What's your recipe when depression hits hard?

I have the free will to do what I want and I choose not to be depressed

Lots and lots of dopamine. As I type this a great feeling of sickness overwhelms me. I haven't eaten today.

>>39370266
Drugs and alcohol. If I don't have any, I make myself my favorite food and watch a good movie or TV show.

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>junk food
>vidya
>a good documentary
>my favorite death grips album

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When I go through a rough event in life, I sometimes get this feeling of my chest contracting to a point where breathing gets hard and I imagine all kinds of shitty scenarios how this single event throws all my goals and dreams over board...

I just put my headphones on and exercise like a madman. Push ups, crunches, then shoulder raises with dumbbells. I do this until my whole body is sore and the physical pain overrides the mental pain.

It has a nice side effect of getting toned over time. Try it bros. Good luck to you all. <3

Chips, cookies and ice cream.

fill my schedule with hobbies more than usual and keep as busy with them as possible. i know that if i do what i really want to do when depression hits hard -sit around doing nothing sleep all the time- it will just get worse. There is other stuff I have to do to keep OCD from driving me insane but that's the main thing for depression. OCD is a much bigger problem for me.

>>39370266
sleep. sleep as long as i can. i wake up disappointed i didn't die on my sleep if you don't reply to this post

XD

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>>39370266
Listening to depressing music to make me even more depressed.

>>39370362
PUT ME IN THE SCREENCAP

WE DID IT REDDIT XDDDD

I just do drugs and lie in bed daydreaming.
I have happy places I go to mentally.
Used to drink but it's started giving me headaches.

>>39370286
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>>39370314
>>39370349
>>39370362
>>39370364
>the bad road

>>39370342
>>39370351
>the good road

I put on my feels playlist, put my earbuds in, then I either get in bed, or if it's a particularly bad day, I just grab a blanket and lie on the floor under my computer desk for a few hours or maybe a day.

mindless cartoons and lots of sleep

right now I'm watching Bojack Horseman

>>39370403
The last 3 episodes of Bojack season 3 made me weep like a bitch

>>39370396
>lie on the floor under my computer desk for a few hours or maybe a day
why? are you not uncomfortable there?

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>>39370421
are they really sad? did I fuck up? I've never seen it and just started the first season but I wanted something to take my mind off how depressing life is.

3 shots of bacardi 151, a couple of bong hits, 2 xanax bars 1 percacet chased down by an ice cold beer

>>39370433
I can't really explain it, but lying on the floor is more cathartic than just being in bed for me. The majority of my life was spent sleeping on floors so it isn't really uncomfortable.

>>39370266
I just think about happy things until it goes away. I don't know why you people don't do this, it's fucking simple.

Torture animals untill I feel better.

>>39370489
depression the patrician way

>>39370492
example please.

sometimes I try to make myself think of happy things or I imagine winning the lottery and think if I could have anything what would it be and literally nothing makes me happy.

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Chia seeds in Tejava

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>>39370492
>Think about the happy moments of my life
>Feel worse because they all happened over 10 years ago, and it's unlikely that anything as good will happen again
Th-thanks

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>>39370314
What is your favorite album?

>>39370492
There are a lot of people who don't have enough happy things in their lives to think about Anon. Take me for example. I'm 30+ and the happiest times of my life are 20 years in the past when I had 2 guinea pigs. You're fortunate then.

>>39370492
What if all my memories are bad and make me want to die?

Chocolate shake and french fries

>>39370266
Take some propanolol and sit back. Listen to carissa's wierd.

>>39370280
>choose not to be depressed
Nice meme

>>39370266
Ignore everyone, become reclusive, don't bathe, don't clean, become a slob. Then one day I feel good enough to go "Ew" and hten clean everything up.

Now I'm in a fucking bar drinking a beer but that's not a good recipe, but I think the best recipe for me is just write as long as possible could get and for the last thing just sleep. But when depression hits I just wanna kill myself. But I'm waiting to afford a gun and the blow my brains out.

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>>39370555
what were their names anon

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>whiskey
>animu
>successfully eliminate any higher brain functions that might remind me of my present existence
>fantasize about waifus

Feels good.

