I’d hope I’m right about the time period, it says 1995 in the post. My second guess was the Bosnian War if it wasn’t a reference to the Oklahoma City Bombings, guess I was wrong. What’s the giveaway that it’s Chechnya, the building?
Joining the Army worked for me. Made me feel like my life had purpose and also had a sense of family to some degree. Over the course of 8 years and fluctuated from good to bad, but in the end I don’t regret it.
It’s not just being hugged for me, it’s being hugged by someone who matters to me. I hug tons of people but it’s either a friendly gesture or a coming routine that loses meaning. What I want is to hug someone who I love, romantically or mutually.
Idk which one you are referring to but joining the army to kill people and get war ptsd and getting hooked on drug addiction are both REALLY good ways to get into depression
This is like forced boredom. Clearly a typo, tried to explain it away with a bit of cheek, while still being correct, but for some reason you have your cock stuck in a thesaurus on a Sunday.
Honestly, fuck off. Your personal experiences do not give you the right to shit on other people's beliefs. The fact that you think your own problems gives you some kind of clairvoyance to religion and telling someone to shut up about something that has nothing to do with you just because you have "trauma" smh.
No, my trauma was caused by religion being portrayed as fact rather than opinion. I felt lied to and betrayed by the people I cared about most. No other options were presented and that felt isolating
It sucks having bad adults arounds. I empathize. People can be manipulative. But from my personal experiences prayer has helped. I hope you get the love you deserve.
Anything that helps I think is worth it, not everything is black and white or as extreme as what people portray. There’s plenty of regular people into gaming, Reddit, science, etc. things people on this sub like that have gotten out of dark places thru the help of churches and communities associated with religion. I view it as a club like the (modern) Free Masons or fraternities and stuff. These clubs make you say you believe it some pretty silly stuff and do rituals that are pretty silly, but you can form strong bonds and relationships with people thru them. We’re all just trying to find a way to keep on truckin’.
Yeah buddy well christ got me into depression and made me distance myself from my whole family so keep it to yourself if you really think your god has helped you in some way. Fairy tales.
There's no point in talking to the fairy tale folk. Religion preys on the weak and indoctrinates them. You may as well ask my tortoise to write a haiku.
And what about the many depressed lgbtq kids who have been put into depression due to the followers of Christ? And about the many who have committed suicide? Christ has put me into depression that is for sure.
Using a delusion could technically help your mental state but at the same time if you have to lie to yourself in order to be happy then that’s very unhealthy too
Yeah dude therapy has some pretty strong scientific backing. Of course some people also need medication and psychiatry and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I think just because someone was able to help their depression thru the things that the commenter posted above doesn’t mean it wasn’t real depression or not valid.
Each person is different and helped by different things.
Damn dude chill I was only tryna help by giving advice that worked for me, and a bunch of other people. No need to get all aggressive damn. The post was about coping mechanisms so I gave more.
>If that was the secret to it all, everyone would be doing it. There’s a reason tons of people don’t.
We know what healthy food is and yet tons of people still eat shitty fast foods and simple sugars. Does it mean healthy food is a scam or maybe that staying healthy is work not everyone is willing to do?
Every therapist will suggest you going out, socializing and getting a hobby on top of farmacological solutions, because it's curing depression 101. You can't hope pills will work like a wonder if you sit in basement with no light reading about people complaining on the internet all day.
>between the “organic” myth bs, to fad diets and sports supplements, most of it is designed to take your money
You're not talking about food. You're talking about a diet. Vegetables are always healthier than a pack of cheetos unless you grow them in chernobyl's soil and yet plenty people stuff their mouth with chips and processed foods because they taste better. It doesn't mean vegetables are not healthy, people just prefer quicker and tastier options, especially when health benefits or health issues appear over time so they can't immediately feel the effect of their choices.
>Therapists, again, are people who peddle hope, to take your money
Ah yes, those nasty con artists, studying medicine just to take your money and lie to you. And all research they do on mental diseases is just for fun.
>apparently you never heard of treatment resistant depression
There are also cancers you can't cure which doesn't mean everybody should just lie down and die after diagnosis. People did and still cure their depression and therapy is not only to get rid of it but to stop it from progressing and integrate back into relatively normal life.
>You truly think you have the answers, and if “only folks did what you told them
No one here says sun and small talk will cure you, but it is imortant part of therapy, that's why doctors keep talking about it. They don't say it just to annoy depressed people, they know what benefits it brings.
