Bad Depression

Jookia · Post by **Jookia** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:30 pm

For the past month I've realized that everything has been done before and nothing is not done.
I can't make an impact on the world.

There's no meaning to life.

How do I get out of this snake-eating-tail cycle of depression?

loki1985 · Post by **loki1985** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:34 pm

let me present my patented method:

- cartoons
- whiskey coke
- coke
- hookers

repeat and successively higher the dosage. can get a tad expensive tho.

nah, to be serious: spend time with friends (or make new friends if nobody is available), go to the city, have some fun.
after some time, good ideas should appear by themselves....

Ion Dune · Post by **Ion Dune** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:30 pm

Do you need to make an impact on the world to find meaning in your life?

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:31 pm

yeap, sometimes you should learn to relax, go to the city, walk around, see hot chicks

, and get back to work only when you're ready.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:44 pm

My favourite quote from Hermann Hesse is:

We demand that life must have a meaning - but it has just has exactly as much meaning as we ourselves are able to give to it.

(Original: Wir verlangen, das Leben müsse einen Sinn haben - aber es hat nur ganz genau so viel Sinn, als wir selber ihm zu geben imstande sind.)

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:04 pm

No one has swum the english channel in a chicken suit.

If you wanted to invent the first flying machine you're certainly a few hundred years too late

But with game design and other creative arts, surely each new work is unique and never done before!

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:47 pm

Ah yes Jookia, I know how you feel. As people have recommended, take a walk around, look at the scenery, enjoy life, watch how other people evolve their ideas, and your own ideas will come. I can attest to this fact 100%.

If you're still looking to make an impact, then what's stopping you from popping open the bug tracker for Irrlicht and working on some bugs, or working on your own new features. As long as that provides fun for you.

MasterM · Post by **MasterM** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:59 am

there is lots of things that undone, for example invisibilitati...its still on the todo list sooooooo

Dorth · Post by **Dorth** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:01 am

And, if all else fails, have kids! That's a indirect way to have an impact, 'cuz you only need one of your descendant somewhere sometime to have an impact for you to have had any ^^

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:51 am

yah, since I got laid off when all my company's work was sent to the Phillipines, I've been in a down... I intended to spend full time working on finishing up my XNA game and getting it selling to start getting my own income, but most of the time I dont have the motivation to sit here and program so I just goof off. I'm 2 months behind my schedule now

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:27 am

well i only read a couple of posts in, but my answer would be to use this realization for what it really should be. Freedom. Realizing that in all reality your life is not going to make or break the rest of the world because in general, what happens to humanity isnt really mystical and important as others would have you believe. Now I'm not saying go all Hitler and disregard humanity in general because that would not only make everyone elses life miserable but yours as well, but instead realize that you can live your life with out anyone else expectations except for yours an that you are now free to do with your life as you please because the rest of society is no longer dependent on you.

yamashi · Post by **yamashi** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:49 pm

Dude I really don't know what to tell you...
I ve never had this kind of problems cuz I am AWESOME ! What up !

See what I did above (about 21px higher) that's the way to go, I was like you when I was considered a "genius" because people expected so much of me that I didn't do anything but work and some day I made friends ( I was 16 when I had my first friends, sad isn't it

), life became all better and that's when I understood that I don't care if I am the best or not. There is nothing like having a good time with friends and latter when you become a little more sociable your gf or bf whatever you are. It doesn't mean that you have to stop doing what you are doing, but you have to relax ^^ or you will be depressed all your life and you will never be happy.
Life is short, don't take it seriously because either way, you won't survive :p

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:14 pm

pssh what are you talking about, I fully intend on getting out of life alive

GameDude · Post by **GameDude** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:57 am

I kinda feel the same way, but things seem to be picking up for now, so I am just going with the flow. Just talk a walk, get your head cleared, things will come.

Mel · Post by **Mel** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:13 am

Start by a small change in your attitude and raise your selfsteem. I don't know the exact details, but depression becomes normally because of low selfsteem.

Or else. Have kids. Maybe you don't get it in the first time, but i bet the time spent will be fun.

Just Joking. Give yourself a damn already