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This is so true. I've been struggling with this lately, my goals are really lofty and every day I feel like I instantly fail in my daily task to achieve them. A year ago I used the site and app called SuperBetter that is designed to help with over coming depression, anxiety, achieving goals etc by using the analogy that you are a super hero and doing things like getting out of bed is defeating your villian. I completely forgot about it and your comment reminded me of it.

If you haven't already, watch this TED talk: Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life. It should be called "the game that can make you want 10 extra years of life." Then you can find SuperBetter right here.

It helped me crawl out of my pit of grad school misery, when giving up on everything seemed like the best idea ever. There really are small things you can do (small enough for a depressed person) to train yourself to feel better.

Hi. Seems as though you are clumping together a lot of tough challenges; while compounding your stress and despair further by imagining today's distress goes on forever into the future.

Right now - you started using alcohol and weed very young and it has done some damage to your body. If this was the only thing you were dealing with - it'd be a lot for anyone. But it isn't the only thing you are dealing with. Because you started so young, the only friends and fun that you know are also deeply connected to drugs and alcohol. If you live in the US - you and your friends are in the minority; most people drink/use less than once a month.

Right now - you are socially isolated, and so you feel bored and alone. You are also facing a challenge as tough as an ultra-marathon or free-climbing a cliff. There are people who embrace those challenges and build singularly interesting lives out of them. Go after that singularly interesting life - take this hard time you are having seriously, while understanding that it is temporary.

Are you a gamer? try checking out https://www.superbetter.com/ for the game and for a different kind of on-line support

Get some kind of real life social support - if you don't have friends whose lives don't revolve around getting high now, that really does suck for you.... join something, anything you can think of for social contact... new friends come, eventually - meanwhile, having anyone who is not using and who is spending time with you, helps. Also, your confidence in your ability to create a good life is going to grow in ways you cannot yet imagine just by virtue of your ability to cope, in a healthy way, with the pain you feel now.

What do you do for work or school? Also; check out r/stopdrinking - it has more users and generally provides a broader range of support than I see pop up in this sub

Play Games! A great game to play for personal betterment is Superbetter. Four key areas of self betterment are physical, mental, emotional, social. she also gives an example of how to improve each area in her presentation.

I'm turning 27 next month. I still have my parents and don't have a job despite having a BA, and just everything is coming up crap lately. And I'm not going to say that I'm completely out of the depression hole. That'd be a complete lie. But there are definitely things worth living for besides Pokemon.

There's fresh air, art, one good friend, one good family member, anyone who might depend upon you, new opportunities, recycling old opportunities, finding new ways to make yourself smile (I'm surprised to find that there are still new ways to do this!), new places to be, new perspectives to be had, different things, same things, better things, good things, great things, many things.

Let me share a site that I use now that's been helping me. Maybe you've heard of it, maybe not, but it's a different way at tackling our own serious problems. Give it a shot. It's called SuperBetter.

well, the last time i was in an educational slump, i dropped out and worked shitty jobs for 11 years. would not recommend.

i'm only in my second term at WGU, so i don't have much school-specific advice to offer. i will say i've found i've had to spend more time this term creating a study plan for courses (as opposed to the first term, where i was just getting shit done like crazy).

BUT

i can tell you that superbetter (https://www.superbetter.com) is something that helped me deal with depression and anxiety when i moved and changed jobs. there's nothing ground breaking in the skills it teaches you (set achievable goals, identify obstacles, have something to look forward to, enlist allies, etc.) but the gamified aspect makes it a little more enticing to do the work.

(if you need an ally, PM me!)

Rip off the bandaid man. Here is the link to delete your account. No one ever laid on their deathbed and thought "I wish I had played more World of Warcraft". I do bet a few people have wished they drank less and tried more, you don't have to be that guy. Do it, no excuses, delete that shit and start taking the ten thousand little steps its going to take to be the person you want to be.

Edit- here if you want to play games and get better try this game - https://www.superbetter.com/

It is a "game" where you get points for doing certain activities that are supposed to help with mental health. I believe it is only for iPhone. You can learn more on their site: https://www.superbetter.com/

Oh! Oh! I have something for this!

