/lit/ - Literature

Depression is a uniquely modern notion so you will have to define your terms

>>9509096
No it takes at least one attempt at suicide before you understand anything of any importance. I mean Nabokov tried killing himself 64 times while writing just one scene in Lolita. Sorry, you had to learn it this way anon.

>>9509119
>Nabokov tried killing himself 64 times
What a failure of a human being, not even able to kill himself

Fetishization of depression is pathetic
You aren't depressed because you're a so-deep romantic more in-touch with your emotions than all the other sheeple in the world
Get this /r9k/ garbage out of here

Stop romanticizing depression

see a therapist

>>9509096
No. I've been fucking depressed for some time and I can barely find the power to read something. And I used to read 2 books a week on average.

>>9509096

Of course you can. Also, most people who claim to be depressed are just sad. They are not clinically depressed nor on medications.

depression is just feeling sad for a couple of days.

it's normal to feel sad, but if you feel sad and you happen to be a pussy then you call it depression and get sympathy and free drugs and eventually kill yourself

>>9510002
Depression is having a demon inside you that must be driven out by prayer and sit-ups.

>>9509100
Indeed, it is a false claim of a loss of sanity. In truth, depression is a reasonable answer to the constant lies you are surrounded with.
>Live in hell
>Hear that your life is in heaven
The way out is to stop caring what they say.

>>9510002
>it's normal to feel sad
Next thing you are saing that suffering and dying is normal too.

>>9510021
well yes, there is nothing more normal than dying because everyone dies, and everyone suffers.

>>9510030
Sometimes.

>>9510034
can you point me to the life of someone who has never suffered or died?

>>9510051
So slavery is normal because humanity practised it for thousands of years on billions of people? Fashism is normal cause a lot of germans believed in it? Wars are normal? Killing is normal? Fags are normal? Jews are normal? Ateism is normal? Religion is normal? Normal is normal? Is is normal?

normal is by definition a social construct. so yes things you don't like have been and can be normalized.

>>9510080
its all relative to the group of people and the timeframe my dude

>>9510011
underrated

You're probably just sad. If you had true depression yo wouldn't want to do anything. Let alone read

>>9509096
yes. Why is this even a question? Anybody can appreciate literature, it's not some sort of secret club for people like (you)

>>9509096
Yes, depression is a clinical condition that affects concentration and can lead to faulty judgement, if anything it can make you misunderstand literature.

>>9510080
Are you actually retarded enough to sit there and argue with that anon that dying is not a normal thing all humans do by just bringing up bad things people do and saying they should not be normal?
Are you twelve?

Being a sentimental person is different from teenage angst.

Depression may make you relate to some literature more, but it doesn't make you appreciate it more. Stop romanticising depression, it fucking sucks.

>>9509096
I remember, when I was 16, I read in The Count of Monte Cristo, that only the people in the most desperate situations can really understand the prayers they utter.

I don't know happy person who loves to read. I don't know about conclusions.

It's sad that contrarianism has finally put an end to the depression is normal for everyone who isn't normal meme.

>normies hop on the mental illness awareness train
>STOP ROMANTICIZING DEPRESSION YOU FAGGOTS

>>9510735
There's a difference between mental illness awareness and trying to cash in on them.

>>9510735
>Angsty teens aren't angsty teens anymore
>got informed on certain issues
>c-contrarianism

>>9510750
I don't think it matters. The point is """depression""" has reached public awareness and resultantly 4chan is biting back.

>>9510759
>implying this site's userbase is fixed

>>9510766
It matters when the issue is doing something wrong. If anything, being contrarian would be saying that depression doesn't exist or something like that.

>>9510020
how does it feel to be so edgy and so stupid at the same time?

>>9509133
projecting

>>9509119
>tried killing himself 64 times
if i fail suicide more than twice i'd fucking kill myself