What's a good, immersive, comfy game to play that will temporarily take away my crippling depression...

With that logic, I'm sure you're in that statistic as well.

tips/tricks/sources?

The vita version is shit, is there one like the PSP version?

I don't think you can get much more comfy and immersive than Animal Crossing.

If quantum immortality is real I already am in a few universes

Vita version of what, Katamari? Monkey Ball? I had the PS2 and Gamecube versions, respectively

Somebody has to do it or it's gonna be bachelor taxes soon

Katamari, user. The King of Cosmos looked like a dying cancer patient.

That means I may be Hitler in another, doesn't it? Sounds pretty great.

Never liked AC without cheats, it's like real life. I'm too impatient for a game like this, Harvest moon is more my alley.

Go play Dropsy, it's a game about a Clown that just wants to make people happy.
A large part of the game is figuring out the best way to do so. Say a little girl wants a flower, you can't just give it to her - you're an adult clown, it'd be creepy. So you go to the park where she hangs out at night and plant it for her to find.

As for advice, I urge you to remember that what you are going through is temporary and will pass given time, there is hope yet.
Best thing you can do, really, is to find a group of people you enjoy being with and just hang out with them irl a bit. You don't need to be going to parties every night and acting like a chad to feel happy, even if you're just chatting or playing vidya it will help. Socialisation is the bane? of depression - it can only thrive in isolation.

I hope you listen to this, it's the same advice that saved my life.

Can't speak to the Vita Katamari since I've never played it but all of the PS2 ones are worth playing. Speaking of PS2 games there's also Eternal Ring if you enjoyed King's Field, that's what I'm playing now

Nah you're thinking of something else, I think quantum immortality sounds horrifying

That looks damn great! Solid advice too!! Thank you so much user.

persona 4, vtmb
go for a run, doesnt have to be for long just run for a minute walk for 3 do that 5 times
hell or just go for a walk.
i find small exercise very therapeutic

No problem, just try and get better y'hear?

By the way, it might not be your style, but the British TV series 'Flowers' is pretty good to watch if you have depression. It's a dark comedy about a depressed children's author who tries (and fails) to commit suicide and his dysfunctional family. I think it really helps you to pinpoint exactly how you feel, to help visualise and thus exhume your depression. Granted, it's all a bit emotional and romantic (not in the sense that there's much romance going on) so it might not be for everyone, but it helped me even after I had gotten over my depression.
Hope that helps!

Also this. Exercise usually helps. Either for pure enjoyment of it, or helping you attain a better self-image.

I'll leave two gifts.

One is the embed related. The other is from the game Lunar Knights for the DS.

The final boss does his typical end-game 'you're no better than I am' speech, about how although vampires suck the life out of humans, humans suck the life out of everything they touch. Food, resources, all of it is consumed by humans because it's what we need to survive. Do you think of the animals slaughtered, or the mountains uplifted, all for the sake of making it to the next day?

One of the characters makes a simple rebuttal. Of course humans consume resources. Even plants need rain and sunlight to survive. What makes the humans different from vampires is simple: Humans can be grateful that something gave up their life, willingly or not, so that we may live another day.

You're alive because of a million little things, whether they were willing or not. You will do the same for others. Your life has meaning, whether it be for you or for another.

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Fug.

I also forgot to mention The World Ends With You. It's depressing as Hell, but it really does use its themes throughout the entire game. Namely, you're the end of your world, and if you want to expand your world, you need to experience other worlds, other people, or you'll never expand your world. Don't know how hard it is to emulate, but I still think about the game to this day, ten years later.

This is just mean.

Morrowind. That game is easy to lose yourself in for a while. Same with the old spyro games and Earthbound + Mother 3.

Never allow yourself to get into workplace gossip. That shit spreads some nasty rumors and can get people fired. But also, people get really fucking petty and passive aggressive over that shit and start saying whatever they can just to fuck with you. Just don't get involved.

I had a professor I worked for make jokes & personal references about me almost dying during a hospital visit. It didn't help that I had to talk a friend out of suicide and was suffering from withdrawal from the high dosage of medication.

I guess another way to put it.
There's always going to be some asshole at any job you work at. Be ready for that.

