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What's some good literature for someone who suffers from heavy anxiety and loneliness?

>> No.5785380

jude the obscure
notes from underground

>> No.5785387

>>5785380
>reading the obscure jew

>> No.5785390

>>5785376
Go see a psychiatrist, you idiot.

>> No.5785410

i recommend browsing /r9k/

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>>5785390
I probably should have established that it's not for me

A friend has been barraging me with hints lately, yet he won't actually admit to himself he has evident problems. I want to be able to tell him something other than, "Oh, it'll be alright, anon! Don't cry! Don't feel sad, anon! Blue horizons are ahead anon! It gets better! :D" Because that is bullshit and does not help at all.

Plus, he'll appreciate the fact that I've gone to literature rather than depressionhelp.com to feed him the same old shit

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>>5785390
Nice solution there my friend

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>>5785390
I went to the therapist once, we fucked.

>> No.5785471

>>5785376
Depends on what kind of loneliness and anxiety were talking but Foster-Wallace helped me a lot. Camus is also good, maybe Franny and Zooey.

>> No.5785477

>>5785410
I would advise this as well.

>> No.5785492
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>>5785471
Well I'm reading The Myth of Sisyphus right now, because I'm afraid this friend of mine is nearing drastic measures. Not sure if tat book will help, but I can only know by finishing it. I just want something valuable to say to my friend, because he's crying out right now and I feel the need to respond with something other than, "Don't do it, anon!" or, "It gets better, anon!" or, "You'll get better, anon!" as I mentioned here >>5785414

>> No.5785570

no one has anything more?

>> No.5785975
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>> No.5785992

Catcher in the Rye :^)

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>>5785376
"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki. Not really a new-age, hurr durr black pajamas selling Buddhism, but some beginner's information on Zen and useful stuff about meditation. It helped me quite a lot. It's also better than most of the "mindfulness" stuff which is mostly shallow and written for idiots.

>> No.5786001

>>5785376
Nietzsche, Ecce homo..

>> No.5786006

For whom manning the fuck up tolls

Ernst Hemmingway.

>> No.5786020

>>5785376
>What's some good literature for someone who suffers from heavy anxiety

Freedom From Fear, by Howard Liebgold. The best treatment you can ask for.

>loneliness

I suggest you get more in contact with your family. People in general don’t have a great number of close friends: that’s an illusion. The circle of people who really care about us is actually pretty small. If you still have a mother and a father, and if you have brothers, I would advise you to get more close to them. Enjoy the company and support of people who really love you. Try to make a routine of waking up early, like 07:00am, and doing healthy activities with your family: drinking tea and talking, or walking, or getting some sun in the yard.

Also:

>>5785390
>Go see a psychiatrist

That's a good advise.

>> No.5786049

>>5785975
Working classes can have existential crises when they fall out of work or are left disabled and unable to work. The same applies for athletes who are not a group exclusive the strong willed, they can suffer a physical trauma and can be left with no other set of skills or sense of worth after spending their youths.

The outgoing and sociable can have their own share of maladjustment and can also be perverted and decadent. The perverted and decadent themselves are also not always those who experience a crisis as a life of perversion and decadence may provide for ample amount of satisfaction.

>> No.5786052

Shelley. Esp the later poems. Byron's Manfred

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>>5785994

http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/zenmind.pdf

>> No.5786188

>>5785376
Kafka, you'll find yourself thinking 'Hey, at least I'm not that messed up!'.

>> No.5788142

>>5786188
yeah but at least he's based

>> No.5788170

Under The Volcano

Bonus points if your friend's a drunk.

>> No.5788211

>>5786049
Don't crush his delusions that were forged in the fires of privilege over years of work, anon.

>> No.5788884

>>5785975
God so much pure ideology. Spooky

>> No.5788940

>>5785492
What does this mean exactly? You are struggling to find a good reason to tell him why to go on with life? Don't you have one yourself?

>> No.5789020

>>5785975

I really enjoy these troll images until I realise there are people who take them seriously.

>> No.5789069

>>5785975

>reducing siddhartha gautama to a "bored rich person"

this bait is so shit that it's funny

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>>5788940
Yes, I am struggling to find something meaningful to him. And no, I don't really have one myself because I haven't been exposed to this topic enough/