What games do you play when depressed?

What games do you play when depressed?

Whats your escape?

If you're really depressed you don't have the energy to play games.

I play with ur mum lol

I remember spending something that felt like hours haphazardly weaving traffic in gta 4 teasing virtual suicide when I was depressed
Now I just like playing violent shit. FEAR is pretty satisfying.

Katawa Shoujo :^)
All jokes aside I just play something simple like Tetris or Geometry Wars.

This. I try and launch something, 5 minutes later it's closed again and I come shitpost on Holla Forums hoping to see someone more miserable than myself.

You are that someone today, OP.

I use microdoses of LSD when I'm depressed. And then I stop being depressed and I play some STALKER.

This sounds like a hilariously bad idea.

oh good lord yes i have to try this one of these days

Serious Sam
Doom
Burnout

Serious Sam
Doom
Burnout

i have already played every game i've ever wanted to play, i don't have a backlog like some of the autists around here who have compulsive good goy disorder and keep buying steam games they'll never play on bundles.

when i want a game, i get it, and i play it to completion, and i've run out now. there's nothing but an endless boring void until the next thing i want comes out and that won't happen for at least another 3 or 4 months.

Persona 4

i haven't played a game seriously in years

i just listen to the soundtracks of old MMOs and wallow in nostalgia tbqh.

If I'm depressed, I only sleep and think about killing myself when I'm not at work drudging along and hiding how I feel.

Only thing that really can help in those situations is exercise, fresh air, good nutrition and healthy food. It's just that when you're so fucked up it's difficult to get out and try to survive the rut. Playing vidya is not at the top of the list.

Now, if we were talking about just feeling down and shit, then something comfy like replaying an old favorite from the past or some VN type shit that takes you ut for a bit into some other place.

Sage because this stinks of cuckchan/wizard cancer.

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You've played every game you've ever wanted to play?

Instead of playing games, call friends or hang out with family.

found reddit

you another one of these self-diagnosed self-pitying types?

a-at least new monster hunter in 26 days!

calm down, nobody is on to you for not fitting in
no need to try so hard

pretty much, if there is something that attracts me and i have not played it, its most likely because i don't know it exists yet. after all its impossible to know every game ever made.

i often go searching for games and when i find something that i think i might like, i look up gameplay, but i always come up empty handed.


get out

This.

the drinking game

i tend to masturbate the time away instead. God bless exhentai and erotic fiction sites.

Jesus fuck that's probably the cause of your depression

when I'm low I watch a movie, take a really early morning walk, then when I feel like vidya again I emulate gamecube or PS2

Good taste.

finally someone with genuine depression not just drop in mood

I guess it depends, brother has depression and just lies looking at the roof all day, i get depressed from my almost crippling anxiety disorder, which has a chemical component of flooding my system with more adrenaline than i burnt off so im too on edge to sit still.

Iktf

Persona 4 and TWEWY

aGames all about having lifelong friends and happiness :(

Its not so bad when you get medication and go on walks to burn off the incorrect fight or flight response adrenal levels.
Beats what it used to be where i felt cold AND feverish with cramping stomach pains, blurring vision, dizzyness, vomiting and shitting blood.

That was pretty bad.

Never be afraid to talk to the doctor if you think you have a problem anons, its that or turn into chris chan or a tumblrite.

Hello tumblr, how are you guys doing? I'm also a victim of the highest order, fucking universe is out to get me, that's the only reason why I'm neet I'm amazing otherwise

This. It's either that or the same game I keep coming back to for some reason. Right now it's Planetside 2 because of Holla Forums. Actually starting a new game is stupidly hard for some reason I can't explain.

I'd rather be doing something out of myself and working on a vidya but I can't motivate myself to. I thought I was getting better too, but I started feeling like shit the past few weeks again.


I've swallowed tons of different meds, none of them did anything except kill my sex drive. I'm starting to have my doubts they can help at all and it's not just my doc trying to prescribe me shit to sucker me out of money.
Also autism isn't the same thing as depression.

this is why tumblr never solves their issues, even avoiding them with the escapism of videogames is better than enabeling and wallowing in them.

I usually try some fucking weeb shit that doesn't require any concentration or effort whatoever and is essentially grinding the same mission over and over again, i.e. that one shitty bleach game.
But usually I don't want to play games at fucking all, I just stare at the ceiling or at the floor while some music plays in the background.
I try to watch comedies but usually they just make me sad because everybody in them is happy and has hopes for life and instead of cheering me up it really gets me down.
Your safest option is to go to sleep and hope it'll pass by tommorow.

