When you inevitably get depressed about your existence, what do you do to feel better and does it involve ponies? If so, do they help or hurt?
>>27636599
I jerk off to ponies, it makes me feel better for a few minutes at least.
>>27636599
I write green, providing entertainment and content for my fellow anons. That always puts a smile on my face.
Coffee and a book also helps.
>>27636599
I watch and look at funny things. They make me smile, and that's what matters.
>>27636599
Go have your pity party on the frogboard, asshole.
Alcohol.
Lots of fucking alcohol.
>>27636599
Hurt desu, I never had a gf for 10 years and all I do is fap to pony porn. Having a gf is hard than jerking off cause when you cum you want something more better out of it until it wears you out like a sleeping bag
find something funny, and laugh your ass off at it.
they say that Laughter is the best medicine for a reason...
I watch the show.
Thats all.
Makes me feel safe and forget how i could day any day at any moment.
>>27636871
But it's not funny. Not when no ones laughing at least.
Why do you guys come off like drug addicts?
>>27636900
because,,,we*$are??#Q(*
>>27636900
Who does?
>>27636900
Because, we choose. No one cant force us to stop even if we try to stop. Force can't stop us choice can. Force is method of "torture".
>>27636888
>But it's not funny. Not when no ones laughing at least.
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>>27636936
Nigga what?
>>27636900
WhatFuck off
>>27636599
Go into denial about everything. I find that helps.
>>27636599
I listen to a ton of Japanese music.
>>27636900
>mfw shrooms + mlp = literal soul filling ecstacy
Most of what I do is involved with ponies, except for my crummy job. In my spare time, I just lay around inside and browse the Internet. My life is melancholy, ponies phases is it out. The show leaves a smile on face after watching, I listen to soothing music spliced with pony voices, I look at fanart, read cutesy stories, go to here, and I sketch ponies on paper or digitally. I do all this whether or not I'm sad- just the sadness is accompanied with crying sessions to feels threads or old pony music. Used to get properly drunk a lot, but my friends and family got to me kinda quit. Life can be dreadful, I guess.
I draw ponies getting into angst situations. Better than being an angsty teen that cuts them self at least
I guess.
>>27636599
>what do you do to feel better
drink
i try not to remember what happens after
>>27636900
because depression and rejection are some of the things that cause people to turn to drugs
>>27636900
Besides our crushing pony addiction, I don't know.
>>27636599
Go to the party store and buy a tank of helium.
I'm not even feeling sadness anymore.
I think back to if I remembered to take my pills. Buy chocolate bar and bottle of wine or something. Watch YouTube or something to take my mind off it.
>>27636599
I get shitfaced.
>>27637855
10/10 Me neither
>>27637762
You and me both.
I am 25 years old and I never feel depressed over trivial bullshit.
I pity you people who stuck in their sixteens.
>>27638301
You realize depression can be a clinical mental disorder right? It isn't a case of the mondays to have clinical depression or bipolar disorder
>>27638485
Yeah, it's just the actual mental disorder takes a place in one case out of a hundred, darling.
>>27636599
I can't make myself feel better when I know I have yet to solve the problem.
>>27636599
Please fuck off.
>>27638495
[citation needed]
I've suffered from diagnosed clinical depression for years. I don't take medication though. I have a horse that I go spend time with whenever I feel down. Or I watch ponies. Both help even out my mood, even if they don't outright make me feel better all the time.
>>27638767
you are allowed to quote me on that.
>>27638301
>your problems are trivial
>your emotions are invalid
>>27638780
>I've suffered from diagnosed clinical depression for years. I don't take medication though.
Same, I refuse to take medication because I've tried and it didn't help and I refuse to be a government guinea pig for experimental drugs.
>I have a horse that I go spend time with whenever I feel down
Is that so? You don't....do things to it, do you?
>>27639346
>Is that so? You don't....do things to it, do you?
No. Horsey is for brushing and hugs and cuddles and riding, not for sexual.
>>27639351
Post pic of horsey!
I feel like a normie when everyone on here talks about being depressed all the time. Have you tried gainful enployment or social hobbies?
>>27639413
He's a good boy. Always down for ear scritches and hugs.
>>27639429
You fuck right off right now, you understand me?
>>27639430
He's gorgeous. I'm officially jelly.