There’s a wonderful researcher named Jane McGonigal whose made video games and health her focus. She’s written several books about gamifying your life for positive results, and discusses the benefits of playing them and how to employ techniques taught in video games to improve your life and overcome obstacles.

Here’s her TED Talk

When I saw this, I decided to read her book SuperBetter. She devised this game/technique system after suffering with the after affects of a concussion! It even comes with a little app.

I still use a lot of of these processes, and they really help me. Maybe they could help you, too. :)

There's a site and app out there called Superbetter (and the creator also has a book by the same name) that helps you gamefy anything you want to get better at, whether it's improving your depression, losing weight, learning a language, overcoming social anxiety, whatever you've been wanting to do. But again, the hardest part is disciplining yourself to go to the site and do the "quests" every day. But the idea is that by giving you baby steps towards your goal every day, you slowly become stronger and more resilient and before you know it, you turn around and there are a ten thousand baby steps behind you.

I heard about something similar on a Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal, who invented a game to help her recover from a head injury. She calls it Super Better. The talk is definitely worth a watch, if you haven't seen it already.

Have you tried therapy, yet? Not as a kid, but recently.

There's a newish gamification approach to getting healthier called SuperBetter that might be a fun way to start yourself on the right path.

Do you need to be really sneaky with yourself or are you better when you're scientific about things?

How do you respond to rewards?

I've always been an anxious person. That being said, it did go into overdrive a couple months into the quitting process. It really felt out of the blue and was pretty unexpected. You're right, it felt like, hey shouldn't this have been happening earlier... Sometimes I would mistake it for PMS... I'd just get these surges of emotions, sometimes panic, and I know all about the shakiness too.

I tried to see it as just another reaction my body was having in regards to quitting. Deep breaths, making sure I was getting enough exercise (weeks where I wasn't were the worst ones anxiety-wise), talking it out, going for a walk, taking a break for what I was doing. If possible, trying to do 3 things immediately that I love to replace negative thoughts. (I downloaded the app Superbetter. I haven't thoroughly checked it out, but it has given me some good hints...) Or another thing I sometimes do is try my absolute best to concentrate on something I love. I love to draw and can get lost drawing. Sometimes I would get anxious and start to draw, a while later I would get so immersed that I would forget about my attack. Also, I love coffee. With a passion. But I've found that I can't handle caffeine as well as when I was smoking. Maybe this is a factor.

I think it is a normal reaction that your body is having while getting better. But, if it gets overwhelming or is happening frequently, maybe seeing your doctor might be in order. I mean, I'm not a pro, this is just what helped me...

Have you tried the superbetter app?

It was designed by Jane McGonigal (see her 1st TED talk) to help with depression.

https://www.superbetter.com/

Also, if you're in college, reach out to campus health or your advisor - there are usually support services to help you.

You have to get out of your comfort zone. You are bored because you are boring, but posting in here (and perhaps some of your video game victories) demonstrates a capacity to be fun and have fun.

Check out: https://www.superbetter.com

No matter how old you are, diet and exercise will help. If you are under 18, joining a club or getting a job will definitely help. If you are over 18, check out the world of Psychedelics; without even taking any drugs, there is a lot to explore and friends to be made.

There's sort of an app like that already - https://www.superbetter.com/

I haven't tried it but this article about it was pretty interesting

https://blog.longreads.com/2015/09/17/how-to-get-superbetter/

What do you want your life to look like? You're dissatisfied, so which parts do you want to change? What do you like about yourself?

I've seen people talk about a vision board. This might be helpful for you - concretely envision what you want your life to look like. You want to live on your own? With roommates? You want to have a job? What kind of job? You want to go to school and graduate? You want to be healthy?

Congratulations! All of these are within reach! You're only 21. I'm going to say this: fuck motivation. Fuck will power. You need to build good habits.

I just finished chapter 2 of a book called SuperBetter. She also has a website https://www.superbetter.com. It's about gamifying obstacles in your life and become a "super better" person.

