Why is the depression culture so prevalent, /pol/ ? It's

Now kids are proud of saying they're depressed, it's an accomplishment for them, how do we fix this!

if everyone talks about their problems they don't wig out

>>136488754
I think it's a good thing. People see these memes and realize they aren't the only ones who feel like shit. I think it prevents suicide in the long run

>>136488754
>have everything served on a platter
>no challenges
>no striving
>women are sluts and you cant build a family

seriously man, if this world was and MMORPG, it would be loosing customers

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>>136488754
Yeah because if you dont talk about problems and ignore them they will go away on their own.

They are larping.

I have anxiety issues, and EVERY psychiatrist I've visited has pushed SSRI's despite my insistance that I'm not depressed or even sad. Depression has become a big money industry made in the depression diagnosis, and

>>136488754
I'm depressed as fuck, anyone living in this modern world would be.

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Because they all realize just how shitty the world is and know they can't do anything to change that, but they don't know they know it
Most will eventually come to /pol/ in their search for answers and will go one of two ways
>Spiral deeper into depression as they see just how futile life is, confirming their feelings, and how they are gentile cattle for their Jewish overlords
>Break through to the other side of enlightenment and become an agent of chaos for Kek and continue living ironically just to spite (((them)))

>>136489309
>parents having financial issues
>peer pressure
>parents divorcing/fighting
>bullying resulting in bad grades
>isolation

7/10 - too unrealistic

>>136488754
Gen z here

It's because we learned too much too fast. We're the first generation to grow up in a world we're everything is front and center, mass shootings, wars, politics. We all realized too soon how truly ducked up the world is. Now to add onto that the millenials are in debt big time from college and no white kid or asain kid has a chance at scholarships because of bias. There's no more practical jobs you either have to be an engineer or somehow involved in programming. Something is going to break it's called the knock out game and white kids are tired of playing. So we have a big disparity of us either being far right or far left, literally there are no centrist in this generation

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>>136488754
>so prevalent
Because in the end nobody in this world gives enough fuck to solve your problems. They may look like it they may sound like it but in the end only you can solve it.

Depression is a hell of a drug to get hooked on goy. People say talking about it like its some glamorous thing that should be on the cover of Vanity Fair will help are fucking idiots. If you can't solve it, nobody else can. The only thing others do is throw advice at you on how THEY would solve it. It's up to you or some serious divine intervention to drag you feet kicking back to a functioning condition.

>>136488754
Idk, but us Millenials are having a great time~ !
Sucks to be depressed!

>>136490036
>unrealistic
The proper term is it lacks (((immersion))).

>being a good goy and pre-ordering the super good goy founders edition of this shitty mmo.

Depression has it's purpose

http://archive.is/UOnXL

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>>136488754
I get a lot of advertisements for anti-depressants probably because of my demographics.

I treated my depression by discontinuing SSRIs, becoming sober, riding my bike daily, eating well, drinking plenty of water and going to bed on time.

I also flagged which people in my life were being niggers and have em the boot

Depression is the result of philosophical immaturity.

If you want to end your depression.
Start nofap and noporn lifestyle.
If you want a faster results, eat a fruit-based diet.
At least 50-60% fruits (meat are ok) as long as 60% of your diet is fruit.
Also cold showers dont do much. If you want good results from freezing, than take ice baths

>>136493081
>nofap
but anon, what if I think having prostate cancer is depressing?

also stop pushing your joe rogan crap

>>136488754
Because society has gone down the shitter and everyone knows it. The difference is in who you blame for it.

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>>136488754
I am pretty sure everybody somewhat hates their lives everywhere.

I have lived in 21 towns in 4 states, both urban and rural.

Most people are just trying to make ends meet and have a little fun in between. Very few people were striving to do something big, and even those people kinda hated their lives. Most rich kids who go on vacation to Italy every holiday are already nihilistic shells of a human who take anti-depressants and drink heavily.

Nobody is proud of anything happening in their culture and nothing exciting is happening either. It's just a bunch of bullshit.

