books to help my depression

[Anonymous No.11381909]

what are some books to help me overcome my depression?

[Anonymous No.11381919]

>>11381909

None will help. Alleviating your depression requires major lifestyle changes. Books aren't a magic pill.

[Anonymous No.11381954]

>>11381919
i'm making lifestyle changes with my health, better job, therapy, but im looking for a book as well

[Anonymous No.11382015]

>>11381909
When I’m feeling depressed I find it makes me feel better to read something I read as a child, like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

[Anonymous No.11382016]

>>11381909
The Bible. Unironically, just download the app and read verses and try to behave like it says. Doesn't even have to be a Christian to do this. Just making goals for yourself and fulfilling them, as well as being able to be selfless and a kind human should help you overcome your depression.

[Anonymous No.11382025]

>>11382016
Maybe if you're a soi boy. Otherwise it won't do shit.

[Anonymous No.11382027]

>>11381909
Ready Player One

It’ll make you realize you can achieve work far better than that dude.

[Anonymous No.11382068]

>implying it's possible to overcome depression
Depression is a natural consequence of being alive in the modern world. You are an expendable, rootless monkey trapped in a concrete box, a monkey who is biologically programmed to seek out things whose pursuit makes him unhappy (sex, food, money, social status), and whose acquisition proves ephemeral and unhealthy.

Basically, you will never be happy. You are designed to be unhappy. If you are not unhappy then there is something seriously wrong with you, and you are perhaps to some degree mentally retarded.

[Anonymous No.11382135]

>>11381909
Tao te ching

[Anonymous No.11382140]

lamentations

[Anonymous No.11382204]

>>11381909
Go for a walk in nature. Not memeing. It's great for when you feel down. Feel the wind against your face and listen to the sounds of the birds; It's therapeutic. >>11382068 this anon is right. You will never "overcome depression". It's just not possible to be truly happy and truly at peace in this confused modern world we live in, at least not for any thinking person. Just try to keep it at bay. Read the classics, go for walks, listen to music that moves you, eat well and try to maintain a regular sleeping pattern. I can't stress how important it is that you socialize regularly. Social isolation for a depressive is like alcohol for an alcoholic. You need to force yourself out of your hole and talk to people. Even if they're vacuous normies in your eyes, and even if your social skills have atrophied from years of social isolation, you need to be around other people. You need to force yourself away from yourself. As for book recs, I've always found Montaigne's Essays consolatory when I've been down, so give them a read. I find Paradise Lost deeply inspiring and I always feel a bit better after reading it. Good luck fren.

[Anonymous No.11382216]

Fucking shit I'm almost 30 I just want a gf already

[Anonymous No.11382220]

>>11382216
take the monkpill

[Anonymous No.11382247]

You need find a philosophy that makes sense within your world view and where your depression stems from. I personally get a lot of relief from freedom so all my suggestions will be jaded by that.

If you want to believe in a high power and fate, try the bible and other religious texts.
If you want like believing that everything is going to work out in the end, try new agey books that focus on the universe (Alan Watts).
If you have scientific mind, psychology books are great because they give awareness with is very freeing.
If typical american style, pull up your bootstraps style advice works for you then read self help books and stoicism.
Personally, I like Taoism as >>11382135 suggested but I also practice Tai Chi. I carry a copy of the Tao Te Ching most places and read exerts when I am in a bad headspace and it normalises me back into the moment.

[Anonymous No.11382251]

>>11382247
Forgot to add that a lot of people find peace in literature and being able to relate to their lives.

[Anonymous No.11382257]

>>11382068
Imagine being this defeatist, maybe all these things apply to (you) but I'm loved, the work I do is valued and if I were to die there would be a whole in a lot of peoples lives.

[Anonymous No.11383148]

>>11382257
Having a defective brain is no reason to brag

[Anonymous No.11383207]

i've just started reading this great book called Sertraline

[Anonymous No.11383282]

[Anonymous No.11383315]

>>11381909
J S Mill found tremendous solace in Wordsworth.

[Anonymous No.11383345]

>>11383282
>fulfilling career
Doesn't exist

[Anonymous !!td+pyV3lGQN No.11383369]

>>11383345
Do you think those that work at CERN, Google, MIT, etc aren't enjoying themselves?

[Anonymous No.11383389]

>>11383369
Not really. The suicide rate at MIT is insanely high, and you're basically expected to be an on-call slave when you're working at Google.

[Anonymous !!td+pyV3lGQN No.11383399]

>>11383389
>The suicide rate at MIT is insanely high
Do you have a source?
>and you're basically expected to be an on-call slave when you're working at Google
And yet, it's consecutively rated as one of the best places to work and many employees say they love it. Do you think they're lying?

[Anonymous No.11383407]

>>11382247
How do I find a personal philosophy? I find myself gravitating toward existentialism, stoicism, taoism, and the literature I enjoy the most is Hesse, Proust and Joyce

[Anonymous No.11383435]

>>11383399
>Do you think they're lying?
I think they're demented sick fucks

[Anonymous No.11383443]

>>11381909
Never get tired of posting this after it helped me cure my depression.

[Anonymous No.11383539]

>>11382016
ok im going to go stone a girl to death in front of all the villagers thanks anon!!!

[Anonymous No.11383554]

>>11383539
You then better have no sin on yourself to cast the stone, anon.

[Anonymous No.11383674]

>>11381909
>Bible
>zhuang zhi
>Kafka - Das Schloß/Bau der chinesischen mauer
>Dosto -The idiot (only first part though)
are sort of the few works I can think of that aided me through my slump. Don't expect any one work to be your miracle work and don't expect to ever fully recover neither
>Daoism and love for nature (and DMT once or twice in your life)

[Anonymous No.11383685]

>>11381919
This is the only correct advice ITT.

[Anonymous No.11384169]

>>11383539
> not understand how the old and new testament work

[Anonymous No.11384243]

>>11382247
>If you have scientific mind, psychology books are great because they give awareness with is very freeing.
Any recommendations, Anon? I would like to understand my feeling and state of mind a bit better.
Please keep in mind that my knowledge is limited when it comes to psychology.

[Anonymous No.11384350]

>>11381909

try this and do something different
get out of the house
take walks
talk to a professional
get some meds (temporary)
you cannot think yourself out of a depression - I've tried

[Anonymous No.11384459]

>>11383435
This

[Anonymous No.11384546]

>>11382204
thank u for this

[Anonymous No.11384549]

So when I made a thread similar to this it got like 5 replies and died and yet a meme faggot get's proper advice. Thanks you for the replies

[Anonymous No.11385084]

Where my Brothers Karamazov at?
It's a long, often tough read, but after you stomach through it all, in the end it is really really beautiful.

[Anonymous No.11385088]

Cloud hidden, whereabouts unknown

[Anonymous No.11385279]

>>11381919
Although that's true, there are books that can create a positive impact

[Anonymous No.11386051]

>>11381909