How do I stop being depressed, Veeky Forums?

kill or be killed niqqa

How do I stop playing vidya, how else do I fill my time? I'm going to college this summer but till then my social life is 100% dead

>how to kill time
>2016

read books

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbies

I turned fitness into my video game. With all the apps, research, time online talking about it, it replaced what vidya gave me.

Do a week long DMT, LSD, Cannabis, and Mushroom session with some friends in the woods. New perspective and a Paradigm shifting experience.

That's what I did and I want to kill myself less often. Still got work to do.

Get a hobby. Get fit, you'll feel better. Stop caring about what people think of you. Stop caring about the world. Just go full hedonist mode.

I like watching my stats go up.

if you suggest the most potent hallucinogens on the planet, you should include parental advisory

You need a tripsitter.

Basically yeah.

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> why yes, I do need someone to tell me what the meaning of MY life is

Nootropics.

Uh I'm leaning towards nihilism. I just posted this pic because I thought it was interesting/related. Not trying to tell you what the meaning of Your life is.

dude relax it's just a meme bro haha

*nudges my mate*

youtube.com/watch?v=beg57qXMZTE

A lot of this dude's video's give you little things you can work on that will help rebuild your confidence. Confidence is the shining light that will banish the clouds of depression desu.

not enough, i'd argue. add extensive personal research, at least.

advocate caution, fellow psychonaut

Agreed.
Tread carefully in all areas of life. That is very much the protocol for plant medicines and powerful hallucinogens. Excersizing Caution is a must.

>self doubt
>with that face
yeah sure buddy

have you tried working out

I would just say go out and do new shit, man. Don't allow yourself even a moment of self-wallowing - no down-time.

At the risk of sounding corny as hell; go live a life worth living.

not depressed, but is anyone else a little nuts? I went about a year with minimal human interaction and thinking about suicide daily, and things feel funky as hell. I can tell I creep people out a bit, I feel like I'm being watched in public, etc..

But I love the gym lol

I've been doing all these things for years,finished college, and got a job. still feel like shit every night when I get home though.

don't you have any hobbies?

general advice:
eat healthy, work out regularly, do something productive in your free time even if you're not in the mood to do it. thats how people make it to the top: they dont stop just because they dont feel like going on.

Bill Burr advice:
analyze what youre telling yourself - what depressing shit youre beating yourself with to keep you down. he says to sort of wrangle those thoughts up and try putting in some positives instead but i think affirmation barely works and is pathetic when it often doesnt work but understanding the roots of your self-doubt, self-loathing, etc is maybe the best way ive gotten over it. maybe its just me but when i realize what my depression is caused by and its not some mysterious black cloud constantly bogging me down it eventually just loses its effect and i move on. a lot of the time my depression is rooted in some kind of regret or fear and often times in both cases i realize nothing i do can change those so i just have to face it and move forward.

do NOT swallow that shit. do not "be a man" and smother it by ignoring it or using shit like alcohol weed or vidyas to try and cover it up. that shit is fine when you feel good but i cant think of a single time when i did something i knew i previously enjoyed and it actually fixed everything. maybe this is all idiosyncratic but the "drink and forget" mentality did nothing but prolong everything. if you feel like you wanna cry then fucking cry u dont have to do it in front of everyone cuz that may fuck up ur vibes w people but when you cry dont beat yourself up for doing so like youre less of a man for it.

good luck man.

PS: smart, together women like a guy who doesnt necessarily cry all the time but knows how to identify and handle their emotions in something other than the antiquated "be a man" smothering bullshit. in my experience, anyway.

i went through a year like that and yeah people act pretty weird around me even if i dont do anything out of the ordinary.

but i have friends who get me and i dont feel bad being myself around them so i guess its just a matter of expanding that fearlessness to everyone else in my life.