>>136488754
Its always been like this
Imagine being thrown midway into a joke and removed from said joke before the punch line
That's what human life is like

>>136490490
interesting read, thanks

>>136488754
In the past couple of years mental health has become a popular topic. Mental health issues are popular to discuss, debate and also have. To have one is to fit in with the trend.

>oh I feel sad
Depression
>I was happy now I feel sad
Bipolar
>I don't like sports despite being a guy
Tranny

These mental issues are easily relateable, so are highly exploitable in memes and such. For example you could say 'When you have to get up in the morning, but you don't know why you should because life is meaningless at the end of the day' with a picture of spongebob pressing 'snooze' would be very popular.

It is a trend, like 'man-buns' or being a faggot

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>>136492541
It seems to me like you're the expert Mark!

>>136489309
Unironically good post. Whoever told people that there is fulfillment in peace and contentedness is a fool. Seneca et hoc genus omne.

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>>136488754
>depression culture

>>136496357
No, seriously. Even looking at mainstream music, artists are talking more and more about suicide and how their life sucks with their millions and millions of cash.

I've been in tune to this wave.

smartphones and social media have made children emotionally stunted and retarded
they don't have the tools to deal with emotions so they start thinking they're depressed

>>136489309
>seriously man, if this world was and MMORPG, it would be loosing customers
Except this world is currently going through the most interesting political thriller of all time.

>>136497616
for normies its moreso they see the picture perfect lives of their "friends" on facebook and think they are inadequate by comparison

>>136489442
yup this ^

>>136488986
Fix the underlying problems that cause people to view their situation as hopeless. Oh wait that would require rolling back globalism and multiculturalism. Nevermind

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>Destroy family unit
>Destroy culture
>Constant guilt over things your ancestors did
>Watch in real time as your race is replaced
>Men and women compete against each other instead of being in harmony
>Absolute insanity that is identity politics

Even if you don't know each and every cause or the meaning behind it, you can still feel it.
Everyone can feel it.

How do I escape this feeling of worthlessness? I've had it since I was about 5.

>>136493646
Wow that's a depressing view

>>136497616
I've always pushed this, social media is bad and makes peoplejudge, kids need to GET OUT SIDE AND EXPLOOOORE

>>136488754
First, destroy individualism so people feel like they need to be part of a group. Then destroy all the positive groups like nationalism and Christianity. That way, the only politically-oriented groups people can be part of is gays and feminists and BLM.

>>136493646
that's what happens when you shit on all your traditions.

>>136489230
This
jesus christ

>>136489309
you're kidding right? this shit was brick way before the fall of modernity expansion

>>136500718
Almost. Destroy individualism whilst also shouting that you need to be individual AND part of a group.

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because most of them use it as a source of humor, either strictly for laughs or to try downplaying all their problems
>haha so random and funny he looks so radical but he says he's suicidal man that's just ironic haha!
the destruction of sincerity is what helps enables concepts like newspeak, doublethink, and so on. in an ironic world, you're trapped in your own body and world. people would rather joke about their problems than do anything about them, it's just like the extremely awkward guy who does nothing but tell self-deprecating "jokes" that just makes people hate associating with him

>>136499308
find a hobby and turn it into passion

Read some biology.
It is biological.
Most likely has to do with gut and early life programming.

>>136493646
I've lived several different places both urban and rural as well and this has been my experience too

>>136493646
Pretty much this.

Sorry to be cliche, but it really is like that Tyler Durden quote, "No great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives."

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Being in constantly melancholic is not only cool as fuck, it's not an unreasonable response to the world they live in.

Angry about the state of the world, sad that they'll never be able to effect any change in that world.

Welcome to hell, who gives a shit.

>>136502062
>Being in constantly melancholic is not only cool as fuck

t. someone who's never experienced clinical depression

>>136502897
He's right though. It's fashionable to seem detached and melancholy right now. It's like the revival of the early 90s Grunge/Industrial scene.

