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⌈ Secret Post #2992 ⌋

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[Grand Theft Auto 5]

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[Zipang]

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[Ricky Gervais]

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[Tokyo Babylon/X1999]

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[Dexter]

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[The Mentalist]

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[The Truth - Terry Pratchett]

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

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[Douglas Adams]

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[Black Books]

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[Lucky Star]

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[Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey]

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[Ga-In, Brown Eyed Girls]

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[Oz the Great and Powerful]

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[Colin Baker]

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[9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors]

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[Yatterman Night]

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[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]

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[Blake's 7]

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[Game Grumps]

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[Alexis Denisof]

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So make your own belief! Believe in yourself, believe in trying to make the world a better place one smile at a time, idk.

Life is what you make of it, and the meaning of life is whatever you choose it to be. A wonderful sequence of experiences, where you can meet all sorts of cool people and do all sorts of exciting stuff? Why not?

NAYRT

I'm sure you didn't mean this in a patronizing way, but as someone with depressive and anxiety disorders who'd LOVE to do those things if my illness didn't sabotage my every attempt, that's how you come across tbh.

It's really not that simple for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons.

"Make your own belief!" and "Life is what you make it!" are the same sort of unhelpful platitudes as "Pull yourself together!" If you can explain to a depressive or anxious person HOW they're supposed to do those things when they can barely hold their minds together, then maybe that might be more helpful to them.

Yeah. Pretty much this. How can yyou believe in something when you don't know how to believe in the first place. I want to believe in something, but I do not know how. I can't even really remember what I did used to believe in to start with.

da

The feeling you describe does sound a bit like depression there OP. It might be a good idea to have a chat with someone about it. Even if it does turn out to be just a temporary ennui or perhaps a manifestation of stress caused by other things going on in your life right now, talking to someone about it might help anyway.

The best description I ever heard of depression was -- and I'm paraphrasing because I have no idea where the original quote comes from -- it's like trying to peel a potato with another potato. It doesn't work, it just makes you frustrated and upset. And then someone comes along and says "Well why don't you just use a peeler?" and they hand you another potato.

I get why people like the ayrt think saying things like that are helpful and motivating, but when you literally don't know how to feel much of anything anymore, be it excitement or hope or ambition, then remarks like that feel like a destination you haven't been given a map for. Yes, I'm sure they exist and I'm sure people find their way there, but some of us need more than just vague "well it's that way somewhere, I'm sure you'll get there eventually."

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