I don’t have anything to look forward to in life except money entering my direct deposit every two weeks and back catalogs of podcasts. I don’t even want to listen to music anymore.
Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
Everyone is taking this post like it means you're not feeling well. But honestly...
So you actually look forward to the money every 2 weeks and your podcasts? Honestly that sounds... Enough to me? I could spend all my time working and listening to podcasts if that's what I enjoy. I myself only play video games and work (well and have sex with my partner all the time) and I'm happy.
You say "can't bring myself to care". Why exactly do you think you need to care about you or your life? Like, I'm perfectly happy right now and even I don't care about me or my life :D
What I'm trying to say is... You haven't actually said what you're missing. Do you have a desire for something that's not being fulfilled? Like do you need sex, romantic connection? friends? A sense of community? Connection to nature? Larger resource(money) acquisition?
Or of course, do you think something is missing, but you don't know what?
everyone is taking it that way because they read the post... you know, where he said
and
and
classic hallmarks of depression. And if everything was just fine and dandy, he wouldn't have posted this, get real. The "why do you think you should care about anything?? =D" smiley nihilism energy isn't helpful or appealing tbh
If you believe it or not, your view is not the only right one. I'm not even saying my perspective is necessarily right for this person.
The responses to these threads are always the same. If they really worked, people would get out of their depression, but they mostly don't. Maybe it is useful to hear something different.
You conveniently left out the "except". Are you trying to deliberately make them feel even worse? They actually have something to look forward to. That is actually amazing. Acting as if it doesn't count is just... Wow, I don't know.
People's tastes change. What they want to spend their time on changes. It's not a big deal if someone doesn't want to listen to music anymore. It has been shown that making less of a big deal out of things helps with depression.
Maybe apply your reading comprehension skills to my post as well. Obviously I know that not everything is fine and dandy. I'm offering a different perspective than anything that was posted in this thread. Different perspectives are valuable, even if mine turns out to be wrong for this person. Through interacting with people and getting in contact with lots of different perspectives you can also actually get out of depression.
Again, for you. For me it actually got me out of depression, even though you'll probably not believe me. Maybe it works for them, maybe it doesn't. But you just being contrarian is definitely not helping anything.