/lit/ - Literature

I have been labeled "clinically depressed." My best friend all throughout highschool told me this year and year, and I sort of saw it myself, but never wanted to deal with. I just wrote my essays, went to work, and slept. It was, and still is occasionally a monotonous life.

I want to take this period of my life, and write something about it. I have anecdotes, and journals from back then, daily recounts, and memories of bad days. How do I take these and write something meaningful, and doesn't sound like a suicide note? I'm not asking for you to write a poem for me, but what style would be easiest for me, who's not super experienced. I just want a little catharsis, and I think this would help. Sorry for any fatalistic themes in my thread

Read this instead

Planning on reading pic related, what should I expect from it? Is it a good book?

This, I thought it was a meme but it’s pretty decent

is this a meme or worth reading

>>18253732
It's not necissarily that Nietzsche lacked substance. He's a systematic philosopher answering how to address problems of meaning. It's that I didn't have the background to fully incorporate that at 20.

After another decade of learning, I understand him better but I don't necissarily agree with his prescriptions. Jung was a Nietzschean, but came to a more holistic view of creating meaning, and acknowledged the role of numinous experience, even if it didn't come from traditional religious sources. Victor Frankel is probably the best intro for OP though.

>>18253409
Read this OP. It is very short. It was written by a psychiatrist who had his entire family die in the Holocaust and was in death camps slated to die after being worked to death as well. Then he had years of experience helping others face trials like alcoholism, incest/molestation, etc. He has a depth of wisdom.

>>18100078
The first part.

>>18064195
Check it out. It also talks about psychology: logotherapy, to be more specific.

The first part messed me up for a couple of days.

Started reading it about 2 weeks ago then stopped since I got sick and can't enjoy anything feeling bad... just returned to it today.

Is this cope?

Discuss.