/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>35916
The only way I've found to work is to accomplish goals. Start with something small.
>Goal 1
Make your bed.
>Goal 2
Brush your teeth, and take a shower etc.
If you do this every day, you'll find yourself doing more throughout the day, you'll move on to bigger and better things. You must keep your life in order, don't let things slip. People get depressed when they lose sight of purpose.

>>35916
U need to get up and move anon. I know (TRUST ME) that all you may feel is ambivalence, but use it proactively. I mean, if you're ambivalent already, then it doesn't matter what u do right?.
First, start walking; around the block, or even just up and down the street. Next, FUCKING STRETCH.
I could write pages about the biochemical activity that goes on when u do these things, but it's long-winded and I don't wanna have to find my sauce. Just do it k, like 10min/day walking and the same (moar!) for stretching?

>>35916
I dealt with my bad depression by finding a nitch. Something to be know for around my piers. Suddenly I got a lot of attention and felt useful and relevant. Before that I was just a beta orbiter who no one cared about and was ignored by everyone. Then I became Pinkie Pie tier party planner for my nerdy friend group.
Also remember that nihilism is a lie and everyone is important.

I like walking. Watching wild animals doing stuff. Always puts me in a better mood.

Also cleaning my house and stuff is better then drugs. Makes my mind find peace. I wouldn't trade that feeling for anything.

>>35916
The idea is to - little by little - break up your old degenerate habits (no judgements, just an educated guess based on your candor) and replace them with simple, easy, low intensity activities that (at the very least) trick you into acting in a way that is healthier and more sustainable

>>35916
Here's some cute to make you smile in the mean time anon!

>>35916

Watch Fight Club.

>>35916

I've lived with depression since my early teens, and I'd like to share what works for me, take it with a grain of salt.

>1. Baby steps

It's not something you can change overnight. It is a slow, gradual process. Start small, do things you enjoy doing, or start something new. even if you don't feel up to it at the moment. Every journey begins with a single step.

>2. Release, don't bottle. Find an outlet. (This is super important)

Talk to friends or family, start a journal, write music, ect. Bottles can only handle so much before they break, so pour out a little bit day by day. As the days go on, you will find the bottle will empty itself more and more, until their is only a little liquid in the bottle.

>3. Consistency is key.
Don't allow yourself to break habits, even if you feel it's pointless to continue on. Clawing your way out of the hole is hard, but all it takes is one miss-step to fall back in. I've fallen back down plenty of times, and each time I would climb again. Change is gradual.

>4. Exercise
No, seriously, exercise is one the best things you could do. Go for a walk around the block, lift weights, do some crunches/push-ups. This releases chemicals in your brain that will bring happiness, and the high you get from those chemicals will make you feel good. Endorphins are your friend.

>5. Never be afraid to reach out
It took me a while to do this, since I thought most people would tell me to suck it up. You will be surprised at the support you will receive.

>>35919
Good advice! Setting up the goals and reaching them helps to lighten up the mood immensely!

You can choose how you feel about things. Anything can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. So get perspective on what you've got now. If theres anything you want work to add that into your life.

I delt with my depression by going to a buddys funeral. He suicided because he felt alone. Yet there were probably 100+ people at the funeral. Made me realize theres a huge distortion going on when youre depressed.

Get more exercise daily. Try going for a few hikes. You'll be surprised how well fresh air and sunlight help depression.
Also, stop spending all day in front of the computer.

>>35981

>I delt with my depression by going to a buddys funeral. He suicided because he felt alone.

Jeez, did he survive?

>>35922
>>36022
Nice dubs.

>>35916
Hey fren listen to what the anons say and get a mix of it.
Personally I like to go hike and backpack in the wilderness, even alone, but be careful.
Goals and dreams. Also making some effort to socialize even online.
The Chans saved me from myself a while ago.

also checking dubs helps

>>35916
Talking about it like now can help, just vent anonymously. Talking to a doctor might also help. I am always a bit at a loss what to suggest. Just for me what helped was to get some meds in the end, using Fluoxetine and Buproban. It was slow at start, but much better now. But in any case try talk to a doctor and perhaps try some meds if he/she thinks it is warranted. It can take some time but it is worth a try.

I do literally everything I possibly can to make it worse. I watch stuff on Youtube that depresses me. I don't leave the house much despite knowing that always makes me feel better briefly. I just mope over things I can't control and I know that everything I can fix is probably gunna be a major pain in the ass. For some reason even my morning walks lately haven't helped me like it used to.