>SuperBetter is a tool created by game designers and backed by science. Playing SuperBetter helps build personal resilience: the ability to stay strong, motivated, and optimistic even in the face of difficult challenges. Resilience has a powerful effect on health—by boosting physical and emotional well-being. Resilience also helps you achieve your life goals—by strengthening your social support and increasing your stamina, willpower, and focus.

>Every aspect of the game is designed to harness the power of positive emotions and social connection to help you improve your life.

Have you heard of SuperBetter? I recently rented the book from the library and it gives you different ways to overcome anxiety, reinforce your social network, become more efficient, etc. by "living gamefully."

If you need an excuse to play games like Tetris, Bejeweled, and Patchwork, tell the person that you're overcoming something traumatic: Apparently there's scientific proof that these games help!

https://www.superbetter.com. I've been playing Superbetter for a few months now and it's really turning my life around.

For the uninitiated, SupperBetter is a technique that teaches you to use video game theory to improve your personal life. I think of it as a therapeutic application of /r/outside.

Since you asked, one of the many quests I've created for myself to help me get towards my Epic-win of leaving the world a better place than when I arrived, is to help create goodwill by complementing strangers.

So, stranger, let me just say that I thank you for posting your success story, and I'm glad to see you've inspired others.

For me, this is a matter of building good habits to make sure that I'm ready. I recently slipped into a 6 month dysthymia that snuck up on me, so I've put a lot of recent thought into this.

Habits I'm building:

• Stay on antidepressants or mood stabilizers (I can't use certain antidepressants) even if I am not currently in a depressive state.
• Because I am vulnerable to ruminative spirals (cycles of depressive thoughts that reinforce each other), keep up Cognitive-Behavioral techniques of examining the logical validity of each thought and check each one against reality (no, I am not unwanted by all because there are people who love me). This is useful for getting out of ruminative spirals once they start.
• Keep socially engaged. This one is tricky for me because I'm on the extreme end of introvertedness, but I use reminders on the SuperBetter app to help me keep in touch.

What habits does everyone else have?

I find some of the challenges they have there in HabitRPG inspiring. Other than that, the interface is too overloaded for me and full of distractions. I stopped checking in there (but continue building my habits just fine).

Then there's also superbetter.com. I stopped using that really quickly.

I have been using Coach.me when it was still called Lift and actually good. I don't find it helpful anymore.

I find it easier to just build my habits by doing them. A simple to do-list is just as helpful (if not more so) than those apps.

I'm impressed you were able to make this first step.

Have you heard SuperBetter? This person was struggling to recover her health and invented this online "game." Essentially you determine your own goals and steps for whatever area of your health you are trying to improve, then track it through this "game." You get all the neurological bumps from video games, but since its "played" in real life you can get positive real benefits. Your friends can also become "allys" to help you stay on course. I understand you may want to totally blanket out games of any sort, but I encourage you to look at this website. The women who developed it did a Ted Talk on it as well.

Either way, good luck to you! I hope you find some rewarding and productive hobbies.

a game like this . It really isn't much of a game but more of a fun way to achieve goals and finish tasks. It is set up like a game so you earn points and virtual rewards for reaching your goals you set for yourself. I have used this alot over the years to help keep me focused on finishing tasks while also being motivated to actually follow through with finishing. EDIT: It is called SuperBetter and I highly recommend it :)

Love love love Jane McGonigal.

Here you go, friend. Link

You can play the SuperBetter game here.

Having the awareness is a good first step. The rest relies on general learning principles, and basically takes some thinking. What makes you good at games? What have they taught you? How can you apply it to your life? Think about these questions when trying use your game knowledge. It's like how in old cartoons they ended the show by giving the moral of the story. It helps piece everything together. Also, check out sites like these that help people gamify their lives. https://www.superbetter.com/ https://habitrpg.com/static/front

I'm glad you're alright. I'm glad you're seeing someone. I've been going to someone pretty regularly for the last two years now, and it's really helped.

