Don’t suggest hobbies or human contact. It’s been suggested and it doesn’t work.
I have a job I don’t particularly hate nor like, some coworkers I get along with others are just morons, I go to work, then buy groceries, go home, eat, watch tv, go to bed. Rinse and repeat.
On my free days I do sport and watch pirated netflix. I don’t spend much money on clothing or media and save most of my paycheck. What for? I have no idea. I don’t eat out because I like cooking my own food and restaurants are expensive and the food is bland.
Everything is so expensive nowadays btw…
Most people bore me. I’m like an atheist monk.
I don’t want to kill myself or anybody fwiw. It’s like I don’t give a crap about anything or anyone and don’t see what’s the point of living.
I don’t want to travel because it costs money.
As soon as my cognitive abilities start to fail I’m going to be very easy prey for any online scammer.
Marijuana constant masturbation and an overabundance of YouTube reality shows.
That got you right back on your feet.
(This is a joke)
Spend your money, travel, get outside your comfort zone and challenge yourself. Or get professional help.
*And/or
I feel you, I get like this sometimes as well, it’s what we call “getting in a rut”. When I become self-aware of the situation, I just treat myself to something, could be a new keyboard, or PC part, or maybe it’s just going out with friends for a few drinks.
This tends to at least put me on the path to climbing my way back out of it
Do you drink or take other drugs? Those can make you feel empty.
I was actually going to suggest the opposite, I’ve heard taking shrooms can help people with depression and re-frame their life. I can’t recommend though, haven’t tried myself
Mushrooms are very dangerous. It’s recommended to take them only when you are facilitated by some kind of guide. Never do it alone or with frivolous friends.
Yeah you definitely want to be around supportive and emotionally reliable and safe people your first time. Set and setting are extremely important.
Also just dip your toes in. You don’t need to leave the planet. If the people you’re with are pushing you to take them in the first place they’re the wrong people.
Unless you have symptoms of schizophrenia or similar you’re pretty safe with those guidelines.
I have and I think it makes a lot of sense that psychedelics could potentially help with OP’s specific problem
LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -Albert Hofmann
I’m would believe that’s true but I mean frequently taking drugs if any kind typically makes one feel bad, especially alcohol.
I was super interested in that and LSD but never tried them. Someone once said to me that from a Buddhist perspective they’re not helpful because they provide a one time view rather than a continual shift in mindset.
Someone once said to me that from a Buddhist perspective they’re not helpful because they provide a one time view rather than a continual shift in mindset.
That’s true, but you can take that experience and apply it to sober life. You don’t need to take acid all the time to appreciate psychedelia, but a few trips help broaden the horizon so to speak. My memories of psychedelic experiences sometimes return to me quite vividly when floating in a float tank.
Thanks for sharing! That’s cool. I wonder why specifically in the tank?
Maybe I should reword it that similar experiences in meditation can be had naturally, whenever and for as long as one wishes.
That said, I haven’t experienced either. Float tank was fun though.
I think probably because there’s no sensory input and I’m just there floating in the darkness with only my breathing and heartbeat. It’s not like the whole time I’m in the tank I’m tripping, but I have had some psychedelic adjacent experiences. Not so much the visual and auditory hallucinations, but rather the psychedelic thoughts. Pondering the nature of my existence, fleeting moments of feeling cosmic and eternal, that sorta thing.
I wouldn’t recommend psychedelics to everyone but I’m glad I’ve dabbled. Those in a stable mental state would probably have a worthwhile experience eating some shrooms and sitting down in the woods.
Comparing alcohol to psychedelics is wiiiiild. Psychedelics changed my life. Alcohol mostly just makes me sad and sleepy. Occasionally giggly, at best.
As you can read I didn’t compare them other than using both words in the same comment, lol
You’re right, but I wasn’t being argumentative, just fyi. My intention was to say, “If you’re thinking of them as at all similar, PLEASE DON’T.” You should totally give psychedelics a try if/when it works for you, because they’re nothing even remotely comparable to a buzz, or being very drunk, or adderall, or weed (okay, POTENTIALLY mildly similar, but rarely, at least for me), etc. It was just intended to share my own experience with the two and how they compare, since you noted you’d only tried the one. But I do see how it could’ve come across. Wasn’t trying to be smarmy and corrective.
I’m sorry misread your tone then and replied such. Thanks for clarifying
Nah, you’re good. I get how you took it like that.
lsd, ketamine and others arent like regular drugs. many people arent the same person after taking them, even if its subtle. theres an odd experience where when youre coming down you never actually know when its ‘over’.
That’s an interesting point
Holy shit…if you were a woman you’d be wife material.
Weak mindset. True sigmas know wife is a gender neutral term.
Life has no point, you’re just energy given form (literally, not metaphorically or superstitiously or some shit, mass and energy are the same thing)
Hedonism is easy to fall into, and arguably fine, if you don’t find life worth living but can’t muster the enthusiasm to end it, you should try to change your environment.
For me, life is worth living for stories, I love books and the experience of being something different for a time. I have built my life around lazy evenings on the sofa with my cat on my lap reading a book, or playing a comfortable game, nothing else matters to me at all. It’s easy to be content if your requirements are minimal.
Life is an odd phenomenon, we’re blessed or cursed with consciousness, may as well do something you enjoy. If you don’t know what you enjoy then try more stuff.
Anti-depressants might help.
Therapy.
so you lack enthusiasm and ideas huh
you need to find a spark, something that drives you and makes lost in the moment
explore your likes, interests, values. Go from there. I know you said you don’t care, but your lack of care and enthusiasm is your current jailor so perhaps start working on the keys
These are classic signs of major depression.
Op why don’t you suggest what an acceptable reply looks like? You’re pretty restricted on what type of advice you’re seeking. Maybe then folks can ad libs in the thing that will help.
Sounds like you are dealing with an existential issue. Personally I’ve dealt with this by learning and teaching others, through this I feel I have found purpose. I also find it through political activism and volunteer work. There is nothing as fulfilling as helping others just because you want to and can.
Get a pet, you need a distraction and to look outwards a little bit perhaps. Mine give me a point since I enjoy their antics and need to be around to sustain them
Only do this if you’re going to be responsible tho. There’s enough deadbeats with pets that shouldn’t be trusted with an egg-timer let alone a moving, breathing, lifeform
My answer isn’t gonna resonate. It’s so frustrating how being depressed makes getting off the couch to go for a walk just feel like… Jumping into a mosh pit ot something.
Find a 2 mile walk to do every day. Must include at least one hill or set of stairs or something. Works best if in nature.