>>27639430
>>27639496
I'm also training these two mares for a friend. These guys are pretty much the only reason I get out of bed in the morning.
>>27639567
>mare on right is sticking her tongue out
cute
>>27639429
Depression is the reason people don't have those things.
Depression causes dysphoria, your body doesn't produce the right shit you need to feel "good" or productive
>>27639430
>>27639567
>gets to interact with/ride three beautiful horses on a regular basis
Nigga why you depressed? I'd kill to have the chance to do what you do.
>>27639828
Like I said, they're they only reason I get out of bed in the morning. If I didn't have them I'd have killed myself a while ago. Ponies alone aren't enough to keep me going.
>>27639828
Asking someone why they're clinically depressed is like asking someone why they have down syndrome or why they were born with lobster hands, anon, it's not exactly a life choice....it's genetic, physical, etc
So, who was OP? Did he get a satisfactory answer?
>>27639429
Personally, I don't have depression. I can feel happy and excited and look forward to things, and often do. Just can't manage to feel that way about real life.
>>27636678
this anon gets it
>>27639430
He's a handsome boy anon. You're lucky. Give him extra ear scritchies from me next time you see him.
>tfw no pretty horsey to hug and cuddle and be comforted by
I've been mulling over old NES games while listening to Boris.
>>27636599
Sometimes I listen to harsh noise and speedcore. That cheers me up, without fail.
Other times, I'll hug my plush waifu or try to talk about her on here. That can go two widely different ways. Either I feel really warm and happy, in a way I can't obtain in any other way, or think about shipping/shitposting and genuinely contemplate suicide.
>>27636900
this >>27637803
>>27636599
>When you inevitably get depressed about your existence, what do you do to feel better and does it involve ponies?
Technically yes, because I come here and I realize that my life could be worse, I could be one of you assholes.
>>27636599
I was raped 3 days ago, watching the show right now is the only thing thats keeping the anxiety shakes away
>combo of perscribed sleep medication that is...
Sure hope they catch him...
>>27636599
>When I'm feeling depressed, I do this!
>>27645665
Who did it?
Planning revenge?
>>27636599
If im depressed, ill just run away from reality and explore the contents of fictional worlds to ignore reality, like mlp for example.
This works all the way until the next morning where I wake up and realise Im not in mlp but instead im in this god awful mess I call an existence.
>>27645691
Got drugged at a club and raped by an african immigrant in a toilet cubicle.
Police got the suspect matching description and took his clothes for forensics. Got blood taken today to check for diseases, one step at a time anon...
right now im just still stuck in the shock phase, therapist says im yet to have my 'reaction'
>>27645698
Same
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>>27637762
I do it too. But with angsty pony videos. It's better than cutting
>>27645752
This sometimes sucks though. Whenever I want to make a happy poni PMV it almost always gets cancelled. Because I need to make dark one to vent that shit out.
jerkoff , feels great.
>>27636599
I might be a pessimistic snarky misanthropic faggot but I don't get depressed. It's probably not even a real sickness, just a way for pathetic people to get attention(there's a real sickness called "learned helplessness" but depression is pure bullshit). When I feel bad, I just think that it could be worse, or there are people having it worse right now, and just go on. And it passes. For example, currently I'm taking care after cat, she had mammary tumors removed. "Care" involves multiple IV and muscle injections that I'm doing for the first time in my life, and she doesn't fucking like it. Spent boatload of money too. But then I remember she could have died. I remember that because of my constant care she outlived her siblings by almost a decade(she's 18 now). And I go on. Ponies are nice, but they're a quick, very temporary fix.
>>27645772
>>27645772
> depression is bullshit
But that's factually wrong
>>27645799
Your post is bullshit too.
>>27645772
>"Care" involves multiple IV and muscle injections that I'm doing for the first time in my life, and she doesn't fucking like it. Spent boatload of money too. But then I remember she could have died.
A fate worse than death
>>27645772
>there are other people having it worse right now
This is the way I get through it when I get way down. I just start thinking "Hey, I'm not starving, and I'm probably not going to have to spend a night out on the street any time soon. Let's keep going!"
It also helps that most of the music I listen to comes from rehabilitated hard drug addicts (The Mountain Goats, Pat the Bunny) who just write about how much they appreciate life, for all its ups and downs.
