What books help me cope with my rampant hatred, agression and

>>8837388
Enchiridion or Marcus Aurelius meditations. Or Confucius Analects, fuck if I know

get some pussy and you'll be fine

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>>8837398
>tfw 21 year old virgin
That's not it, though, it goes deeper than that.

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>>8837388
How about "Industrial Society and Its Future"?

>>8837405
I doubt you've actually been in a situation where your deep hatred for humanity would be justified, so frivolous anger is tempered by frivolous pleasures.

How much have you read before? I'd give you some recs but I don't know where you stand on the /lit/ scale.

>>8837435
Got barely any /lit/ knowledge. I read The Metamorphosis, No Longer Human, Catcher in the Rye and maybe one or two more. But my hatred isn't frivolous at all, I'm actually the guy that wrote >>8832401
It's not something I can get out of my system that easily, if at all.

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>>8837388

>>8837435
Also I found
>I doubt you've actually been in a situation where your deep hatred for humanity would be justified
to be pretty presumptuous, considering you know nothing about me.

>>8837483
>to be pretty presumptuous, considering you know nothing about me.
That's only because you think hating humanity is something that's easily justified, I doubt you know how deep that statement actually runs.

>>8837465
You'd benefit from something that'd forcefully seperate you from your solipsism. So anything that would grant you a bigger perspective on things, philosophy would be your best bet.

Start with the greeks.

>>8837388
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>>8837388
You're not going to find an author that empathizes with you because no one who hates humanity would take the time to sit down and write a high quality book for other humans to read.

Learn to accept the world and stop hating things you can't change. Siddhartha is the fiction book I can think of that most closely relates to this topic. The Power of Now is useful though it's non-fiction.

>>8837388
Read Schopenhauer,

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>>8837585
>no one who hates humanity would take the time to sit down and write a high quality book for other humans to read.

>>8837604
Also read Nietzsche who is probably going to be your favorite philosopher. You will realize the purpose of your existence. Power.

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>>8837388
idk one of these?

>>8837465
>>8837550
or join the damn peace corps or something - see the world and help people who have endured much more than you

>>8837608
He didn't hate them totally, since he still wrote. Unless OP can identify something positive he can appreciate in humanity, looking for empathy in books is a waste of time.

Read Céline. His anger is justified since he truly was shown the most vile sides of human nature. I don't doubt he was a genuine misanthrope and not some edgy fag that hates the world because he didn't get his dick wet yet. If that is you though, read Houellebecq, you'll adore it.

>>8837388
crime and punishment or anything fyodor

>>8837388
>I want peace of mind.
Siddharta, The Bible

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>>8837388
Take the Tao pill.

If you've already displaced all your problems out into the world (i.e., there's some book out there that can help me feel better) you've already lost. You're looking for exterior solutions to problems in your own thinking. Being miserable should be enough impetus to change that.

Harry Martinson - Nässlorna blomma

It's about a little boy growing up at different farms in the quiet and soothing country side in Sweden.

>>8838550
>implying I'm wrong and not the world

>>8837435
I am not OP but I have been through a lot of childhood abandonment, abuse and neglect trauma and find it hard to trust people and relate to them. What are some books that could start me towards healing? I can read anything you throw at me.

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>>8837388
Following the teachings of God himself is the only true way to set yourself onto the path of righteousness and peace of mind.

>>8837405
Seriously get a gf

No book will do it. Get some friends, a girlfriend you actually love, go out and have real actual experiences. Sitting in your chamber of self pity reading something some guy you'll never relate to write 200 years ago isn't gonna do shit. If only it were that easy.

>>8838723
What if I'm too socially anxious/inept to do that?

>>8838729
>>8838723
This. What is your answer?

>>8838723
Haven't you read anything OP written?

>>8838729
>>8838732
Too socially anxious to make friends? How is this not a self-fulfilling prophecy? Either get on meds or don't. If you don't want to get on meds, either try to make friends or don't. If you don't bother trying, don't fucking whine about it.

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>>8838723
>Just go out and get a lot of actual, real friends, that aren't shallow retards and a girlfriend that loves you dearly, it's LITERALLY that easy!

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>>8838745
This>>8838750 guy is implying you can't make real friends

who do I believe?

>>8838745
There aren't any effective meds for anxiety other than sedatives and I already have chronic fatigue.

>>8838769
What are "real" friends? What are "fake" friends?

I was always anxious when meeting new girls. So I did it over and over until I stopped being anxious. That's the secret to managing negative emotions like that. Just by doing it over and over, your body adapts to the stimulus and stops freaking out.

>>8838769
>>8838779
Excuses. You're thinking of reasons to not try in order to avoid failure. Trying and failing is better than not trying at all.

>>8838729
>>8838750
That's why I said its not as easy as reading a fucking book. It takes actual effort. There's no instant cure you can buy for $5.99 at the store.