>>136501385
I can't focus on them. I've taken up several but I can't output enough energy in them to actually accomplish anything.

But this is the wrong place for this, I'll probably take it to adv later

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>>136488754
Because the west is dying and everyone can feel it. It fucking sucks to live in a civilization that is declining and drenched in degeneracy. Hedonism helps for a while but eventually it losses its effect and becomes just as shitty as everything else. People want and need a higher purpose to fight for and all we get is the shitty McConsumerism. Why bother trying it your nation if in flames?

>>136497627
>the most interesting political thriller of all time
This is a Kojima-grade cutscene, and you're happy about being able to zoom the camera around a bit and make titties jiggle?

>>136501563
And genetics of course.
Forgot that.

>>136503256
i feel like i'd be more popular if that were the case.

>>136488754
It's because everyone has realized that life is futile. We struggle just to survive and put up with fucking monsters who we can't simply kill because the law doesn't allow it. Good people get fucked over while cunts get rewarded. There's is no hope for the future. I'm 39 and I wish I had been born 30 years earlier so that I could have grown up during North America's best era with only a few more years to live and not have to watch of society be trashed further by feminazi's, SJW cucks, faggots and niggers.

Seriously, I wish I had been born in 1948 and got to see our civilization at its peak.

>>136497627
>the most interesting political thriller of all time.

I think you mean political satire because the USA is a fucking joke now as the right elects a conman as President while the left bends over backwards to placate niggers who do nothing but ruin our civilization. .

>>136489653
I know what you mean and how you feel. I had a three day weekend off. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, just watched movies, played games and wasted time here. Back to my grind tomorrow and I'll be even more stressed out than I was on Friday.

>>136493646
You are 100% correct, Sir.

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>>136488986
They need more experiences to toughen them up, so they don't have to have the artificial appearance of being well-traveled. "Look at me, I've done and seen so much because I cut myself, am bisexual, have autism, and got PTSD after Drumpf won XD!"

>>136489309
This words it better actually. They haven't been challenged.

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>>136503707
I chuckled.

>>136505542

someone has to.

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>>136488754
Wow, it's almost as if 100 years of demoralisation and rejecting an absolute moral authority (god) has made life meaningless and depressing.

>>136506051
No, we reject pedophiles which is why you and the church can eat shit as it's always the most self righteous pious fucksticks who are the most evil shits on the planet.

>>136506051
Fuck off Hitchens, nobody actually believed that shit.

>>136506051
>if only MUH pedophile cult was still in charge everyone would be happy
Fuck off faggot

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>>136505685

>>136506236
>>136506270
>>136506392
Maybe if you found strength and faith in Christ, you wouldn't be so bitter.

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>>136488754
Jews run media,
Kikes are miserable losers

>>136506530
>stop being angry about my religion raping tens of thousands of children and then covering it up
How are you different than Muslims again?

>>136506861
Muslims do it overtly.

>>136501760
It's no accident Fight Club, book and film, got so popular. It doesn't offer any solutions (the goal being "we're not satisfied, let's crash it all") but it points out some real issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgU71nWCNeY

>>136506530
Maybe if I was a vegetable I wouldn't be so angry.
Maybe if I was high as fuck I wouldn't be so fucking mad.
Maybe if I grew up in Africa I'd think the sky people would sort everything out and be happy huffing cow farts.

>>136502897
Maybe not but i do believe being sad can be a powerful motivator for personal progress.

>>136489309
It keeps getting worse with each expansion.

>>136488754
>Why is the depression culture so prevalent, /pol/ ?
because the world is going to hell Pierre

>>136507006
At least by the end it points to the fact that "crashing it all" ends up making you a monster and no better than that which has caused all the problems in the first place.

>>136488754

People are soft, it's that simple.

Give them something to do, and not sitting in a chair punching in numbers all day.

I work on a cattle operation and we get a lot of highschool kids every summer. Over the last 5 years or so I have noticed the number who are out right BRAGGING about having one mental problem or the other has been increasing, but no matter how bad off they are when they get here they always leave more or less normal (or they quit in two weeks).