For day to day maintenance of your mental and physical wellbeing, I'd recommend SuperBetter. I haven't been through what you've been through, but having had my own rough patches, and having been in a pretty dark place about two years ago, all I can say is it helps. If you'd like, you can add me as a friend on it, under the name LePoissonMort.

1. SuperBetter is a website that you can use to set and track personal recovery goals for things like, for example, rebuilding your social life.
2. Meetup allows you to search in your local area for gatherings of similar individuals. There is a whole LGBT category there. Works best if you live near a major city.
3. Try to reconnect with some of those friends you lost touch with. You don't have to explain everything that happened, but some of them might be interested in trying to be friends with you again.
4. Think of the person you know the best right now, and try to become better friends with them. Spending more time with them will probably lead to meeting more of their friends, and some of them might be people you want to make your own friends. This has been my own most effective strategy so far, but I happen to be 5 to 10 years older than everyone in my main social circle (for reasons), and it feels weird sometimes.

my cousin and my co-worker both have MS, and your "friend" is a narcissistic moron.

There is this game to help deal with serious illness, I know that sounds weird, but it's pretty inspirational. https://www.superbetter.com/

Jane McGonigal is a game designer who got very ill, and this was a coping strategy. You can see her Ted talk about it here: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life

Good luck and I hope you stay healthy and that we find the cure.

SuperBetter is quite an interesting take on trying to get people to better themselves (mentally, physically, socially) by treating it pretty much as a video game.

You've got to really dedicate yourself to carry out the tasks they're asking of you. If that's manageable, I'd say it's a pretty good way to improve your overall health.

Any physical activity (hobbies included) to get your mind off thinking helps a lot.

But if you want to generally improve your mental health, the game of SuperBetter, which mixes real acts with the point system of video games, goes a long way in helping you improve.

If you want to become physically and mentally healthier, which is a big part of being self-reliant, have a look at SuperBetter, it's a part-life improving tool, part game. If you do everything the game asks of you, your body and your mind will be prepared for anything.

I don't mean to be a shill for this game but take a look at https://www.superbetter.com. It's a game that is based on challenges and achievements in your own life. It has helped me work on some of my loneliness issues.

And it could distract you for a week

https://www.superbetter.com/

Basically is a mental health “game” where you level up by performing various tasks. For example, I’m working on the mood power pack right now, and one of my tasks for today is to perform a self care act.

I'm sorry to hear you're struggling.

I remember that feeling when I lost a job that I had invested so much in. I tried to remember that the universe will sometimes close one door because there's something better and we were meant for more. It's been a tough 3 years but it's taken 2 more jobs in the same industry to wake up and realize I can be a lot happier (and wealthier) running my own business.

Keep going and you'll get through this and come out stronger in the end.

I'm glad you've reached out for help.

There's an app by Jane McGonigal that might help if you're stuck on your own - it's been designed with science for people struggling with depression https://www.superbetter.com/

She has a really good TED talk about it and why she designed it.

Also, what hobbies do you have?

Can you get outside for a walk and get into nature (weather permitting) or take a hot shower. What things have you done in the past that you enjoyed or gave you more energy?

PS Your kittens love you more than you know. Just keep taking baby steps, one day at a time and you'll get through this.

Meditation. Headspace app works for me but there's a lot of good ones or rely on YouTube or both. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Pema Chodron and Tara Brach are good choices. Mindfulness meditation specifically can help with the addition. There are apps that lock you out of social media for any period of time that you set.

There are apps that remind you to do something every hour or two hours. There's the Pomodoro technique (please Google).

https://www.superbetter.com/ gamifies self-improvement.

https://www.tinyhabits.com/ changed my life because it helps you create habits that ADHD peeps can accomplish easily.

I moved from my apartment of doom (noisy, dark, size of a closet) to a new one with light and a view and space. Changed my mood and is inspiring.

I use the techniques from flylady.net to build routines. Her website is hideous but the information is solid gold and free. She sells cleaning tools to fund website.

Part of flylady (it's fly for flying not the bugs) is to create daily routines for the morning and evening. She has recommended some and you add your own.