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>>8838782
I did this, I stopped being too anxious, but girls and just about everyone still hate me

Its like I have a sign that tells people not to like me

>>8838798
Then that just means there's more work to do. Doing something repeatedly to overcome anxiety will only do that: overcome anxiety. I was also the same in that way. However, developing your personality and social skills is much more specific than I can help you with. You need a ton of real reference experiences, preferably backed up by analysis and advice from an outside source. The first is on you, but there are plenty of resources that can give you the latter. It's up to you to continue your journey.

>>8838785
YOUR ANXIETY IS JUST AN EXCUSE.
Great logic bro. Thanks I feel so much better now that I realize everything is just an illusion of the mind. I just met this great girl and we're getting married next week. All my newly made friends are going to be there. Thank you so much for curing me.

>>8837388
meditate
lift
do mma

Get that energy out. Then when you actually meet somebody you actually hate you can mentally torture them and they'll be unable to do a thing. That's a top-tier feeling.

>>8838870
For a second I read that as do mdma
which isn't that bad of an idea as well OP

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>>8838788
>There's no instant cure you can buy for $5.99 at the store.
Then explain this.

>>8838863
Nobody here actually gives a fuck if you live or die, bitch all you like.

>>8838863
Anxiety isn't an illusion, but you're forgetting that like all other emotions, all it really is is chemicals in your brain. Deconditioning yourself to these emotions through overexposure is the exact same process that's proven to lead to addiction in drug users. Expose yourself to anxiety repeatedly, prove that there are no actual serious consequences to the thing that causes you anxiety, and it disappears. Instead you chose to project some imagined argument on to an anonymous poster who was trying to help you. (Who wasn't even me.) Sad.

>>8838911
>all it really is is chemicals in your brain.
Stopped reading there

>>8838916
Keep going, you can do it! I believe in you!

>>8838723
>Get some friends, a girlfriend you actually love

Really shitty advice. Making your happiness dependent on other people always ends the same way. You have to find a way to be happy being alone, then you're ready to share your life with someone else.

>>8838863
I dont give a shit if you feel better "bro." I've literally been diagnosed with social anxiety and I didn't want to take meds, so I figured out what was wrong with my thinking and changed it. If you're not willing to do that then you're just fucking whining and looking for pity, which is part of your problem in the first place. The very fact that you're getting all butt blasted at me because I didn't make you "feel better" should illustrate the whole problem to you. You're displacing personal problems out onto the world, and the world doesnt owe you anything.

inb4 the bible

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>>8838723
>implying all experiences aren't real
nice spooks faggot

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>>8838940
>diagnosed

>>8838931
I thought /lit/ was above saying exactly what Redditors say

>>8838993
>Implying being contrarian is the solution for normal problems

>>8838998
As in youre saying literal pop-psychology that people would write on facebook

>>8839007
I'm not that guy but rejecting normie advice just because it's normie is a surefire way to stay an autist.

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>>8838940
Wow you were literally diagnosed? Wew. Man I'm so sorry. You're right I am totally not diagnosed at all and was just self diagnosing. I haven't totally tried all sorts of meds and worked with a team of doctors for years or anything. It's amazing how you knew all that. And since I'm starting to realize you might be a little slow that was all sarcasm, I have been "literally" diagnosed with severe general anxiety, social anxiety, PTSD and Bipolar II Disorder. I've worked with doctors for over half my life just to get to the point where I am today, a shut-in who can at least go out and function enough to pay bills and live. I simply wanted a book that could maybe help me, I didn't ask for a book that could magically fix me. You seriously need to fuck off and go take some time for some serious introspect so you can work on that problem you have where you jump to conclusions and blame people for being the way they are.

I don't see why I should take the effort in socialising. I don't like anyone and I'm so jaded thanks to r9k. Can't enjoy anime or videogames anymore because of this. Literature was my last ditch effort but 4chan just keeps me topped up on cynicism.

>>8837388
Go on here:
http://nwnprod.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=e148f46ffeb3343117bef126211ae91c

And listen to the albums they're talking about.

>>8839129
Try listening to podcasts and talk shows with very positive people keeping very positive attitudes. It has worked well for me.

>>8839117
Shut up retard

>>8839145
Got him! Ha!

>>8839139
Got any recommendations? I just don't see any reason to be happy. And CBT seems interesting and I would do it if I had a reason. It's just I am safe while depressed. But at the same time I feel as though I'm missing out on love and friends by forgoing it.

>>8839159
Watch Norm Live

>>8839129
Get off the internet then you dumbfuck

>>8839161
But Norm lives like anon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDji8i1jrWY

>>8839188
yeah which makes him a good halfway point you can relate to

>>8839159
>And CBT seems interesting

Its horseshit and incredibly boring in reality

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>>8837388
Anything by the Marquis de Sade

>>8839129
Lol this thread is the exact opposite. You have some cynical guy like yourself be repeatedly told he can fix his problems if he puts in the effort to fix them, but then he just tells them all to fuck off while he stays miserable. It's cynical if you can't see the pleasure in schadenfreude and learning from other people's mistakes.

Though even if you hate all of humanity and by proxy all products created by them, you can still find enjoyment alone, so if you can't even do that you're entirely to blame.