/dep/ - Depression

>>302319
Agree with both things you mentioned. It's definitely hard to listen to happy music when you have no particular reason to do so, but it helps.

I'll add:
>Having a tasty meal
>Buying stuff you want
Both only work short term though

also
>Alcohol
It works but I guess it does the opposite in the long term. The combination of alcohol and music I like does it especially, it's the only thing I look forward to while wageslaving

You shouldn't minimize reality

people kept saying i have a life ahead of me
i already knew i'd end up here by age 16 and here i am 21

>>302332
this

Try drugs, like ketamine, that works for depression.

>>302344
Cheater. Wait till you're 30

A succubus posted this

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>>302319
>What are some things you wizs do to minimize depression?


backgound music AKA muzak

small funny pulsating night lamp may help me

do not eat "comfort food" every day! My mom did a mistake feeding me fat tasty stuff every day, profusely rioting against my dietary preferences. I have noticed eating less of her cool stuff and eating more practical stuff is ebin.

>>302319
In my experience, crying also helps to release sadness, or even to try to let out the trapped emotion in my chest. After that, I'm tired and sleep for about half an hour. It's fairly effective, if you ask me.

>>302319
Sleeping helps. Of course, it's major avoidance but my bed is pretty much the only place on this world where I don't feel any sort of negative emotion. Stress, anxiety, sadness, it all melts away once I am under the covers and have closed my eyes. I have even begun enjoying the feeling of drifting in and out of consciousness when I set short alarms for afternoon naps and keep snoozing, like surfing the tide of unreality. Dreams are also usually the only place I actually feel positive emotion and when I do it tends to linger and keep me going for some part of the day after.
I think this strategy only works if you've trained your brain to associate your bed only with sleeping though. I've never been someone who spends any waking time in bed to read or consume content or whatever, so my physiological reaction is pretty robust.

>>303386
>Sleeping helps. Of course, it's major avoidance but my bed is pretty much the only place on this world where I don't feel any sort of negative emotion. Stress, anxiety, sadness, it all melts away once I am under the covers and have closed my eyes.

JEALOUS!!!

I can't fall asleep until some specific conditions (not too hot, not too bright yet not too dark) are met due to being both too fat and too large

The only thing I've found works recently is escapism. I've been watching a lot of movies and playing games where I can really immerse myself in the story like good CRPGs or challenging games like romhacks. It's a delicate balance though because I suck at games so playing something too hard will just make me feel worse.

I used to have other hobbies that helped (different types of exercise) but I've grown to just hate them all. It's a negative feedback loop because now I'm fat and out of shape so thinking about doing those things again just makes me sad because I suck so much.

>>302319
not fapping

>>302319
I take noopept (Russian anti dementia nootropic) everyday for a month at a time.

>>303536
and? Did it help? Any noticeable effects?

>>303386
>>303391

>I can't fall asleep until some specific conditions (not too hot, not too bright yet not too dark) are met due to being both too fat and too large

It happened this night! Woke up at 4 AM…
JEALOUS!!!


(side note: a tape recorded to mumble thoughs + a large, HUGE pillow)

Go fuck yourself.

>>303536
Don’t waste your brain on that unverified junk>>302319

>>302332
Everyone's perspective is biased and distorted anyway. We inevitably minimize reality no matter what we do. People here who don't actively try to make themselves optimistic still minimize reality by distracting and detaching.
It's not like anyone here just sits with their thoughts about how horrible every aspect of the world and their life is and does nothing else. They might have that as a background all of the time but they are still engaging in various activities to make it more bearable than just say lying in their bed with their eyes shut or staring at the ceiling the entire time.

I've been at points where attempting to make myself feel better just backfires because it felt too disgusting and incongruous to buy into anything that felt like delusion.
But in general I prefer being able to feel happy and optimistic for brief periods if it's at all possible.

>>304805
You need fact checked and peer reviewed studies or what?

I've made baby steps in feeling better by accepting reality I can't control. It used to burden my mind constantly about the collapse of my country, all of our countries. Now I just put more effort into my personal problems instead. Helps a little bit, it's no magic cure though