Books that helped you deal with depression?

[Anonymous No.11342180]

What books have helped you fight anxiety, depression, or even existential dread?

[Anonymous No.11342185]

>>11342180
The stranger

[Anonymous No.11342189]

Dostoevsky and gym

[Anonymous No.11342193]

>>11342185
So is this a meme book or is it actually really good? Whenever I see Camus mentioned on /lit/ someone always shits on him. Nabokov completely shits on him and Sartre in some interview.

[Anonymous No.11342194]

>>11342180
The Foundation for Exploration

[Anonymous No.11342196]

>>11342189
How did Dostoevsky help? Which books?

[Anonymous No.11342201]

>>11342193

Who cares what a subhuman slavic pedo thinks?

[Anonymous No.11342203]

>>11342201
Who are you referring to in this post? Nabokov? Camus? Sartre? The Anon who I asked?

[Anonymous No.11342211]

no, embrace the suffering, embrace the void. it's over

[Anonymous No.11342216]

>>11342211
books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.11342236]

>>11342201
dumb depraved subhuman anglonigger

[Anonymous No.11342283]

>>11342193
We are /litpol/ now, of course people are hostile to Camus, a North African communist.

[Anonymous No.11342291]

Kafka's diaries

[Anonymous No.11342351]

>>11342196
Demons, I read it when I broke up with my gf, we were dating for almost 2 years. Some days after, I travaled to the same place I asked her in date and during that time I lost a couple of friends due to a crazy jealous bitch (not related to my ex at all). Reading Demons made me understand more about human relations and how we can go to our extrames without realizing it. When we go so much deep in our despair, we lost ourselves, like the son of Varvara did (I forgot his name), so all the things we learn must be concentrated in connecting to other people, because inteligente and isolation lead to madness, so I just keep it on knowing I could make my life better using this passion for things.

Gym helps a lot.

[Anonymous No.11342366]

>>11342196
Btw I want to read The Idiot because he's more focused on the idea of porsuing a life with passion, A Dream of a Worthless Man too (I'm directly translation the title from Portuguese, I really don't know its original title in English)

[Anonymous No.11342371]

>>11342180
Man’s Search for Meaning.
Read The Will to Meaning right afterwards.

Come on guys, he was a Jew in the Holocaust and came out an optimist

[Anonymous No.11342480]

>>11342201
>>11342203
He directed it at the Nabokov, following sheeply the new /lit/ trend to shit on based nabo. Dont listen to that idiot anon

[Anonymous No.11342491]

>>11342180
Tolstoy, tolstoy, tolstoy.
War and Peace has tons and tons of amazing inspiring anxiety relieving lines. A hymn to life, as rosemary edmonds put it.


" 'Oh yes, that's the one,' thought the prince, spontaneously overwhelmed by one of those surges of delight and renewal that belong to springtime. All the best times in his life came together sharply in his memory. The lofty sky at Austerlitz, the look of reproach on his dead wife's face, Pierre on the ferry and that young girl who had been so enthralled by the night's beauty, the night itself and the moon... suddenly he remembered it all. 'No, life isn't over at thirty-one,' was his instant, final and irrevocable conclusion."

[Anonymous No.11342511]

>>11342491
Part that comes before it: (for better context and more astonishing tolstoy realism prose)
'That oak-tree, it was somewhere here in the forest. There was such an affinity between us,' he thought. 'But where was it?' As he wondered, he glanced across left and, unconsciously, without recognising it, began to admire the very tree he was looking for. The old oak was completely transformed, now spreading out a canopy of lush dark foliage and stirring gently as it wallowed in the evening sunshine. No trace now of the gnarled fingers, the scars, the old sadness and misgivings. Succulent young leaves with no twigs had burst straight through the hard bark of a hundred years; it was almost impossible that this old fellow should have grown them.'

[Anonymous No.11342520]

>>11342351
Damn I gotta read Demons. And yeah gym helps a lot, especially MMA gyms with great weight/fitness classes

[Anonymous No.11342526]

>>11342480
I love Nabokov, currently reading Pale Fire, and I read his lectures book while reading Madame a Bovary, The Metamorphosis, Proust and Ulysses, he is based.

[Anonymous No.11342565]

>>11342491
>>11342511
I stoppped Anna Karenina like 350 pages in. I was loving the Levin storyline but my reading stamina is pure dogshit, which is why I gravitate toward short stories and shorter novels like Flaubert and Hesse. Any cure for this other than keep going?