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>>136507501
I never really got that. There was no moral to the story as far as I could tell.

>>136488754
I followed sole of those meme pages on fb when i got better but now that it's kinda back those memes are unbearable. 60% of likes are basic bitches who are larping as deep depressed individuals. Meanwhile boys are probably who share or like them are probably crying for help in a modern tolerable way.

>>136488754
I followed sole of those meme pages on fb when i got better but now that it's kinda back those memes are unbearable. Anyway 60% of likes are basic bitches who are larping as deep depressed individuals. Meanwhile boys who share or like them are probably crying for help in a modern tolerable way.

>>136507841
Damn I type like a retard and that post wasn't aborted at all.

i hate ironic "lmao i want to die haha xD'' posters.

>>136493322
Falling for the jerking off makes you immune to prostate cancer meme in twenty seventeen.

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>>136502062

>>136507500
I don't think he's talking about that, but about the fact that depression and mental illness has become trendy, faking misery and distress that vain idiots try to pass as depth to do like the people they've seen on tv
>>136507501
Didn't see that, I imagine you're talking about the book ending, with the devilish scars on the narrator's face?

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1/2

Because there is hopelesness and alienation everywhere. Everything has been accomplished. There are no more worthy goals to pursue. Each corner of the world has been discovered and settled. There is nothing left but vapid commercialism that seeks to make everybody better off than traditional white men. And we are excluded of that new world that progressives and non-whites are building for themselves, in their own little bubble. Understand that there is no point anymore in toiling at college if a degree is worthless and everyone goes for one too. Understand that there is no point toiling learning a trade either when quotas and immigrants and the crisis will rob you of what you earn, and when your status will be degraded by the elite caste.

The music, the culture, the movies, it's all meaningless and vapid entertainement pushed by a cabal of big, conglomerates. Everything has been politicized too. There is no mainstream, traditional good at which we can cling. For me, there is no strong family unit or clean orderly house to come back to.

And the sex. It's absolutely everywhere, yet it lacks love. And when we attempt to get one or the other, we fail. I failed to build a meaningful connection with the woman I loved. My first true love - not your college crush - is gone, preffering to look out for herself and attend a better university. She's ran me into the ground, denying me her love, denying herself the love I could give her. Nothing to do with politics this time, but the intrinsic bitterness of this world.

Melancholy is as another poster said, the best escape. I long for a time - the 80s and what came before - when the remnants of the traditional world were still alive. And for most of us, we've been raised with the mainframe of this world. A world in which we'd be happy, destined to make a better living than our parents in an orderly and happy world, with the benefits of globalisation and capitalism. Instead we had 2008 and the negroid-islamiccrisis.

>>136507501
>>136507717
I think you're both right.

Tyler Durden is an unhealthy reaction that results from an unhealthy environment. It's like the last words of the American Psycho novel - "This is not an exit."

>>136508237
people follow the flow and since the world is on an unstoppable downhill spiral its no wonder that "depression" is a growing thing. Both as a culture and as a real medical phenomenon.
You can get off this ride Seán

>>136508615
cant*

>>136508324
TFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHjIXCCHh3s

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>>136508324
2/2 Conclusion

We are living in a world that wasn't made for us and for which we weren't prepared. 9/11 and 2008 came and robbed us our future. Not that western living has become a luxury, far from it. But it's become and empty luxury. I find solace in escapism - TV, anime, message boards, roleplaying - but I know that I'm only going down, not up. There is nothing worth looking up to. It's rigged. I know that I'm not doing a favor for the aryan race and whatnot, but I've given up. The worst is that I haven't even made it out of college yet. What will my degree do for me? Probably no good, the field is over-saturated.

Anyway, that was a bit of self-pity and whining, in bulk. That's the answer to your question. I'm apathetic when a man my age is supposed to feel full of energy and hope. If everything burns, I probably wouldn't care. It would only hasten my inevitable demise from this phony status.

