I'm depressed.
What should I read?
>>8114577
May I suggest something light-hearted like A Confederacy of Dunces?
>>8114577
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Your Bible.
>>8114622
I'm not a Christian. I wish I was, but just can't accept the dogmas of Catholicism or the stupidity of protestantism.
>>8114583
sounds depressing
>>8114635
>>8114635
*tips fedora*
>>8114639
Not an atheist
>>8114635
Catholicism is borderline paganism and Protestantism is borderline atheism, you just need some real Christianity to see the light.
>>8114646
What is that
>>8114648
Just read Either/Or and Fear and Loathing by Kiekegaard and maybe that'll help you understand.
>>8114656
i've read fear and loathing and sickness unto death...
>>8114665
What did you gather about faith, anon? Some things are simply out of our control and we must accept it. Of course it goes deeper than that but it helped me once. I'm curious to know what you got from them.
>>8114583
This. Also, Cioran.
>It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
The only objective answer.
>>8114724
>muh orgones
Yeah, how about no.
>>8114755
Orgones apart, it's a fun book.
The guy masturbated to his mother and fucked his house maid when he was a kid.
>>8114697
Well I read those two in 2011, they were some comfort back then. But I feel like I need something else now.
But anyway, religion as an idea is great. I loved reading the catholic mystics, the philokalia, the sufis. But there isn't much point joining a Church for some one like me, I tried that.
>>8114702
Yep, I've read 4 of ciorans books too.
>tfw don't want to eat
>tfw no restful sleep
>tfw negative thoughts about my future ever time I wake up
>tfw only occasional respite from these things
fuck
>>8114577
something /pol/ would disagree with.
>>8115222
When I'm depressed, literally all I want to do is eat or sleep
>>8115226
/pol/ don't read
any suggestions though?
currently reading some sufi books
>>8115230
Eh. How about Madness and Civilization
>>8114577
Green Eggs and Ham
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>>8114821
what kind of person are you that would prevent you from joining, anon? catholic means 'universal', you know
What are the most depressing books?
>>8116323
Flowers for Algernon
>>8115443
The priest I talked to told me they don't want some one who's just going to sit up the back and intellectualise everything. They want some one who will get involved. Probably true, I mean if I became catholic I'd only ever just go to mass. I don't have any desire to play bingo with old people or join a youth group.
He got angry when I asked him about vatican 2 and how it doesn't make much sense how they used to say there's no salvation outside the church and now basically everyone goes to heaven. Basically it seems like they don't want people who ask those kind of questions but just 'have faith' and obey the priests.
Well that's fine I guess, Catholicism is whatever the priests say it is.
>>8116323
my diary desu senpai
>>8114577
Sorrows of Young Werther
>>8117453
That's just a shitty priest, anon. There are plenty of them, and given how incensed he was about your Vatican 2 inquiry he was probably part of the generation that got caught up in that business.
I guarantee you will have a better experience at another parish.
>Well that's fine I guess, Catholicism is whatever the priests say it is.
Actually it's quite not.
>>8114577
If you want to fix your depression, engage in physical activity such as exercise or working (digging holes, putting up fences etc.) no matter how futile you think it is or how you feel. Life still has no meaning, you don't matter and you're going to die but it will make you feel better, I guarantee it. They say depression breeds depression and effort breeds success.
>>8117730
>success
>>8114635
W E W L A D
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I recommend killing yourself. You've hit critical fedora levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning
You're welcome
>>8116323
To the lighthouse
>>8114577
death of a salesman
I read The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus and that motivated me.
Nietzsche's Zarathustra
>>8119015
Source on that painting? Image search only comes up with the book cover.
I also have depression.
I'm on 225mg Venlafaxin a day.
Currently reading Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst..., by Hans Fallada.
>I'm depressed.
>What should I read?
go see a therapist. but you're probably just "depressed"
>>8118707
I love you.
No Longer Human
>>8119131
what a nightmare. that stuff is irreversible you're brain chemistry's never going to be the same. doctors are ruthless
>>8117675
Back to the desert with you, Moshe. That's where Semitic faiths belong.
I'm A Loser
>John Williams - Stoner
>Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
>Philip Larkin - Jill
Rampant Depression
>Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
>Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
Fuck The World And Everyone In It
>William Gass - The Tunnel
>Michel Houellebecq - The Elementary Particles
>Fyodor Dostoyesky - Notes From Underground
There's Still Hope
>Yann Martel - Life of Pi
>William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
This will fix you up in no time, lad. Thank me later.
>>8119118
From a Japanese, I think.
>>8119118
Zarathustra by the Sea, 2004, by Setsuko Aihara
>>8114577
No book is going to convince you to not be depressed (that's up to your own effort) so just read something that's fun, thick, and takes a lot of stamina to get through like Gravity's Rainbow or War and Peace.
>>8122023
pls elaborate
the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa
I feel like I need an idea to be comfortable with. I was going through relationship trouble and was terribly unhappy when my car filled with smoke on the coldest day of the year and I could have died. Later however, I thought that even if I wasn't happy I could live a good life and see myself deserving of it or not caring if it was out of my control. I need an idea like that, but for a will to live instead.
>>8115262
Get out.
>>8114577
cicero
>>8122803
This is guaranteed to put a smile on anyone's face
>>8115229
Yeah same here. I have to force myself to do anything. I love my job but when I'm depressed I just want to call in sick but I don't want to get fired. I feel like I'm in quicksand. Sometimes I feel ok or even happy. Life is boring.
>>8114577
The Great Gatsby
It's a pessimistic, loveless book that's also deeply optimistic and passionate
It has depth, but it also works as just a straightforward, simple novel, which is why its enjoyed by both plebs and patricians. Even if youre in a depression brainfog, you can still appreciate it, and it gets better on rereads
It'll make you feel motivated
>>8114635
Try Mormonism!
Not even kidding, was an interesting means for me to get out of depression (mostly by studying and critiquing Mormon apologetics)
>>8123044
He can't, because he's bullshitting. He's just one of those retards that thinks because a medication is for mental disorders, it has to have a bigger impact on your brain, which is just factually untrue. An SSRI or SNRI won't have any more lasting impact on your brain chemistry than ibuprofen.
>>8114724
Love this book. Have to get an illustrated edition.
>>8114577
If you smoke tobacco you should read this article:
http://www.yalescientific.org/2013/05/uncovering-the-biochemical-basis-of-depression/
>>8114577
>clinical depressed
>reading
good luck with that. Anything else:
>muh babbys first existential crisis
>>8114577
these words: 5htp supplemetation
>>8115262
>dat half-assed purple dye with dirty blonde roots
>>8122110
nice elaboration anon
but I don't think anyone depressed would choose from that final category.
Infinite Jest. I'll make a blogshit post to show how serious I am.
The thing is that while I was reading it, I became amicable and more sociable. And I had even made fun of it to the retail clerk at this one used bookstore for straining my wrist.
I tried to read it at once, and after hitting page 200 I had gave it up and donated it to that store.
Finished 'The End of the Affair' by Graham Greene earlier, that was a bit of a downer.
>>8114577
kafka on the shore
>>8114577
>depressed
>reading
You're not depressed dude, just go for a run.
>>8126149
these words: placebo effect.
5htp did nothing for me. all that has ever worked for me is weed and opiods.
