Are there any good self help books?

[Anonymous No.14075305]

I'm starting to get desperate here. I'm in a bad place and I don't have any friends or family I can vent on and I'm too poor to afford a therapist. Can you guys recommend me self help books? Reddit shilled this book but I don't trust them.

[Anonymous No.14075317]

Bible

[Anonymous No.14075322]

>>14075317
FPBP

[Anonymous No.14075346]

>>14075305
what in particular is troubling you, anon?

[Anonymous No.14075358]

Therapists will unironically not help. All of my family members who have gone to therapists come out with some sort of hidden Foucalt indoctrination, always talking about power systems in their life, yet no happier.

The Stoics are good even if they are memed. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is recommended often. It's not bad, just a bit cliched. Religious books like the Gospels are good provided you are invested in them and don't just read them like a textbook or a novel or something.

[Anonymous No.14075369]

>>14075358
>therapist are post-modern neo-marxists
big brain time

[Anonymous No.14075371]

>>14075346
I have no motivation to do things. I'm turning hollow. It's just an endless cycle of wake up, eat, work, eat, sleep.

I don't get anymore joy from the things I used to enjoy: anime, vidya, fapping, eating, swimming, reading, etc. During my free time, I just lay in bed and blankly stare at the ceiling waiting for the cycle to restart.

[Anonymous No.14075380]

>>14075358
Therapists don't want you to be happier and only want you to keep coming back to keep the shekels rolling in. What a surprise.

[Anonymous No.14075386]

>>14075305
Stop thinking
Physically exercise
Go for a walk
Regarding chores or tasks, don't make a list, don't think about it, don't delay, don't allow yourself to mope, just dive into something

[Anonymous No.14075403]

>>14075369
It also depends on country. Therapists in Russia and China for example are completely different from therapists in US and Sweden. Stance on homosexuality and gender identity alone is completely different.

[Anonymous No.14075425]

>>14075358
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy revolves around the same core idea Stoicism does.

[Anonymous No.14075482]

>>14075305
I picked this book up because I was suffering from pretty severe anxiety and couldn't afford a therapist. It's extremely helpful even if you're not depressed, and I use techniques from the book even to this day. It really changed my life around, it walks you through cbt very clearly and if you're looking into this for depression then it's perfect for you because that's the main focus of his book. he has a bunch of reviewed research about depression itself and discusses the different options in terms of treatment and what might work or might not. i can't recommend it enough and can answer any questions you have about it. honestly some of his other books are crap though.

[Anonymous No.14075495]

Find entry books on Buddhism.

[Anonymous No.14075496]

>>14075482
How much were you paid by the publisher to give a positive Amazom review?

[Anonymous No.14075527]

>>14075369
I don't know if you are baiting, but that's what I legitimately have seen. I am not necessarily against Marxism in some ways, but it just seems weird to me how uncannily similar it is to the stuff I see at uni.

[Anonymous No.14075541]

>>14075305
honestly man, not really. The bible helps because if you try to live like Christ it makes you feel great. I've probably read over 100 and I don't know if any have actually helped or if they have actually really hurt me in the long run.

[Anonymous No.14075548]

>>14075371

[Anonymous No.14075619]

>>14075317
>>14075541
I'm a non-believer, not an atheist or agnostic. I believe that there's a higher power out there but I don't believe it's one of the religions we have here. I'm unsure whether or not if I'm hoping for aliens or spirits.

Anyways, read through the first ~6 chapters of Genesis, KJV of course, and it's a fucking slog; it reads like a genealogy, "here are >40 names to remember, bro."

Shit also happens at break neck speeds: Cain kills Abel, gets the mark of Cain (doomed to travel the world), finds a wife, makes a kid together, and settles down by building a city (so the mark did nothing?) all in like 5 paragraphs.

Was I memed?

[Anonymous No.14075718]

If I had to recommend one text it's the Nicomachean Ethics, but there's many great philosophers who wrote about the subject of living well. Any classics about virtue by fall into this category, whether it's Plato's Protagoras and Republic, Epictetus's Discourses and the Enchiridion, Seneca's letters, or some of Cicero's dialogues, Plutarch's Moralia, that kind of thing. Montaigne's Essays are a good gateway to these. I'm not well versed in the Chinese, but the Confucians and Taoists had interesting things to say about what they both called the Tao, which often referred to the correct way to live (which they took to be different). These can be read in the Analects and Mengzi for the Confucians and the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi for the Taoists. Sometimes the issues the Chinese and the Greeks and Romans talk about overlap in interesting ways.
Much better to read ancients on this stuff than moderns. They aren't obsessed with success and appearing good, but being good. At the end of the day everyone must be their own councillor, but the various principles of these schools, which you can filter to what strikes you in them as right and wrong, can help clarify intuitions on how one ought to live and provide motivation.

[Anonymous No.14075758]

>>14075619
You can open the bible to a random page and find something meaningful and useful.
Reading it sequentially is not necessary.
The same is true of many good religious texts.

Have you read the Tao Te Ching?

[Anonymous No.14076225]

>>14075371
same except i don't have a living so i'll be killing myself soon

[Anonymous No.14076493]

>>14075482
What techniques do you use most often?

[Anonymous No.14076694]

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