>>136508756
Race war soon, frogm8.

>>136507841
It happens when french try to english
Wouldnt look right if it wasnt an abortion grammatically yet made perfect sense when read

>>136488754
Because we're living with niggers and spics. I'm not even kidding. Seeing black people and brown people everywhere makes a man depressed as fuck.

It's prevalent because people see/hear the word 'depression' and take it literally because they're dipshits and think that it's synonymous with 'unhappy' rather than a clinical term. Then they go and think that they have a mental illness whenever things aren't going well for them and start diagnosing themselves and whinging on social media where it gets picked up and further propagated by other literary dipshits

>>136488754
>Why is the depression culture so prevalent, /pol/ ?

People don't get outside and socialize anymore. It leads to loneliness. What makes it worse is we've replaced real interaction with fake social media, which is worse than just being completely isolated.

So instead of this:

>two buddies head to the pub and talk about interests, what they're working on and want to do, what problems they're having in life, with family, etc.

We get this:

>Two buddies spend all their time at home. They chat occasionally, only surface level. They learn of life events through faceberg, where only the good stuff is posted. They begin to believe everyone but them is living a grand life, shame creeps in, paranoia increases, loneliness amplifies, depression ensues.

I just got back from a camping trip with a good friend I hadn't seen in years (lives out of state). Through social media (which I rarely use), everything appears great in his life. We actually got to talking and he and his wife both hate their jobs due to shitty management which cycles through college grads, struggling financially, wants to do XYZ instead but is having trouble getting jobs. I have some of the same complaints, gave him recommendations, he gave me his. We actually fucking interacted, got some exercise and fresh air. Just disconnected from shit for awhile. It's so god damn rare these days.

I'm not depressed but my mood spiked for a good week after that. This is how our parents used to live. I bet depression would all but disappear if we could return to this. So much depression is due to a poor lifestyle, not actual chemical imbalances. And modern society is fucked up thanks to fuckerberg and the (((press))).

>>136508756
Agreed. Ask /pol/ what keeps us living day to day and half will say "too pussy to suicide when there's still hope to see it all crash & burn"

>>136499308
The ideas you spread on here are worth more than gold.

>>136509743
People may not socialize anymore because of our culture that has taken this warped meaning. You have to be good enough, to respond to a set of values and interact following a social code that some of us did not learn because of early bullying, which is my case. In every era, individuals had to answer to this "social code". Today, it's just become so much easier not to do it and spend one's life drowning in escapism. That's also my case. Every minute I spend outside, I absolutely hate. I abhor work. Loneliness leads to apathy, and when depression adds itself on top of those two, it doesn't make anything better.

Although, to relate to your post, there is one thing that has made me feel better just yesterday.

I decided to go with my father to see ageing relatives. My father is a man in his fifties living in a messy apartment who's had several girlfriends. And to compare him to those ageing relatives, who had a house in good order, with those relics from the past made me feel better. It was pristine. Intact. Innocent. The 1960's carpet, the old ski magazines. I think there used to be a time when things were less hectic, when a man was judged on his work, and this encouraged him to work better. Ethics and marriage, as well as a good economy guaranteed that most people would move up instead of down. Today, those things feel like they're gone.

>>136508756
>but I know that I'm only going down, not up. There is nothing worth looking up to.

That's where your fucking wrong kid. Go pick up a hammer and make something. Stop valuing the achievement of the collective and start valuing the achievement of the individual.

So what if the world is going to shit, what are YOU going to make of it?

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>>136510366
I simply have no energy left, which is funny since someone my age shouldn't feel this way. There is no need, no desire, no flame burning. I'll pick up a hammer and toil with immigrants on road works and other buildings for thirty years. Will that bring me love or happiness? No. Only guilt, because I will do a menial job instead of the academic work that has been beaten into me since I was born.