Oh.

What? You can't add me?

How are we supposed to know what will help you, OP?

Elite Beat Agents and Ouendan games have extremely charming moments. I also recommend watching/rewatching the first Rocky movie.
As for life advice, I know this phrase is repeated so much it lost a lot of its meaning, but NEVER give up. No matter how bad it is, you have the power to make it better, even if it will take time.

I had to deal with an abusive stepfather who made me suicidal and worst of all turned my family against me, I'm still pretty mentally fucked from those times but I'm recovering steadily. Make sure to tell your friends about your troubles and if you don't have any, put some effort into making them, despite what people here say, there's surprisingly many cool non normalfag folks out there.

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BIT.TRIP Complete is good fun with the bonus of being a metaphor for human existence.

Killer7 is interesting. If you do play it, be sure to read a translation of the art book afterward,it adds a lot. Also good if you want to get depressed about politics

Downwell isn't immersive at all, but it's great fun.

Find a hobby. No matter how dumb it is, find something you like and show it off. Even if it's just attention whoring in appropriate threads, it feels good and gives you something to do and work on.

That game is really something special. Helped me finally admit to myself that I find fashion fascinating. No way in hell an I spending that much but it's a great source of inspiration. Easily in my top 10.

World of Goo

cotton 2 on the sega saturn

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Polite sage because I already gave my vidya recommendations.
I strongly agree with some sorta hobby/daily activity that forces you to improve goes a very long way with depression. If you're already a video game fag, I recommend something gamedev related, we have regular /agdg/ threads for sharing progress, procrastinating and having shit opinions, and almost any kind of skill can apply to gamedev, so feel free to try that.

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I'd assume it is yours. Quite rough but I can dig it I really love horse girls, prefer horse vagina but still love em' all the same.

Get a 3DS.

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I'll give you the advice I can.

It starts with you. Pick yourself up off the floor and clean yourself up, because no one else will.

One last thing. There's always one thread of light to cling onto no matter how bad things get. No matter what happens and no matter how it may seem, there is nothing that lasts forever, no one can stop the flow of time and if the current situation is fucked beyond repair, look for an endpoint and count the days.

I can only report what worked for me. Playing some comfy game that doesn't put much stress on you to play it, like Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim, or reading some funny yonkoma manga like Hozuki-san Chi no Aneki or Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!

I would embed some gameplay vid, if there was one without any faggot letsplayer running his mouth all the time.

You really really need to play Rayman Legends if you havn't already. No game has quite lifted my spirits as much since Castle Rock.

Also for a movie I would recommend Speed Racer. It's terrible and cheesy but in a good way and the ending is like blowing a load the size of a fountain.

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I'd go with something like Bully personally though playing it did make me realise how much of my childhood I wasted playing vidya alone. If not that then perhaps STALKER or Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (not Mafia 2 or 3).

Take up drinking.

Can't tax the unemployed user. Single men will simply stop working if it comes to it and that fucks society. Guess who does all the shitty jobs are terrible night shifts? It sure as hell isn't women or those with kids.

leddit r/asktransgender is pretty solid (and r/transgendercirclejerk is fun). Transitioning is not going to magically cure your depression, but it can certainly help. Don't get stuck at "am I really trans?" This article helped me on that point: freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/04/17/the-null-hypothecis/

Here's a hypothetical question: if there were a magic button that would turn you into a girl and change everything exactly as though you'd been born a girl, would you press it?the vast majority of cis people (i.e. non-trannies) say no

Yeah. Good luck if you take that route.
You'll fucking need it.

Don't fuck a hot crazy chick you don't like but is amazing at sex. You'll dump her, then miss her and try to get her back. She'll use you till she does something really bad and then try to apologize, then you'll regain control again. Then you'll get tired of her crazyness and dump her again, only to miss her again. Then you'll have other things in life stressing you out, on top of her ignoring you and acting cold towards you, so you'll lose hair from stress and will never get it back.

BLOW YOUR FUCKING BRAINS OUT, YOU COCKSUCKING PILE OF SHIT. NO FORCE OF WILL, NO POWER OF MAN, AND NO ACT OF A GOD WILL EVER MAKE YOU ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT YOUR CHROMOSOMES SAY.

