What do you when the depression hits you hard and you know you'll feel better if you play a game, but you just cant get yourself over the hump? Inb4 quit being a pussy.
Depression and video games
Grayson Collins
Samuel Thompson
i play a coomer game to lift my spirits and then grab a real game.
Jason Morales
The answer is to go out and do something else, eat something else, try to read something else. You need to try different things (also try to exercise, get blood/oxygen to brain)
Parker Jones
I spent a cumulative 4K on gacha games this year
Tyler Richardson
Literally quit being a pussy. I am depressed and had to teach my mind to just play the game instead of vegging on YouTube or some other low effort dogshit.
Levi Bennett
>Boot up Skyrim for the hundredth time
>Play the same saved game where I'm married and adopted two kids
>"Papa, you're home!"
>Loading screen takes a bit longer
>See my reflection
>mfw
>Uninstall the game and do the same thing a couple months later
Video games don't help anymore.
Jayden Mitchell
I havnt played a game since 2017.
I research, I went into linux, got WINE running better performance then native windows, Added a Egpu to my laptop, hell my whole Egpu/laptop can run of a 12volt battery in a car for portability.
(4600M/ rx 280x)
I did other things, but I never picked up a "relazing hobby" and I trying to come back to gaming but every time I do i get the urge I can do something productive or learn to code or some shit.
Grayson Lopez
>Denny's had the blue food all along.
Grayson White
Fuck man I do the YouTube vegging shit way too often these days. Next time I find myself doing that I'm booting up a game instead.
Hudson Gutierrez
Try different shit. I was a stupid cod/shooter kid growing up. Now I am into fighters and mostly asian games. Just try things and see where it takes you. It was also help to listen to more uplifting music or watch more uplifting things.
Nicholas Lopez
I can't imagine this. I've pursued all my hobbies during emotionally troubled times. You have to MAKE yourself.
No inb4. Just do it. Stop being your own worst enemy.
Charles Howard
stays in my bed
Xavier Gutierrez
I go out to a different town and then superglue my dick to something in public. It immediately reminds me that all of life's problems are just passing difficulties to look back on and become stronger over, except for the one I am experiencing at that exact moment. Or like, terminal cancer or something, no lesson to be learned in dying a horrible death.
Angel Jones
>superglue my dick to something in public
Luke Russell
alcohol drowns out the depression and lets me be happy until i pass out then i wake up and the depression doesnt come back because my mind is occupied with being hung over
Ethan Howard
I usually listen to sad music that makes me even more depressed and cry myself to sleep.
Asher Wright
What song brother, I'm trying to have a cry session right now
Cooper Williams
Julian Lee
youtube.com
It's not gonna be for everyone
Henry Gonzalez
I like it so far, despite it not feeling like sad music, more like pissed off music.
Tyler Butler
Watch funny cartoons/anime / take a short break.
Not having to do anything and the possibility you might feel something at all will get you over the hump enough to start the game afterwards.
If that doesn't work just remember, no one actually knows what happens when you die so don't fucking do it.
Hunter Morgan
not him but good band, i bet you will like let it die ost
Alexander Watson
Here's something more conventionally sad
Angel Turner
When I was 18, everyone in my family was falling apart and my parents were drinking like crazy, and I tried to play Mischeif Makers to take my mind of it.
But then I got to a point where you had to try a little harder to 100% it. And I'd already 100% the game before, so it didn't seem worth the effort, and it made me think about how playing the game at all wasn't really worth the effort.
And I just started cleaning.
I cleaned and reorginized my whole room. Then I went downstairs and cleaned up the living room. and the family room.
Then I went outside and just started walking. I didn't have money to spend or go anywhere. I just buried my hands in my jacket and kept walking and watching a bunch of buildings in the area get torn down.
Anyway, a few months later I got my own computer and found Zig Forums. I haven't felt that way ever since.
Carson Rodriguez
Robert Rogers
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James Bell
i've been getting into cooking lately. it's very therapeutic. maybe you can get some exercise.
Evan Moore
Depression so bad that playing vidya gives me no joy or even occupy my mind to chase away the blues. How do you deal with that?
Isaiah Richardson
this reeks of glowies
Christian Hernandez
Mindless grinding usually helps.
Julian Evans
Get a different hobby.
Liam Williams
This happens to me a lot. I usually just look for some steam achieve I haven't earned yet and work on getting it. It's easier for me to play towards a specific defined goal than to try and find a general spark of interest when I'm depressed, and once I start playing it gets a little easier and I start enjoying myself. At the very least I get a little satisfaction from completing another achievement even if the depression is still heavy. Just the feeling that I did a thing.
Colton Green
>At the very least I get a little satisfaction from completing another achievement even if the depression is still heavy. Just the feeling that I did a thing.
I'll try that. Problem is turning off the mind. Used to be able to do that like a switch. Nowadays, seems like the off switch is broke. I play something and the blues just makes me stop. Then I just think about shit more. Maybe if I try harder to just self-hypnotize myself into just focusing on that one thing, grinding that achievement or something, maybe I could win this other "boss fight".