Depression thread

First of all, make sure you're getting the right vitamins, and walk for at least an hour a day.

When a man has the pain of reviewing a misspent life, not having given up sin and worldly vanities until he is forced to say 'I have no pleasure in them', he renders his sincerity very questionable.

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Yes i know that feel well OP

A few things i can recommend from my own experiences

start working out, every day or every other day. Im not talking about a light walk, im talking about a real run till you're sweating or ideally lifting weights.

The human body hasn't evolved to sit inside a room all day and not move around. It creates a depressed mind.

The second thing i can say is, the only thing really needed to keep a person going is to "want" something. To look forward to something.

No job, goals or prospects? sounds like me 2 years ago. Now ive managed to get out of NEETdom, it took giving up most of my "hobbies" including vidya and drugs but i managed to do it.

As for trying drugs, i'd say it depends on which. Some drugs like MDMA and LSD have helped me realise what it feels like to be happy again, and have given me a better outlook on things.

Alcohol, stimulants, even weed to an extent i'd stay away from. They will make you even more depressed.

There must be things you still "enjoy" doing, weather it be posting on forums, watching things, just enjoy them for now. There is no rush, you still have 5 years to sort your shit out.

Also to put yourself in a better state of mind, list a few things you are grateful for, or things you enjoy. It can be something as stupid as "Im thankful for my battlestation" or whatever. It instantly makes you more appreciative of life.

>>18701268
the good thing is this won't last forever. the not as good is that it sucks now and to move forward you will feel uncomfortable, and you can make a list of all the things to do to get over this but at some point you will need to FORCE yourself.
seek an objective viewpoint IRL.

As for the "love of your life" thing. In my experience it hurts for a few years, then your emotions for them turn to hate.

In the end youll despise them, so dont worry about it.

Youll also realise if they didnt want you, they werent really the love of your life. There will be someone better.

And maybe this is the perfect time to review yourself, see what can be improved, and become a superior person.

>>18701268
Try figuring what went wrong in your psyche Anon, but don't be so fast on admitting a problem.

Depression is normally caused by unfulfilled basic needs or motivations in your psyche which are in desesperate need for attention and/or resolve. If you do not resolve it soon enough, your personality will eventually reach a point where it will collapse emotionally and you'll have a hard time going back to balance (that is, considering you haven't collapsed yet).

Listen to your sadness and let it find out what went wrong with your life, Anon. I hope you get to figure yourself out soon.

I suggest you look for "arcana reversion" for possible advice about your situation.

>>18701268
Read "Fathered By God".

>>18701413
>Try figuring what went wrong in your psyche
Not op what to do in a similar situation while your psyche is essentially smashed potatoes?

Is there a reason you haven't tried seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist yet?

>inb4 doesn't work
You don't know what will work for you until you try it, OP.

True love doesn't real.

Realize that and one day you'll be able to find someone new and move on.

>>18701436
Im trying but the psyche is still smash potatoes its like a lot is missing and something feels wrong

>>18701446
I thought of super-suicide many times but hey at least 4chan is here for you.

>>18701459
super suicide?

>>18701268
Meditation will teach you how to observe ur inner clockwork. It does not need to be a ritualistic meditation
or anythin' like that.
just calming ur mind intentionally, works.
Then you will find out (telling you how it works will not help You, unless you find out ur self) that emotions are like High momentum thoughts. Like a car. the faster you go the harder is to change direction.
So the best way to steer trough ur emotional states is to let go of controlling them, they fight any control.
And the most important thing is being self-honest. Accepting every part of you. You can not fight fear (for example) by introducing stress into it, you only can "fight" it by taking a deep breath and letting it dissolve.

>>18701435
That's something I keep thinking from time to time.

Though, I think avoiding and keeping safe from things that hurt your psyche is a solution when you're that mentally broken/unstable.

Also, you need to keep your psyche alive by fulfilling and taking care of your main motivations too.

If you need to yet stabilish what are your "main" motivations, you can try looking up Jung's 12 archetypes and spot what archetypes (and motivations that come with them) you have in yourself. Some other thing that you have to stabilish so you can take care of yourself better is what your temperament/emotional make-up is like.

That's just the basic stuff though. People have vastly different personalities which function differently and I can't give advices that can work for all of them.

>>18701467
>Also, you need to keep your psyche alive by fulfilling and taking care of your main motivations too.
I have no motivations i want nothing. Theres some unresolved issues but aside from that nothing

My brain works in a way it never did im lost it feels wrong empty and dead, i don't want to live like this its the same as already being dead

>>18701298
this, honestly if you just workout youll feel 1000x better, i stopped working out about a year ago and ive become a slob again, started getting a bit down and i just need to get fit and lift again

>>18701487
I know.

You can't handle motivations while your personality is going through a crisis. Maybe you should try to understanding your current issues better. For that, you should listen to your sadness and try to think about your problems some more. Sadness is a emotion of healing, change and reintegration. It has a evolutionary purpose. If you're feeling sad, just let it do what it is supposed to do.

Also, always remember you're a human being that was shaped like you are today by your outside life. Try to think about what's your position in the world and what has led you into what you are now.

You're passing through a personality crisis, so just try to wait a little longer while you sort yourself out.

>>18701268
Decrease the amount of time you spend on /x/
Eat healthier
Exercise more
Learn new skills

>>18701544
>current issues better.
I know what they are i already told you. I feel i had a manifest destiny i ruined it last year and now im a living corpse all drugged with psychiatric medicine that i think its making things worse in the long run,

The way i worked mentally is being erased and the new way feel s wrong and dead, i used to have a democracy in my head not what i have now which is nothing at all

>>18701573
it happened around September or November last year

>>18701573
I don't think psychiatric medicine can help resolving depression since it just tones it down a bit instead of solving the issues which are causing it, but I don't anything to completely prove that so nevermind.

