Started taking 5-HTP daily too. Feeling a lot better. Maybe you need to introduce something else into your workouts, or maybe you've plateaued.

>>42735208
this; everyone possesses a kind of harbor within them, but it takes a certain force to pull those phantom ships from dock

some of us bare our souls so easily because of desperation to prove we aren't normal or whatever, but others (nearly always the more social individuals) have grown so used to digging themselves into holes forty layers deep to try and fit a standard, whether its aesthetic or hobby based or just a pure fear of rejection

if there's one thing to remember, even glass doors reflect

>>42735208
[spoiler] i was a STEM major too [/spoiler]

That's the sad thing, we all got drunk together and they showed their humanity, and that was it. The endless spouting of random football player stats? that was their identity. Needless to say I left, cut pretty much everyone out because they were encouraging bad behavior and drug usage. The only people i talk to now are a couple of friends from high school, but some of them are getting pretty bad too

>>42735333
I'm the guy you are responding to.
I really think you just have to accept people and try not to be judgemental.
One of my best friend's is extremely conservative, he's waited till his mid-20's to get married and finally have sex.
He's never drank, been to a bar, or cursed.
He is one of the best men I've ever met.

I'm a shutin who other than smoking about once a month like I said, does hallucinogens pretty frequently.
I'm very liberal, long hair, and he asked me to be in the wedding.
He believes the things I do are wrong but he's able to see past it.
He will say things I find incredibly abhorrent about others and I see past it.
You can find drinking/drugs degenerate while still being friends with these people, most people want to enjoy themselves in their youth and they are too awkward to do that sober.

Protip: Most middleaged people have done alcohol/drugs, including the successful ones.
Probably your parents too.
People just deny this, I heard a group of incredibly conservative men/business owners once say about Obama "I wish he wouldn't say he smoked weed, it's unprofessional, everyone has smoked it but it doesn't mean you have to say you did".

>>42735896
Not anon you're talking with,but enjoy your fucking weed-induced mental illnesses. I sincerely hope I'm biased against people who willingly choose to become retarded for an evening.

>>42735977
This is why so many people here have trouble connecting with us, anger.
My conservative isn't a hateful piece of shit so even though he doesn't like it he doesn't have a kneejerk reaction.
I would never talk to him about these things out of respect, but the one time he asked me if I did drugs I answered honestly.

Just a hateful little man.

>>42736028
Yeah, you're right. Wonder what I should do about it.

>>42736056
Network, meet people you would normally not associate with, travel.
After meeting many different people from different cultural backgrounds you realize they are mostly the same and there is no reason to hate on them due to surficial issues.
The other day I was at a bar and talked to a feminist, she had the same problems everyone else faced and she explained to me a couple of her ideas.
On the internet I would be assblasted but talking to a real person she was far more understanding and reasonable than you would expect.

Don't base your social prejudices on the internet anon, everyone from every group pretty much has an equal opportunity to be a shit person or not.
Some are just more vocal about being pieces of shit.

>>42722635
You need to sink deeper into that depressed state until you're so overwhelmed with guilt and shame that your anger fuels you.

Working for me. The pain of self hate and shame outweighs my body's need to be complacent.

>>42722635
You're selling out your future.

Or, maybe, you don't *really* want to "make it" after all.

>>42722635
>Workout is always shit
what does this even mean?
it's not subjective.
either you are doing the exercises you intended to, or you aren't.

>>42722666
Listening to somekind of war music, black viking for me always gets my mind from depressed-angry at myself to a more clear headed anger that I should displace on my goals (the enemy).

Billions of men died on the field of battle for you to complain on your computer. All you gotta do is fix some shit in your life, you don't need to shed any blood or go through half the shit they wen't through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut7ED9s2pmM

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>>42722635
>>42732330
For me it's exactly the other way round. Whenever there is a problem I get the urge to eat some candy or fast food. Shit sucks on a cut.

>>42722635
4 more scoops, simple as that. C'mon guy