This. Meds can help you if you're in a really bad place and maybe help yo for a small amount of time.
After a while however they get on myy nerves and make stuff even more complicated.
Therapy does a lot more for me than swallowing meds, that's for sure.

Clinical depression results in a loss of interest in activities that were usually enjoyable. Still, every time it hit, just like OP, I would go on a quest for that one thing that will make the pain go away. Never found anything though. Colourful cheerful shit would make me sad because of how ugly the world is in contrast, game requiring any skill would make me feel worse because you can't achieve anything while functioning at half speed and anything requiring thought would just bore me.
But if it does not exist yet, what should such a game look like ?
No depression quest yet ?

i took the smallest amount of citalopram possible and got out more to work down my "glass almost full, so lets pour a glass worths in" adrenal levels and it suits me fine, i panic but it doesnt make me a dehydrated wreck for 3 or 4 days, i just need to sit down and chill
apparently the norm is 8 times what i take and it makes people zombies.

I thought they helped at first, but it might've been my mindset. Like, I was hoping for them to help. After a while I notice nothing changed. I repeated this process a few times and am sick of it.
I stopped therapy after my shrink said we're not making any progress and I've got to take matters into my own hands. Problem is I've never been good at that all my life.

Drakengard

Lel, used same stuff.
I guess it depends on the person, user.
For me the effect wore off after a while and the doc was like "don't worry, we have harder stuff. how about more pills? =)", which I didn't really feel like doing.
For me the worst thing about the meds was I felt like I had no emotional range anymore. Sure, there wasn't any sadness, but I was also never really happy and I felt a bit like a robot watching time slowly pass.
I'm trying to do sports+therapy atm and while it's not the best, I feel like I have a chance.

Yeah, I think meds are a way to give you a better handicap, but in the end you have to go out and do stuff. Worst thing for me was I had trouble admitting when something wasn't working and always felt like shit having to go to the doctors again.
That sounds fucking harsh. I worry about that sometimes, like thinking about if I'm boring my therapist.
Did you have trouble opening up to your shrink?
I'm getting better at it, but fuck me expressing myself is difficult and I have to fight the impulse just to lie all the time.

I don't, I swallow a AAA battery and fall asleep hoping that I won't wake up

its different for everyone, they tried me on CBT but i was just thinking about what i was trying not to think about.

Spicy!

Not really. I tried to be as honest as I could and ended up bursting into treats a few times.
It helped me understand what went wrong but everything else didn't help. Such as being told I'm not at fault for being in the state I'm in, yet I still feel guilty for everything. I also keep getting praise and fans for my works but I either feel nothing or as if I don't deserve it, even though I know I should be glad.

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Chivalry for the keks

People are strange monsters.

y-Yeah I'll do that.

Hatred.

I know, I know…

I have a family, but what are friends, anyway?

I've been asking that question for years and no one really has an answer. It's expected that friends are to be there for you, but friends are apparently not supposed to be there for you.

You go out with them and watch a movie or go to eat at a restaurant, you hang and shoot the shit, despite not really going any deeper then that because it's weird, apparently, but after all that, what's gained?

A sense of camaraderie? Some sort of bond? I don't think I've ever gotten these things from or for people.

People haven't felt like friends to me. When it comes down to it, I don't know what a friend really is.

Are you supposed to feel things for people outside of your family? How?

ff8 or BoI or daaku soozu. something comfy i assocate with being happy and comfortable

it doesnt help. only exercise helps

Nice Myspace-tier picture, OP. The one period in life I was genuinely depressed and not just being a sad sack of shit I played nothing but Fire Emblem: Awakening for almost 3 months. Most of it was just spent mindlessly grinding for the perfect streetpass party even though I had nobody to ever pass it to. All of my saves ended up getting corrupted before I was "finished", eventually freeing me because there was no way I was going to restart the process. I play cutesy SoL shit like Atelier when I'm just feeling sad which is the question really being asked.

Skyrim but I already finished it so I have none.


Well say what you want but the way I dealt with depression on multiple occasion is by realization that no one will help me. The doctor was actually right.


You have shit friends and are anti-social.
But yeah relying on friends is not a thing.

Embarrassing.

Dirt Rally. I like to have put on some Fleetwood Mac. Crank up the graphics, hop in the fiat abarth and go for a nice comfy drive in the rain.

Serious Sam is also great as its funny but also challenging

Something soulless.
or nothing at all

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animal crossing.