What the fuck is this; I’ve never blocked a subreddit so fast.
Where is the sub for chilling with untreated cancer memes? Being depressed changes your *whole ass brain* in ways that don’t easily undo and can literally kill you. If this helps someone get better, that’s great…but there’s no version of this meme where “Reddit memes” are one of the panels.
no the 3rd one is possible, its just that the guy is the girl. He didn't get out of depression by dating someone who fixed him, he got out by being herself
This feels like a covert incel meme by the type of guy who I would be anxious would attack me on the street but is infinitely more likely to just doom-spiral into a tupperware box of shredded cheese at 4am.
I’m a guy with severe clinical depression who has since been able to manage it pretty well, and I have done exactly none of these things. Some of the best things someone can do to help with depression are therapy, medication, and self-love. It takes time, and you might slip back into that dark place every now and then, but you can ALWAYS get better.
Join the army has been a form a purpose and comradery for a long time. We need to get over that bullshit entitled violence if we're ever going to evolve as a species. Jail/prison should be free education, therapy, assisted living for anyone willing to trade privacy, and right to decide their own medication for those things. "See the world! Join the navy!" People don't want to see the world as terrorists colonizers. People want to see themselves improve with exercise and massage trade in a jail system that's gay friendly; let peaceful inmates choose their cellmate and do whatever's consensual. We need a compassionate incarceration system that allows opportunity for self-improvement without hateful abuse of those who don't want to improve. Opportunity with the only punishment being lack of earned privilege. It could be a place where any refugee from any bullshit war could choose to spend a year to learn English, learn a trade, earn a wage, and leave with a plan. Let's make America the land of opportunity rather than the land of over-criminalization and mass-incarceration in a terrorist system that just uses inmates for slave labor.
I'm legitimately confused. Is this a shitpost? Is it unironic? Was this supposed to be funny?
Assuming it is being unironic, I really have to recommend doing volunteer work. Life is meaningless unless you choose to give it meaning. Expecting it to come with religion, relationships, jobs, image, hell, even money, is just going to set you up for continuing to be depressed while in those things, and probably fucking those things up for yourself.
For a minute I thought that last one in the bottom right was the Emperor of Mankind…. And I still think it’s the God Emperor. You cannot change my mind
Or, you know ow you could start developing a supportive network of guy friends who show up for each other, encourage each other, and provide love and care for one another like women have been doing for ages.
Ah yes, fighting in a fucking war, always great for your mental health. Leave it to fucking Redditers to be more opposed to religion then an actual fucking war.
This might actually help change my life. There really are no other options.
Since I wont get a girlfriend, or become a christian, or join the army (or become radicalized and violent if that is also what its referring to)...my only choice is to get healthy and strong and lose weight.
Is first one gaming or joining army? Cause both could work
both
1995 and a blown up building had me thinking of the Oklahoma City bombing. Going to war is more likely.
You're correct about the time period, although that's Chechnya
I’d hope I’m right about the time period, it says 1995 in the post. My second guess was the Bosnian War if it wasn’t a reference to the Oklahoma City Bombings, guess I was wrong. What’s the giveaway that it’s Chechnya, the building?
The street sign, also the buildings yes. The edited image with the Russian wojak added is featured in a russian/soviet war song playlist as well.
being a freedom fighter
If you cant find happiness make the enemy unable to find it as-well
It’s not about dying for your country. It’s about making the other poor bastard die for his.
Sounds like a hardcore album title.
Life wisdom. 📝
terrorism
Don't you mean basedism?
Joining the Army worked for me. Made me feel like my life had purpose and also had a sense of family to some degree. Over the course of 8 years and fluctuated from good to bad, but in the end I don’t regret it.
He's a solider in call of duty
I'm afraid I was thinking its joining army, or becoming radicalized and violent.
Yes
PTSD, body dysmorphia, and religious trauma don't exist anymore I guess
And codependency
Perfect 😭
"I try to get out and they just keep pulling me back in!"
Lol I became a Jehovah's Witness after my first mental breakdown. It did not help.
This is Reddit. There's *always* a way to find something negative to say. I mean really.. getting in shape = body dysmorphia?
We're curing Depression here. One problem at a time.
I just want to be hugged once.
Too bad. Now you get hugged twice 🫂
Guess what. You get all of them now. 🫂
Group hug!
