How do intellectuals get over depression?

At least you still have your parents.
My father have cancer and it's killing me everyday from the inside.

Nigger

Accept your emotions for what they are and you may find an inner peace that lies below all others

Why don't you have friends or a gf? Surely there are other intellectuals you could socialize with?

Also if it is actually depression you can't just get over it, it is an alteration of brain chemistry. Exercising more and meditation personally helped me cope when I was dealing with it - but coping or mitigating its effects are basically all you can do until it winds itself out, usually after some large event (graduation/moving/etc)

Dude stfu I have no family and have been homeless for 3 years. 4 hour bus ride to methadone clinic everyday and no friends. Sleep outside in colorado in the winter. Going to loose digits this winter. You don't have it bad I PROMISE.

If you see depression as the result of rationality then the logical pragmatic conclusion is to see that this rationality is not serving to your benefit. Nothing good is coming from you being depressed so why force this moral code of absolute rationality upon yourself? Rationality can be useful for many things but it doesn't have to be the be-all end-all for every single thing you do in life. Ignore the parts that don't serve your needs and follow the parts that do.

You have different shit to deal with then. For this user, it's his head not working quite right and making him feel bad.

>no gf
I'm too insecure to try dating or dating apps
Most people say I'm attractive but it usually goes wrong when I start talking to people

>no frineds
Bullying when I started school socially crippled me and I probably have a hard time making and keeping friends for the same reason I have no gf.

Self improvement. Eat healthy. Rest well. Get plenty of exercise. Get enough sunlight. Socialise more. Get a hobby you care about. Look after yourself.

Every intellectual should be depressed to an extent, how could you not be? It's a package deal man.

Are you happy being alone? Forget all the social pressures on living a "normal" life, are you comfortable with the idea of living alone? If you've experienced suffering due to other people and it's preventing you from meeting new ones then chances are you can deal with it pretty easily by this point. You don't have to socialize with other people if you don't want to. There are lots of people just like you who do just fine getting by in life without friends or a significant other. This doesn't make you any lesser of a person than anyone else and is a perfectly acceptable way of living. Stop thinking that you need to buy in to something just because someone told you so. just b urself

>Eat healthy
only eat organic fruits + vegetables and rarely meat

>Rest well
can't, depression keeps me awake at night and tired during the day

>Get plenty of exercise
I used to work out daily, started skipping and now all motivation is gone & depression makes it hard to get back into it

>Get enough sunlight
occasionally but I spend most of my time in front of a screen

>Socialise more
Meh, most people are boring and the ones I'm interested in usually don't care back or live really far away.

>Get a hobby you care about
Only hobby I have is Veeky Forums everything else gets ruined by depression

>Look after yourself
I feel worthless because I don't get the attention or friendships from people I want.

Also ketamine, psylocibin, cannabis and probably a wide range of outlawed psychedelics

I don't consider myself an intellectual (if only because the term sounds obnoxiously pretentious, and because I have different standards), but I'd say the meds do help. I take escitalopram daily and alprazolam for when I get anxious. The meds make me sleepy, but they also sort of level me out.

Yeah, depression does not mean sad. But the exercise does help.

Run if you feel bad, homie. Might work for you.

kek

I'm the guy that was telling you to take meds earlier. I've dealt with a myriad of minor mental issues, depression and anxiety chief among them. Anxiety is tougher for me to deal with on my own, so I take meds. But depression is all about finding some perspective and gaining acceptance. Life is very lonely, it's very difficult and more than likely is pointless. Accept that. Now that you've accepted that fact, you should become indifferent to it. So what if life is lonely, difficult and pointless? Fuck it. Everybody's in the same boat. All I can do is try to enjoy my time moment by moment.

tl;dr: hedonism and utilitarianism is the answer my friend.

Reads more like stoicism to me, but eh.

>Are you happy being alone?
no, I feel like I'm missing out on my youth unlike everyone else.

I want a gf see;

none of those reverse or fix brain damage, cannabis is relaxing but can be harmful, I'm pretty sure ketamine is damaging for the brain.

I never said I don't show emotion or get beat down by life, quite the contrary. But acknowledging and accepting my plight helps me cope. I guess you could call it stoicism, but I go the extra step for hedonism. I refuse to let my stoic nature prevent me from finding joy every day. I smoke weed, I play video games, I have a sense of humor. I don't take much in my life seriously, much to the chagrin of my girlfriend and family. But fuck it, you shouldn't waste your life in misery and struggle if you can help it.

In the same way you solve any other problem, you search for a book that tells you how to fix yourself.

Read books about people skills

>Read books about people skills
Just because someone wrote something on paper doesn't mean it correct or true, imo the understanding of the brain isn't even elaborate enough to concider any book reliable.

No, It's not guaranteed to be true, but thinking of being better than every author on the subject is retarded

LaVey satanism is also pretty nice IF you also use rationality to determine if X is worth doing

Mehn, you sound like you just skimmed the first entry that came up on google about stoicism. It's actually more about accepting that life is shit, and that you might as well work with the shit because you know it's the best you'll get.

Even nihilism sounds better than that.

OK, so I'm a stoic. I'm probably many, many philosophies. But I identify more with hedonism and utilitarianism. I'm less concerned with being stoic than I am hedonistic or utilitarian. I'm beyond stoic.

stoicism sounds unhealthy desu, probably better off being depressed

youtube.com/watch?v=yu7n0XzqtfA

Here. It's roughly a four-minute video about why stoicism isn't as glum as you think.

Thing is OP, I live because I can have pleasure
I only study things because I want to have money to buy things that give me pleasure
From video games, to drugs, to whores.

whoops. Five, sorry.

Lose yourself in a hobby. Then git gud.

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