Want to play video games
Feel too fatigued to enjoy them
Can't concentrate and stay focussed
Suddenly I am really bad at playing for some reason
Keep losing
My only alternatives are browsing this board and Youtube, which both are miserable. Playing video games was more fun.
How do I enjoy video games again?
start reading books
Time to find new hobbies like kpop!
My only alternatives are browsing this board and Youtube, which both are miserable.
I feel ya
How do I enjoy video games again?
Step away from it
Get a new hobby
Work out
Focus on improving your career
etc.
Basically the answer is to be productive in other things. When I was unemployed, I found it difficult to enjoy games. That changed when I finally got a job and felt productive again. Vidya was enjoyable again because I didn't feel like I was wasting away. That was years ago though and my life is extremely different now. Nowadays, I'm able to suppress my depression by making videos. I would regularly have periods where I would completely check out for a week or so and just do nothing. That hasn't happened in months because I spend so much of my free time just making videos. The honest to god answer is to just feel productive anon.
Play a game from a genre you don't usually play. Sometimes playing the same sort of games gets boring, I recently tried some 2d souls like games and I'm enjoying them more than some AAA games I've played.
Get a job. Exercise. Socialize. Then try playing again.
Been like you for the last few years, anon. What helped me was making a smaller backlog out of my whole library and asking other people what to play, either friends or even here on Anon Babble, and focusing just on that game until I've finished it
Ignore any multiplayer, not story driven game for now, play at easier difficulties if you need to, and once you're done make a new backlog thread or post in an already existing one asking for another suggestion, while also saying what you just finished playing, what you liked about it and what you didn't like.
I can't tell you for sure that eventually you'll be able to do it by yourself, that's completely up to you, but for me this was a small challenge that helped me a lot
Play some games
fix your real life problems even though im not taking my own advice.
accept that it's ok to play on normal
accept that I don't have to do every side content
achieve nirvana and true clarity
suddenly video games are fun again
play more than I've done in years
enjoy them more than I've done in years
branch out to genres I rarely play etc
it can happen to you too, just accept that you're growing older and that being a tryhard on hardest difficulty and 100% everything isn't fun anymore, and a new casual fun will be found instead
find a different hobby or do something productive instead
playing games won't fix your mental health if it's as bad as you claim it to be
also get help
This, OP. Listen to true K-Pop and gain an instant moral boost to negate your depression for long enough to boot up a game.
youtube.com
This unironically works.
I do the same even though I don't give a shit about communism/fascism. It's probably because those songs are designed to inspire you
no
Exactly. I honestly despise communism, but the communists everywhere made some amazing jams. Their music is so powerful, inspiring you not to lose hope.
youtube.com
Get a hobby.
True.
Pull your ethernet cable.
I keep doing the same thing without changing and it's making me miserable!
Better continue doing the same thing without changing!
OP...
went cycling and gym on the morning
should paint my porch but the weather is not good for that
nothing to play
wasting time is suffering
We have this thread every day OP, are you not paying attention?
You need a second hobby, so you don't play games all day every day.
just smoke a fat blunt, vidya along with any other hobbies will be feel like bliss while hhhh
competitive games are depressing because you realize after a while that you should be getting paid for that kind of effort.
just put a bandaid on it bro, so what if it stops working the moment you stop using, better cut your dick off and troon out while you're at it, that'll totally solve your depression
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try playing solo games or co-op stuff
I hate to make a genuine post in a place like this but I sometimes feel like that and something about the camaraderie of struggling with other people to overcome an obstacle is genuinely rewarding, especially if you try to act sort of selflessly in service of the cause
i.e. stuff like Darktide, Helldivers, Starship Troopers, Insurgency Sandstorm co-op, Risk of Rain, even Mon Hun Rise or World. it's really satisfying, for example, to play a chorus zealot in Darktide because the moment someone is in trouble you can basically get a free time out to help recover
You have depression, seek psychiatric help from a professional, not a bucket of crabs
Just don't play retard. Just don't play. Why is this so difficult to realize? if you don't want to do something then just don't do it. Video games are not even essential for life. In fact, just kill yourself faggot. Literally waste of space and oxygen.
You need to be productive in some way. Either at work or in a hobby
You grew up .stop playing video games and be a responsible adult and go to chruch
nta but every therapist I've been to has given up on me because therapy requires cooperation and for you to want to change but none of them could actually help me find a reason to want to change or to do anything at all instead of just wasting away and waiting for death
That's pretty much your schizoid personality disorder talking, you never figured out that you have to fake a normal personality in order to function or accept a wasting death.
Fuck off Christcultist
Fuck off therapy libtard
play with your pp to video game characters
i go for a walk in the woods when i feel like this. no music needed, just enjoy the sights and sounds of the forest for a few hours.
Not an Amerimutt. Never been to therapy.
Both of you faggots shut up and study Quran. All the answers you seek are in there.
I've been doing my best to try and fake it but I just can't motivate myself or see the point in doing anything, I pretty much despise life on a fundamental level and can't think of where I'd even start to change anything
you should set goals for yourself. like, in 5 years i want to buy a house, in 10 years i want to have kids. then you can build a plan around that and have something that you're working towards. it's simple but it's helped me a lot.
First, you need to get medicated for your depression. That's not cynicism, It isn't a willpower issue, you're suffering a neurochemical imbalance that's suppressing your reward circuit by reducing your sensitivity to serotonin and dopamine, and with it, any motivation you could summon to perform any task, including having fun with video games. Unironically, if your depression is affecting your enjoyment of video games, it's really fucking bad, and it will get worse.
