Dopamine rot from playing too much brain draining vidya. Like the other anon said: go outside or talk to family because your dopamine needs to recover.
Dopamine rot and “detox” is broscience. Nobody tells a well off person >hey bro maybe you are sad because you aren’t struggling, give all your money to me and you will get new perspective xD
Okay but actually. Humans rot without adversity, because if you're not changing or growing, you're dying. Putting yourself in a new or uncomfortable position that changes your usual routine will shake you awake, and a lot of that brainpower being wasted on worrying or thinking negatively will get repurposed, alongside your brain fog as well.
> Humans rot without adversity
More Protestant/broscience
You are sad because you can’t get a gf or are working overly hard for the things you have or are suffering trauma not because you played too many fricking video games
4 months ago
Anonymous
Video games are not gonna fix the problem either moron. The other anon's point is that regardless of circumstances, changing or doing literally anything about it is better for you and more productive than staying in a swamp of self pity. Get over yourself homosexual.
Video games wont help you deal with depression, they can only really mitigate it for a short time before you're hit in the face with it again. Its just escapism, which is fine in small doses, but take some time out of your day to reflect on what you need to do to get yourself out of your pit of despair. Small manageable and achievable goals will do wonders towards improving your mood. Take one small step every day to accomplish a single thing. Make your bed. Clean your room. Its difficult to find that motivation at first but it gets easier. But you have to do it every day, thats the hard part.
They don't want to get better, they are just homosexuals that want to be pitied and babied. Don't worry about them, as a future of slavery or suicide is all that awaits them.
or some people have been depressed so long that they've read and heard everything to no effect. I know what might help me if it existed: something like scouts camp, but for adults, where you spend a month or so completely disconnected from your usual way of life, learn some new habits in a supportive atmosphere, and make some new connections.
Unfortunately, society is streamlined to shave off any excess baggage like myself, so no such thing exists.
Get into buddhist meditation retreats. It's not literally month-long but it might help, I know a guy who got much better. You don't really need to go vegetarian or all that weird shit for buddhism, it's a meme.
I haven't found games that help deal with depression. I have found that knowing what I feel like playing has helped me still enjoy vidya a ton.
I like games where my skill is reflected in how stylish my gameplay is. I also wished I could just be lost in the wilderness because I idolize being a survivalist irl, and wish I could just disappear from all my troubles. Enter MonHun World, which had finished baking and been served complete with all updates by the time I felt like trying it out. Boom, 1800hrs playing solely that.
I like city-building, but didn't like how detached I felt from the gameplay, and wanted a bit of a challenge. I started really getting into automation games and have recently started getting deeper into factorio, a game I attempted multiple times since its inception. I still play action games when my head's too tired from wrapping my head around the automation games, which has let me play through even a game that I thought I had dropped for good.
I need to look into that, I'd forgotten that I wrote a note to myself. Even an online meditation group would do, thank you for reminding me.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Why would you need a group to meditate?
4 months ago
Anonymous
Well I doubt I'd find anyone doing it one-on-one. But really, it's for the sake of it being guided, and because I can't seem to do much for myself of my own will.
What's your favourite weapon in MHW? I'm a Charge Blade user, don't have as many hours as you though
Charge blade is sick, if exaggerated with regards to how complicated it's supposed to be. But I loved most of the melee weapons, as I would pick them up whenever I had an inkling of an interest in them.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>it's for the sake of it being guided
What do you need a guide for? It's sitting without thinking. If you notice you're thinking, stop. Eventually, you're meditating.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I found it really complicated but rewarding as hell tbh, the parry mechanic makes it so that you are always on the attack, and can activate the ultimate vial smash destruction jutsu in a way that feels amazing to pull off
4 months ago
Anonymous
What's your favourite weapon in MHW? I'm a Charge Blade user, don't have as many hours as you though
nobody replied to your dogshit advice because it's useful, samegay-kun >le clearn yo're room and make da bed d00d
my entire house is clean. it doesn't make me feel any better. what other genius advice do you have? remember to breathe oxygen? blink so your eyes don't dry out? frick you
>take some time out of your day to reflect on what you need to do to get yourself out of your pit of despair. >hurr durr mah room alredy cleen fuk u >:~~*
You forgot to read the actual advice, you dumb fricking moron. Maybe learning to read at a human level would make you less depressed, fricktard-kun?
>he thinks cleaning a room is advice any human being needs
maybe when you grow up, move out of your mom's place and pay a mortgage you'll understand. maybe you will then understand what real depression is like instead of >bloo bloo i'm sad because i lost a game of fortnite
homosexual ass teen b***h
Video games are not gonna fix the problem either moron. The other anon's point is that regardless of circumstances, changing or doing literally anything about it is better for you and more productive than staying in a swamp of self pity. Get over yourself homosexual.