I keep my routine open on my kitchen counter. My routine includes new habits and regular stuff. I have ADHD that I can't medicate so my list weaves new and old routines in the order I want to do them. I never rely on my memory. So my morning routine is: drink lemon water, meditate, take medication, brush and floss (I just learned that it's better before eating so this is a newer habit), 15 minutes of motion, eat, shower, etc.

Don't do everything all at the same time. I just did a brain dump so you can research and plan.

Hi there!

Another strang stranger, trying to somehow deal with this weird situation we are all currently in while everything seems to be the same when go out for walks, buy groceries, etc. nothing really is cause you are for e.g. working from home all the time, maybe only working 40 % of your normal time currently, etc. and spending more time doing things like gardening, which you thought you would to when you are retired. So I guess everybody is struggling in their own way somehow and wanted to pick up on this app again - https://www.superbetter.com/ to somehow get through it but I'd really like a buddy to come up with new challenges to get oneself out of the house, trying to find joy again in life.

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Regards,

an orange cat

If you are looking for an external point based reward system, try:

• I Run U Run
• Super Better

Both are free. The latter was created by Jane McGonigal. You should look into her work if you are interested in assigning arbitrary ranks for unplanned work. Ultimately however, this kind of system fails, so it's not worth pursuing imo, but ymmv.

I might also suggest checking out SuperBetter, it's an app/website/community that helps folks overcome obstacles of all kinds. It's like a game, but a really good, collaborative one that makes you a better person.

I find this course offered by Yale really helpful. It begins with explaining the common misconceptions about what makes us happy, some thought patterns that are generally harmful for a positive life, then goes on to explain some of the worthy ideals to live by and how to incorporate them into our lives.

This game is proven to help reduce depression. Though I haven't played it myself, it seems the game is about using goal setting to improve in areas like positive emotions, relationship, finding a Purpose, improving physical and mental skills. It appears that if we choose goals that make use of something called our core character strengths, it can greatly enhance our lives. Choosing even a simple goal for ourselves, like learning to sing a song by next week, is rejuvenating in that it opens our eyes to the shear potency of our lives.

Hope you will see a professional as soon as possible and wish you all the best.

I listen to my "Have a Happy" playlist that I made on Spotify! (And yes, it has "Happy" by Pharrell Williams on it. I still like it! So sue me! Haha)

I also use "Powerups" that I learned from SuperBetter (which gamifys life and overcoming obstacles). And other Powerups I've created myself. Some of the Powerups I use:

• Chug a glass of water
• Put my fists in the air for 10 seconds
• Jumping jacks or pushups (once I can manage them)
• Pick a letter and find as many things in the room that start with that letter as I can. Or go through the alphabet and do it that way.
• Chose one thing in my peripheral vision to look at. Before I look, I think: "look at the filk-in-the-blank" then I intentionally look at it. Then I choose the next thing.
  
• Meditate. Even if it's only for one minute.
• Chose a short mantra or prayer line and repeat it a few times.
• Journal or do free association writing for 2-3 minutes.
• Brain dump, where I write out all the things that are worrying me, and/or all the things I need to do.
• Write down things I am grateful for
• Deep breathing (4-7-8. Inhale for a count of 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8)

:)

Ah man I had a feeling noise might be an issue too. This might not be appealing to you, may take a long time and I bet it is difficult, but if you’ll be bed bound for a few months it might be interesting to learn Braille. It would be fulfilling in terms of accomplishing tasks and would give you the opportunity to read some things that might be in your local library.

Not exactly a hobby but sounds like you would have plenty of time to get into meditation.

Edit to add: https://www.superbetter.com/ This is a app created by Jane McGonigal to help her heal and progress after a concussion. It’s not specific to concussions but allows you to turn your healing process into an rpg with tasks you set and work to achieve. It may not be useful at this stage but possibly as you start to regain more of your ability to handle sensory input. it might help with staying motivated and tracking progress you are making as you continue to recover. I’ve never used the game - just remembered hearing about it from a podcast or ted talk or something like that.