We should encourage transfaggots to transition, and let them buy small arms freely. That'll clean up the genepool.

if you've nothing constructive to add please leave

Kill yourself, (2).

Well OP, if you've already got a job, or going to school, or doing all the things that are keeping you from a NEET lifestyle then you're already on the right track and perhaps you need to face up to the problem(s) in your life that are making you depressed.

In the meantime, I tend to look towards games that are not taxing on my reaction time nor require me to be invested in any big story to be my "comfy" games.
So usually building ones.

Sim City 4 is a go-to favorite. SimCity 3000 and 2000 are also good for this.
A turn-based strategy game is also good. Alpha Centauri, Civilization, etc etc.

Now the thing is these games are rather old but should play on any modern PC you have now.
On top of that, they're abandonware so pirate away.
Also, the beauty about going into older games is that you will have more of a selection of niche genres. So if you're willing to keep looking into older games you can find all manner of neat little builder and comfy-style games.

Today's games are all geared towards keeping you hyped in action or in a story. Not enough just let you BE.

I see that you've never had friends or family that took that route. Maybe you should be the one leaving, since you have zero experience to speak from.

i'm a tranny

Everybody hates you

Yeah yeah sure. And I'm a grill btw. :^)

You're also a Redditor, so that pretty much annihilates anything that you would otherwise attempt to bring to the table.

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damn Holla Forums full of brain dead normalfag neurotypical cattle, fuck off little nigger.

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user, the NEET lifestyle and living off of autismbux is not healthy at all and will crush your soul.
It is not a way a person is meant to live.

I was going to post The World Ends With You, but you only wanted a temporary fix

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Come join us in the Stalker threads and drink your troubles away.

Read the Bible. It honestly brought me back from crippling depression(which was more a sense of numbness) that almost led to suicide a couple times. I also was a major shut in who eventually stopped doing anything and just laid in bed all day waiting for people to stop caring about me so I could fuck off to die somewhere.

Now I'm active, am practically always busy with friends, family, or hobbies, work out and eat right, go out regularly, it's crazy how much of a difference it made in my life by just reading it twice a day.

Also, I'd be careful of doctors and their antidepressants… I dont know if everybody has the same experience but they basically turned me into a zombie. The doctors goal was to basically stop my suicidal thoughts and the medicine he gave me stopped all my thoughts in general. Basically I'd just sit their playing vidya all day absent minded until somebody would ask me to do something. I'd do it, then go right back to my room and continue playing. I wouldn't even think about what I was playing either, it was just something to fill my empty head.

also, sorry for the messy post. It's 5 AM and I'm beat.

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You should have just gone through with the suicide.

Whereas I have trans friends who are struggling with it, but still relatively happy. Do we just cancel each other out then? Or is it more complicated than simply encouraging or denying this behavior?

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If OP wants to trap as a hobby which is pretty fun and can really cheer you up if you pull it off. I hope you like learning about photography he should do it without medicating. Simple as that.

I'm not a doctor of medicine or psychology. It is neither my duty or privilege to diagnose mental conditions and recommend administering drugs that irrevocably alter one's mind and body. I can however recommend eating well, doing yoga, cutting out soda, drinking mint tea and experimenting with lighting and camera angles.

Are you happier now than before transition?

Kill yourself

Yes. Unequivocally.

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Also, if you're drinking gallons of mint tea just to get your Test levels down, you might as well just take a low dose of Sprio, which is probably cheaper in the long run even if you buy from grey market sites.

Here's some life advice, work out, jog, and start creating some anger, anger at yourself for such a lazy piece of shit faggot.

Hate yourself, beat yourself up for being a faggot, and get to the point where you won't take it anymore, and after that use that momentum to run, work out, lift weights, find a hobby.

Then the hate will burn, leaving behind confidence, and the strength to weather future storms.

STOP BEING A FAGGOT OP.

GO FOR A WALK, RUN.

GO OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW, YOU STUPID FUCK.

ONE DAY AT A TIME

Gonna need some more horse girls user. Specifically in this style.