I have dealt with mild depression all my life. My coping method for stress has always to go and fuck someone. My second line of defence has been alcohol. Both are hardly good ways to deal with it.
For me having to cope with the normalities of life is depressing and if I prevent myself from not acting how I feel it can build up into acting in a very dangerous way. I combat this by doing tiny bits of subversion to release the pressure. My other form of dealing with depressing periods when my brain has become imbalance and I know I am going to have a couple of weeks of darkness is to knit. It keeps my brain distracted and occupied at the same time. My advice is to find something very routine but creative that you can enjoy and when things get bad spend a few days doing it and step back from normal life.

>>35919
>>35916
Force yourself to do stuff to occupy your mind. Download a good podcast and go for a walk. Clean your room. Maybe excersise. Laying there and wallowing is the worst thing you can do.

>>36188
>I have dealt with mild depression all my life

My biggest fear is that this will happen to me. I have no idea what would make me happy or what I even truly want sometimes but I'm willing to try some different things. (I'm miserable already so why not?) From what I understand depression is kind of a moving target.

It sucks though. Like I remember going places and doing stuff - which was especially fun at night. Now that I'm out of school and there's nowhere to work around here things are just fucking boring. It feels like there's no reason to rush around and that there's nothing to look forward to.

>>36182
go outside and ree at the top of your lungs.
the depression will be replaced with pure adrenaline as you try to get the hell out of there.

>>36227
Everyone is different but for me once I could recognise is was coming I would just allow it and not go making decisions until I felt better again. I think the longest dip was for a month and normally I could get back after two weeks. Moving to Japan helped in respect to weather as London is a dismal place and can be cloudy for weeks at a time. Osaka is mainly sunshine and blue sky. That was a good thing for me but not a complete cure. It is not a matter of what can make you happy as I expect no matter what you do you will have to cope with the misery as a state of mind. Just notice the signs, except you are going to have a few bad weeks and wait for it to be over. Coping rather than curing. Once you find a way of coping it will not be as much of a problem in your life. Even if you coping method is drinking yourself into a coma. Definitely do go outside and definitely do get away from a t.v. computer screen for a few hours as both will help.

>What do I do?
Commit to an ideology, have a momentous attitude, fancy a waifu, listen to great speakers, read whatever (books or chans), make art, shitpost with online friends, and most important of all embrace struggle.

I've been done with depression for quite a few years. One of the best things I did myself good was just take myself less seriously. Really just remove the loathing. Which is well and done by breaking the ego. I lowered my sense of ego immensely just by rigor, struggle, and failure. But, also accomplishment. What I did wasn't even that important. What did matter was the steps to ascend that climb, and there you go. No more depression. Really, it's all a sense of attitude. Once you adjust it, you can move onto more pressing matters instead of yourself,

>>36243
Wanted to add that I have an electric drum kit. A good quality one which means I can listen to some nice tunes and bang along with them. I also go to karaoke once a week and sing. Both my drumming and singing is bad but physically and mentally fun for me.

>looking on ponyass
>calculate
>ponys are perfect
happy again

>>35916
I know the pain dude to be honest I just bury it in projects, work and activities I am always active doing something, be it organizing something, playing a game, in a call with some dudes just something.

Best advice I can give is

1 set some goals figure out what you want in life figure out something you can try to accomplish be it finish college, get a job in X field etc.

2 Find some guys to hang with be it IRL or in a discord or something a place where you can just hang with some guys relax, play some vidya sometimes just friends, even if you are just a lurker you will still do fine.

3 Exercise, I personally go to the pool daily to swim laps to help improve my body and mind. I HATE people so I normally go at like 7-8am when NO ONE is there and just swim by my self and leave when people start to show up. Or hell just exercise in your house put on some music and just walk your house for an hour something to get you moving and feeling better.

4 Watch some MLP it always makes me feel better

That is the best advice i can give to ya my dude I hope things get better

Pony Anon - Why haven't you taken the ÜberPony Pill yet ?

>>35916
I suffered from that pain since I was born. People will tell you the cure is to love yourself, and you'll ask yourself, "How can I do that?".

The REAL answer is to get something in your life worth living for. Do you have a hobby like video games, making art, making mods and hacks, etc? Dedicate your life to it and feel joy when working on it. That's how I did it. For a while, it wasn't working as well as it used to. Then I came here, and found the brony fandom I loved all this time, without the shilltards I hated.