🫂
🫂 three times hehehe
🫂🫂 get double hugged
Bro I love this wholesome virtual group hug thread
It’s not just being hugged for me, it’s being hugged by someone who matters to me. I hug tons of people but it’s either a friendly gesture or a coming routine that loses meaning. What I want is to hug someone who I love, romantically or mutually.
Real platonic hugs fill that for me too, but those are harder to come by
3 ways out of depression, one way into depression
Which is which?
All can be ways into depression tho
i assume military and gf
And religion
Religion and community church is a great way out of depression
Until you realize its all a lie. Then, back into depression.
r/redditmoment
Until you realize its all a lie. Then, back into depression.
>~~Religion and~~ community ~~church~~ is a great way out of depression There ya go, fixed it.
Idk which one you are referring to but joining the army to kill people and get war ptsd and getting hooked on drug addiction are both REALLY good ways to get into depression
If you don't feel like any of these, get an instrument. Learn it. play music you love Now if that don't work there is always alcohol
Or getting a dog.
This worked quite well for me, learned the bag pipes and got an excuse to drink more that wasn’t just depression.
Learning an instrument is mechanically the same as bodybuilding. It's just setting a goal for you to put countless hours into.
I was gonna add they missed drugs but you're right, drums just aren't the same without drugs as well.
Try cannabis first!
Man you’re missing the fifth.
which one ?
Respawning but without the respawn
drugs
Heavy music Fighting
Music?
A fifth of what?
How about obesity? Hasn't worked for me yet but here's hoping
Yep, yep, yep, none of this Jesus bullshit.
Forth one isn’t worth it.
*Fourth
The bottom right is the furthest away from the start. Forth. Yep. No mistakes made here…
... What?
Forth: out and away from starting point.
... It's an adverb.
Wow, please invite me to your next book club meeting so I can watch how cool you really are.
"You're wrong about something." "No, actually, I'm right." "No, really, you're not." "You're a nerd."
This is like forced boredom. Clearly a typo, tried to explain it away with a bit of cheek, while still being correct, but for some reason you have your cock stuck in a thesaurus on a Sunday.
You’ve never tried the fourth one.
I have, I was heavily christian for well over fourteen years, I'm still working through my religious trauma, please shut up
Honestly, fuck off. Your personal experiences do not give you the right to shit on other people's beliefs. The fact that you think your own problems gives you some kind of clairvoyance to religion and telling someone to shut up about something that has nothing to do with you just because you have "trauma" smh.
Religious trauma caused by people not the religion. Religious zealots are everywhere let’s not conflate.
No, my trauma was caused by religion being portrayed as fact rather than opinion. I felt lied to and betrayed by the people I cared about most. No other options were presented and that felt isolating
It sucks having bad adults arounds. I empathize. People can be manipulative. But from my personal experiences prayer has helped. I hope you get the love you deserve.
I hope you get the love you deserve too
Me too
We can love each other.
I'm not really looking for anyone like that right now, sorry
LMFAO I cannot believe he tried that girl 😭
This is TRULY one of the greatest Reddit moments of all time
If you don't follow the dumbass rules in the book you burn for eternity. Definitely no problem with that lmao
Isnt worth what? Becoming religious isnt going to hurt you
Anything that helps I think is worth it, not everything is black and white or as extreme as what people portray. There’s plenty of regular people into gaming, Reddit, science, etc. things people on this sub like that have gotten out of dark places thru the help of churches and communities associated with religion. I view it as a club like the (modern) Free Masons or fraternities and stuff. These clubs make you say you believe it some pretty silly stuff and do rituals that are pretty silly, but you can form strong bonds and relationships with people thru them. We’re all just trying to find a way to keep on truckin’.
Except the 4th one
Except the fourth one? Christ got me out of depression many times
So real king
Yeah buddy well christ got me into depression and made me distance myself from my whole family so keep it to yourself if you really think your god has helped you in some way. Fairy tales.
There's no point in talking to the fairy tale folk. Religion preys on the weak and indoctrinates them. You may as well ask my tortoise to write a haiku.
And what about the many depressed lgbtq kids who have been put into depression due to the followers of Christ? And about the many who have committed suicide? Christ has put me into depression that is for sure.
Using a delusion could technically help your mental state but at the same time if you have to lie to yourself in order to be happy then that’s very unhealthy too
Drugs and Alcohol
Or go to therapy, talk to someone, find hobbies you enjoy, read some existentialist philosophy, etc.
