/lit/ - Literature

>>17616686
Watch some fun anime, it helped me.

>>17616686

books cant help you. you need to move your body.

Read P.D. Ouspensky- In Search of the Miraculous...

Skip over all the cosmological theories because thats not what you need right now but pay close attention to the based psychological observations. You're welcome.

>>17616686
honestly suicide is the answer. living with depression is intolerable. don't listen to the normies. don't put yourself through unnecessary pain

>>17616686
I would also like to know. Thanks for making the thread Op. I can sympathize.

>>17616686
Siddhartha by Hesse
Baron in the Trees by Calvino
Into the Wild by Krakauer

Just a couple of books that are to do with meaning and carving your own path.

>>17616686
I'm not sure that books will help you here, at least not until you've found some emotional stability. I recommend you try to find something that rushes a bit of dopamine to your brain. Breaking away from your routine could help, just go do something unexpected to break away from the lull your brain has grown accustomed to. Spend an entire day outside, go into the country and walk through the woods, go take a bath in a lake, anything that might shatter your conditioning. That's what has helped me in the past.
Following that, feeling somewhat refreshed (not healed, just refreshed), start working on a long term solution. That's where books can help you, but you need to be receptive to it.

>>17616686
My favorite authors for dealing with depression and anxiety:
>Epicurus
>Lucretius
>Seneca
>Epictetus
>Marcus Aurelius
>Michel de Montaigne
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
There’s also a /lit/ life affirming book chart, I’ll post it if I can find it

>>17616725
Right before I sank into this I was exercising more than I have in years, getting outside, eating well. It just didn't fix anything.


>>17616751
Might check this out, sounds interesting. Thanks anon.


>>17616767
Subhuman response. Ignored.

>>17616686
>>17616793
Also, I don't know what I want to be either, I don't think many people do. I try to stack my day with the things someone who I would want to be would do. I read, study physics, work on electronics project, learn a language, run etc. I try and do at least one of them a day.

>>17616686
>>17616809
I found it, here’s the life affirming book chart

>>17616818
I was very similar just recently. Exercising, reading constantly, learning more about healthy diet, hiking, getting back into photography, meeting people, etc. But now this new wave of hopelessness is hitting me like a fucking truck.

>>17616686
what makes you think books (or any form of entertainment) will give you an answer? self-fulfillment and actualization is an incredibly difficult and exhausting process that the vast majority of people don't even complete. no book will give you the mettle to earnestly confront the self, that's something you have to find the willpower to do yourself. you might as well read eat, pray, love, because that's honestly what it sounds like you're asking for.

>>17616686
Smoke weed.

>>17616837
Thanks very much anon. Sending well wishes your way

>>17616686
Rope

>>17616839
What I suppose I'm more realistically asking for is a book that confronts the tendency of people to remain immobile even when they desperately crave a change, so that I can better understand why I'm doing what I'm doing and learn how to change those behaviors so that I can properly self-actualize


>>17616855
Weed makes me ridiculously fucking anxious, so that's a no-go

Hopeful bump

Last bump before I concede

we need a self-help board. this shit is pathetic.

>>17616686
You need to force yourself to do stuff. It's prtty hard when you're depressed but if you exercise 3 times a week and accomplish goals you will feel better.

>>17616711
like what

>>17618011
I agree to be honest

>>17616809
Epicurus is basically Lucretius.

>>17616686
>I don't even really want to meet with women anymore
i don't even want to meet anyone
it's gotten to the point every odd thing people say just irks me which happens a lot in this shitty town
it doesn't help that i'm always on edge from all the retarded shit parents say and do it's like a little hammer that keeps hitting me in the head
what a poisonous little existence lol

>>17616686
Adventure novels like Count of Monte Cristo or Musashi have helped me take a lighter approach to life. Most books that follow the basic hero's journey plotline helped me realize there is much to be learned and value to be derived from shitty periods in my life. You'll come out of this depression a stronger person OP, you got this.

>>17618066
Anything with a dumb plot, like High school dxd.

>>17618066
Texhnolyze

>>17616793
>Siddhartha by Hesse
I'd say Steppenwolf is a better choice. Siddartha is all teaching and that makes it harder, atleast for me, to retain the spirit and the meaning of the novel. Steppenwolf sinks deeper into the despair, and on a more emotional level, while still giving a path out. Both are good though

>>17616686
The Bible

>>17618896
Fuck yourself.

>>17616686
Alexander Schulgin
and then look into how mdma is used to treat ptsd

>>17618963
for as long as you have no living conception of the godhead you will always be doomed

>>17618011
It's called >>>/adv/

>>17616686

I know that you are looking for book to lift you up and it's a good idea but when I had a depression it helped me to read "depressive" book because I felt understood.

You don't have enough energy to imagine a world you won't believe in anyway so you need something close to home.

Also therapy