>>35916
How I do it is simple. I make everything I do be an expression of the fact that I'd like things to be 'better' (philosophical discussions aside). Professionally I commit myself to constantly emergent levels of productivity and output, privately I am learning to cook and take on more inter-personal responsibilities while being increasingly a better caretaker for my cats. Did I mention stretching? Fucking stretch.
Basically what I've done is assessed all aspects of the input/output my body experiences on a physical, mental, and dispositional level and work slowly and gradually to improve both the input and output.
If the body is weak (poor/unbalanced food, lack of exercise) then the mind can't be said to operate at its fullest capacity,
. Diminished mental capacity limits the degree that one can learn and ultimately create (mentally or otherwise) which diminishes the overall 'inevitable' experience.
So my advice to OP (aside from stretch! Motherfucking stretch!) is to BEGIN to sort yourself out. And while you do, stretch. Emphasis on the term 'inevitable'. Your experience tomorrow is the inevitable result of the choices and actions you make NOW.
I don't know anyone who has ever said "I'm SO glad that I DIDN'T stretch yesterday".

Hello everypony, OP here. I really appreciate all the advice. I've gotten to the end of season 5 of MLP;FIM, it's been great so far and I can't wait to finish it.

I'm also trying to be a bit more active but I think I need to get myself to start eating again first. It's really hard to be active when you have no energy.

Lastly, I booked an appointment with a therapist. I'm not very optimistic about it but I suppose it doesn't hurt to try.

I strongly believe that getting back into shape will solve many of my problems so that's what I'll be working on. I'm tired of looking like an auschwitz nigger.

>>39740
Yeaaaaahah budddy! Keep it up.
All of the anons seeking advice here have motivated me to live up to my advice because I know whats good for you but am also a lazy cunt. Felt like a beast running through the mud today anon thanks.

>>39741
What region are you from? It's so fucking hot down south.

NC. I hate this shit too man. Its so fucking humid, cant wait to move up north.

>>39745
GA here, the humidity makes me want to move to Alaska.

>>35916
Keep your mind, soul and body always active.
- Mind: Find what your talent is. Every day you learn something is a well spent day. Pursuing personal projects help you a lot to have an aim. Your mind loves when you are using your full potential in a personal project.
- Body: Work out, go jogging and keep yourself in movement. Keep your body active and happy.
- Soul: Balance the above with activities you like to do: play an instrument, draw, write, speedrun a game, just to have a good time. Have yourself a moment each day when you pay no mind about how fucked up the world is.

Hope that works. I used to take the anxiety pill jew a couple of years ago, but I believed in myself and I never had to take those ever again.

>>39747
I know, i'm moving right to the Canadian boarder and am considering Alaska as well.

>>35916
Find things that you enjoy.

get /fitlit/

>>39783
This
/fitlit/ master race.

>>39867
Y-you'll always be welcome here, Anon.

>>39786

how come we don't have /fitlit/ here? it's much more important than /vx/

>>39878
>Not appreciating my glorious vx idea
Reeee!

>>39882

/vx/ is nice and it's good to have fun but being /fitlit/ is more imperitive to a good life, we need ubermench more than we need gamers tho it'd be best to have both

>>39886
Okay…

>>39888

now now, it's okay

>>35916
From another /pol/lack, you need to learn how to water down your redpills. As in find things you can enjoy. Take your mind off that issue so you can have better focus when you deal with it later.

A new perspective helps a ton, anon.

>>39878
I was just thinking that a self improvement board might be a useful addition, like /fitlit/ but more broad. Survival, education, career advice, and whatever else comes up.

We should probably start by having some threads first to see that there's interest.

>>39909
I'm considering leaving the city and starting a farm. Having some shit to do would be a good change.

Pulse baby goats are really cute.

>>35916
I am probably the last person to take advice from but hey

First of: You don't deal with a broken mind, you try to live with it.

Science talks of learned helplessness.
I don't agree with that term.
It is more like seeing no light at the end of the tunel.
But some implications of that are true. You CAN change things for the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wyGK6k6HE

Jordan B. Peterson talks about something that is called self-authoring in this video. It helps to see, to remember what went wrong. What made you the person that you are.
The ride may be painful but you have to open old wounds that didn'T heal to get better.

Another thing you should do is physical exercise.
No gym or sports or anything if you don't want to but simply take a walk everyday.
Every day after luch go for a walk for 5, 10 or 15 minutes.
If you feel up for it go jogging instead.
It is not only the fresh air but a ritual, something steady, something to free your mind.

The next thing is to fix things that bother you. Start small. Look around your room. Is there trash lying around that should not be there? Take 1 minute to throw it away.
Is there dust on a shelv? Just wipe it away.
Fix the things you don't like AND can fix within your range.
Start small: Trash, shower, change of sheets, fixing of a picture and go bigger when you can.