Glad I'm not the only one lol

>Buddy

Who cares what he looks like, the points are valuable.

the whole thing about getting yourself out of a slump and finding something productive with meaning to you is fucking dedication.

everyone here is saying eat healthy, work out, pick up a hobby, start meditating, etc and those are all correct but the most important thing is DEDICATION. because i know that youll be doing okay for a couple weeks with these new routines and then one day youll just wake up and the depression will just make you not feel like doing anything at all and nothing will sound better than just laying around and brooding but those are the days where it's most important to go on that run or go lift those weights or write some more of that song.
and really once you gather up the strength to actually start those things on your down days it really only takes about 10 minutes to get your head out of that slump. and once you can start to regularly pull yourself out of those moods by doing something productive then the easier everything becomes and the sooner youll start finding joy and meaning to all of those things.

also i cant stress meditating enough. do it man. 7 minutes a day of meditation (to start) and 2 minutes of power posing, EVERY DAY.

Start taking caffeine pills. 4 every morning as soon as you wake up and go for a walk or run.

Saint John's Wort and 5HTP are both awesome.

I believe sometimes a lack of sexual potency or energy can be the problem as well so check out Horny Goat Weed and Tribulus Terrestris.

Light therapy works. Go out and get more sunlight or buy a light for depression. They have the sane luminosity as the sun and can help during darker seasons.

You release depressive hormones when you sleep. Sleeping extra may seem to be a good way to hide from the world but actually depriving yourself of sleep will induce mania and euphoria. What is best is good sleep hygiene and watching Oprah when you wake up.

Psychotherapy and memory regression work. The brain cannot "unzip" or heal painful memories and patterns of thinking unless they are revisited. Find a meditation cd to help give you a safe space to visit those memories. Buy a journal and try to write down what is hurting you or write about what is making you angry.

Anger when hidden manifests as depression; when we get upset but can't do anything about it life feels futile.

i did that my first year lifting but yeah there really isn't that much to learn after a while.

playing vidya moderately isn't that bad, normies do it all the time

This is strong advice. Listen carefully OP.

Have you experienced any kind of loss lately?
If so, this loss is existant because it calls your past memories of a loss connected to any of your parent or parent figures in some way. You are directing this deep anger at yourself, thus the depression.
Work with yourself, you are one of the strongest organisms on the planet. What makes you feel more independent? Do that.

Meant "this sadness is existant" not "loss".

just the one

You the OP?
Take time to mourn while strenghtening your self-image doing what you think will improve it. Go to the gym, try out a new hobby, travel somewhere near with a bike etc.

I told my gf I was depressed and she screamed at me and brought a knife back into the room, Latinas...

I ripped the knife out of her hand before she could stab me and stuck it into the wall. My hand slipped down the blade and severed my fingers tendon.

I had been smoking pot for over a decade to hide the depression. I still do and still am.

I was the perfect kid, Aryan archetype but my dad didn't want me so I grew up with a single mother and my dad was always disappointed with me, ignoring me and telling me, at 8yo, I belonged in prison. Twenty years later, I've masked the pain for so long that when I wake up sober, I am in crippling depression and the only thing that makes it better is shitposting.

No

Thanks everyone for advice, I already work out regularly but my strength progress stalled a long time ago and I started doing boxing. I think vidya and moping around in my room all day when I'm not exercising is my biggest downfall so I will try to gradually replace wasting time with some other constructive things, though I'm still at loss as to what else I could dedicate hours of spare time to. Will also try meditation when I get back from today's boxing hell.
Also on day 5 nofap which I think I'll reset on day 7.

I see people who workout like their life depends on it, like they don't even need an external push and they just do it because they can and want to. I get jealous when I see people who just seem to find something to chase after, it probably feels to them what sitting on my ass is to me.

sorry for vlog I'll do my best

get a hot gf and get rich

Get a cute waifu.

bitches ain't shit but hoes n tricks

forget your lust for the rich man's gold, all that you need is in your soul *guitar solo*

This. But also talking to a doctor or two can help. For reals if you're depressed via long term chemical imbalance then you should get help before things get worse. Otherwise take care of yourself per the other posts.

u woke up this morning. u woke up this morning.

Doing shrooms might help too