/dep/ - Depression

>>305713
>Why would you be surprised?

Because 1 hour of texting could be communicated with a 3 minute phone call. I remember some kids would sit there texting from home while the house phone was right next to them.

It was $20 for 500 texts per month back then, and people were burning through them by week 2.

>>305824
It's actually based as shit the corporate sleaze of collectables is dying off. 80s cartoons were glorified toy commercials and our boomer parents were rightly disgusted at the level of brainwashing they achieved over kids. They didn't understand Yugioh or Pokemon entirely, but they had an intuition as to how cynical it all was paying $30 for a deck (that's like $60 in today's money). They begrudgingly used to go along with it.

I remember there was some viciousness and nastiness at school behind it all too. Wealth differences, which were minimal or unnoticed for kids, became exacerbated in a mean fashion when some kids had parents that could dump hundreds into the hobby while others didn't. There was lots of stealing, fights, accusing others of having "fake" cards.

Don't other millennials find it pathetic how much of our nostalgia is tied up to actual corporate products and toy commercials? At least when the boomers were playing cowboys and indians on the playground, it wasn't drafted up in some Hasbro office as a way to fleece money off their parents.

>>305722
My opinion is, our generation should not have been "wired" SO CARELESSLY

>>305826
Yup! Grandpa Joe always could've brought a 3$ "tommy gun" toy to the party XD

Funny tricks for OP to try.
From someone who tried to watch SEL when they aired it.

Try logging out a little bit by:

1)use some old smartphone as your offline device (Gutenberg Project books, old books, .pdf of Popular mechanics magazines off Archive.org)

AND

2)set your main smartphone, your online device into silent mode on schedule (Do Not Disturb mode on samsungs and alike allows scheduling auto-enable and auto-disable schedule in pairs, say 22:00-07:00)

3. Check your EMR levels in your room and test your EMR sensitivity. What if you are constantly being affected by your Wi-Fi router? Try putting it into another room…

4. Get a y3k-styled chromed mp3 player, maybe?

>>305893
I think you may have far-sighted eyes. Which means you need reading glasses.

Regards, a near-sighted person who needs regular glasses.

>>304935
My diet for December has been:
more fish (good?)
more soda (bad?)
more beans, lentils cabbage (?????)
no meat
(inb4 soyboy) no soy also
no diary (seems to help?)
no spicy food also

>>304012
Ahahaha! Thanks for a hint, fren! Because I've been avoiding dairy products altogether for a month AND my burp problems have gone - even though my fizzy soda cola intake was awfully high yesterday. Havent it been for your hint, I wouldnt have noticed how smooth my last month was


regards, this very guy who've been complaining of being forced to lent - IT SEEMS TO DO TANGIBLE GOOD


i take i need to only eat dairy in moderation or… well,abstain from it,going full soiboi (im wizard-aged already anyway)

i have same sympthoms two years ago. punking, panic attacks, nauseous, shortness of breath, sinus tachycardia, feel like someone holding my throat. urine and blood test were normal and doc said so healty.

then i realized my throat get irritated especially in the morning. its due to silent reflux. im in diet for 3 months. i have eliminated cigarettes, coffee, and chocolate from my life.

>>304944
As someone who both drank coffee and ate chocolate before feeling irritated/mad/uneasy, I say:


Thank you, dear wizard friend. I will avoid eating big portion of chocolate in one go this year.

>>304936
>no diary

*No dairy [products]

selffix

Alright, Silly Bean, time to shake off those mental stalkers and *actually* make some moves! Here's your mission, should you choose to accept it. This isn't just about "wooing a gal," it's about reclaiming your life and kicking those inner demons to the curb. Consider this your "Operation: Get Out of Your Head and Into the World" checklist.

Phase 1: Clear the Runway (Mental Prep)

* [ ] Acknowledge the Stalkers: They're there, you know it. But they DO NOT control you. Write down their "greatest hits" – the negative thoughts, the fears, the doubts. Then, next to each, write a *counter-statement* – a positive, empowering truth. (e.g., "I'm not worthy" becomes "I am worthy of connection and happiness.")
* [ ] Therapy (Highly Recommended): Seriously. Talking to a professional about your anxieties, insecurities, and those relentless mental stalkers can be a game-changer. Find a therapist you click with. This is your secret weapon.
* [ ] Daily Mindfulness/Meditation: Even 5 minutes a day of focused breathing or meditation. This trains your brain to be present and to *observe* your thoughts without getting swallowed by them.
* [ ] Identify Your Value: What are you *good* at? What are you *passionate* about? What qualities do you bring to the table? Make a list. Remind yourself *why* someone would want to be around you.
* [ ] Self-Compassion Practice: Treat yourself with the same kindness and understanding you would offer a friend. Make mistakes? That's okay. Don't beat yourself up.
* [ ] Reframe "Stalkers" as "Negative Self-Talk": This helps you to take control.