>dude le pajeet therapist twitch streamer said GAMES bad he knows about this stuff ok???? don't be another based bryon RIP a real bro ong fr fr wowbvlls stay strong >le muppet man said wash your dick and clean your room too he knows what he's talking about
let me guess you also pay for top g's discord access too? b***h
>depressed manchild thinks that hurr durr clen rom is the only thing you do
stop being a lazy pathetic piece of shit
you know what the advice really means
improve yourself every day
it starts with not being a pathetic piece of human garbage who can't even clean their room much less be a fricking adult
then it moves on to not sitting on your ass all day cooming and being a pathetic piece of human garbage
I have a job, I have a career, I own my home, my home is clear. please tell me teenbro what more on your infinite pseudo-psychology checklist do I need to achieve? >dude just get married >dude just have kids >dude just raise successful kids >dude just be rich >if you are not in the top 1% of the planet you are human garbage
I will say, there's none.
Even if you play wholesome-games, when you stop you will be facing life again.
Aside telling you to do sports (free drugs + looking better helps yourself) i will say changing the environment. Living in a colorfull-place with nice people and trees will cheer you up.
The other part is your job. Do you have one? You like it? Working a lot wont help you tho.
Do you have a family? Are they nice?
A nice movie or a game can cheer you a few days but not in long term.
Also dont be afraid of wanting help. Find a nice teraphist and.
I use my imagination to deal with reality, so I fancy games with exploratory, open-ended, and minimalistic features that let me fill in the blanks with make-believe.
I get very lonely, so slow-paced games that simulate having friends work well for me. Persona 5 hits just right. Ultimately like other people said, it just numbs the pain a bit, real change comes by forcing yourself to do productive things and self-care, like a robot, even though you really don't feel like it. If you want an immediate hack for when you feel totally dead inside, do an ice cold shower.
The game where you find a cute girl who will become your wife and bear your children, a job that gives you purpose and enough money to sustain your family and your future retirement and also doesn't steal 80% of your time.
In short, nothing will stop it.
buddy what the hell are you on about
why would a video game help you deal with depression? seems like it'd be part of your problem if you think that video games of all things are supposed to help you with depression. maybe reading or consuming media material of other people who have had depression might be helpful but you'd be ill adviced to look particularly for video games in that case.
In all honesty, I can't help but think that everyone advocating for going outside is a NEET or a WFH homosexual. If you have a regular job, it does nothing. The outside fricking sucks and all I want when I'm at work is to go home. Then I'm sleepy and too tired to do anything, so I watch youtube and browse this shithole. At least I still love vidya on weekends.
>fricks a trap >still depressed >goes to 4chins >literally can't think about anything but his poopsock adventures >shitposts about it
lol sad homosexual
EU4 unironically
its got some rng garbage, but it does get your noggin joggin to plan shit out and see it work the way you wanted. Or to be presented a situation and you have to use videogame abilities to get the optimum outcome. None of this "just b urself" crap
Minecraft helped me deal with the lack of sensation of pleasure, just load up a world and keep doing menial stuff (mining/logging), at some point it clicked to me and I started building.
>talk to family
feel worse because i'm such a letdown >get a job
feel worse because i now have to work >get a well paid job
feel worse because now i have to work harder >leave the house
feel worse because i am now anxious, bored and surrounded by people i don't like >exercise
feel worse because i am now bored and not interested in being a powerfattie or a gymrat brosplitter >play video games
actually feel better and escape my real life. nothing else matters until i beat the game
depression is a meme
just go outside, talk to family, and stop being so weird jfc
What is anhedonia, homosexual.
Meme condition that you self diagnosed
Dopamine rot from playing too much brain draining vidya. Like the other anon said: go outside or talk to family because your dopamine needs to recover.
The point is that they aren't able to enjoy things.
Dopamine rot and “detox” is broscience. Nobody tells a well off person
>hey bro maybe you are sad because you aren’t struggling, give all your money to me and you will get new perspective xD
Okay but actually. Humans rot without adversity, because if you're not changing or growing, you're dying. Putting yourself in a new or uncomfortable position that changes your usual routine will shake you awake, and a lot of that brainpower being wasted on worrying or thinking negatively will get repurposed, alongside your brain fog as well.
> Humans rot without adversity
More Protestant/broscience
You are sad because you can’t get a gf or are working overly hard for the things you have or are suffering trauma not because you played too many fricking video games
Video games are not gonna fix the problem either moron. The other anon's point is that regardless of circumstances, changing or doing literally anything about it is better for you and more productive than staying in a swamp of self pity. Get over yourself homosexual.