Don't take everything I say either. Maybe the way I solve problems might not work right for you.

You said you feel like your past lifestyle is being erased and that you have lost a democracy that used to exist in your head.

I think you are losing the motivations you had before and it has become so bad that you are currently going through this crisis in your psyche. If that's the case, you should try to think of a way to understand what exactly made you feel fulfilled back then so you can restore that part of your personality back.

not paranormal
kys faggot I hope you also get b&

>>18701637
>spirituality
>not paranormal

>>18701633
The Democracy made me fulfilled it was with me since i was a kid, i always had them and now the lasts bits are being erased

I literally don\t know how to function , before whenever i thought or did anything intellectual i would get multiple feedbacks instantly now i get nothing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JqlX7mb5GY
a TED talk about depression,
TL;DR the opposite of depression isnt happiness, its vitality
Personally just going out there n doing stuff going out of your comfort zone helped alot

>>18701647
anger is the opposite
the opposite of happiness is pain

>>18701641
>self diagnosed attentionwhoring emo teen
>paranormal
literally fuck off to /adv/ or even better schedule a visit at your local psychiatrist or psychotherapist

>>18701653
>>18701637
Ignore this faggot, he's only angry because no-one takes his flat earth threads seriously

I also feel pain in the front of my head it doesn't let me do anything its like all attention goes there

>>18701646
If it was with you since you were a kid and it made you fulfilled back then, then it probably is related with whatever caused your depression.

Can you explain to me what exactly is this democracy? What is it like?

>I literally don\t know how to function , before whenever i thought or did anything intellectual i would get multiple feedbacks instantly now i get nothing
That looks bad. What kind of feedback did you get? Was it a social situation?

>>18701669
That might be related (since depression does mess with the brain's chemicals) or unrelated to the depression. Anyway, you should probably see a doctor about that.

>>18701682
>Can you explain to me what exactly is this democracy? What is it like?
Lets say i receive a stimuli, i get different falshbacks and whenever i thought about it i would get some sort of answer (in a form of other flashback) to what i asked and generally speaking it was never wrong

I can't see anything anymore i feel i don't know anything hence i don't know how to function nor what im supposed to do

>>18701691
>in a form of other flashback)
or feel

>>18701691
I think I ran out of advice now.

Are you talking about paranormal experiences? Be more objective about it.

>>18701708
The unconscious used to think by itself and throw me information either an answer or a method to get the answer, its always thing i knew.

Lets say i read something i would get memories or visualizations or a feel that indicates something when i focus on that i would get another and that i consider messages with information

Imagine the head being super optimized or something like that

now i get no feedback at all it all feels dead

>>18701725
its like before all parts were separate now they are one and have no will of their own

>>18701725
I guess I can't help it then. I simply don't know how to help you handle something I myself am not very familiar. I might just give wrong advice.

Sounds like a neat experience though. Also, you should probably check an actual psychologist about it.

Hope it helped you at least a bit, Anon.

>>18701758
>you should probably check an actual psychologist about it.
For what purpose he is just going to say im mentally ill and being normal is better

They told me i had to do something some day and that moment came and i ruined even tho they told me if i took meds back then it would be ruined

that moment back in the day has resulted in nothing but misery since everything that came after also ended in misery

Now i can't feel them I feel like solomon by the end of his book about demons where he builds the temple

>>18701464
soup or suicide?

OP here, abandoned thread for a while
>>18701272
>>18701298
thanks for the advice anons. I would like to get more fit, I do think it might help with my confidence a bit.
I do like MDMA, had a scary experience with LSD so I don't think I'll be in a rush to try it again.
>>18701436
I have to try to get more help. I did see a specialist in my teens and they put me on fluoxetine, it helped for a while.
>>18701466
I'm a very emotional person, and a very empathetic person. I struggle to put myself first. I suppose it is a learned skill.
>>18701637
I'm sorry you haven't successfully fucked any ghosts recently.

>>18702249
Do you think your depression came from some issues from the past? Or maybe from some kind of inactivity in your life? Can you point out what seemed to cause it? I think if you find that out, it would make it easier to handle if it ever happens again.

I hope my advice helped.

>>18701268
Find someone you can talk to about it; a friend, family member, etc. Get help, not some bullshit magic cure or "Have you tried praying it away?", which the best you can expect to find on /x/.

>>18701268
Sauce

What Dr. Seuss story is this from?

>>18703465
"Oh, the places you'll go"

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>>18703484
Thanks, bro.

>>18703484
>Try to find a PDFof the book
>Find a PDF pamphlet for a homeless program
http://www.nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/oh-the-places-we-go.pdf

Oh, the places we go

>>18701268
try some drugs. you might feel less inhibited and more impulsive. fun things could happen. might be the kind of spark you need in life. dont do hard drugs though, or not too much anyway

You are a super dimensional being trying to help Earthlings. The truth is that most Earthlings are cucked as fucked.

They're so cucked they cant even see they are cucked.

Its time for us to get out of here and let the trolls be trolls,

>>18701298
Let me add to this, though: although serious exercise will help a lot more, if you just don't feel up to that, ANYTHING is better than nothing. If a light walk is all you feel up to right now, at least do that much. Do not fall into the trap of doing nothing because you can only do a little.

Also, cut back on sugar as much as you can. I'm not exactly a role model for this myself, because baking is one of the few hobbies I have that I can afford to engage in, but at least try to cut down on highly refined junk food.