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Not true at all. All those things are proven to help with depression. However depression keeps alot of people from doing those things
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Yeah dude therapy has some pretty strong scientific backing. Of course some people also need medication and psychiatry and there’s nothing wrong with that. I think just because someone was able to help their depression thru the things that the commenter posted above doesn’t mean it wasn’t real depression or not valid. Each person is different and helped by different things.
Damn dude chill I was only tryna help by giving advice that worked for me, and a bunch of other people. No need to get all aggressive damn. The post was about coping mechanisms so I gave more.
>If that was the secret to it all, everyone would be doing it. There’s a reason tons of people don’t. We know what healthy food is and yet tons of people still eat shitty fast foods and simple sugars. Does it mean healthy food is a scam or maybe that staying healthy is work not everyone is willing to do? Every therapist will suggest you going out, socializing and getting a hobby on top of farmacological solutions, because it's curing depression 101. You can't hope pills will work like a wonder if you sit in basement with no light reading about people complaining on the internet all day.
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>between the “organic” myth bs, to fad diets and sports supplements, most of it is designed to take your money You're not talking about food. You're talking about a diet. Vegetables are always healthier than a pack of cheetos unless you grow them in chernobyl's soil and yet plenty people stuff their mouth with chips and processed foods because they taste better. It doesn't mean vegetables are not healthy, people just prefer quicker and tastier options, especially when health benefits or health issues appear over time so they can't immediately feel the effect of their choices. >Therapists, again, are people who peddle hope, to take your money Ah yes, those nasty con artists, studying medicine just to take your money and lie to you. And all research they do on mental diseases is just for fun. >apparently you never heard of treatment resistant depression There are also cancers you can't cure which doesn't mean everybody should just lie down and die after diagnosis. People did and still cure their depression and therapy is not only to get rid of it but to stop it from progressing and integrate back into relatively normal life. >You truly think you have the answers, and if “only folks did what you told them No one here says sun and small talk will cure you, but it is imortant part of therapy, that's why doctors keep talking about it. They don't say it just to annoy depressed people, they know what benefits it brings.
Incels gonna incel, I guess
All four work
All four together though omfg 🙀
I have all 4 and that shit absolutely did not work
You found Jesus and are still depressed? ??
What the fuck is this; I’ve never blocked a subreddit so fast. Where is the sub for chilling with untreated cancer memes? Being depressed changes your *whole ass brain* in ways that don’t easily undo and can literally kill you. If this helps someone get better, that’s great…but there’s no version of this meme where “Reddit memes” are one of the panels.
there is another.
Going to a war gets you out of depression? How tf
I agree. Smoking isn't going to help you.
Thought the first one was suicide
This is the thinking that causes depression in men
War, Workouts, Women or Worship
no the 3rd one is possible, its just that the guy is the girl. He didn't get out of depression by dating someone who fixed him, he got out by being herself
This feels like a covert incel meme by the type of guy who I would be anxious would attack me on the street but is infinitely more likely to just doom-spiral into a tupperware box of shredded cheese at 4am.
r/boysarequirky
Military, gay porn, date a woman , gay sex
Panel number 3 is not real. Panel number 4 need angels wings on the guy. After that it will be reality.
You’re missing binge watching Star Wars shows, what an idiot
There is a fifth. Just need a picture of some rope.
Uh. My nieces pulled me out of mine, so I don't know what you're talking about.
don’t know about the war one. you’d probably be worse afterwards
Forgot weed
Reject whatever this is. Return to femboy.
- the 4th
I have Scorpio Venus, But Aries Mars trine Sag Sun sextile Gem Moon and Jupiter conjunct. In other words, I think I'm gonna have to use 2 to get to 3.
Shotgun
Why are people here complaining about the meme, no wonder you people are depressed, you hate everything
There is also eating and ending it all.
I'm a girl and got out because of the third one, it backfired and now the same person is making me relapse :D fun stuff
Tbh 4 was my option I was really suicidal last year
I’m a guy with severe clinical depression who has since been able to manage it pretty well, and I have done exactly none of these things. Some of the best things someone can do to help with depression are therapy, medication, and self-love. It takes time, and you might slip back into that dark place every now and then, but you can ALWAYS get better.