Osu. The combination of music and concentrating on the game helps prevent my thoughts from wandering.

Journey

Pro wrestling games

Nostalgia JRPG's

Wrestling vidya is so cathartic

speaking of hatred
OMAR "SPRAY THE GAY AWAY" MATEEN MOD WHEN?

Usually FPS or hoard shooter games / FPS pvp, but I'm starting to run out of options.


Souls 3 is about the only outlet I have. TF2 just makes me sadder.

yoko taro games
I feel like he understands depression well

Hello, me.

I just play some game and keep on playing it, not even for fun- just as if it were part of a daily routine


This, also making a tulpa helped quite a bit

user, I'm not sure self-inflicted insanity helps.

I play a good game.

Learn to play an instrument or learn to paint, or pick up another productive hobby that will have some therapeutic value and give you something to strive for and something to be proud of, doing something consumptive like playing games will just make you feel worse because you'll have nothing to show for it at the end.

Play fucking Road Rash and beat people up.

also go back to /r9gay/ or whatever is the fullchan equivalent.

Easy to say when your parents aren't a bunch of pieces of shits who steal the inheritance your grandma left you and are also into illegal animal traffic.

Your dissatisfaction with your relationships is proof enough that there's a gap in you waiting to be filled. You understand intrinsically, on some level, that there should be something there that isn't.

You seem to need better friends, and perhaps learn to be a closer friend. To talk about private things and confide in others, and invite others to do the same to you.

What friendship really is is trust and the comfort that comes with it.

Look on the bright side, once you're numb inside you can again.

this. a thousand fucking times this.

finally a use for pic related, thanks motherplougher

I just looked that up; holy shit, what an awful way to commit suicide. If you're willing to go through the potential issues that swallowing a battery will cause (and the low chance of actual death), then just drink bleach, dude.

All of them. I went beyond "depressed" and now only feel empty.

I tried therapy, and it was a load of shit. Shrink says some stuff, you feel better for an hour, and then it all goes to hell again. Absolutely fucking worthless.

family bonds remind of me of 'of mice of men' where one of the farmers can't shoot his old dog because he had him for too long.

I wonder if my parents think of me like that dog

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I guess you are what you play.

Please leave.

That's not true you faggots.

The mask is to hide the tears.

I have never been depressed in my entire life.
I'm a fat basement loser with no prospects for the future and I enjoy every minute of it. I eat tasty food until I'm about to burst. I play video games that I find fun, and watch cartoons that I like, even if they are objectively bad. Despite that, I can still act superior to everybody else and, wearing my golden arch-fedora, tell them about being enlightened by my intellect.
Every day I wake up filled with joy, and go to sleep expecting another wonderful time to come.
I think you are all fucking losers who can't appreciate everything you've been given in life. Like spoiled brats you find ways to be unhappy with luxury.
I would wish death on you, but instead, I wish you a long life filled with monotonous but very efficient work, so you may contribute to society as best as possible.
Cheers!

It was around the zone when the drugs started to kick in. "We can't stop here. This is cheeki breeki country!"

I start a new HRE campaign in TW:med 2.

Yeah, I play that when I'm happy or sad, but it usually makes me happy because the sight of a certain girl is always so refreshing.

this.

I play "call my therapist and spend 4-6 weeks trying to get my life and head back together". I'm barely functioning at work and in my relationships. When I can well enough I will play games again. For now, lurking until the therapy/drugs kick in is enough for me to get vicarious enjoyment/participation in the medium.

join the military. You will forge bonds that transcend friendship. You will hate these people, and everything about it, but at least you will know that some men will lay down their lives for you in the same way you would for them, and that's nonexistent/rare in civvie world.

That's what they want you to do, to take the pills and become passive and numb.
Psychiatry and psychology are just a racket for the Jews. It's a pseudoscience not based on any testable science or facts.

The only real cure to depression is improving your life, for example by lifting weights and doing cardio. Even that won't fully get rid of it though, nothing will except National Socialism.

A lot of atrocities happened in those (((psychiatric institutions))).

Oh yes that's the last thing you want to do, go to some place for lunatics. Doctor Goldberg will likely torture you for his amusement.

If you're depressed it's just a sign that you're sane and you're sick of living in this insane Jewish society where everything is upside down and laws of nature have been replaced with rebellion against nature, common sense and rationality with lies.

A lot of western people are depressed or feeling down, and it's not a problem with your head, it's a problem with our society being perverted into something unnatural and strange.