Phase 2: Build Your Foundation (Self-Improvement)

* [ ] Physical Health: Exercise regularly (even just walks!). Eat relatively healthy. Get enough sleep. This makes a HUGE difference in your mood and confidence.
* [ ] Social Skills Refresher: Read books, watch videos, or attend workshops on building relationships and conversation skills. Practice makes perfect.
* [ ] New Hobbies & Interests: Find things you genuinely *enjoy*. This makes you a more interesting person and provides opportunities to meet others who share your passions.
* [ ] Dress for Success (Or, at Least, "Not Sloth" Mode): Start paying attention to your appearance. Not to impress others, but to feel good about yourself. Clean clothes, a decent haircut… it can make a difference.
* [ ] Clear Social Media (Optional, but Might Help): Clean uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>305781
>start recording me whenever I react

Use very high-pitched Hz sound that interferes with microphones yet cannot be caught by human ear. I thing there is a device for that.

>a recording of me
AIslop
Your defence line? As a wizard who prolly needs a lawyer over "defamation" at this point? AIslop may be one of the defence lines.

There is a site to slap a Sоrа АІ watermark on a vid.

Bonus points if you add a little АІ filter.

>>305781
Also, check if your given name or surname or both *sound* Jewish and if you have *some* facial features of a Jewish person - say, an Ashkenaz jolly fella. Might be a literal case of anti… well, you know.

>>305781
Sorry you're going trough this, my friendu. I've never been dogpiled or gang-stalked to that extent, but I'd strongly suggest you look into some professional psych help for this kind of situation.

> Back when I was dealt with bullying and some light stalking in school, it was all start by a "friend". I knew his whole family, his issues, his insecurities - and more importantly, his address and bank info. Since I was younger, I didn't know how to ask for help or get even. Honestly, I don't even care anymore, not looking for revenge or anything like that. That scumbag is a total junkie now and is about to get clip*ed by a dealer anyway, lol.

>>305843
Not lie: If I wanted to, I could scrape all ther data online - social midia, pics, inner circle, phone numbers, addresses, banking info - and dup it all on a dark forum. People play good money for that kind of doxx. I could even use AI to cook up some deep fakes to wreck their reputations. I'd start a burner page targeting the top studentes at my high-school and let them spread the word about the absolute filth these people do around town. Of course, I'd have to be smart about it and cover my tracks, 'cause this isn't just fake - it's life-ruining territory – I once wrote this topic in my diary. Hate makes u want to do horrible things. But putting human trash in ther place feels like a full time job.

> Just my story, though. I'm not inciting anything. Like I said: get some professional help. Stay safe out there.

>>305757
What did your genetics do? Make you retarded, deformed, short?

>>305759
>>305762
I'm a mystery meat (literally hailing from godforsaken central asian turkic territory and half-white), so I look like a bastardized-randomized skyrim character, I couldn't form a sentence until I was 4, I was diagnosed with selective mutism (+ social anxiety disorder, but I probably have avpd and/or autism) and I'm generally speaking severely limited in my abilities. Emptiness is the only consistent feeling I ever experienced, I don't have hobbies, can't be motivated to even play just a simple game or watch a movie. I'm completely smooth-brained, probably on the edge of retardation if not actually retarded in the medical sense.

>>305761
My body starts scratching painfully if I engage in too much physical activity due some skin auto immune disease I have

>>305768
With this amount of self awareness, even if all you say is a totally accurate assessment, you are perhaps just slightly dumb at worst. Retardation would be what you see on tiktok. Cooking food in the plastic. Cooking tinned food in the tin on the stove. Not looking before crossing road. Trust me, there are really stupid people out there

I still have ptsd from high school, when a succubus laughs somewhere nearby I still subconsciously feel that it's directed at me, thankfully my life has changed a lot since those days

In other words maybe you'll become more wise and will grow out of it, the process of acquiring wisdom can be painful, even wotan had to hang upside down for 9 days and nights to acquire wisdom

>>305768
I've talked to so many people online and every second mixed person I've encountered has some sort of health problem. My mixed friend at school used to have his earwax leak out of his ear in a liquid and ruin headphones with it. And a lot of the mixed-race people I know IRL too have a lot of suicides or mental illness in their families.

With asian/white mixes there's a lot of skin disorders. Things like constant rashes or blocked pores.

I just don't think mixing is healthy like that. In the past sure, it was fine because natural selection would take care of the problems before an ethnogenesis took place. But these days nah, it's not like that.

>>305084
My therapist claims most of the people she sees have nothing wrong with them and are just going through a breakup or something. She moves my appointments forward into their slots if she can.

The entire mental health and therapy and anti depressants thing is basically a meme. Normalfags eat tons of crap, work meaningless jobs and dont exercise and scroll reels all day and then they think they have le depression because they feel dissatisfied with it all. Dont take it too seriously.

>>305657
I genuinely think they are mentally deteriorating though. I notice it most especially with boomers since smart phones proliferated. They've really become like imageboard users in that they're dogmatic, argumentative and terminally online.

Like Grandma used to watch TV a lot when her health deteriorated. But even then it was just horse racing and dumb British soap operas. Now my mum is approaching the same age and she's got CNN blasting 24/7, ranting about trump, and thinks celebrities are talking to her on facebook.