Bullshit. Hard times make strong men. Easy times make weak men.
That's literally the advice Jesus Christ gave to a wealthy merchant lmao
this is actually true, but this solution doesn't make pharmaceutical companies money so we can't advocate for it in clinical practice
t. doctor
>go talk to family
>remember that they're morons and there's a reason I moved out
>get more depressed
T-Thanks anon
But the outside looks like this, and not akihabara.
Just stop being depressed.
they dont. everything that you do for too long loses its flavor. you will just ruin your own hobby if you do it all day every day
I'm seriously considering antidepressants at this point
I've been on Paxil for almost a decade. It helps a lot but makes jerking off a massive struggle. I'm not gonna have sex anyway so not that big a deal.
>I've been on Paxil for almost a decade
That's the part that concerns me. I don't want to become dependent on it.
Video games wont help you deal with depression, they can only really mitigate it for a short time before you're hit in the face with it again. Its just escapism, which is fine in small doses, but take some time out of your day to reflect on what you need to do to get yourself out of your pit of despair. Small manageable and achievable goals will do wonders towards improving your mood. Take one small step every day to accomplish a single thing. Make your bed. Clean your room. Its difficult to find that motivation at first but it gets easier. But you have to do it every day, thats the hard part.
Effective advice is posted. No one replies. Sad.
They don't want to get better, they are just homosexuals that want to be pitied and babied. Don't worry about them, as a future of slavery or suicide is all that awaits them.
or some people have been depressed so long that they've read and heard everything to no effect. I know what might help me if it existed: something like scouts camp, but for adults, where you spend a month or so completely disconnected from your usual way of life, learn some new habits in a supportive atmosphere, and make some new connections.
Unfortunately, society is streamlined to shave off any excess baggage like myself, so no such thing exists.
Get into buddhist meditation retreats. It's not literally month-long but it might help, I know a guy who got much better. You don't really need to go vegetarian or all that weird shit for buddhism, it's a meme.
I haven't found games that help deal with depression. I have found that knowing what I feel like playing has helped me still enjoy vidya a ton.
I like games where my skill is reflected in how stylish my gameplay is. I also wished I could just be lost in the wilderness because I idolize being a survivalist irl, and wish I could just disappear from all my troubles. Enter MonHun World, which had finished baking and been served complete with all updates by the time I felt like trying it out. Boom, 1800hrs playing solely that.
I like city-building, but didn't like how detached I felt from the gameplay, and wanted a bit of a challenge. I started really getting into automation games and have recently started getting deeper into factorio, a game I attempted multiple times since its inception. I still play action games when my head's too tired from wrapping my head around the automation games, which has let me play through even a game that I thought I had dropped for good.
I need to look into that, I'd forgotten that I wrote a note to myself. Even an online meditation group would do, thank you for reminding me.
Why would you need a group to meditate?
Well I doubt I'd find anyone doing it one-on-one. But really, it's for the sake of it being guided, and because I can't seem to do much for myself of my own will.
Charge blade is sick, if exaggerated with regards to how complicated it's supposed to be. But I loved most of the melee weapons, as I would pick them up whenever I had an inkling of an interest in them.
>it's for the sake of it being guided
What do you need a guide for? It's sitting without thinking. If you notice you're thinking, stop. Eventually, you're meditating.
I found it really complicated but rewarding as hell tbh, the parry mechanic makes it so that you are always on the attack, and can activate the ultimate vial smash destruction jutsu in a way that feels amazing to pull off
What's your favourite weapon in MHW? I'm a Charge Blade user, don't have as many hours as you though
>MonHun World
ty for rec fren
That only helps with depression-lite.
nobody replied to your dogshit advice because it's useful, samegay-kun
>le clearn yo're room and make da bed d00d
my entire house is clean. it doesn't make me feel any better. what other genius advice do you have? remember to breathe oxygen? blink so your eyes don't dry out? frick you
>take some time out of your day to reflect on what you need to do to get yourself out of your pit of despair.
>hurr durr mah room alredy cleen fuk u >:~~*
You forgot to read the actual advice, you dumb fricking moron. Maybe learning to read at a human level would make you less depressed, fricktard-kun?
