Games for people with depression

[Theodora]

When have I complained of criticism? Just criticise away.

It is inherent in perceiving talking about a subtype of men, USED AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW VARIANT PEOPLE ARE, as an insult against men in general. You evidently dislike incels aplenty but seem unwilling to confront the traits that come together to make them. Plenty of incels would be fine people if they could just undo the emotional lockdown that's festered into a pathological hate of their unattainable perceived right.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

P. D. Ouspensky

orthodox materialism propaganda slightly above

 

[Ranselknulf]

 

[Heroic Liberator]

P. D. Ouspensky

orthodox materialism propaganda slightly above

I also enjoy the words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. The horror!

 

[Burning Bridges]

You evidently dislike incels aplenty but seem unwilling to confront the traits that come together to make them.

"Unwilling to confront" which traits?

 

[Grauken]

P. D. Ouspensky

orthodox materialism propaganda slightly above

I also enjoy the words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. The horror!

Insight can hide in strange places

 

[Squid]

The theory is only that many such people have fled into action and it blocked out their brooding. Of course there are many other factors but my theory is that many of those people were extremely depressed whenever they had nothing to do, and had to drink/smoke relentlessly.

It just means being tougher on yourself and hopefully find out that it isn't so tough afterall. It means living instead of just vegetating.

I see your point. Action is always going to be better than inaction especially when it comes to anything mental health wise. But that won't solve the issue. You can go to work in a factory or warehouse and feel fine. Get home, sit down after an hour or so with nothing to do and bam, it all comes back. Exercise apparently reduces somewhere around 46% of stress or some shit which means it effectively reduces a lot of what you're thinking about. Your body is dedicating blood, energy, and oxygen to muscles now. You're distracted. And the results can really help a person but it may not always solve the issue that still lies in waiting.

A person with social anxiety will be far better off if they can manage to keep talking to people and finding positive experiences in it. Will it solve the social anxiety? Not necessarily, but it might.

Sitting around will never be the answer unless the answer you want is to passively wait while achieving nothing. But I'm not convinced action will cure/solve the issues. It more than likely will help, especially if those actions led to desirable results. We still need downtime where we aren't being productive and to have that time be free of ailments of the mind would be a blessing.

 

[Maculo]

Men,

I suffer from major depression but I like to play video games. What are some games that will cater to my depressive sensibilities while making me feel like life isn't so worthless after all?

Honestly, a good-path, wisdom/intelligence/charisma playthrough of Planescape Torment always cheered me up. For me, it had a lot of high moments.

Spoiler

Forgiving Morte, helping Dak'kon through his crisis of faith, using belief to heal the only tree, telling Trias to seek forgiveness, finding a surviving shard of Ravel, giving peace to the Chaotic-Evil incarnation through merger, and answering back the question to the Transcendent One. Undoing the harm of prior incarnations and breaking the cycle.

The sad part is that I can think of few games that ever gave me that same consistency of "fuck yeah" moments.

 

[Sreggin Etah I]

I am a Basement Dweller and i have this problem too,depression mixed with severe social anxiety,i can't barely leave my house.I also can't enjoy games or anything the way i used to.i can't concentrate on anything because i overthink about everything.i am also obese,never had a girlfriend,never had sex,never had a job,22 years old,tried suicide one time.

Whenever you feel bad about yourself,remember that i exist.

 

[Grauken]

I am a Basement Dweller and i have this problem too,depression mixed with severe social anxiety,i can't barely leave my house.I also can't enjoy games or anything the way i used to.i can't concentrate on anything because i overthink about everything.i am also obese,never had a girlfriend,never had sex,never had a job,22 years old,tried suicide one time.

Whenever you feel bad about yourself,remember that i exist.

You seem pretty generic for a basement dweller. Don't you have a USP so that we can remember you easier?

 

[Verylittlefishes]

I am a Basement Dweller and i have this problem too,depression mixed with severe social anxiety,i can't barely leave my house.I also can't enjoy games or anything the way i used to.i can't concentrate on anything because i overthink about everything.i am also obese,never had a girlfriend,never had sex,never had a job,22 years old,tried suicide one time.

Whenever you feel bad about yourself,remember that i exist.

Could you create the incline RPG for us?

 

[Sreggin Etah I]

I am a Basement Dweller and i have this problem too,depression mixed with severe social anxiety,i can't barely leave my house.I also can't enjoy games or anything the way i used to.i can't concentrate on anything because i overthink about everything.i am also obese,never had a girlfriend,never had sex,never had a job,22 years old,tried suicide one time.

Whenever you feel bad about yourself,remember that i exist.

You seem pretty generic for a basement dweller. Don't you have USP so that we can remember you easier?

I'm into scat porn.

 

[Sreggin Etah I]

I am a Basement Dweller and i have this problem too,depression mixed with severe social anxiety,i can't barely leave my house.I also can't enjoy games or anything the way i used to.i can't concentrate on anything because i overthink about everything.i am also obese,never had a girlfriend,never had sex,never had a job,22 years old,tried suicide one time.

Whenever you feel bad about yourself,remember that i exist.

Could you create the incline RPG for us?

it's already been made.

 

[cretin]

As previously mentioned, faking depression isn't solely about gibs. It's also about justifying one's lack of ambition, work ethic and what have you. Much easier to cry about depression than to admit to yourself and others that you are a lazy piece of shit.

Specifically, I think you can even fake it to yourself. There is a certain point where people can actually screw over themselves and become convinced that they are completely incapacitated, that the rest of humanity has an unfair advantage. Depression is one, but not the only source of such quitting. Most people do that for example with mathematics (now many times you hear people claim they can't even do basic math because they are "too dumb", when in fact they are just too lazy since when it came up in 5th grade and have lived in a perfect state of denial since then).