>>27645804
The fact you think depression is made up for attention shows that you do not know what you are talking about.
Actual depressed people won't tell you that they are. There are cunts who use that word for themselved when they are sad. Think tumblr, some teenagers confused with their lives and body changing.
Being depressed and having a depression are very different.
>>27645809
> Trent from NiN survived drug addiction
> His songs are still sad as fuck.
I listen to him everyday. Guy always has some problems.
>>27645822
Checked NIMH, just for you. A bigger meme than autism, boils down to "bad mood for over two years". It's a tumblr-tier """disease""" for a fucking reason. Fucking people who don't know what to do with their free time, I swear.
>>27636599
Go out with friends for a drink, smoke, or go out
Go for a ride on my motorcycle either alone or with friends.
My problems are real small at the moment. Im pretty happy where i am.
>>27645829
Trebt survived more than that. He was suicidal as fuck. Isn't easy to get over
>>27645837
> Autism is a mene too.
> I read some stuff. I know everything now
Wow senpai.
>>27645845
It's a bigger meme because autism actually exists.
>>27645852
Depression wqs spoken about far longer time. Tumblr did not even come into existence. I know I don't have depression. But I know those who do. It's a bitch
>>27645829
What's NiN? Nine Inch Nails?
Either way, the Mountain Goats and Pat the Bunny aren't exactly all flowers and stuff, but it's likely very similar to what you're thinking. There's a Mountain Goats album dedicated to his step-father who drank and beat him, but all the stories in it just have this air of "It sucked. So much. But it's part of my life, so it's important and therefore beautiful."
>>27645862
Sorry for my shit tier grammar. Phone
>>27645862
>life got better than ever
>there are more depressed people than ever, not even poor people as well
Now tell me it's not a meme.
>>27645863
Yeah. I was referencing Nine Inch Nails in my post. Became the only I listen to, alongside David Bowie. I don't think listening to happy things wpuld make me feel better. Since I can't really relate to it. I feel better after listening to sad stuff. To get it all out of me. I don't know how many times I've heard "Hurt"
I will check out the stuff you are talking about by the way.
>>27645868
> Implying depressed people always reported their troubles and just kept it in
> Implying in the past people had the technology to quickly share their feelings or seek help.
>>27645868
Besides. Suicidal rate has increased. Which has links to depression. Is suicide a meme too?
> I'm gonna kill myself for attention! End my life for it.
>>27645886
>implying they thought it was a problem at all
>implying bad mood is an objective problem
But now we have a word for it! It changes everything!
>>27645891
Yes, it's become fashionable now.
>I'm gonna kill myself for attention! End my life for it.
Are you honestly implying that's not how it generally goes?
>>27645894
"Depression" has been used for a really long time. What do you think about the purpose of antidepressants? You know. Thing that tries to contain major depression?
>>27645901
Are you retarded? People who want attention SAY they are killing themselves. They don't go through with it. Actually doing it shows deeper issues. You won't see any attention when you die.
>>27645913
>What do you think about the purpose of antidepressants?
To get easy money from memers, duh. How many people did they actually cure?
>>27645919
Actually doing it shows they didn't get their attention. Otherwise, medicine does wonders.
>>27645931
>Actually doing it shows they didn't get their attention. Otherwise, medicine does wonders.
I like how cretins like you can say in full confidence that antidepressants are guaranteed depression relievers. Taking this WONDER PILL does not actually solve your problems.
>>27645987
>reading comprehension
>>27645931
All this "everything is a meme, depression isn't real" talk is too memey for me. The fact you think that people commit suicide because they didn't get the attention they seeked shows how arrogant you are all about this.
I don't see why I should take your view of sudden "le depression isn't real I THINK" and then tell me that you looked up something on the internet and that lead you to believe it indeed isn't real.
>>27646128
Darling, I am one hundred percent sure there were cases of people committing suicide due to their parents buying them an iPhone of a wrong color.
I'll tell you something, that you wouldn't know because you were raised in greenhouse conditions by your parents, and have no idea what the fuck is that thing called "life" is:
>>27646708
I was raised on far north in a place that had like four families living there, so I had negative amount of social skills, when we moved to the actual city and I started going to school. I was bullied through pretty much 80% of my school life, and the only reason I managed that was my close friend who always was there to support me. Well, he abruptly died, when I was like 10 or something. That was the first time in my life, I cried not for my own sake.