It's difficult to explain, and I wouldn't explain an American to understand. You have that culture of the "do-it-yourself, live the Dream, put enough effort and you'll see a return". I don't think this works for everyone. See at one point in life I thought I had it all. The (((friends))), the (((culture))), the (((happiness))). I worked out and bettered myself to attain this goal of love and success. I ended up with nothing; my willpower was drained.

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>>136504481
Everything post ww1 was cancer. We were taken over by commies.

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>>136510277
>My father is a man in his fifties living in a messy apartment who's had several girlfriends. And to compare him to those ageing relatives, who had a house in good order, with those relics from the past made me feel better. It was pristine. Intact. Innocent. The 1960's carpet, the old ski magazines. I think there used to be a time when things were less hectic, when a man was judged on his work, and this encouraged him to work better. Ethics and marriage, as well as a good economy guaranteed that most people would move up instead of down. Today, those things feel like they're gone.

pic related

>>136510795
*pre ww1

>>136488754
No one is depressed because there are cool memes about depression. It's actually because people don't get enough sleep, because they stay inside and look at blue-light screens all day, which fucks up their body's sense of when to go to sleep.

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>>136510733
your condition is not unusual in America.

I think Japan is really ahead of us. Soon most white men who weren't born into a liberal bubble will probably feel the same at varying degrees. You can already see how this Japanese disease of depression and permanent escapism creeps up on us. See at how many times normie magazines point out that men have become too childish or too weak. Must be the breakdown of marriage or order in the grand scheme of things. There's just no guarantee anymore, and the fact that we'll always need to struggle instead of occupying a nice lifelong office job probably makes the risk look too big compared to the reward of staying at home playing videogames. Why secure this nzw job or position when you know Paco can snatch it in a few months; when you know the company will need you at all hours and when you're expected to share all your work 24/7 in a nifty shared workspace that kills individual thought?

>>136493646
Literally this

>>136488754
yea I wanna kms
keep
myself
safe

>>136510733

Oh there's Americans who wallow in self defeat the way you do (no offense). Difference is, there is no glass ceiling in America like there is in other parts of the world.

America was built by people who believed they could do anything they set their mind to. And those are the types of people who succeed. That's the American dream. There's no bureaucrat or higher power preventing you from getting somewhere. Literally no one is stopping you, although if you rise high enough, losers will try to take what you've built. Because they sat around thinking success falls into your lap through luck, and thus they get jealous of the "lucky" who have spent their time relentlessly working.

Some societies (don't know about France), basically put you in a caste system where you will hit too many barriers to succeed. That's not America. No one is keeping you down but yourself. But people in this country now seem to believe "freedom" and the american dream is all about someone handing you prosperity when it has never worked that way. Never. Although my generation (millennials) has been brought up thinking like that.

If you want it though, you can have it. You just have to be single-minded towards your goals. But no one in this country can stop you. And once you realize that, then you understand what real freedom is.

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>>136488754
>Why is the depression culture so prevalent, /pol/?

Because advancements in technology have made our lives more unfulfilling

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>>136511724
>No one is keeping you down but yourself.
>You just have to be single-minded towards your goals.

I could do that here too. With the Internet and endless education opportunities I could very well do it like you do in America. Hell, I could even go to America - that used to be my dream - and live my one American Dream. But I've suffered a defeat. I can't take the blow. Maybe I'm a defeatist, a coward, or I overreacted. But here's the deal. Three years ago I get to finish my high school year in some top-notch place. Understand, elite-level thing. I find out that I can't relate to anybody or make any friends. I find out that education-speaking, I'm not up to the task. Then, I get really attracted to a girl. Even with distance now, I can't convince myself that it didn't matter. It really mattered for me because it was the kind of feeling you rarely get more than once. So I try everything. I groom, I work out, I read a few books. To no avail. My grades don't go up. I'm rejected and denied everything I've ever truly put my heart at for (that girl).

Fast-forward to now. I'm waiting to enroll in law school. I feel no real urge to do well or to even go through it. Had I tried, I'm sure I could have made it to an elite college once again. But it's empty. I'm holding myself down.