>>39370266

OP, take a look at
>>39368795

Also, I let music carry me away.

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>>39370280
>I have the free will to do what I want
>I choose not to be depressed

>>39370446
That show is crazy depressing, very nihilistic desu

>>39370266
Vodka
>>39370544
>Hetalia
I haven't watched many animes but I remember this being funny.

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>>39370898
Nunu and Mumi

>>39370280
you are such a misinformed idiot

90% of these 'recipes' lead to even worse depression. Not even coping mechanisms, but plain downwards spiral. Not judging, just being objective.

I'm depressed motherfucker for 5 years now and I gotta tell you, nothing really works if you're a long term sad boy. There must be something you're interested in, something to expand your mind. I like the universe. I read a lot about it and watch yt videos about stars, black holes, how the universe started and how it will end. I like to think about the unknown. Other unknown than my future. I like to think that we're all matter but we don't matter. We're just a blink, we die, universe continues... I accept to be a meaningless bunch of molecules and that sadness is just a chemical reaction affecting human brain. I'm just an illusion. It makes me think that all my problems are so small that I stop caring at all. It's better to feel empty than sad.

>>39370266
i go all in and drown myself in /r9k/

>>39370266
Weed and alcohol
Xannies and dissociatives when it get real bad

>>39370664
>>39371251
With this mentality you are making a wall on why you cant be happy. You are using it as an excuse.

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I either sleep or drink while hearing daft punk's discovery, it's really nostalgic for me, so i feel at ease

>>39370266
Listen to ASMR and chalk it up to "part of the grind"

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>>39370266

weed, synthpop and strategy games

Ramp up the escapism and junk food. This means
>go get fast food or something similar from the store
>eat it while watching cartoons or anime

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>>39370266
* think about projects i want to do (even if they won't succeed, creativity distracts me)
* watch a movie
* lie down and or cry
* drugs if you got em, mainly dissociatives (i don't, too scared to order drugs after the alphabay take down)

>>39370266
i meditate. "with each and every breath" is a good book

>>39370266
I come to this board to give myself reasons to hate myself. I'm miserable only due to a chemical reaction, then remind myself "These people hate me because of who I am and what I believe in, and no amount of compassion or care I can show to them will ever make them like me"
I mellow on that for like 2 weeks then scram for another month.

I just ride it out, and remind myself that in the future I will want things again, and I shouldn't betray the version of myself that has hope.

>Endure
>Endure

It's the mantra that has defined my life.

>>39371704
You've never experienced clinical depression if you think this way. People don't want to be miserable.

>>39371883
Yes I have. I overcome it. Stop making excuses

>>39371940
Did you attempt suicide?

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>>39370266
Force myself to work out or smoke weed then go to sleep

>>39370266
If can find opiates
>buy pills
>snort a whole bunch
>sit at the beach and brows web/play with my dog for a while and play music
>go home and play vidya with my younger brother who's 700 miles away.
>just be happy, anxietyless, comfy person

If no opiates
>go home
>get black out drunk
>watch YT? Videos of people being turbo austs and/or Videos about science and/or real mysteries about the ocean/space/unsolved crimes

the depression hits every night and pills and pills aren't around much these days just fucking kill me

Opiates or alcohol

>>39370266
get high or antianxiety stuff
or just listening to music
(i do this in the form of tea, will not tell u which 1)

>>39370446
You're in for a wild ride of self-hatred, regrets and loneliness.

I loved the show though, would recommend especially when feeling depressed.

I just lay down and do nothing.

I'm back to neetdom and have a few thousand plus neetbux in the reserves to keep myself sane for now.

Looking for ways to become self sufficient because I'm really starting to become bitter and hateful towards people.

My contact centre job which I'm gladly done with made me realize how fucking stupid people really are.

>>39370266
Cartoons and anime. I use them to kill time at any other point in my life so why not do it when i'm depressed?

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>>39370266
Making music, looking at photos of the girl that i'm in love with, or just eating some unhealthy shit

>>39370266

None, I wake up in pain and spend the whole day crawling in agony. It eventually stops after a few weeks but they do feel like years.

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>>39370266
3am drives through the country going 100 over the speed limit.