Pick up some craft or something. Something you don't "just" consume. Be it drawing, music, writing, poems, stitching, woodwork or whatever.
Something you can express yourself with in the loosest definition possible and something YOU have controll over.
It helps and it can help to set your mind on something different.
When you actively do something you are faced with small problems and you struggle to improve, how to fix the problems.
When it finally works it feels good.

Set small goals of to enable yourself to do things you were uncomfortable with.

Don't do drungs on a regular basis! Nobody minds if you have a little fun with friends but if you start to consume drugs daily or when you are alone it gets dangerious.
They are an easy way out but they are just another trouble to deal with after a while.

Consider therapy.
Stephen memeneux and others are talking about the chemical jew.
I disagree.
If you treat it as a way to cure yourself and not as the cure itself it can work.
It can help you if you use it to work on the problem and not just mask them.

Lastly find someone to talk and don't be afraid to ask for help.

That is all I can think of right now.

>>40181
Fuck anon, do you know me? Everything you just listed out is incredibly relivent at the moment.

I made an appointment with a therapist, it's tomorrow.

>took ACE test recently to see if I should get professional help myself
>answer the questions honestly and tell myself not to exaggerate multiple times per question
>get a 4 and think that sounds pretty good
>scroll down the page and read: As your ACE score increases, so does the risk of disease, social and emotional problems. With an ACE score of 4 or more, things start getting serious

A 4 may be the baseline for bad but all this time I just thought I was being a winy little shit. Now I'm kinda starting to worry…

>>35916
I know that this is degenerate - but bare with me. Medication.

My family has crippling depression down the male line. Normally it hits around the 40s but for me it hit early - in high school (I'm American using proxy so ignore flag). The funny thing was, I had a great high school life. Good sex, relatively popular, etc. But then it hit me like a ton of bricks.

Prozac saved my life. I could have wasted it. But it helped me get back on my feet. I ended up making use of my full potential and getting into Oxford and then getting a good job at a non-Jewish owned bank so I could learn how to undermine banking in the coming struggle. I know I'm just 24 and lack the wisdom and perspective of age, but without Prozac - I would have given into despair. The only reason I didn't an hero was the thought of what it would do to my parents.

But after I started taking it, I started to be able to get things done. I exercised again, I started to pick up my hobbies other than video games (nothing wrong with gaming, just bad when it's ALL you can do), reading, hiking etc. It took time. But after a year of taking it, I was back up.

Please please, consider seeing a doc and asking for help. It isn't cheating. It's embracing the accomplishments of our people and their ability to find a solution to even the darkest of problems.

Good luck! and if you have any questions, please ask.

>>40225
Don't worry so hard. That's the first step.

Best cure for depression is a qt pone waifu tbh

>>40248
Kek

>>40225
I recommend that you watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxJzWcwcRd0&index=2&list=PL22J3VaeABQBdzcPNVe0HxlPvNEEr7p5b
The first step to sorting yourself out is knowing what's wrong.
But if it turns out that you indeed are just worrying too much, a gracefully titled book "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck" (no, I'm not shitting you) is a pretty good guide on how to stop unnecessarily worrying.

>>40225
Just keep in mind that some of these tests dont account for a lot or dont crossover into reality. Online tests have told me im autistic and have ADHD but im not at all irl. Just a thought, its good to recognize your problems though.
>>40235
Just like everything else, meds work for some and dont for others. Not saying people shouldnt try them but people should be careful or else you may an hero like Chris Cornell F in peas.
Id say its better to, if possible, to correct mental chemical imbalances naturally through hobbies and fitness.

>>35916
Hah, you are depressed? Well guess what, I am too. When you live in poverty, and was trapped by your family due to poverty, getting out is very very difficult, especially when you are also handicapped by a genetic disorder. When the only jobs were shipyards for men and nurses for women, it became impossible to get anything over minimal wage. 7 years I spent there till my family were able to move. After which I was luck enough to get a pel grant to go to college, with out, would been impossible. I already set my goals where I want to go long time ago.

But due to previous conditions, it wasn't like I was independent, I was still dependent because I didn't have a ride, but my parents took care of me to get to and from the college. I went full time, graduated with a 4.0 GPA. And it was shortly before Graduation that one of my friends died whom was also a fellow co-worker and student. So after I graduated, I took off my gown to put on a black suit.

I started my own company and it didn't take off as I planed, Murphy's Law, lost my artist due to medical complications. With out irreplaceable people, I had to re plan everything. I still am not independent.

