/dep/ - Depression

anxiety and over-thinking is just a coping mechanism for general incompetence. until you gain control of things and the confidence that comes with experience, you're mind will be ringing the alarm and forcing you to prepare for the future.

>how often do you overthink about the future?
Often
>what are your worries?
Not graduating, not getting a job - still dependant on my parents
>how do your cope?
By believing someday out of magic my life will make a 180° turn and things will eventually come together

>>296934
what are you studying?
how good are you at it?

>>296935
Economics
I suck at it
Seems like i dont know yet how to study, i spend hours and my grades are still bad

>>296940
many say economics is the easiest major in the world, i am not trying to say you are dumb or anything, just pointing out to what i have heard several times

>Seems like i dont know yet how to study, i spend hours and my grades are still bad

don't give up

>>296941
Indeed it's not hard. It just frustrates me I can't get around to sticking things in my mind.

>>296933
You do know where you are, right? I am incompetent and am not afraid to say it. You don't belong here turbo normie.

>>296943
weirdly defensive are we, wizzie? i'm just talking from experience. worrying comes from incompetence, you don't trust that you can handle things (because from experience you know that you can't) and of course you must cope with it somehow and for a certain kind of introverted personality that is always used to solving problems intellectually, you only have one tool in your toolbox - thinking. if you just think hard enough about it, predict everything that will happen, everything is going to be ok, right? what you believe is some kind of psychological symptom or character defect, is actually just your way of coping with uncertainty and your own incompetence. instead of fighting yourself to stop doing something, forcing yourself to basically put away your last bit of control, it's only going to make things worse. the only way to fix it is by becoming competent, after many successful experiences, you eventually learn that you can handle things. of course, i'm not saying you can snap your fingers, but if you conceptualize the problem this way, you know what you should aim for, rather than trying to "not think of a pink elephant" and repressing your instincts.

>what are your worries?
No education, no job, no useful skills and I will soon have to fend for myself
>how do you cope?
Dissociation + contemplating suicide

>>296942
bad short term memory?
if you are not working out regularly, sleeping well, eating well, and taking your daily dose of vitamin D (either from the sun or the pills) then your brain will not function well

>>296945
literally me

>>296946
I might be missing on daily exercise.
P.s: could it also have something to do with overstimulation?

>>296932
The usual stuff like poverty, homelessness, parents getting ill and dying, my own body getting worse, the type of death that awaits me and the last point really makes me question everything. Like my impact on this world is nonexistent and overall my Life was pointless. It didnt mean much to me or anyone else besides maybe my parents but they wont outlast me so as soon as I die everything about me will be forever forgotten and the world keeps going on without me as if I never even existed and even if somehow my life wasnt pointless in the grand scheme of things it still is.
And thats a future that awaits everyone, no matter who you are you will die at some point and since everything is a cycle you will most likely respawn again at some point and then live another pointless life and this goes on for eternity.
if you think about it the only thing that makes sense is to live in the present and try to cope by trying to stay relaxed and calm because overthinking it is just a reminder that you are a prisoner of this universe and that there is no way out.

>>296950
we are not prisoners. there is/are ways out. being convinced that there are no ways out is self-condemning and should be avoided forasmuch as possible. reincarnation/metempsychosis/demiurge recycling our souls/etc. is all complete nonsense meant to frighten you. though even these things were true (which they're not), we would still have a duty to ourselves to be strong enough to escape and to remain calm (as you said) and to find a better place for our souls to thrive and rest.

>>296953
clearly we arent here voluntarily and the experience of Life is forced on us.
I doubt there is a way out because if there was why would anyone be even still here?