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Do the same thing everyday.

Everything begins to not matter.

posting quality threads on /jp/

>>8227345
It's the opposite dude, every little thing starts to matter and haunt you.

Do ecstasy. The next day or the day after, the levels of happy chemicals in your brain will be low, causing depression.

If you keep doing crazy amounts of the stuff in high doses, you'll damage your brain in such a way that you'll be sad all day erryday.

Take up self harm. It's pretty cool.

>>8227356
That always relieved stress for me.

reading about politics/history

Read Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche.

I usually get depressed when I stop taking my dose of prozac.

Lock yourself in a small room and don't leave or communicate with people online for two years. Come back, and you'll be depressed.

fastest way to become depressed as HELL is to not be ironic as HELL and be a normalfagglet

Koishi keeps me from depression

>>8227356
I did that when I was younger and I can't do that again.

>>8227379
But then I will fail school and I'm sure I won't be able to get good position in Gensokyo without school.

>>8227381
I tried and now I'm undepressed and and I feel really sad because of that.

I can not fathom what would bring you to desire depression.

>>8227408
I miss depression.

You don't want to be depressed, trust me.

>>8227399
Simple sadness is better than full on depression. Go have some fun doing something.

Read an utsuge VN.

First step is to stop being a retard.

Then you kill yourself.

did anyone save that car analogy from that depression thread a while back?

>>8228868
What's that about? I'm interested.

Depression sucks. It's like trying to get a car moving with no gas, and everyone's racing past you wondering why you're being a stupid cunt that isn't moving.

So you get out and start pushing that car, but it wears you out, and people get frustrated with you and complain that you're being a slow asshole, and you try to explain that you have no gas, but they don't really get it because their tanks have been full their entire lives. And you're gonna be alone too, since who wants to travel that slowly? And if you do get someone, she's gonna sit in the front seat and yell at you to push faster. It's what happened to me.

So you either off yourself once your legs give out, or you get a doctor to dump some pseudo-fuel in your car that'll make it go just fine, but once you stop using it, your car will run in reverse and then you're really fucked.

Most of us though get by by pushing that ugly ass car every day little by litte in our dumpy dreary lives. And every time someone roars past you, tossing a fucking soda cup or a beer bottle at you and your fucking horrible car, you just push your face to the fender and keep pushing. You come upon the wreckage of those people who went too fast, who threw shit at you and mocked you for not being able to cruise along, and you see people stopping to mourn the burning dead, but you don't feel sad, no, you just keep pushing that car, ignoring the wreckage.

Then everyone turns around and gives you disgusting looks for being so callous. Your mere existence hurts them, and the spite is enough to make you smile and keep pushing that fucking car another fifteen miles.

You don't want to be depressed. You won't be able to enjoy doing anything.

>>8228868

"Depression sucks. It's like trying to get a car moving with no gas, and everyone's racing past you wondering why you're being a stupid cunt that isn't moving.

So you get out and start pushing that car, but it wears you out, and people get frustrated with you and complain that you're being a slow asshole, and you try to explain that you have no gas, but they don't really get it because their tanks have been full their entire lives. And you're gonna be alone too, since who wants to travel that slowly? And if you do get someone, she's gonna sit in the front seat and yell at you to push faster. It's what happened to me.

So you either off yourself once your legs give out, or you get a doctor to dump some pseudo-fuel in your car that'll make it go just fine, but once you stop using it, your car will run in reverse and then you're really fucked.

Most of us though get by by pushing that ugly ass car every day little by litte in our dumpy dreary lives. And every time someone roars past you, tossing a fucking soda cup or a beer bottle at you and your fucking horrible car, you just push your face to the fender and keep pushing. You come upon the wreckage of those people who went too fast, who threw shit at you and mocked you for not being able to cruise along, and you see people stopping to mourn the burning dead, but you don't feel sad, no, you just keep pushing that car, ignoring the wreckage.

Then everyone turns around and gives you disgusting looks for being so callous. Your mere existence hurts them, and the spite is enough to make you smile and keep pushing that fucking car another fifteen miles."

>>8228881
something about fuel, pushing, crashes.
had the cap but lost everything in the reformat/crash

If you want to be depressed, just sit in your room for a week without doing anything.
No TV. No video games. No books. No radio. No chatting with anyone. No going out for a brisk jog.

Just sit and think. Maybe try to go to sleep after an hour or two.

Luckily for you, you'll be able to stop whenever you want to. For some of us, we're stuck in that room every day of our lives.

Or something like that.

>>8228919
That was pretty much my life until about the age of 16 when I managed to piece together my first computer.

wiki article of interest
silver spring monkeys
scientists make monkeys extremely depressed

almost feels /x/ related.