Few years later we moved to another city, I had to try to fit in yet again, while still having no social skills. Fuck that, I somehow managed. I had a lot of conflicts, problems, fights and stuff. I got my "new" actual friends only in late university years, up till that point I avoided using the word "friend" as much as possible.
University ended, I had to go through a year of mandatory military service. During this year, my granddad died. That was the last time I cried in my life.
When I came from army, my dog, who was with me for 16 years of my life had met his end soon after welcoming me home. My mother cried for me.
Now think - how many times was I "depressed" in my life? Spoiler alert - zero. There were shocks, tragedies, griefs that took several days or even weeks to recover from, but that wasn't a "depression". In the vast majority of cases (and I am talking about myself here, not about some random people) every single time I cried and felt down was purely because of self-pitying. As soon as I stopped pity my sorry ass for literally everything - life became much easier. The only thing that can control you is you - that's experience that comes with actual life problems, that give you no option of pitying yourself. It's easy for an edgy teenager to end himself, as people are fairly fragile. However make his survival instinct kick in, and all the fucking depression will be fucking gone immediately. That's not even me here - that's social science.
>>27646713
There are exceptions, there always fucking are. But let me state something more understandable: "everyone can do a pull-up". What does it mean? That means that pretty much ANYONE can do a pull-up. Even if that anyone weights like 300 kilos and never exercised in their whole life - they'll still be able to do a fucking pull-up if they work their ass out. It is possible.
There's an exception however - you can't do a pull-up if you can't physically use your hands, or have no hands at all.
Now think, how many people out there who don't actually have hands or lie down paralyzed? And how many people out there who don't fit into this description? This is what "exception" is.
The scale is pretty much the same, when you talk about fucking depression. Don't give me that shit about "it can be an actual brain damage!". There's over 99% probability of this not applying to you and anyone else who think they are in depression.
What can I say to the less than 1% with the actual brain defect? Stay strong, you can do it, don't give up, life is worth it, there are people having it worse than you. For the very particular person who has it the worst of them all and surely can't read this - just think about all other people who can feel a bit better simply because you exist? That's actually pretty awesome...
Other over 99% who think they have/had an actual depression in their life can fuck off and try to grow out of fucking sixteens. Thank you.
By the way, one of my friends has half of his body paralyzed, most likely incurable. He had plans for his life and had just finished university. He is in a better mood than you, pussies.
>>27645913
>What do you think about the purpose of antidepressants
To help people deal with an immediate stress. I think everyone who ever took them, knows that..
>>27646718
>>27646713
>>27646708
>>27646713
>>27646718
[citation needed]
>>27646713
>>27646718
>t. faggot that STILL doesn't understand the difference between feeling down and clinical depression
>>27636599
Mastrubate
I think the real debate here is about whether you are able to control your emotions. People saying
>I had it really hard in life and yet I wasn't depressed
>when you're sad just think about all the people who have it worse than you
if that works for you, great, but not everyone is the same. People are different, and react differently to various situations. Some people have a greater predisposition to feel sadness, or just general apathy.
I can't change my emotional state just because I want to. If I'm depressed, I'm depressed, and I haven't found a cure yet. I can act like I'm fine and ignore my emotions, but that doesn't really solve the problem. It's really tiring to feel apathy and meaninglessness without much correlation to what is happening in my life. And then there are people saying "you're just feeling sad because you're weak and pathetic" which doesn't help at all.
>>27646729
Considering most antidepressants you have to be on 4-6 weeks before they start to really exert their effects, I'd say you're full of shit.
>>27636599
Meditate. Just find inner peace, even if it's just for a little while.
>>27647396
There's no clinical depression though, just people full of shit.
>>27647411
>People are different, and react differently to various situations
That's why I said "grow out of your sixteens" anon. It may sound as an insult, but it's an actual advice from someone who had to learn that in a hard way. The sooner you realize you "can" control your emotions, the sooner you'll learn how to actually do it.
>>27647490
>you "can" control your emotions
This is a really subjective topic, so it's hard to judge the facts. You can't rely on your own experience and assume that for other people it's the same. You may be right, I don't know, I'm just saying that there is more to the other side of the argument as well and the answers aren't clear.