This I can get behind. "Do it if you really want, just don't be a fucking idiot about it." sound about right?

OP, Beneath (2007) is a pretty gud movie. The ending might help you cry.

He said trap, not tranny. If OP decides he wants a sex change then that's between him and his deamons. I don't know the guy and am not a professional so the most advice I can give is "play it safe."

Exactly. t /cuteboys/

If I say Jesus would that be too cliche?

Find Jesus.

Why self-med with tea when you can get proper Test. blockers and get your levels tested (ideally under car of a physician but they're pretty useless in my experience, might as well look up the treatment guidelines)
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Either of these games are better for curing depression instead of your "comfy" shit. Get out of your safe space and challenge yourself, and I guaranfucking-tee you'll feel much better than if you just indulge in easy shit.

To be fair that's a pretty fucking cringy blog post faggot. Faith is the stronger anti-depressant than religion. Religion more or less fills a hole for the big question we all ask, but it's not necessarily a concrete solvent for depression. More often than not what actually solves the depression is the group counseling and community interactions that actually improve your morale and self esteem than the actual religion.

Stop being a fucking faggot

Deus Ex.

Telling you to kill yourself is probably the most constructive thing anyone has done in this thread, freak.

It's called "Go to the gym 5x a week and eat six good meals a day." Your depression will be gone in a few weeks to a few months.

You are the cause of your own problems because you're the only person who controls your life. That also means you have the tools to fix your life's problems once you stop the self-pity and start actually doing shit. Because at the end of the day, it's your life numbnuts. Just work on the problems and fix it.

Also, simple is usually best. Don't be so afraid of "consequences" from being straightforward in solving your problems that you torture yourself into a useless pile of misery instead. A direct solution is most likely to actually fix your problems than roundabout bullshit.

I was thinking about making a video on youtube specifically about games I find cozy. I don't know if my definition of cozy makes any sense though, after a while it just became a list of games I've played over and over and over. Like, I consider FTL a game I can just turn my brain off playing. I've logged hundreds upon hundreds of hours, unlocked all the ships and completed everything and then steam erased the data. Only reason I haven't used it as an excuse to do it all over again is because that's 600 hours I can't spend on the other couple thousand games in my backlog.

Anyway, I'm going to give you the advice that's worked for me, for the most part, and then I'll tell you the games I play over and over and thus consider "cozy".

I've been diagnosed as depressed since I was five years old. Terrible childhood, vidya was one of many means of escapism I used, but it never fixed my depression. Among the other shit I was diagnosed with -which I won't get into despite how long this post is going to be already- depression became chronic depression. A couple years ago it was upgraded to major depressive disorder after my fiance left me. She was a borderline, it was a terrible relationship, she fucked me over in a number of ways.

So how'd I dig myself out? Meds didn't help, especially with the loneliness, and I'm in what Adam Carolla describes as "the yummy phase" and thus drugs and liquor have never appealed to me. My ex was both poisoning and abusing my cats whenever I left the house, leaving them with something vets told me had no real cure (I forget the name of it but the main side effect was seizures.) Eldest died right away, then the male a year later and he other female a few months later. I've always had a soft spot for animals. Watching them die and being able to do nothing about it made my depression way worse. I'm mentioning this because if you don't give a shit about animals what worked for me probably won't work for you.

1. She left me feeling weak so I started actually lifting the weights I'd bought years ago. I work out regularly now, this did wonders for my health and self-image. I was never fat, but I used to feel like I was going to pass out after being out in the sun doing physical activity for 20 minutes. Now running in the heat for a couple hours barely causes me to break a sweat. At my last physical I was told I was in fantastic health now. All I did was look up some lifts, and start lifting every other day gradually increasing the weight, and going out and walking more.

2. Learn skills. It doesn't matter what they are. Cooking is really easy, saves you money, and feels rewarding. Try picking up a trade, like welding. Won't take long to learn and you'll always have that to fall back on. Read books, doesn't matter what kind but stuff that teaches you things are particularly good. Don't like to read? Fine, download some audiobooks and listen to them while doing other things. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks while I'm out on walks, playing vidya and doing anything that doesn't require my full focus and attention.