[Anonymous No.11342579]

>>11342180
PKD - The VALIS Trilogy

[Anonymous No.11342595]

>>11342579
Could you elaborate on why you picked this? I've seen it mentioned in similar threads but I'm not really into science fiction (though I've never read it because I think genre fiction is for faggots, but idk)

[Anonymous No.11342626]

>>11342196
dostoevskyi helped me too

crime and punishment and notes from underground

[Anonymous No.11342634]

>>11342371
This, at least the first one. Laid out my life like Frankl suggested and suddenly wasnt depressed or scared of dying anymore

[Anonymous No.11342637]

>>11342180
Zarathustra, Blue Cliff Record, Notes from the Underground, Journey to the End of the Night

[Anonymous No.11342675]

>>11342634
>>11342371
Man's Search for Meaning gets mentioned in so many of these threads and many smart people have also suggested it, I'm definitely putting this one on the list.

[Anonymous No.11342744]

>>11342595
So there are 3 books:
- VALIS
- The Divine Invasion
- The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
The only one really related to sci-fi is the Divine Invasion.
VALIS is autobiografic with some twists and (of course) fiction. If a friend came to you rambling about an information beam from a satelite loading him with info and you wrote about the evening it wouldn't be sci-fi. It's about the journey of revelation/psychosis how to deal/accept it, while everything is 'f-ed up' but also just as Logos wanted it if it would want.
>searching for meaning
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is about Jesus (or not) and suicide.
>About a Bishop: Timothy Archer
They are both set in contemporary setings, about 1970-1980

The bundle that keeps all the sticks together is The Divine Invasion about good, evil, humans and a pretty neat story imho about a non electric goat.
>After the fall of Masada in 74 AD, God, or "Yah", is exiled from Earth and forced to take refuge in the CY30-CY30B star system. Meanwhile, the people of Earth are ruled by Belial, the spirit of darkness, but Yah is intent on reclaiming his creation.

[Anonymous No.11342775]

>>11342595
>>11342744
Excuse me, forgot my reason for the suggestion:
They had a spark of 'hope' in them that was beyond hope. It made me read a LOT of other stuff and that alone kept me going but also reinforced myself in and with meditations to let the 'dark' thoughts wash over instead of 'semi-dealing and tucking it away when it became "too heavy" '.
Also VALIS came pretty close to my own experiences (more the circumstances in the story, not the INFO-DOWNLOAD perse in that way).
>The Exegesis of Philip K Dick is pretty dope aswell, though a bitch to read through without looking up the texts he references.

[Anonymous No.11342810]

>Dao De Jing
>Whitman
>Baudelaire
>Lautréamont
>Rabelais
>Kerouac
>Beyond the looking Glass
>Inherent Vice

t. romand swissman

[Anonymous No.11342880]

>>11342810
>Lautréamont
How does reading about a dog raping a dead little girl help with depression

[Anonymous No.11342961]

>>11342180
Interested in this too as a materially successful guy who is comfortable but otherwise feeling a general sense of ennui and meaningless. Suspect it's partly due to being married to a girl who is great with the exception that she has gradually decided that she doesn't want to have kids.

[Anonymous No.11342969]

>>11342189
This + Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.11342970]

>>11342961
Just fuck her without a condom bro

[Anonymous No.11343006]

>>11342970
And then what? Let's say I trick her into getting pregnant. Then she resents me and either (a) gets an abortion (which would probably end our marriage on remarkably shitty terms while essentially forcing her into it), or (b) she brings it to term, but does so spitefully and then there's a decent chance she'll resent me (and possibly the kid) for years/life.

The decision to have kids or not really should be mutual. It wasn't at all clear that she didn't want kids when we got married.

[Anonymous No.11343048]

>>11343006
>The decision to have kids or not really should be mutual.
No it shouldn't. If your a man you put a kid in her and say "you're having a kid now bitch." If she leaves you for it find someone who actually wants kids. You can't stay in a marriage that's preventing a major life-affirming and productive cycle. She will resent YOU? You are already resenting her.

[Anonymous No.11343150]

>>11342565
No, you should just keep going man

[Anonymous No.11343177]

>>11342180
i bet a gun could help
get your shit together, anon.
find your purpose, and you will be happy.

[Anonymous No.11343179]

>>11342193
>wait so some posters’ opinions on /lit/ aren’t a measure of objective truth? /lit/ isn’t one homogeneous mass which is always right and which I should take all my opinions from?

Ffs questions like these are what make me think most of this board is underage or severely lacking in critical thinking capacity. Some of you are like fucking drones. Read it and form an opinion yourself. Camus is a classic writer/philosopher of the 20th century for a reason, it’s not like he’s entirely without merit. The very fact of being criticized by Nabokov probably means you’re still an important writer in some respect, he only insults writers with a great reputation.

[Anonymous No.11343264]

>>11343179
you sound gay