I'll repeat, see a fucking doctor. ASAP. Beyond that, there isn't any real advice that can be found on a video game forum.
It's hard to set goals for oneself if you can't find meaning or purpose in anything. Growing up I was only ever pushed by external motivations (conservative christian household, satisfying parents' expectations), I never had any goals or drive in my life of my own. I no longer have any faith and most of my family is dead so I more or less have no reason left to do anything anymore.
there is no meaning or purpose to life. life is what you make it. you can choose to enjoy it and build a good life or you can choose to waste it. do you really want to waste your life or do you want to build something you can be proud of before you die?
Find something new to focus on for a bit. Then come back to games again.
Wow, imagine wanting to be a good son and make your parents happy. What a sick and twisted thing to want. Quick, get on pharmaceuticals and see a female therapist for help.
do not take meds, there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.
jerk off
do coke, wait until the comedown and know what real depression feels like for the next 3hs
OP wants to escape his life for a bit and games aren’t working for him anymore. But he still wants that escape so he still plays.
Paranoid delusion is common to Cluster A's
I'm aware of that, but I can't think of anything I'd want to make out of my life because I pretty much always left all of my life decisions up to others. I genuinely couldn't even tell you anything about myself, things I like or dislike, and I struggle to form opinions or make even trivial decisions like what I'm going to have for dinner today without deferring to other people. I genuinely just do not have anything to drive me that would even let me make a choice.
pseudoscience for the overeducated.
Exercice
Review your diet
Go out
Build stuff
Videogames are fun but they are the last thing you really need when you are depressed.
why do you do that? you know you are capable of making decisions and forming thoughts on your own, right? posting in this thread is an example of you doing both of those things. you've created an imaginary barrier in your mind which stops you from doing those things. you can't live your life on the decisions of others, everyone only wants what's best for themselves and you'll always be an afterthought. this isn't good for you. go try something new today that has nothing to do with anyone else and break this dependent behavior.
Yeah that's what OP needs, more dopamine flooding. Retard.
Boomer gamer here. You're failing or procrastinating in some other area of your life, and the guilt and subconcious pressure of that percieved ticking clock has caused your brain to subconciously view video games as a waste of time that you're doing instead of being productive, and sucked all of the fun out of it. Take a break from hardcore gaming and work on yourself. You don't need to give it up all together, but play more casually for a while so that it's like a treat after a day well spent. You know what you have to do. Once you've unfucked whatever part of your life is nagging at the back of your brain, you'll be cured.
I also recommend taking up running. Google couch to 5k.
why do you do that?
Because I have no real sense of a personal identity, so I just go along with what other people decide. On my own, I basically wouldn't have any way to decide anything for myself other than just picking at random.
Swimming or riding is better than running, less wear on the cartilage, take those up instead, you'll thank me later when you're not suffering arthritis because you ground your cartilage to dust running.
I was operating under the assumption that OP was too stupid or pathetic to find access to bike or body of water.
Depression isn't real; it's just something big pharma invented to sell mind control pills.
Humans are meant to run. Just don't run on concrete.
is that really what you think? unless you are actually retarded (you're not) it's just not true. you are perfectly capable of making your own decisions you're just afraid of allowing yourself to. what is stopping you from going out and doing something you've never done before? i know for a fact that you're able to think of something, you probably did it subconsciously while reading that. so what is actually stopping you?
Don't try anon. He has already abdicated any sense of responsibility for himself and his problems.
If your female friend got injured comatose from fighting aliens and her boob popped out, would you jerk off over her?
I stopped NEETing, moved out my parents house, been working an OK job (restaurant, but pays pretty damn well for low skill labor), just finished my first year at a CC. Feel more miserable than ever. Only time I feel OK is when I work in my garden but you can only do that so much each day.
I feel so goddamn hopeless now. At least when I was NEETing there was the hopium of "if I actually lived I could be happy".
Sleep.
Browse this hole.
Wither.
Decisions are driven by previous experience, personality traits, tastes, preferences, etc, and those are so underdeveloped in my case that having to make any kind of decision just paralyzes me.
I'm well aware I probably fucked up horribly at some point in my life that led to a spiral that made me into what I am today, I just have no idea where I'd even start to fix anything and therapists haven't been able to help me either.
you are in control of your life. you are capable of making decisions on your own. the only thing stopping you is yourself. stop being a pussy and blaming your problems on something else. you are a human with free will like anyone else. absolutely nothing is stopping you from excercising it. seriously stop making excuses. go do something to make your life better rather than sitting on your ass saying you can't because of past trauma or whatever other bullshit. i was so depressed in high school that i dropped out 3 times, but that has nothing to do with the decisions i make today. i do hard things because i know that i have to, and if i don't then my life will be worse. you need to do those hard things. i'll tell you one more time - go do something new today and break this pattern. nothing is stopping you.
I mean I already do things out of a sense of obligation, like working out, or when I was getting my degree, I'm just incapable of actually caring about them or finding any joy and fulfillment out of them. It's not like I'm completely unsuccessful in life, I just feel completely empty and miserable,
subconciously
pseudoscience
Get off Anon Babble and find a new hobby. Its only going to get worst if you stay here or any social media substitute.
being a yesman to boomers is... le good
Get to a healthy weight
Do both cardio and weight exercises
Get good sleep
Pick up a creative hobby
Read more books
Go outside for walks