3. You're on the right track with the doggos. I started walking my landlord's dogs. In the process I found a puppy out in the junkyard one day, half pitbull half shar pei. This dog has done more for my depression than anything else. Whatever I'm doing, she wants to be a part of. If I'm feeling angry or sad or sick, she's immediately in my lap licking my face and hugging me. She sleeps curled up next to me, and the first thing that happens every morning is she licks my face as soon as she sees I'm awake. All damned day she's constantly making me laugh, and she forced me to be more responsible. She's also insanely protective of me. Dogs really are man's best friend.

I'll list some games in another post.

Anyway, so comfy. Obviously not a list of general favorite games, else FTL, Dungeon Keeper 2, Godhand and Blood Will Tell would be on here, but those games don't relax me.

I find music has a lot to do with it. In a lot of these cases, the soundtrack is a big part of what it came down to for me.

Mega Man Legends - I actually set the Apple Market theme as my ring tone. At one point I tried editing a track to include the sound effect of Mega Man walking, and I still have the track, but I couldn't get it as soothing as I found it in the game. I've played through MML, it's sequel and Tron Bonne dozens of times. There's just something I find relaxing about walking around the vibrant, bright cheerful town, delving into dungeons and upgrading Mega Man's weapons and equipment. It's action-packed but never feels stressful to me.

Ehrgeiz: Dungeon Mode: Similar to above, I've played through this way too many times. I think a big part of it is the soft, gentle songs played in town, combined with the very unique systems to liven up the crawl. Your stat growth is determined by food you eat along the way, there's a hunger meter which will heal you over time, but if you don't eat anything will kill you through starvation, there's earning the blessings of a pantheon of mostly Greek gods, upgrading weapons by giving liquor to the blacksmith, and having a cutesty partner waiting to swap places with you back at the hotel room. Can't explain why it always works so well for me beyond that, but it does.

Final Fantasy 7 & 9 : I love… most of the FF series, at least up to FF12, but these are the two games I come back to over and over. I like visiting those worlds, I like those characters and their stories, I love the soundtracks. To me it feels like an interactive story I'm shaping because I know all the secrets at this point. It's like lucid dreaming.

Final Fantasy 11: I played the PS2 version, bought a special controller with a keyboard just for that game. I don't think I ever got any higher than around level 35. The combat was the most boring part to me. I liked the way the game looked, I loved the soundtrack. I loved taking the boat from Mhuara, I loved exploring the map on a Chocobo, I spent entire days laying on my ass in bed just fishing up rusty buckets in Bastok. I avoided my problems for months escaping into that world.

Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland: This is a no brainer. The entire series -and Rune Factory- work for this, it's the relaxed pace and repetition, the sort of reward you get from actual hard work. I'm naming this one though because it has like 14 endings, how you get each ending is mostly based around who you befriend in town, so the entire game is about building relationships with all the townsfolk inbetween raising your farm.

Monster Rancher: I'd go with the original just because you don't have to deal with monster death if you don't want to. When the monster gets too old, freeze it, raise another one until *it* gets too old, and then merge them together. It's repetitive and relaxing, but the art style is great, the game has a lot of heart, incorporates any discs you own into the gameplay and breaks up monotony with various events like expeditions. I probably spent thousands of hours on that game when I first got it. Never got as much into the sequels for some reason. For a couple years it was just that and Armored Core.

Jade Cocoon: Similar to above, but it's mostly the music and art style that make it comfy for me.

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Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: I recommend this one largely as a matter of presentation. It kind of feels like babby's first RPG. The plot doesn't really surprise you, but the music, art style, graphics and voice acting are all stellar, and the bonus content and collectibles like the Bromides always make it a fun ride to go through for me. Also the characters are pretty great.

Civilization II: Test of Time: It's basically vanilla Civilization, but with two modes that repaint everything as a sci-fi mode and a fantasy mode. I played through both repeatedly and more than any other game like that I always felt like I was really building complete worlds with interesting stories and histories.

.hack games: I haven't played through the G.U. games, but the first four really created an idealized picture of what MMOs were like. It's pretty much the reason I tried every MMO I did after that. Again, the gameplay is pretty repetitive, but making friends, adding them to your list, exchanging e-mails with the, it all felt really cozy to me. The soundtrack isn't bad at all either.