>>27647484
Where's your medical degree? Biology degree? Other science related degree? Because clearly you know more on the subject than people who have studied the subject in-depth for decades. I suppose cancer doesn't exist either?
As a second year medical student about to enter my third year, let me be the first to say: kill yourself. Or, you know, read a fucking book nigger.
>>27647490
It's not a matter of simply "controlling one's emotions." The emotional component of clinical depression is almost always accompanied by physical exhaustion at one point or another, for literally no reason. When you wake up one morning and - for no reason whatsoever - feel like you ran a fucking marathon the night before, it's nearly physically impossible to force yourself out of bed sometimes. The energy to do anything, even the basics of life, is just simply not there. Some people don't get out of bed for days, stop eating, drinking, bathing, grooming - to the point they have to be hospitalized. You cannot fucking will yourself out of something like that. Mental hospitals exist for a reason. I should know, I've been in three.
>>27647595
>Where's your medical degree?
Where's yours :^)
Again, symptoms of depression suggest that it's not a disease. You're free to prove otherwise.
>>27647652
Again that
>feel like
You CAN force yourself out of that. It's not physical. Like, I've been always sleepy, often 12 hours a day. The solution? Do more, sleep less. As soon as people get free time they start inventing "diseases" for themselves.
>>27647746
>>27647797
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC486942/
And there are literally hundreds more where this came from. You were saying? I bet you faggots don't even understand the process of peer review, either.
>>27636599
I used to walk my dog in the woods, he died two week ago and I've been a wreck ever since. I loved him; but I didn't realize how much I relied on his friendship until he was gone.
>>27647813
>the problem is serotonin receptors
Purely psychological then. They all are just feeling pains(or, rather, think they do) , not actually experiencing them.
>>27647862
You didn't even fucking read the article. Fuck off.
>>27636599
I have a job, a family and friends. What is this depressed you talk about... To quote the yellow one.
GET A JOB.
>>27647870
I've read enough. There's a reason that mental shit is going nowhere for centuries. Hint: it's bullshit.
>>27647895
>Hint: it's bullshit.
Did Google and Fox News tell you that? You're not worth my time, come back when you've done actual research instead of spewing garbage.
When I get depressed I just take a few pills and drink myself to sleep, hoping I won't wake up. I always do, and it's invigorating.
>>27636599
Janicucks, this isn't show related, it's faggots going about 'beeing urself
>>27647954
>this isn't show related
Take a look around faggot, 90% of the shit in the catalog isn't show related. Welcome to /mlp/.
>>27647905
Well, your very link, supposed to prove me wrong, tells depression is simply mental. I'm almost afraid to lose remaining faith in humanity if I am to do my own research.
>>27648019
My entire point was that retards like you lack even the most rudimentary understanding of how the brain and body function, and the underlying biological causes that contribute to clinical depression. You can't just "decide" to make it go away any more than you can just "decide" to make leukemia or alzheimer's disease go away. You can fight it, to a certain extent, and most people do - but you have to treat the underlying biological causes in a lot of cases as well. I don't expect idiots like you that never graduated high school and have never been diagnosed with a mental illness by several physicians (you know, those guys with "MD" after their names that you trust to treat literally everything else that's wrong with you, but suddenly don't know what they're talking about when it comes to this topic) to understand the difference between feeling blue and being clinically depressed.
Do you think anyone WANTS to feel like shit ALL THE FUCKING TIME? And it's morons like you spewing this garbage that prevent people that really DO need the fucking help from seeking it, because there's this retarded stigma with NO BASIS IN REALITY attached to it.
Kill yourself.
>>27637124
I wouldn't know about shrooms, but LSD + mlp makes something that is beyond any other human experience. I'm so glad both psyches and cartoons with horses exist in this universe.
>>27636599
I go play League and get so mad I stop feeling depressed.
Thinking about ponies only makes it worse because they'll never be real.
>>27648019
>mental shit is never linked to any sort of physical damage or illness
You're retarded. If you ever took even the most basic of psychology classes in highschool, you would know that you aren't disproving shit.
>>27637762
>>27638290
>>27645752
Post your edge.
There's an excess of personal antidotes, plain insults, and strawman statements present in the debates. I'll just end my part with just this post. Pay no mind to me.Pls