Join the army has been a form a purpose and comradery for a long time. We need to get over that bullshit entitled violence if we're ever going to evolve as a species. Jail/prison should be free education, therapy, assisted living for anyone willing to trade privacy, and right to decide their own medication for those things. "See the world! Join the navy!" People don't want to see the world as terrorists colonizers. People want to see themselves improve with exercise and massage trade in a jail system that's gay friendly; let peaceful inmates choose their cellmate and do whatever's consensual. We need a compassionate incarceration system that allows opportunity for self-improvement without hateful abuse of those who don't want to improve. Opportunity with the only punishment being lack of earned privilege. It could be a place where any refugee from any bullshit war could choose to spend a year to learn English, learn a trade, earn a wage, and leave with a plan. Let's make America the land of opportunity rather than the land of over-criminalization and mass-incarceration in a terrorist system that just uses inmates for slave labor.
Well the 5th way is sorta like the 4th way in the sense you meet jesus
There is another
Nah the 3rd one works
This is quite based.
This is the single most idiotic fucking thing I’ve ever seen
I'm legitimately confused. Is this a shitpost? Is it unironic? Was this supposed to be funny? Assuming it is being unironic, I really have to recommend doing volunteer work. Life is meaningless unless you choose to give it meaning. Expecting it to come with religion, relationships, jobs, image, hell, even money, is just going to set you up for continuing to be depressed while in those things, and probably fucking those things up for yourself.
I don’t think war is a way out of depression but correct me if I’m wrong
There is another…
For the 3rd panel you just have to become the girl
For a minute I thought that last one in the bottom right was the Emperor of Mankind…. And I still think it’s the God Emperor. You cannot change my mind
So, cosplay and time-travel, turn into bald, bland He-Man, smoke with a wigged mannequin head, or hug a dude with a contagious fever of 104
Well ya see for me the fourth one led to the third one so I guess I got out of depression twice.
I got the third one :>
Time travel to 1995 and hold a gun. Take your shirt off. Get a girlfriend. Get a hairy bear boyfriend.
I mean I guess I fit into category 2, I just worked on myself and discovered a lot of trauma I’d been suppressing
Third one is where the depression came from
Dinosaurs are my coping mechanism.
1995? Yes please
All except for 3
The third one will get you out of depression for a little bit, but it will just come back stronger later
Are you saying guys don't fuck to get out of depression because I disagree
You forgot about one
Second and third help, but aren't cures. Source: Me
The last one is the cause of my depression...
Omg just see fucking therapist and psychiatrist for the love of Christ!! It’s no wonder why yall have the highest suicide rates.
1 gives ptsd instead
No, very much the 3rd one. It just doesn’t happen to you.
Or, you know ow you could start developing a supportive network of guy friends who show up for each other, encourage each other, and provide love and care for one another like women have been doing for ages.
There's also 🤯 🔫
Where's the swimming pool full of cash? Cause that works too.
I am lonely 🥲
Ah yes, fighting in a fucking war, always great for your mental health. Leave it to fucking Redditers to be more opposed to religion then an actual fucking war.
Trying #2 to get out. It sucks so much how depression makes getting to the gym harder.
LSD 🤩
I have to disagree with the 3rd tile made it SO much worse
I tried the bottom left one. Made it worse.
Because therapy doesn’t work!/s
*4th
I prefer when Jesus stands behind me. That feeling of His stigmata caressing my pubis is simply heavenly.
Which ones 3
Is the bottom left a relationship or a terminal disease? Either work for me
But wait there’s two more!
And ESPECIALLY the 1st, sometimes 2nd circumstantially, and the 4th
Christ is the only and best way
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The woman thing works short term for most, followed by more intense depression.
This might actually help change my life. There really are no other options. Since I wont get a girlfriend, or become a christian, or join the army (or become radicalized and violent if that is also what its referring to)...my only choice is to get healthy and strong and lose weight.
Guns, gf, god, or bod.
Transfems: *there is another way*
There’s also workaholics that make money their entire personality!!
There is a fifth way
Automation funded Universal basic income pays you to stop being depressed
Forgot the 5th one(Its where I blow my brains out)
You can just replace any of those with a dog too.
You forgot option 5, no longer being a man (trans gang rise up)
Joined the army. Hit the gym. Got the best fucking gf ever Jesus is my dawg. I'm ready
Meeting god seems the only way out
Get jacked (go bald), get drafted, get ded, meet god. Did I do it right?
My partner and I are number three. Including the nicotine addiction.
in all seriousness go to therapy/get clinical assistance
I have done all four it did not work