E.V.O. The Search for Eden: I feel like I'm repeating myself a lot here, but I remember playing this game when I was like 8 and it was the first time the theory of evolution really made sense to me. I really enjoyed the primary mechanic of evolving into different forms throughout the ages, but the main thing here was the soundtrack. E.V.O. has a truly gorgeous soundtrack, especially for that era.

Fallout 3: I loved the first two Fallout games, don't get me wrong, but I didn't find them "cozy". Fallout 3 I spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours exploring until I'd seen everything on the map, and once I finally got bored I loaded it up with every mod I could and squeezed probably another hundred hours out of it. I've repeated this with the games that followed of course, but I never spent as much time with them as I did FO3. It had been a long time since I'd felt so engrossed in a game's world before that, and Skyrim, FO4, etc, just kind of felt like different versions of that same game and didn't quite recapture that feeling for me, though they were great too of course.

Others worth mentioning: Reccetear, Orcs Must Die, King of Dragon Pass.

I concur. I did it for halloween and hadfun

How was it?

traps don't need hormones, they aren't trannies. don't fall for the hormone meme and don't cut off your balls.

being a feminine male which is what the term trap really stands for, is a completely different thing than becoming a freak with chest implants and a mutilated crotch

I want the meme of pointing out the number of posts to die.

This. That thing is one of the only thing that makes me genuienly smile when I'm playing it

here. New ID

I went to college dressed as a princess in a pink dress
since I had an excellent makeup artist helping me out I was damn close to passing
sadly as it was a monday, maybe 7 other students were dressed for halloween
I did not get romantic attentions. sadpepe.jpg

sage since this doesn't quite contribute to thread topic at all

it was to point out that these random assholes swooped in out of nowhere just to shit on trannies and weren't contributing to the thread at all
Also, >(1)

Don't do it. Transitioning amplifies the depression because you're becoming someone you physically were never supposed to be. Don't have the statistics, but an an incredible amount (talking 80%+) of those who transition end up killing themselves.

if that's true, then how do you explain my feelings?
Checkmate.

Hormones. Just like all other feelings.

OP asked a question unrelated to games to begin with, you autistic dumbass.

not sure I follow you

LISA

Second was unrelated, I admit, but the first was a question linked to them. I'm making a backlog.

You fucking people.

I have to agree, I shouldn't have lead the trannylovers on. I don't actually want to be a trap. I can't

This; New Leaf just got an update a few days ago. Gives more to do in a day.

Need some more suggestions. Playing LISA, I am uncomfortable.

trapfuckers and tranny advocates need to leave

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Dragon's Dogma has a strong anti-suicide message, play that.

This advice times 100. Got involved with a co-worker for a bit. Knew I shouldn't have, but lust is a powerful motivator.

Tell me more, did other people begin to hate you or…?

That's so cute, I'd like to try that, but I can't pull it off.

I just read a synopsis of the ending and I'm pretty sure you're wrong

life is pain

See a psychiatrist, go over what different meds do, and then start taking the right one. Usually takes about 2 weeks to kick in, but they help.

Don't just sit on your ass about your mental health. You want to feel better don't you?

Not OP here but dude thank you for writing this, reading it was exactly what I needed today. I am currently at the end bit of a ridiculously long waiting list for getting psychotherapist help with my crippling OCD and childhood trauma and it's been a long road filled with many bad choices in life that led up to me finally seeking proper help. Some days I just want to give up, I never do though because I am strong as fuck and have the best support in the world from the ones closest to me. But reading this just filled me with a lot of positive energy today specifically. I don't know if you'll read my giant blog post but thank you user, for real. You're a hero today.

Did you read the part where one faggot refused the cruel fate and turned into dimension-eating demon?

I'd be really cautious about starting medication. Our understanding of depression is still really primitive, and drug research/studies/regulatory approval is a massive clusterfuck of negligence and corruption.

As my heinously expensive psychiatrist told me, just getting regular exercise has been shown to be as effective as antidepressants.