/lit/ - Literature

>>6494370
how the hell does Dostoyevsky have that effect on you?

How about some philosophers like Stirner or Nietzsche?

>>6494370
Introspection

What is the cause of this depression and anxiety?

Once you find out you use your problem solving skills to fix them.

When my depression and anxiety gets ahold of me I lose the ability to focus on a book. However, I think that in the long run literature has taught me to think and experience things in a new way that has allowed me to live a little better than I did before.

>>6494370

Apparently, I don't.

>>6494410
If it's real depression then it's a neurological defect and can't be cured. Depression is permanent and almost always fatal. Even if it doesn't kill you, it is still basically death in life. No one tells you this but it's the truth.

>>6494424
What is real depression, isn't it just boredom?

Seek professional help and stop making threads were you use terms like Depression and Anxiety in the washed sense of the word.

If you really have anxiety disorder or/and depression it is not the reading of novels, poems and philosophy the thing that is going to pull you out of the mud. It is a combination of change in life habits, medication and psychiatric treatment.

One book that is very good for anxiety (but that is written by a doctor and professional in the area) is this one:

>Freedom from Fear, by Howard Liebgold.

But that’s for people that really suffer with the disease, and not for someone who is sad because he doesn’t have a girlfriend or whatever. Sadness is normal, boredom is normal, bad days are normal. The real deal, the real sickness, is far worse, and people should not play woth it or talk lightly about it.

>>6494438
If the depression and anxiety is a result from thinking of existentialism then refer back to the story of Sisyphus.

Refrain from over-contemplating and begin focusing on a task at hand.

>>6494438
>It is a combination of change in life habits, medication and psychiatric treatment.

A temporary solution for a permanent problem. There is no cure for depression.

>>6494438
I've been treating it for two years already... It's a never ending suffering.

>>6494464
Lol how quasi-profound. You sound like tumblr psychologists that engage in self-diagnosis

>>6494457
>>6494464
>>6494477
Killing yourself is the only option.

>>6494477
Double dubs means kill yourself because you're too weak to live in this world

>>6494480
It's just a play on what people who don't know what they're talking about say about suicide, that it's "a permanent solution for a temporary problem". I know depression and no I'm not self-diagnosed or a teenager.

>>6494438
this guy gets it

>>6494481
Don't post those things, man...

>>6494481
>fun fact
Audible kek

>>6494490
Oh yeah, this information is super hidden bro.

I'm a supporter of suicide and I'd rather have somebody do it quick, easy, and harmless instead of jumping in front of a train and delaying my shit.

>>6494481

Go out looking like fucking Bane.

>>6494510
Bane poster in life, bane poster in death.

4u.

Controlling my sleep schedule, music, exercise, meditation, taking walks when it's sunny, 5-HTP supplements...

Once the universe ceases from existing, will I have ever lived?

>>6494547

>>6494556
Too cheesy? I'm actually curious though.

>>6494431

More like tedious

>>6494556
Fuck off.

>>6494620
Fite me faggot.

>>6494483

>implying someone cares about being weak or strong about living if they are in that condition

Honestly this kind of talk about depression seems kind of unreal... It's like you can read those comments and don't engage in what they say, like if it were just comedy, just too hilariously intended.

Am I going to kill myself soon ?

>>6494624
Come to my town ill fukcing destroy you mate.

>>6494695
My town is fucking depressing too. There's no cinema, no libraries and I have no friends here in the past 6 years. Every time I walk across the city I want to leave this world.

>>6494719
where you live?

>>6495445
Detroit.

>>6492702
Doctors advice and medication.

>>6494370
You don't do it by reading that book. As humorous as it can be it's depressing as fuck.

>>6494431
lol