Official Mental Health Thread

[OccultHawk]

You’re not Sisyphus tomorrow if you take my advice.

[OccultHawk]

the point is you need to learn how to be alone and be at peace with your mind

you can either take my advice or nitpick it and go on ahead with everything that’s leaving you miserable

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

Rowland quietly drank himself to liver death

I remember as a boy thinking that I wanted to be a musician, but artist's lives are lived for the benefit of others in the end

You also don’t have a lick of talent.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by elphenor

we are Sisyphus

This except I’ve never been king of anything and the boulder is made of diarrhea.

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by WWWP

i made this couplet about being depressed a year ago and haven't done anything since lol

https://soundcloud.com/stepheniedarn...e-to-say-about

https://soundcloud.com/stepheniedarn...es-i-feel-like

That's more music than I have made this year. The depression track has been haunting me for the last hour, you really made something effective.

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https://soundcloud.com/supermarketva...lue-vesty-demo

LOL

[grindy]

Originally Posted by elphenor

there's nothing worth living for

the game is not worth the candle

we are Sisyphus and I guess I just don't have a good enough sense of humor

Way to misunderstand Camus. He considers Sisyphus to be happy.

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

You also don’t have a lick of talent.

If you said that to Frownland that would be the ultimate compliment.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by WWWP

i made this couplet about being depressed a year ago and haven't done anything since lol

https://soundcloud.com/stepheniedarn...e-to-say-about

https://soundcloud.com/stepheniedarn...es-i-feel-like

^ Yes, I thought these were nice too, especially the second track. TBH I found it difficult to make out the words on the first track.
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I don't know anything about depression, but I have my own solutions to feeling sad. They can both be done without finding companions (which of course is another solution of itself) and they are both about getting out of your own head:-
i) go for a long aimless walk or bike ride. As well as reflecting on landscape, this increases endorphins (the body's own opiate!)and oxygen-flow to the brain.
ii) read about someone who had a truely miserable experience, either physically or mentally. These books are first-hand accounts of enduring rl misery and can help to put other problems in perspective:

August Strindberg: Diary of a Madman (if you like a long, old-fashioned read)
Terry Waite: Taken On Trust (hostage in solitary confinement for 4 years)
Joe Simpson: Touching The Void (left for dead on a mountain)
Jeanette Walls: The Glass Castle (poor childhood in US, alcoholic parents)
A.E.Ellis: The Rack (tuberculosis is awful)

[DwnWthVwls]

You should imagine Texas as not hot.

[grindy]

Originally Posted by elphenor

no I get it, I just don't necessarily agree at this point in my life

How could he have even grasped the existential horror of breaking up with some chick.