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what exactly is the method for "getting over" depressing things?

  1. #41
    stand otside dore look at green stuff until heal
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    i got pulled over
    im in the cop car
    they want my full name
    i told em rock star
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  3. #43
    the bundy roach cleanse works every time
  4. #44
    Shrooms Houston
    Gay ass booty taking nigga stfu
  5. #45
    Siouxsie_Q African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Life is a vast ocean of misery and normality broken only by a few tiny islands of happiness.

    Don't waste your time thinking how to get to an island when you are in the middle of the ocean, just worry about staying afloat and sooner or later the current will take you and you'll spot an island on the horizon.

    You're either a Poet, or a Psychologist. Maybe a 'lil bit of both, eh?
  6. #46
    Technologist victim of incest
    Originally posted by GGG So, you think its true then? There is no solution, only distraction?

    Sometimes I wonder how hard drugs have fucked my reward system. I dont seem to enjoy things in the same way as sober people. They get so excited about their hobbies and interests. I mean I work out and have productive hobbies but 80% it just feels like a routine. Like I'm just living the same day over and over.

    I could get new hobbies and do new things, but those too will eventually become old and monotonous. A temporary distraction.

    Maybe the connotation of the word distraction is making this more depressing than it needs to sound, but I don't mean it like that. It's just that objectively it seems like thats all humans try to do is distract themselves. Some do it destructively, others find a positive way to distract themselves, but its still a distraction in the end. Something you do because you want to be happier than you are.

    Maybe distractions are the key to happiness and I've just been picking the wrong ones, idk. It just seems kind of pointless to try and put yourself out there purely for the sake of the distraction. How is that any different of a coping mechanism than using drugs?


    They may be distractions at first, but then these activities just become a part of your life. A life where you get your highs from doing things that make you feel good. Those things become habit and a part of who you are, so they don’t remain distractions for long.
  7. #47
    Originally posted by Technologist They may be distractions at first, but then these activities just become a part of your life. A life where you get your highs from doing things that make you feel good. Those things become habit and a part of who you are, so they don’t remain distractions for long.

    has that really happened for you though
  8. #48
    Ghost Black Hole
    https://medium.com/chris-messina/surrogate-activities-the-power-process-16203dda87
  9. #49
    Technologist victim of incest
    Absofuckinglutely. These were things that I normally did, but took myself away from them when I got depressed. I isolate myself in my bedroom when I’m depressed. Won’t even answer the phone for good friends. It’s like I wanna wallow in my misery. Punishing myself and make myself feel the pain “I so deserve”.

    By forcing myself to GTFO, I begin to feel worthwhile again, and if I do it enough times, it becomes habit. I’m actually still in this process, and if it wasn’t for my husband, I’d probably never leave my house except to work.
  10. #50
    Originally posted by Technologist Absofuckinglutely. These were things that I normally did, but took myself away from them when I got depressed. I isolate myself in my bedroom when I’m depressed. Won’t even answer the phone for good friends. It’s like I wanna wallow in my misery. Punishing myself and make myself feel the pain “I so deserve”.

    By forcing myself to GTFO, I begin to feel worthwhile again, and if I do it enough times, it becomes habit. I’m actually still in this process, and if it wasn’t for my husband, I’d probably never leave my house except to work.

    so basically you are still stuck in the "distraction" phase
  11. #51
    Ghost Black Hole
    Everyone has goals If nothing else, to obtain the physical necessities of life: food, water and whatever clothing and shelter are made necessary by the climate. But the leisured aristocrat obtains these things without effort. Hence his boredom and demoralization.
    36. Nonattainment of important goals results in death if the goals are physical necessities, and in frustration if nonattainment of the goals is compatible with survival. Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
    37. Thus, in order to avoid serious psychological problems, a human being needs goals whose attainment requires effort, and he must have a reasonable rate of success in attaining his goals
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  12. #52
    Originally posted by Ghost Everyone has goals If nothing else, to obtain the physical necessities of life: food, water and whatever clothing and shelter are made necessary by the climate. But the leisured aristocrat obtains these things without effort. Hence his boredom and demoralization.
    36. Nonattainment of important goals results in death if the goals are physical necessities, and in frustration if nonattainment of the goals is compatible with survival. Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
    37. Thus, in order to avoid serious psychological problems, a human being needs goals whose attainment requires effort, and he must have a reasonable rate of success in attaining his goals

    dude you sit in a room and rot all day and have no conception of the fact that you are wasting your life and have no ambition to do anything more
  13. #53
    Technologist victim of incest
    Yes and no. I’m doing things I love to do again, and they’ll become part of me again. I’ve been landscaping my yard again, one of my favorite hobbies, but I quit doing it after I became ill and couldn’t walk normally. I’ve found ways around making sure I don’t fall down, and I’m back at it. I feel good that I beat the barrier stopping me. Little things like that, are a beginning for me.

    I was devastated after my illness. It took a highly active person, and left me unable to even go hiking; something I’ve loved doing. So I’m trying to incorporate new activities, I can do, as well as my other hobbies I can still do.

    I have to know it will get better. At least my psychologist tells me that😂
  14. #54
    Ghost Black Hole
    Originally posted by OG_GREENPLASTIC_JOHNSON_III dude you sit in a room and rot all day and have no conception of the fact that you are wasting your life and have no ambition to do anything more

    What is a 'non wasted' life?
    I have food, water clothing and shelter.
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  15. #55
    WellHung Black Hole
    Originally posted by Ghost What is a 'non wasted' life?
    I have food, water clothing and shelter.

    Exactly.👍
  16. #56
    Ghost Black Hole
    The reason you are unfulfilled is because you think you need all this extra junk just because you are a slave to advertising, desire and the secular world.

    Goals and material things are false happiness. I enjoy the experience of being alive for each moment and that's what makes me happy
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  17. #57
    Originally posted by Ghost What is a 'non wasted' life?
    I have food, water clothing and shelter.



    Originally posted by WellHung Exactly.👍

    where the fuck did my life go wrong that i am actually interacting with you two dipshits
  18. #58
    Ghost Black Hole
    There you go with that negative energy again.

    This is why you make threads about depression and need help getting over things because you are drowning in negative energy and toxicity and your only solution is materialism and surrogate activities.
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  19. #59
    Technologist victim of incest
    Scron,
    Just because you’re happy living a simplistic life, doesn’t mean it’s a good fit for others. It takes a certain type of person to be content like you are.
    But for people with a predisposition for depression, being left alone to your thoughts can destroy you. I’m not telling him to acquire materialistic things, I’m telling him to get back into “life” again, on his terms.
  20. #60
    Ghost Black Hole
    That's what i'm saying too.
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