Being manic is a lot more fun than being depressed, for a while.
I wouldn't recommend either

>>8228954
This.

I can't have perfection, but I would rather be angry or nervous than depressed any day.

Of course if you're capable of being neutral, all the better for you.

>>8228964
Trust me you don't want to be angry all day, all night.
Causes heart complications later, maybe a stroke. Pure hatred killed my uncle.

I actually like the rare days of SOUL CRUSHING DESPAIR , but the vast majority of depression is just sitting around not feeling anything.

Eventually that fog of nothing spreads to your entire life, you may be bored, but you know you can't pay attention long long to do anything other than shit out a couple posts on a dead image board.

>>8228974
I said preference, as in if I had a choice. I don't get angry that often, I do however get nervous a lot. That I can't do much about, not at the moment anyways.

>>8227371
You read Nietzsche completely and totally wrong if you think it's completely depressing. You're supposed to overcome the fact that god is dead in the modern world and rise up to be a superman. This is /jp/, though, who are we kidding? We can't even rise up to go to the bathroom.

Become a shut-in, limit social interactions online to posting on anonymous imageboards. Then become an alcoholic.

>>8228989
>You read Nietzsche completely and totally wrong
>You're supposed to overcome the fact that god is dead in the modern world and rise up to be a superman
oh the Alanis Morissette - Ironic.mp3

>>8228989
>This is /jp/, though, who are we kidding? We can't even rise up to go to the bathroom.

Hahaha, classy.

>>8228964
"But the worst of it is that it is just this contentment that I cannot endure. After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred and nausea. In desperation I have to escape and throw myself on the road to pleasure, or, if that cannot be, on the road to pain. When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life."

>>8228989
It saddens me that so many people, even those in my Philosophy classes, self-proclaimed Philosophy "majors," consider much of Nietzsche's work as a means to perpetuate Nihilism as an end-state of mind; as if we're meant to fall into an existentialist torrent, come out under banner of nihilism, and just ... stop growing.
Or does that happen very often and I just talk to the wrong people?

>>8229046
My god, what is wrong with me today...
>under THE banner of nihilism
>that NOT happen very often

Marathon texhnolyze.

Drink afterwards and reflect on what you saw.

Depression is the state your mind's in whenever it's not working. All the spare brainpower goes into introspection and longing. And we all become depressed when that happens.

Your brain is a living thing. If it doesn't work, it becomes a lazy bastard and loses itself in random thoughts. If you keep it occupied with challenging and interesting things (not monotonous), tire it out every day, you're going to wake up feeling completely refreshed and reinvigorated, knowing that you're working towards a concrete and meaningful goal. Just like your muscles, your brain needs nurturing and exercise too.

But in a world where we are SO used to immediate gratifications, the golden lesson, that the most meaningful things in life can only be achieved through effort and thereby truly appreciated, has escaped many of us. They no longer want to make an effort. They ditch the greater things to chase after the immediate, but trivial and meaningless pleasures the internet gives them. They become consumers, accustomed to the idea that fiction is to be consumed and replaced, gradually becoming lost in the seas of theatrics, undeserved flattery and success. Their world views become distorted by fiction and the internet, to the point where that's the only world that exists for them, and the real world is something else, inconsequential and illogical to them.

>>8229046
>It saddens me that so many people, even those in my Philosophy classes, self-proclaimed Philosophy "majors," consider much of Nietzsche's work as a means to perpetuate Nihilism as an end-state of mind; as if we're meant to fall into an existentialist torrent, come out under banner of nihilism, and just ... stop growing.
I don't know how they get that. I've read just about everything Nietzsche wrote and I didn't get the "life is horrible; everyone should just die" message from him (a good thing, considering his main point was the exact opposite). I think some people read a single book by Nietzsche like Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Beyond Good and Evil, aren't used to the aphoristic style, and misinterpret descriptions of a condition as advocating that condition. That or they sift the words in the books through the ideas in pop culture they've heard about Nietzsche.

>Or does that not happen very often and I just talk to the wrong people?
If he's ever mentioned in a conversation (very infrequent), most people don't know who he is. Those that do usually think he's some sort of nihilist.

>>8229120
I will embarrassingly admit I've only read a few books by Nietzsche. I have a small stack I'd like to read soon, but I'm caught up in other books (and general laziness).
But I do believe most of the misinterpretation lies in the fact that, I believe, Nietzsche does support nihilism, but only in the sense that it's a necessary evil which we must overcome (which people don't seem to comprehend, thinking all "bad" things should just be avoided and never be spoken of).
To flaunt my philosophical elitism, I scoff at the people who regard themselves as Nietzschian nihilists because they're unable to reach beyond that point.
And then I make /jp/ posts about it and use fancy words. Feels good man.