>tfw you can fight depression with music and videogames instead

>>37848641
depression is a spectrum, like most things in life, and some people, like me, have it so bad that the only thing that becomes relevant is chemically induced pleasure. i wouldn't expect a normie like yourself to understand.

When was the last time you were overwhelmingly happy OP? Not like got a cool skin in overwatch happy but like found the love of your life happy. Kid on Christmas morning happy. Drugs will take you there and that's why we take them buddy

>>37848641
Drugs feel better than music

drug addicts are more respectable than vidya manchildren

>>37848641
Wtf why is this boner material. My ding dong is diamonds.

>>37848641
Do you consider alcohol drugs?

all I do every single day is play video games and listen to music
every single day
it isn't nearly enough. weed and alcohol are barely enough, even. If I had the chance to get something harder, with more of a kick - I don't care what or what it does, anything - I'll fucking take it.

>>37848641
>well if x works for me it must work for everyone!
Drugs are fun.

>can't play a game for more than an hour without getting bored
>start looking at my phone after 10-15 minutes
>have thousands of songs but find myself skipping 10-20 songs just to find one I'm not tired of
yeah drugs are shit but sometimes you need to fuck your brain up to fix how fucked up your brain is

>>37848692
Your instincts are telling you that it is natural lube.

>>37848641
>everybody is the same so one size fits all for all problems and ailments
You need to fuck off. Not going to put up with some pseudo intellectual little shit who thinks he's on to something.

>>37848772
TAKE YOUR PILLS JUNKIE!

>>37848680
A spectrum,like gender

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>video games anger me
>lost all enjoyment for music

There is no hope for me.

Just cheer up and don't be depressed

cause drugs make music and videogames more fun???

>>37848641
Depression is a cope. Just stop feeling sad dummy

Ill take anything that helps me treat the symptoms of unbearable depression. Taking drugs makes me feel like what a normal person would feel like.

Video games and music help with depression but they can only do so much. Taking drugs and feeling like a normal person is all i can do other than blowing my brains out.

>>37848641
What if I'm depressed because I wasted so much time indulging in mindless entertainment mediums?

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>>37848641
video games are a drug.

They're addictive, they trick your brain's pleasure function, they can prevent you from functioning normally, and people have died from them.

They can also make your depression worse.

I smoke weed because all I can feel is crushing depression and loneliness when I am sober.

>>37848967
i knmow this is ironic, but i also know that there are people who think like this. I despise them, and i despise you,because even though it is ironic, its still shitty. Sucking someones dick ironically is still gay.

>>37848800
Yes my son, like gender

>>37848641
>tfw you can fight depression with music and videogames instead of going so low you have to use drugs

It must be nice only having very mild depression. Maybe some day you will understand.

>>37849039
I had not even real depression, I was just lazy and ate shit, and music & video games did nothing at all to help.

>>37848692
Aloe vera is a sexy plant

If you can do drugs and live with yourself then you are a normie.

>>37848641
>Norman thinks his nu metal and Xbox will keep a gun out of his mouth
>as it if it was ever in there

>>37848993
These baseless claims are, well, baseless

Video games offer a very immediate satisfaction. If you base your life around playing them, well - I hope you know what you're doing because it's very likely this is the cause of your depression.

Basically, you have no tangible achievements or goals beyond the next 8 hour grind to become the next super dragonlord commander.

>>37848953
>>37848967
Just beee youurself :^)

>>37849108

How old are you, and do you consider yourself a "man" or a "boy"?

>>37848641
Music and video games can be a temporary mood lifter but they're still external activities. Your enjoyment of them can be totally derailed and they're far from a sure thing as reward systems go. You underestimate the pull of taking a drug that manually and directly reworks your brain chemicals to make you feel good.

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>>37849152
I know this is ironic but i hate you for reminding me that people think like this

>>37849108
>baseless claims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#Possible_causes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#Notable_deaths

It's the same thing as gambling addiction or any other addiction, it's your dopamine being milked in over-drive.

The difference is that no one really stays up gambling for 72 hours straight and dies from cardiac arrest or dehydration like they do with video games.

>>37848692
Don't fuck plants anon!!

>>37849212
Plants don't really reproduce sexually, so really at that point it's more like beating off with plants.

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>>37848953
Lol, fuck outta here.

drugs are an alternate view of perception. Drugs are inherently better than vidya (which is low art) but they should only be a rare occurrence (and for the most part should be used for only a few times overall)

>>37849108
They've done a few studies that I'm too lazy to look up but whenever you get a kill and that little popup saying "GOOD JOB, HERE ARE SOME POINTS FOR DOING STUFF" goes off so do the pleasure receptors in our brains.

>>37848641

What music do you listen to and what videogames do you play?

>>37850479
Good music and good videogames

>>37848641
It's not a meme, drugs feels amazing.

>living temporary NEET life till sept
>Smoke weed every day and do nothing
>Feel like shit all the time

How do you guys do it.

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>>37848641
>So why do people take drugs again?
They're easy.

Easier to undergo a directionless existence in a world you aren't prepared to face in a blissful daze instead of lucid sobriety.