Those personal struggles are linked with the things we've said in this thread. Social alienation, because I can't relate to any "normie" or have a decent conversation with any of them. Lack of self-esteem or established goals. I mean, I really don't want anything to do with this reality anymore. My biggest dream, which was to visit America, even died. The future is uncertain as fuck. No traditions, friend, or marriage will take me. I have nothing to aspire to - zilch. It's pointless. And when I turn the TV on, all I see is either happy people or people telling that the white man is this or that...

stop smoking weed, eat refined sugar and drink alcohol

>>136488754
The gods are dead.

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This has been a fascinating thread so far. Very interesting reading all of these different views. I've been depressed since I was a kid, diagnosed and all. I work 40 hours a week and live in a dumpy apartment. My generation (millennial) is lazy as fuck. I'm embarrassed by 99% of my age group.

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>>136512831
I appreciate that English probably isn't your first language, but I don't think you wrote what you think you wrote.

>>136489779
I'm somewhere between these two.

listen here you heathens, im an enlightened, life is meaningless, everything is worthless, life is nothing more than an accident, the only pourpose of life is reproduction, theres no higher meaning, no higher power, when you die you will be forgotten, it has happened to billions, but our human conciuness and intellect blinds us to the truth, everything revolves around protecting our fragile ego, its like a bubble, and every crack makes the truth more obvious, everything is meaningless, what is the answer to the dilemma of life? there are three answers to this,

physical suicide
kill yourself and your consciousness will be spared the eternal pain that comes with being human, escape and everything will be over, but does your ego wants you to escape? to give in to the cosmic imperative that renders life meaningless? dont you wanna say "FUCK YOU" to whoever is out there?

the other way is philosopical suicide
accept the great lie of a god that supposedly is out there and loves you, reject all intellect and critical, free thinking, happines is guarenteed trough the death of what makes us great,
and the final way,

ACCEPTANCE, accept the truth with open arms and a smile, for you dont have to prove yourself to anyone but you, the only god out there is yourself, youre king of your life, the only one you have to please is you, the only expectations you have to live up to are yours, your life is in your own hands and do whatever the fuck you wanna do with it, be part of society or not, accept your cultural baggage or not, fuck it, life is meaningless and our existence is absurd, the wind does not need a reason to be might, it simply its.

I work 32 hours a week at PetCo. I fucking hate PetCo, but was the only place that offered me a job. I live alone, and rarely see my family. I don't have friends, don't have a gf or wife.

I don't really enjoy anything anymore, pretty much all I do when not at work or asleep is cycle, work out, and read.

We're not any different than the animals I sell at Petco. Involuntary held and forced to participate in an unnatural environment that is massively detrimental to our mental health, all so that somebody we will never meet can gain something intangible.

and yet we wonder why people are OD'ing left and right

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>>136514550
This thread is a quality thread. Thanks for that comment anon.

>>136514550
People are ODing because drugs are fucking fun

>>136488754

Social media is a factor.

People go on facebook or other social media website and post all day about how great their lives are. You then start comparing your life to theirs which creates a feeling of being left out or because you are not experiencing the same lifestyle or life achievements you feel like at failure.

>>136514699
its the troof

>>136514789
I would wager the majority of people who OD on drugs are no longer in the "fun" phase of drug use. You're missing the point though (assuming you arent just a troll)

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>>136510792

You all should have paid attention in school instead of fuckimg off

Your all just stupid and full of grandeur and the world has no room for stupid people

>DUDE
>DEPRESSION
>LMAO

>>136514550

Gotta find a spouse anon and have a family. Seriously. Shitty jobs and shitty work will never change. It's the relationships with people that matter. Even if you had a kick-ass, high paying job, you'd still end up feeling lonely. You wouldn't starve, but you'd still have that emptiness.