I have been looking for work but every job wants a BA or BS. And every skill required, I have more than 8 years in practice and is so simple a monkey can pick up a book and learn it. Saddest thing is that the college didn't teach a damn thing about how to make resumes nor portfolios.

I am depressed and what I wrote doesn't show the whole story either. But one thing I still have over everyone else is motivation, determination, and tenacity.

That is what every one needs. Depression is caustic, it will gnaw at you and leave you will holes that make you brittle and frail. Honestly I should of been dead years ago but somehow still here. I keep trying, keep pushing and there are the moments that I see things do get better, like being able to go to college. But with me, every inch I get, I take. I see my goal, but no idea how to get there, No one can direct me because no one I know traveled my path and I know others have, but not where they are to speak with them. So I keep hammering at the egg, hopefully it will crack.

>How do other people do it?
Every time I feel like ending it, I think of the thousands upon thousands of men who died to uphold the chalice of Western Civilization. Men like Alexander the Great, Leonidas of Sparta, Arminius, or Vlad the Impaler. We are standing on the shoulders of giants. We have no right to take the coward's way out.

Most people that are "depressed" are in such a state because modern, western, society is extremely unnatural, and as men we have been stripped from our natural roles of protector and provider. Don't fault yourself. Fault the Jews who created this system. Fight against them with the ire of a thousand suns.

>>40287
This, I couldn't just kill myself because there are still communist in America.

>>40306
>>40287
>Your reason to stay alive is that there are some people who shouldn't be
Kek

>>40307
>feeling as though you are bound by duty to defend race, culture, and history
>using this feeling as a focal point to get your life together
Fine by me.

>>40307
Good enough for me.

>>40307
>>40309
>>40395

Never underestimate the motivation of rage fueled hatred. It may not move mountains, but it moves many men.

>>40238
The problem is I don't want be labeled as insane or something for the rest of my life prolly just because my faggot dad never spent time with me when I was a kid.

>>40262
thanks, but the dude kinda just reinforced my position on not wanting to get help at the part where he said the person who talks about it is the one people think of as messed up. If anyone is that's my mom.

>>40266
Well it's not quite the same as something like an "are you a raciss and shieeeet test". A lot of research seems to have been put into this if you look at their site:

https://acestoohigh.com/aces-101/

I think what I need to do is suck it up for a little while longer, get a job - despite my anger problems and shit - pray they don't get me into trouble and get therapy once I'm able to move out. I dunno, maybe that way at least people will think whatever is wrong with me isn't that big of a deal if I can support myself.

that and I want to be far away from the person who once held a knife to her throat over a simple disagreement when she finds out I went to therapy - as in blabbed to someone about how crazy she is.

>>40225
Most of psychology is bullshit. They search for behavioral traits that could have any number of causes, and then try to sort you and give you labels based on those traits, without paying heed to the actual causation of those traits. It is a way to punish people for wrongthink and further alienate us from each other. The only psychology you should ever take seriously are diseases/mutations with actual physiological changes that are observable. Everything else is a kike sham.

Don't worry about it, anon. I'm sure you're fine. Just because you aren't a cookie-cutter normie doesn't mean you are going to end up trying to set a new highscore.

>>40212
be careful though
there are a lot of bad therapists

some just drug you, some try to fix the symptoms instead of whats killing you

you have to have a good feeling about the therapist, trust

be open

>>40618
She wanted to drug me almost immediately.

>>40572
see >>40620
Unless you have a physiological problem in your brain they can find, fuck off and don't take any of their drugs. Things like "depression" or "ADD" or "bi-polar disorder" are classifications of SYMPTOMS. Not CAUSES. It is largely worthless. That is something very important to understand. Their shitty labels don't mean anything.

>>40620

time to get the hell out of there. This is a pill merchant.

>>40623
There are cases where a therapy is almost impossible without the use of drugs.

Drugs are not a treatment but something to help with the treatment.

>>40620
Maybe you should make an appointment with a different one.

>>40627
The only cases I would consider pills a valid treatment for are cases with actual physiological manifestations that cause hormonal/chemical imbalances, like I have already said. Taking pills for a non-existent chemical imbalance will do nothing but fuck your shit up worse.

>>40633
Not treatment - something to make treatment possible.

I know those drugs and the industry behind them and psychology as a whole have issues.

It is not about chemical imbalances but creating a state of mind where it is possible to make progress.

The drugs are not THE treatment but helping to archieve treatment in some cases.

Atleast they should be…

>>40262
That vid is very interesting!