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>>37848888
don't worry anon this too will pass. I felt this way a few times in my life where literally nothing excited me. It got better, with drugs but sometimes on it's own. I got interested in vidya again after two years of mot playing

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Weed + My favorite music = pic related

>>37850501

OK and which are those? Examples?

To be honest I never tried weed, what did I miss.

You robots should read up on "dopamine deficiency"

I'm pretty sure the majority of us, due to having depression growing up in our formative years, have fucked up dopamine receptors.

>>37848641
Drugs, like music and video games are just a distraction from my depression. You can't really beat depression, it's just something that is a part of you.
When I'm doing drugs, I'm not thinking. It's the only time I find some solace in this life.

>>37848641
because you don't 'fight' depression with any of those things

but drugs are much, much more effective at distracting you from it

I used IV fentanyl for years and have only been able to quit through rehab and AA. Addiction sucks. If music and vidya works for you then dont ruin your life looking for something better.

>>37850895

Agreed
It's not an issue of cure, it's an issue of being managed.

Every time I have a day off from work I feel even worse. I feel bad at work but at home it's like a different kind of bad. Like I should be using my little free time to do something worthwhile and everything I actually do is a waste. At work my bad feelings are more like just anger and frustration.

>>37850885
I really think so too anon. Is there any other way in how to make it up again without nofap? I tried and it didn't hel at all

>>37850885
I know, but i don't really want to ""heal"" it.
I just imagine myself being "normal" one day, and realizing i've wasted my entire youth on mental illnesses and things i could've healed way earlier.
In what sort of depths will that take me
Instead i just choose to drink until i die

THIS
This is why am I afraid to quit smoking. When I started smoking my life did a full 180 and it started to go in the right direction. My life is together now so I am trying to quit.

>>37850852
>euphoric feeling
>movies, vidya and music becomes 10x more enjoyable
>the best sleep you will ever get in your life
>the most vivid dreams
>the intense focus when the high is just right
>eating crazy amounts of food
>the hardest laughter you will ever get

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>>37848692
I actually own one of these plants and use them as ecologically friendly fleshlights. Its nice to know that you are nutting and also being enviromentally responsible.

>>37851581
Really? That sounds hot.

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>>37851587
It is honestly a bretty nice gig. If you feel like doing some plant roleplay then you leave it cool or at room temperature. If you want a more lifelike or mammalian feel you just throw it in the microwave for 15 seconds. Just let it cool though before you stick your dick in.

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whos lit rn

>>37848641
But when the music and vidya fail anon?

>>37848641
Because theyre self medicating their mental disorders

>>37851463
This. There is no reason NOT to do drugs

>>37851797
Debating it but then I'll high and bored instead of just regular bored.

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>>37848641
So what do you do when depression takes away the joy you once got out of music, books, videogames and any other activity you used to enjoy?
You start shoveling ketamine up your nose, that's what.

>>37851463
>the most vivid dreams
I don't dream at all when I smoke.

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Video games, or instant gratification in general, is a good reason why you're never improving IRL and constantly in a state of depression. You're numbing your mind its need to be competitive and grow by giving yourself satisfaction off of BING BING WAHOOO.
No, I am not saying video games are the devil, i'm saying living off of instant gratification is a surefire way to live miserable life.

>>37852321
Aye I'm starting to see the allure of drugs at this point. Nothing interests me anymore.

>>37853357
Dangerous path anon. While drugs are cool, having them as your only source of happiness isn't gonna end well for you

>>37848641
To look edgy and cool, yeah.

>>37853378
I've never taken any beyond weed. I'm just saying my life seems to be heading toward eventual suicide, I don't see the harm in drugs along the way there.

>>37848641
this has probably been posted but

videogames are designed to get your brain to create dopamine

any videogame that has random effects especially, hearthstone, diablo 2, it's the same as a slot machine

if you play videogames every day, stop for a day. you'll come back and it'll feel like a drug.

>>37848749
hmm, brain craving for novelty

>>37848641
You have never been too depressed to play video games then or too depressed to get out of bed or wash for a month.
Prozac is the only thing that makes a dent in the depression so far.

I'm using music and videogames right now and let me tell you I would kill for a fat shot of heroin.

>>37848995
You Are Not alone mate, there is a big ball of entitis? like ayy lmao @@

>>37849212
i already did my draceana

>>37848699
Most relatable thing to be posted on r9k yet

>>37850505
for a while, then come regret if you are addicted

>>37850852
nothing sir, its a gateway drug :P

>>37848641
videogames are shit and music isn't universally effective.

i don't use drugs but if they act as a controllable happy switch instead of a dice-roll i can understand why people do.

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I take adderall to help me be effective at work. I honestly don't know if I could get out of bed without it. IT is fucking depressing.

>>37854294
does it pay well

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>>37854306
Not enough for the stress it gives me.

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>>37848680
If you do drugs, you are literally the most normie normalfaggot ever to norm. Fuck you

You cannot fight depression with video games. Video games are what create depression.

>>37854667
what if you go to a club alone, do mushrooms that you found for free, dont talk to anyone and lose a bit of sanity in the process?
>implying you can be mentally ill other than normie tier depression without taking drugs

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>>37854667
Fuck you too you ball cuddling gypsy.

Good for you, faggot. I can't even gathee up the enthusiasm to play vidya anymore and I'd rather be in the silence than listen to music that I used to love.