It's hard finding meaning in life, which is ultimately what will motivate you. Living to be good to other people, to be a light in someone else's life, just to be a good person, that's all that really matters in my mind. Everything else eventually goes away. ?But you will live on through your family and the people around you, for better or worse, you will impact their lives. Especially with kids, you will determine the course of events in their life and your progeny by the example you provide. Be the type of ancestor you want your future generations to look back on and appreciate, admire and be encouraged by. Be that person, and maybe you'll find some fulfillment out of your time here.

>>136514699
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

>>136516372
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

>>136488754
You have the cause and the effect confused. The youth are depressed. The world we live in contains too much expose to too many things adversarial to their mental health: perfect lifestyles on social media, information bubbles agitating one view, constant instant gratification and the constant stream of knowledge that there are big things wrong in this world that they are powerless to fix. Combine that with weak economic prospects and an eroded culture and the result is as you described. A generation of people with depression or some feeling of despair about the world that they live in

>>136516413
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

>>136516450
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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>>136507500
>>136488754
>>136489653

>>136516477
Who the hell names their kid Rudyard anyway? That'd be depressing as fuck.

>>136517144
it was the 19th century, leaf
there weren't a lot of terry's around

>>136514023
>life is meaningless
>nothing matters
>parroting common phrases
>decontextualised
>ambiguous
>paradoxical
>anything means anything
>anything means nothing

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>>136517505
Fair enough. Good poem.

Lack of personal responsibility.

Your mind is like your own little slice of reality, if you can't create joy in that tiny space how could you reasonably expect the anyone or anything else to? Yes of course the outside world affects us, but you must create your own happiness, there is no other way.

The state of the world may be in shambles but you must find joy in that absurdity and master yourself.

>>136514023
stupid nigger fell for neitzche instead of riding the tiger

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>>136519099
Great thread so far, it's been an interesting read.

Has anyone here overcome nihilism? I want to escape but keep being pulled back in.

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>>136488754

>>136501385
I had a hobby, programming.
I turned it into a passion.
I hate my life even more now.

>>136519854
I did at one point, but happiness is never a finished project and I let myself fall back into sadness. Working back out of it now.

To get out of nihilism I decided that my fulfillment was reason enough to keep going and every ounce of effort I put into my goals (big or small) made the universe more conducive to my being. So the more work you put in, the better it gets.

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>>136519854
I did anon
In the depths of winter I found within me an eternal summer.

>>136488754
I do not get depression. It's one thing to get supersad over death of a loved one or getting dick cancer. But being chronically depressed? Fuck off, it's fake.

>>136493646
This is why it was always important to dedicate your life to the Lord in the past. To know that life on this earth is a temporary suffering. Whether true or not, it is a coping mechanism that people this day and age are lacking. This is why so many today are succumbing to new mental and social disorders and at a higher rate, including complications that stem from gender dysphoria. And counter-productively, these conditions are only being enabled and people are worshiping big pharma instead of the word of God.

>>136489230
/thread

>>136521792
sergei gets it
being sad over unimportant things serves no purpose, and very few things are worth being sad over.

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>>136490111
Checked

>>136489309
I cant wait for the race war expansion. Im thinking about getting the AR-15 dlc to have an edge. Otherwise shitty game

>>136489309
>women are sluts
That’s what makes it good you absolute dump

>>136510366
Have fun working your ass off to build the future for the low iq nig and spic hordes of tomorrow.

>>136490111
Close. “Practical jobs” or whatever you’re talking about are over. Labor is cheaper than dirt so program the robots or become smart and learn how to move up the hierarchy.
If you’re looking to be a person with a job who puts things on top of each other then you wouldn’t have been rich in any age.
Find something you really like and you will make it if you do your best at it. It just might take a while

>>136492541
Agreed

>>136511724
There is no America. It's been replaced by a jew run Prussian system. You're full of shit. K- 12 makes people into slaves. There are very few real humans walking around here. The ones that are are targeted for destruction.

>>136498204
Shut the fuck you dumb nigger. No one is this retarded becuase everyone does it

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Stop the madness. Take the Foundation-Pill.