I also have to think of the first time we did a 5,000m run in school when I saw half the people standing and gasping after 400m. They could have walked on, which would have gotten them at least half as fast closer to the target, but they preferred to stand in groups and claim they can't do no more.

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Good advice on all these topics exist. If you're serious about greatness, there are patterns you can copy. Just look at the scores of people who are successful at whatever you want to do. Copy them. But none of these patterns resonate. You don't see a pattern and bounce into action. That's the tip-off.

The next time you hear someone say that eating healthy is expensive, ask if they have googled "eat healthy on a budget". There are templates, sometimes even specific to your local supermarket chain. If they say math class at their community college is hard, ask if they've searched YouTube for tutorials. There are dozens of lecture formats, highly reviewed, often by some of the best educators in the world, for free. The right patterns are literally 5 seconds of clear thinking away from them, and they haven't even looked. Because they're full of shit. Can't even be fucked to do basic strategizing about their problems. Obviously, because their problems aren't really problems. Once again, it's a feature, not a bug.

Just having no motivation would be a bug. When it becomes a feature is when people pretend they have motivation but everything is complicated and insoluble. What they really want is for you to accept this narrative. That's why they're complaining to you. They want your buy-in. They want you to agree to treat them as whole, mature, and conscientious adults, while simultaneously remaining lazy, regressive, and ineffectual.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Maybe the real depression is all the friends we made along the way?

 

[dehimos]

Our depression is our lives. We've all been raised on videogames to believe that one day we'd all be nihilist outlaws, gods of war and pokémon champions, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

 

[Grauken]

I wanted to be a dragon. But instead I became a Codexer.

Close enough, you spit a lot of bile to defend yourself, you're living in a cave, and will die a fat, lonely creature with the rest of humanity thinking you're a monster

 

[Verylittlefishes]

I wanted to be a dragon. But instead I became a Codexer.

Close enough, you spit a lot of bile to defend yourself, you're living in a cave, and will die a fat, lonely creature with the rest of humanity thinking you're a monster

but dragons have money

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I wanted to be a dragon. But instead I became a Codexer.

Close enough, you spit a lot of bile to defend yourself, you're living in a cave, and will die a fat, lonely creature with the rest of humanity thinking you're a monster

but dragons have money

We hoard brofists instead.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

I wanted to be a dragon. But instead I became a Codexer.

Close enough, you spit a lot of bile to defend yourself, you're living in a cave, and will die a fat, lonely creature with the rest of humanity thinking you're a monster

but dragons have money

We hoard brofists instead.

this is me trying to imagine post-coronavirus deserted world where surviving Codexers are living in the commune, constantly playing tabletops and larps and literally have brofists for money.

 

[Ba'al]

Couple of months back when I was stressed out of my fucking mind, I found great solace in playing Knytt Underground. It's a great game with fantastic, relaxing atmosphere (mostly due to sound design and visuals). One of the few games worth playing from the 2D-indie-showelware era.

Also lol @ people suggesting doing 'something productive instead'. That's what I'm trying. For quite a few years now, I lacked any pleasure/urge to play games/watch movies/do just about anything (with rare exceptions as described above). So I've decided to spend my free time on stuff I've always wanted to do. Problem is, I end up delaying it, and when finally getting to it, I just stare at the screen with everything else rushing through my head, not achieving shit. I then think to myself "maybe this isn't really my passion" and give up, only to repeat the cycle again in a few months. I think that the main reason I feel like shit is because I'm unable to do anything but the bare minimum. It seems that for all assignments I get, I have to wait until it's almost too late so that my panic mode activates, allowing me to actually do any work. It pains me to cancel plans with my friends, claiming I have shit to do, only to do nothing at all. And when they ask me afterwards how much time I actually spent on doing the work, I just don't know what to tell them. On the outside it really does look like I'm just a lazy piece of shit.

 

[RolePlayer]

When did rpgcodex turn into neogaf? This topic/thread is fucking pathetic.

 

[samuraigaiden]

Honestly, I know what is that depression, I am that kind of a person that has been always exposed to a lot of stress and anxiety. I have had some really terrible things happening in my family, especially back when I was a kid, later when I went to the university, sometimes, I had no money to eat. I do not understand why all that has happened to me, however after I graduated from the university, I suffered of depression for a lot of time actually. However, after I discovered this magical product red vein kratom, I forgot what is depression. And trust me, there are no video games for depression.

What the heck is that? Does it get you high? Do you smoke it or drink it?

 

[Bigg Boss]

Honestly, I know what is that depression, I am that kind of a person that has been always exposed to a lot of stress and anxiety. I have had some really terrible things happening in my family, especially back when I was a kid, later when I went to the university, sometimes, I had no money to eat. I do not understand why all that has happened to me, however after I graduated from the university, I suffered of depression for a lot of time actually. However, after I discovered this magical product red vein kratom, I forgot what is depression. And trust me, there are no video games for depression.

What the heck is that? Does it get you high? Do you smoke it or drink it?

It can be taken in capsule form. It can be used for pain relief and anxiety. It can also be habit forming.

 

[Ash]

Depression Cures:

-No particular games except good games. Escapism is healthy in moderation; don't neglect your responsibilities.
-Get your ass to the gym. This helps with depression a lot. No excuses.
-Eliminate the problem/s causing your depression, if possible/reasonable.
-Mind over matter (if possible/reasonable).
-Get laid (if possible).
-Certain drugs can help.