Sleep, drink, masturbate

>>39370266
Cry it out. Maybe listen to music but that makes it worse sometimes.

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1. focus on the meds
2. try to make it through the day by any means necessary
3. wall off a bay and empty the water with sponges
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!

What's that? Nine AM? Smoke a bowl and time to walk over to the liquor store so some ice beer and place Bronze V or bottom frag CS:GO because I suck balls at pc gaming.

At least I am good at 80% bloom Halo: Reach faggot. I must be mentally challenged to be in Bronze V.

>>39370266
I listen to a Grouper album on repeat until I fall asleep.
This one works well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCOgvAIL3_U

>>39370266
Drink myself stupid

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>>39370280
>>39371704
>>39371940
this is peak neurotypical retardation

t. person who has also overcome depression and is not currently depressed

>>39370266
benzodiazepines
or alcohol

>>39375117
Where did you get that picture from? I had the same health book in high school and I thought that picture was funny too.

>>39370266
1 half cup vodka and a half cup mixture of chcolate milk and strong brewed mint green tea. Drink with two pottasium pills 1 advil 2 aspirin 2 ibulrofen and an aleve and a bag of earl grey tea leaves downes in one drink with the pills. Add 2 to 4 benadryll to desires effect.

>>39375982
Other times I just down the crescendo cocktail which is all those pills, lots of water, a sleep aid and a few muscle relaxants.

>>39376009
Other times I just sleep. A lot. Like 13 to 15 hours straight.

>>39370280
so there are others like me

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Alcohol and e s c a p i s m

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>>39370266
my recipe is very simple, i just havent made it yet

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its all cycles, stupid shit comes and goes and snaps me out of it.

>>39370266
Accepting that you're not important and are owed nothing is helpful

I watch videos of insects getting eaten from the head down and nature videos in general, it puts things into perspective

seeing how cruel, painful and uncaring of your feelings life is makes me appreciate depression, the fact that my life is comfortable to the degree that I have the privilege of bitching about how horrible and painful life is is pretty neat, I'd rather have depression and bitch in a comfy environment than starve to death.

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>super depressed today
>girl in class asked me a question ans i just ignored her and pretended i didnt hear her
>continue to just be in a terrible mood
>clock stikes 9 and i went to the gym
>feel happy and a lot better.
desu a great lift makes me super happy.

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>get on my computer
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA
>furious shitposting

>>39376482
>ruining a nice shotgun with your brains and skull bits
>letting your gun get melted down by the police
I feel that filename though.

>>39376482
>letting yourself become an anti-gun statitistic

>>39377811
>>letting your gun get melted down by the police
So if I kill myself my guns would get melt down? Is that what your post implies?

>>39372355
I suggest you come the fuck on and tell us. It's not like you're the keeper of god's secret vagina.

>>39370266
I jack off and watch anime of happy girls.

>>39370280
Get fucked, cunt. Shove your bootstraps right up your shriveled dickhole.

>>39370266
>watching a tv show
>listen to eroticASMR, via /r/gonewildaudio
>programming
>masterbating
>watching twitch streams
>video games

ehh sounds normal desu.

>>39374517
car or bike?

>>39370314
junk food makes me feel even worse

>>39370266
sleep and if i have alcohol i drink some.

Get drunk, lay on floor and put on some 5 hour Stoner/Space Rock playlist from Youtube.

>>39370508
leave this entire site

>>39375982
>>39376009
That is so fucking shit for your health man. I think the trash in those pills may accumulate in your body and bite you in the ass later on when you least expect it.

>>39370266
I read.

I pick a period, get online, download some books, and bury myself in another era.

I've recently become fairly competent on the Boshin Wars/End of the Tokugawa Shogunate because of depression.
>lost my job
>no marketable skills
>realize I have to start going to school or risk having to move back in with parents at 29
>still stressed because GI bill money hasn't arrived yet and I'm close to 2 months behind on rent
But it's okay, because I'm not a shivering wreck of pills and alcohol in my bathroom. I'm working and going to school, and I've already been approved for the money, so it's coming.

I just lost myself in late 19th century Japan, learned about the political and cultural climate, the betrayals, the battles, the larger than life characters, it's great. I take meticulous notes and draw out maps of movements and dates and battles.

