/lit/ - Literature

Or this.

Unironically, when was the last time you went outside for a while? Going for a run/walk might help. Dave Barry also makes me chuckle, which might slightly alleviate bad feelings. Also, As a Man Thinketh was pretty helpful for me and it's available online and very brief

>>15314645
https://www.thinketh.io/download-the-pdf.html

>>15314512
Symphony for the City of the Dead

>>15314512
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

>>15314512
>>15314520
If you haven't read Tolstoy's other work I would suggest that, including his novels.

Otherwise:
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Works of Love - Kierkegaard
Walden - Thoreau

>>15314512
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

>>15314512
siddhartha

>>15314512
I absolutely disliked this book

>>15318065
This

>>15317549
Fuck off

>>15318065
Why?

>>15318286
I didn't like the fact that he lied about his experience and about how long he actually spent in each of the camps. You can usually smell bullshit when the author has to exaggerate his experience to make his method look at least somewhat viable.
I also don't like books about oppressed Jews in general. It's something you can never argue against. Why didn't he write a simple article on logotherapy instead of this bull? He uses a topic that is impossible to attack without using social credit and then uses it further as a vehicle for promoting his type of therapy. Freud likely fabricated his case studies, but I have way more respect for that.
Lastly, problem of logotherapy is that if the patient cannot find meaning, the therapist has to supply him one, maintaining the parent-child relationship between the therapist and patient, which I find to be a horrible idea due to my own experience in therapy, which involved me and therapist acting on the same level rather than the therapist being the one who has the key to life.

>>15318342
How do you knew that he was lying?

>>15318784
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.revisionism/Y9GcsdEBsHc
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/authoritarian-therapy/201703/is-it-ok-criticize-saint-humanizing-viktor-frankl
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/authoritarian-therapy/201604/the-case-against-viktor-frankl
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n5p10_frankl.html

>>15318808
I had my doubts of him for 2 things:
Dachau DOES have ovens and he said in the book that it didn't.
He didn't wanted to publish the book with his name.
But this is another level.

>>15314512
The Seven Storey Mountain. Literally a man's search for meaning, turning to religion, and eventually entering into monastic life. Also it's a great snapshot of how everyday life was like between the world wars. It's my favorite autobiography by my favorite author. If you like exploring themes of spirituality, this book is perfect.

>>15314512
>>15314512

Maybe if you could tell us (if you know) what conflict is bothering you then we'd be able to give you a better recommendation.

>>15318259
40% yourself

>>15320010
I'm trying to think which category depression would most likely fall under. The only thing I can say I know is that depression always has an element of loneliness, so man vs. no God seems relevant.

>>15314512
What are you depressed about

Does the Bible actually say there's meaning? I thought Ecclesiastes said there's no meaning in life.

>>15314520
Honestly war and peace is a great way to find meaning. Watching the characters evolve and grow while experiencing life and finding contempt helped me reflect on my own life

mark twain, mark tain. or spelled mark twat, twainy, train, or twain

the lobster, the movie is good enough

>>15316042
I read this when a bunch of shit in my life was going to shit and it nearly drove me to suicide

10/10 would read again, probably my second fav book of all time

>>15320073
Not op but what about recs on fixing existential depression? Is it possible to 180 degrees your life or the only hope is to find a cope and stick to it instead of killing yourself in 30s?

>>15314512
If this is a man by Primo Levi. Similar story, similar message, but better written