/lit/ - Literature

>>23034252
If you're depressed you might need to rest your brain not feed it.

>>23034252
The works of Diana Wynne Jones. Start with Howl's series.

>>23034252
the Turner Diaries

Not to be that guy but unironically the Meditations, Gregory Hays translation. Helped me tremendously. Not all the advice is useful but overall it's a great manual for handling despair

Are you depressed because of a physiological condition (chemical imbalance, as they say), external factors (your life is genuinely a miserable pile of shit, and you rightfully should be depressed), or profound existential, spiritual strife? Books can only be useful for the last type.

>>23034380
All three

>>23034252
If you were truly depressed, like I am, you would not have the energy to even type up your post, let alone read even a couple pages from a book.

>>23034252
Meditations, Marcus Aurelias

>>23034509
Where did you find the energy to type up that post?

>>23034252
Lev Shestov's All Things Are Possible

Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy

>>23034252
https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/#shapeofsuffering

>>23034252
Lord of the Rings helps me. Don't have the words for it myself, so I'll just post Tolkien's concept of the eucatastrophe in fairy tale to explain it.
>The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist', nor 'fugitive'. In its fairy-tale—or otherworld—setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

>>23034252

take bupron, watch a comedy, get some exercise, do some buddhist meditation

>>23034509
>woe is me, look how miserable i am everyone

>>23034725
nuh-uh I'M the most miserablest

Matthew

>>23034252
Trust me

>>23034514
I summoned it from the last reserve I had; because stupidity draws me on.
>>23034725
I never said that; good job putting words in my mouth. Though of course I am probably the most miserable one here: no social life, no girlfriend, no friends, because people are truly horrible.

Vivat Schopenhauerus atque Hegelus.

>>23034758
No, trust me.

>>23034828
If it was your last reserve, how did you make that post? Admit it, you can be depressed and post on 4chan because it takes no effort.

>>23034831
>>23034758
No, I am the one to trust.

>>23034981
I trust this man.

>>23034252
Unironically the New Testament.

>>23034380
>Books can only be useful for the last type.
Wrong. They work wonders for the second type.

>>23034252
Read the untethered soul and stay off 4chan.good luck

>>23034252
it's probably your diet

>depressed
>woman

>>23035446
I love this poster. I love this post

Bukowski is what you want, OP.

>>23034252
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Starting Strength

Get out of your country and visit another that doesn't speak the same language. Force yourself into this discomfort and watch how worthwhile the struggle to navigate will be for you.

>>23034380
2, 3 and maybe 1 if Plastic glue and old socks counts as physiological contaminants.

>>23034509
This. I'm a miserable sod but not clinically depressed; I remember being so but very little of what is was like, as there was so little being done.

Honestly in a way it was preferable. I just languished. Now I proactively despair.

>>23034252
King Lear

>>23034303
does it work

>>23034252
Girls, man. They cause you the most aching of mental anguish.

>>23035639
Pretty sure OP is a female. Picrel implies that but maybe not.

>>23034509
If you were depressed like I am

>>23034252

>>23034380
Actually finding the spiritual answer will fix all three. You are not depressed when you have awareness of the timeless.
Also the chemical imbalance is a physiological description, not a cause of depression. Placebo effect show you that the physiological is in large part a mirror of the psychological, especially when it comes to the brain.

>>23035652
No chance of that. It's just a cute pic.

Do 10,000 pushupw

>>23034252
I relate to you on a phantasmagorical level

>>23035702
not really
you can have faith, but to act in accordance with what you know is right is a different matter
to live even a lowly materialist's life of hedonic pursuits, you must still willingly put yourself through ordeals such as going to work every day