I learned how to do it last year, I started with the 30 years war, then moved on to the Sengoku period a little while after. I expanded my knowledge and didn't sit around jerking off and getting high while I wasn't busy, and it kept me out of that horrible cycle of self loathing and indulgence that keeps me in that deep black soul sucking shit hole. I probably would have killed myself this last time honestly, I guess I can say history actually saved my life.

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>>39379785
Please give me a good book to read. I havent found anything to lose myself in since I finished the Malazan books two years ago.

>>39370266
when i get depressed:
lay in bed
isolate myself
watch twitch/youtube until i feel a little better
take a hot bath
talk to my mom about it

i post on r9k because it's the only board that will understand

>>39380193
Get learned man. Here

http://www.bakumatsu.ru/library/en-lib.html

Start with "The Last Samurai: Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori" I highly recommend this book.

Then The "Making of Modern Japan"

Then "Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration"

After that dig through the rest of that site, it's a great resource.

>>39379500
Not accumulate at all, specially when you only do it a couple times a year. I dont get deppressed often. But when I do, hard to get over it.

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>>39370546
Leave me alone anon I don't need this

>>39370266
Mountain of cheddar & bologna sandwiches, cheap bourbon.

>>39370266
depression has hit hard for 3 years.
i am a bedridden faggot that eats every 2-3 days. I get up only to shit and to greet the pizza delivery guy by the door when I must eat.
I don't have a recipe to deal with this, and if anybody does you better share it.

weed and beating my meat
also MOBAs

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I had one thing that I could do other than just sit there when it hit.

I used to have 2 guinea pigs, so I'd walk to a field (a while away), and slowly pick hundreds of summer flowers and nice grass for them. I'd take me about an hour and I'd end up with a nice bouquet.
It was quiet, and I had a purpose, even though it was a small one. They would greet me when I walked into the room, and I slowly fed them all the flowers, one by one. They were so cute, and their happiness was so contagious I couldn't help but feel a little better.
Pic was what my favourite looked like. Christ, it hit me so hard when he died.

>>39370280
only borderline tumblr kids get mad when someone says this

>>39376482
beautiful
such a shame I live in a semi-commie country

>>39380968
You should look up the particles the pharma companies put in those tablets and pills. They often include unnecessary shit like color and texture giving substances that build retention in your organs.

>>39379785
That's good man. Maybe you can put your gathered knowledge to use later on in a thesis. Good luck bruh.

I'm just hollow 100% of the time, doesn't matter

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>>39381243
>tfw run over a wild lizard that was living in my garage
Sleep tight Lizzer. The worst part is I spotted another lizard in the garage today. Could that be it's mate? I feel like I should kill it so they can be together; Jesus, it's only a matter of time before it gets run over accidentally as well.

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>>39381243
I'm guinea pig bro >>39370555
and >>39371177

You sound like me back then when I had pigs.

They have such an incredible healing ability for your soul. Always cheerful and relaxed, and they really embrace you with all their heart if you're good to them. They even have an elaborate 'language' to tell you how they feel and what they like.

I too remember when they died at 6 and 7 years old. The first one died during a surgery and it was an extreme shock to me, because I firmly believed he will return to me the next day. He was my best friend in the world. I couldn't speak for days and just felt absolute emptiness inside. The other one died of old age I suppose. Couldn't use his hind legs for the last 3 months of her life. I carried her everywhere, to her favorite spots in our garden so she could graze and enjoy the sunshine.

What's even worse is that they had babies at some point and we had to give them away to a pet store. Honestly to this day, even though it's been so long, I sometimes wonder what became of them. It's bad to live with this guilt and uncertainty...

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In no particular order.

>food
>weed
>porn and fleshlight

>>39370280
First of all, no you do not have free will. What you have is the illusion of free will.
Second, actual depression is a chemical imbalance. It's not something you get to choose.

>>39370364
I saw this picture ages ago on /b/. Some guy was saying it's his Steam friend who we wants to fuck.

>>39382833
Oh just searched the image. Dont mind me I'm retarded.

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>>39382705
Couldn't you choose a younger, more attractive one?

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>>39382931
fuck.... wrong pic lel