If you're sad about something (not just feeling depressed for seemingly no reason) play or watch something that's terribly depressing.

Like something with a very sad ending. When you acknowledge your sadness and embrace it, it gets you over it faster. Kind of like how if you express your anger instead of bottling it up, it makes you feel better (at least it does for me).

Play something depressing and moody, you'll feel better.

silent hill 2 forever

while there is a lot of truth in your words you just need to work somehow in this world and sometimes sharing problems with similiar minded people is okay boost for mood

I haven't been moody since 2011

no, but im not stupid enough to tell myself random useless shit that you already do in the first place can help you in any significant or noticeable way.

by god my man, its like saying "breathing helps you live, SEE IM HELPING HURR DURR", you stupid fucking normalfag.

russian roulette

he didn't even b8 the hook

Lately i have been so depressed that i can't play shit, i also have quite a bit of physical pain plus im also pretty sick/on meds so that makes everything worse
What im trying to say is fuck my life

And here's why comas are useful, so why don't we put you in one ?

Just as proper spelling is, Carlos.

might as well ask

I'd say GTA 4. GTA 5 I put about 30 days into. Maybe tf2 actually which is about 500 hours, but I doubt it, I played a ridiculous amount on GTA 4 when it was popular.

Just googled it and 27 days is a lot longer than 500 hours

So talk to someone with similar problems, not to some God's Chosen who is getting paid to listen to you and come up with some bullshit so he can get his shekels

This is my situation. Most of the time I don't have the will to play games at all. When I do, it's always something I've already finished. I don't even really enjoy playing games; I only do it in an attempt to occupy my mind with something so that my depressive thoughts don't overwhelm me and cause an emotional breakdown. I'm never more than one bad thought away from wanting to destroy my house and shoot myself.

I've become a compulsive eater instead, because it's the only thing that makes me feel any kind of enjoyment. With games, the satisfaction is mental, so your mental state has to be receptive to that. When you're depressed, you don't have that receptiveness.

This

Also I remember that 90% of the games I own are absolute shit

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YOU'RE NOW THINKING ABOUT HER

Also you're playing games to forget her, right?

Basically this, I can't even eat when I am depressed

You're a funny guy

i don't recommend playing games when you're super depressed, you could start associating a game you like with depression

really what you need is to get some sunlight and work out and trick your body into feeling better, it sucks but it works

go fall down a well my dude

cuz she said she loved me then disappeared without a trace

Pretty much. On better days I can lose myself in music and feel a sense of escape into daydreams. But otherwise I pretty much just lean back in my chair and feel like nothing.

When I was really depressed I just played a lot of Don't Starve. It didn't help my mood at all, but it was a great game. There's been a lot of new content released since then that I haven't played, I should give it another go.

I can't even go out of my apartment, the "go out and get fit" is bullshit, it's not like it would solve anything anyway.

this is true, depression siphons the joy out of everything.

Nothing a few shots of cheap-ass vodka can't fix. Aristocrat lets you be an alky on the cheap, fam. Then you can get back to doing whatever it is you do.

when I do eat a bullet, I'll stream it for you niggers

Not to mention that it has to start from a point where you don't hate yourself so much that you feel like you don't deserve to be fit, and where you're not so disgusted by yourself that you don't want to use your body, and where you don't think it's too late for it to make a difference, and where food isn't the only pleasure you have and going without it only makes the depression worse.

that picture would be so much less "i'm-15-and-look-at-this-2deep4u-image-i-posted-on-facebook" if those damn ellipses weren't there.

yeah, but im still trying to find something to do. nothing seems like it will pull me away though, when i was younger it was easier to get lost in a fantasy but now its like im more determined to stay miserable

you really will be an hero user

Potion Maker is my go to at the moment since it requires almost no thought and very little energy to tap a screen laying next to me on the bed. And I do feel a bit of a rush when I sell something for a trillion or quadrillion gold pieces.

Anons, I present to you the end result of a zero trust society.

you have to go back

This sounds accurate. I'm not depressed, but I mostly just play games to pass the time now. I rarely get any real sense of joy or of them anymore.

Get a shrink that wants to help you by giving you goals to work on before the next session. I'm not losing my depression anytime soon, but some of the stuff my therapist encouraged me to work on relieved a little of the depression until it really hits me.

Do people still use those zeemap things? It sounds like we all need some friends to play vidya with and stuff.

seems I got extra lucky because my therapy group is like something from pol.