>>305650
The retirement homes here suck up the pension + supported living payment and leave the people in them with $30 per week to themselves. I know this because my friend's mom with dementia recently got placed in one and my friend helped organize it. Supported living payment is like a form of welfare that's given to the poors because the pension and disability allowance can't cut it for most people. Supported living payment + pension is like 80% of what minimum wage is after tax at 40 hours a week.

If the system is strained with this amount of money being thrown at the problem, then when austerity comes they genuinely will have no choice but to euthanize them.

People also severely underestimate how bad the population problem here is now. Why do you think you see Indians everywhere? Because they need young bodies to keep the lights on.

>>305658
Those retirement homes are some of the biggest scams out there. My grandmother was extremely rich, but sadly also stupid and mentally ill. She probably lost a couple million USD during her 3 year stay in one. The inheritance was basically 10k for each sibling when she died. Happened when I was 8 or so, found out just recently. It's quite infuriating that we could have had a decent safer life with that money put into good investments.

>>305443
>So many normie families I know have all their daughters NEETing at home
Why is that the case? Females are the ones who suffer the least in failed societies. Why are the sons working, for what?

>>305742
>Why are the sons working, for what?
Maybe their moms said they wouldn't get any more tendies until they got a job! Hahahaha!

>>305688
During elementary school I vomited about 6 times in class over the years. Shat my pants twice, and pissed myself atleast 4 times I can remember. Mostly in front of the class, and I still wasn't the most messed up kid there

>>305727
holy fuck was that some kind of high profile special school for wizards?

>>305688
Same. Shit my pants ONCE in elementary and it followed me until I graduated high school.

I can barely believe people have started stigmatising, pathologising and labeling being a quiet person. Quiet people do nothing wrong and this shows what ultimate cancer this society is converging to. I can already see how in some shitholes like the UK you could in the future get police check-ups at home for "being too quiet"

>>305735
woah where. anyway quiet people have always been dislike afaik. "who knows what shit they're thinking"

both my wrists hurt now
it is Hell
I can't do anything at all like I used to
there are still fifty years left of this shit
help me

>>304098
Happened to me years ago.
>apply ice until pain and inflammation reduce
>start exercising your wrists, lifting weights in every direction, start with half a kg, increase by little until 2kg
>stretch your wrists daily in every direction
>do something for the rest of your life to keep your wrists strong (or at least not too weak)
It was six months of physical therapy for me until it got "normal".

>>304099
Wrists?

Muscles or joints?

if muscles - >>304099

>>304098
total elimination of all nightshades will help you.

I’m turning 25 next month. No wife, no house, no skills, no college. Honestly, everything feels so dull that even the idea of killing myself seems pointless. I guess I can’t even say I’m sad. I’m nothing. It feels like I’m an observer in my own life.

>>304722
Become a construction worker chad.

>>304725
this


you basically need to learn how stuff's done on-site, not how stuff's lined out by some soy-decaf-slurper let alone a special kind of person you "wouldn't seem to understand"

>>304722
Sociophobia? Knowledge?

If you're a responsible adult, you can be trusted with laying bricks and mixing the cement mix. Such a job is requiring you to not be a funny small-time-criminal that would steal random shit to sell for pennies and… that's where many foxes, weasels and rascals flub it up XD

>investing
You meaning demo trading where the brokers let you win?

Tried food delivery? No one cares who you are as long as you can bring the food from point a to point b.

>>305678
The worst part about a McJob is the taxes, you literally enrich people who work against you by having a job

idk sry op it's a bit different for me.

basically when i'm depressed i'm very very irritable but otherwise lethargy dominates so i don't feel anxiety or shit.

i'm feeling pretty grounded near the baseline.

anxiety makes what feels like physical holes in my brain when i get above the baseline. idk if it's hypomania cuz i haven't been evaluated but that's how i label it cuz it feels kinda similar to the description of hypomania

oh now that i reread your post it seems your main question is about stress. well gee i don't know? i don't think it's manageable to be honest, cuz depression = brain doesn't work right and in that state you can't do meditation/self-check.

i think if you're really interesting in fixing this shit you should start getting your life back on track somehow. meditate on your complexes, figure out what makes you hates yourself and unless it's succubi just go for it idk. but if it's succubi i'm afraid some rope with some vodka is your way to go.

Are you sure your anxiousness isn't just a result of going stir crazy? How often do you do activities outside of the house?

>>305079
Perhaps that is what I have been waiting for. Drop it.

>>305079
Here's mine: simonc159789@proton.me. Write me, if you want to.

>>305081
https://bpa.st/DF4Q expires in a week.

Also you use big tech mail providers so please let me know if my cock emails weren't delivered.

>>305076
>People, who are not doctors, accuse me of being a schizophrenic.
I think they call you "schizo" simply because its getting trendy to say "[stuff], schizo", as opposed to decade-old idea to complain over "autists" or [crabs] let alone trolls.