>he thinks cleaning a room is advice any human being needs
maybe when you grow up, move out of your mom's place and pay a mortgage you'll understand. maybe you will then understand what real depression is like instead of
>bloo bloo i'm sad because i lost a game of fortnite
homosexual ass teen b***h
>dude le pajeet therapist twitch streamer said GAMES bad he knows about this stuff ok???? don't be another based bryon RIP a real bro ong fr fr wowbvlls stay strong
>le muppet man said wash your dick and clean your room too he knows what he's talking about
let me guess you also pay for top g's discord access too? b***h
>depressed manchild thinks that hurr durr clen rom is the only thing you do
stop being a lazy pathetic piece of shit
you know what the advice really means
improve yourself every day
it starts with not being a pathetic piece of human garbage who can't even clean their room much less be a fricking adult
then it moves on to not sitting on your ass all day cooming and being a pathetic piece of human garbage
get it, homosexual?
I have a job, I have a career, I own my home, my home is clear. please tell me teenbro what more on your infinite pseudo-psychology checklist do I need to achieve?
>dude just get married
>dude just have kids
>dude just raise successful kids
>dude just be rich
>if you are not in the top 1% of the planet you are human garbage
>bocchi the emo
Stay.
My sister plays Hatsune Miku Project Diva Future Tone on my PC and I buy her ice cream, that usually works
I will say, there's none.
Even if you play wholesome-games, when you stop you will be facing life again.
Aside telling you to do sports (free drugs + looking better helps yourself) i will say changing the environment. Living in a colorfull-place with nice people and trees will cheer you up.
The other part is your job. Do you have one? You like it? Working a lot wont help you tho.
Do you have a family? Are they nice?
A nice movie or a game can cheer you a few days but not in long term.
Also dont be afraid of wanting help. Find a nice teraphist and.
i am bocchi
Can I have sex with you?
I use my imagination to deal with reality, so I fancy games with exploratory, open-ended, and minimalistic features that let me fill in the blanks with make-believe.
>kuro the rock
stay
Getting a boyfriend.
I get very lonely, so slow-paced games that simulate having friends work well for me. Persona 5 hits just right. Ultimately like other people said, it just numbs the pain a bit, real change comes by forcing yourself to do productive things and self-care, like a robot, even though you really don't feel like it. If you want an immediate hack for when you feel totally dead inside, do an ice cold shower.
unironically ring fit adventure
Sekiro may be helpful if you really engage with his story and enjoy the gameplay
The game where you find a cute girl who will become your wife and bear your children, a job that gives you purpose and enough money to sustain your family and your future retirement and also doesn't steal 80% of your time.
In short, nothing will stop it.
buddy what the hell are you on about
why would a video game help you deal with depression? seems like it'd be part of your problem if you think that video games of all things are supposed to help you with depression. maybe reading or consuming media material of other people who have had depression might be helpful but you'd be ill adviced to look particularly for video games in that case.
In all honesty, I can't help but think that everyone advocating for going outside is a NEET or a WFH homosexual. If you have a regular job, it does nothing. The outside fricking sucks and all I want when I'm at work is to go home. Then I'm sleepy and too tired to do anything, so I watch youtube and browse this shithole. At least I still love vidya on weekends.
Bocchi looks good with black hair.
>Bocchi the Ganker
Stay
Redpill me on Bocchi? Why is she the rocchi?
Apparently Mario Odyssey
https://mynintendonews.com/2023/12/26/a-german-study-revealed-playing-mario-odyssey-reduced-depressive-symptoms-by-nearly-50/
nothing cures depression faster than gay sex with qt bois
>fricks a trap
>still depressed
>goes to 4chins
>literally can't think about anything but his poopsock adventures
>shitposts about it
lol sad homosexual
I wish boys irl were cute
god i wish i looked like that
Shut up, fat.
more
god i wish boys were real
That's a girl btw
>bocchan the 4chi
Stay for a while then leave.
Omori
Ao Kanata
Depression is a israeli meme.
BoKita
DALE DALE DALE
DALE DALE DALE
DALE BOOOOCAAAAA
Boca horse.
EU4 unironically
its got some rng garbage, but it does get your noggin joggin to plan shit out and see it work the way you wanted. Or to be presented a situation and you have to use videogame abilities to get the optimum outcome. None of this "just b urself" crap
Minecraft helped me deal with the lack of sensation of pleasure, just load up a world and keep doing menial stuff (mining/logging), at some point it clicked to me and I started building.
>talk to family
feel worse because i'm such a letdown
>get a job
feel worse because i now have to work
>get a well paid job
feel worse because now i have to work harder
>leave the house
feel worse because i am now anxious, bored and surrounded by people i don't like
>exercise
feel worse because i am now bored and not interested in being a powerfattie or a gymrat brosplitter
>play video games
actually feel better and escape my real life. nothing else matters until i beat the game
you werent subtle enough with this one, heres the pity (You) you need