There was a TEED talk by the creator of SuperBetter a CBT based app/game. https://www.superbetter.com/ She's a game developer so she employed some things like quests, etc. I found it interesting for a week or two and then stopped using it. It did help me break big quests into smaller wins -- like taking a shower or organizing one drawer instead of saying "get ready" or "clean the whole apt". It offers ideas based on CBT too.

I hope this doesn't violate a rule, but maybe the superbetter app. As far as I know, it free, and I'm sure it's been suggested before, but it TED talk that goes along with it (worth watching) is about using a video game model to overcome obstacles in real life.

Of course this may only ameliorate the need for actual help, but hey it's a place to start.

The website Superbetter plays off this idea perfectly that we can use the whole idea of "leveling up" in areas of our real lives... like if you call a friend, you boost your social skill levels, by looking out the window for 10 seconds you boost empathy, by lifting weights you boost another "stat" of yours, and you keep "leveling up." It's interesting. The creator even did a TED talk on it. (Note that they advertise it as a game, but it's not actually a game, but really doing real-world tasks with gaming logic, if that makes sense)

You should check out this website: https://www.superbetter.com/ It's built on the thought that you can use game mechanics (achievements, goals, "level ups") to help achieve real life goals. It's worked for me with some tough things since I feel like you. I love gaming and achieving things in game, but I've always had a hard time doing the same irl.

While I don't hold your world view. I know it is an outlook held by many black and brown people. It sounds like you've had a rough life. I myself have my own trials and tribulations as well. I have found this that this app, which gameafise, I don't think thats a word, self-worth and healing helpful.

https://www.superbetter.com/

Here is a link of an interview of its creator.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/3k4l93/jre_live_with_jane_mcgonigal_now_superbetter/?ref=readnext_5

I try and remember this quote when I'm frustrated with the current hegemonic system and race relations, "If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present." -Franz Boas"

Good luck and best wishes.

One awesome resource I've come across recently is SuperBetter - essentially a game for self-improvement, either structured or self-guided. It can be a good system for mini-rewards when you do things that are "good for you", rather than just waiting for those academic and professional achievements as a reward.

Hope you see this. You should check out SuperBetter - https://www.superbetter.com/ - it was created by a woman named Jane McGonigal after she suffered a concussion and was having a very hard time with recovery in many of the same ways you are describing. It may sound cheesy, but it has worked for a lot of people trying to recover from all sorts of injuries.

Ive been there. It gets better. Take a look at this site, its helped me quite a bit: https://www.superbetter.com/ It gamifies building personal resliliance. Between that and meds life is much better. I still struggle some days. MMO's helped me too quite a lot.

On a production level, you have some serious competition with Super better https://www.superbetter.com/. I've used Super Better to help me battle depression, lose weight, and improve my grades in college. It's really nice.

Don't know if this will help, because depending how bad you are, anything anyone can say sounds like "oh, just cheer up", which is the very problem. I can only offer something marginally better than "oh, just cheer up", but it matches what you asked for:

1. Put the past behind you.
2. Was joining the Marines something you always thought about trying? Then great - quit being a zombie and join. But if "join the Marines" is in lieu of anything else to live for, then you may be in all-or-nothing thinking mode.
3. Helping others is a good way to get back in touch with life. If you have time on your hands, volunteer at something. The animal shelter needs people to visit the pets, for instance.
4. If you are serious about the Marines, ya bettah start doin' those pushups, pal. Fitness lifts the spirits, even just going for a walk helps.
5. Set micro goals for yourself. Check out the game of Super Better. https://www.superbetter.com/

Maybe consider tracking your progress? I find that making progress is the thing that keeps be coming back to the work. Or, look into apps like Superbetter; it's designed specifically to add a game layer to almost anything in your life.

i don't know of a sub, but i heard about this project which is similar to what you described, there are android and iOS apps, as well, i haven't tried it so i can't say if it's any good, but the concept is intriguing

I think there is an app similar to this: https://www.superbetter.com/

I have never tried it cuz I'm droid user, and it's only on iphone but i heard about it by Jane McConigal a Ted Talk frequent spoker.

You might like Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken. She's working on SuperBetter, a life-gamification site.

Hi Twinkiezz,

I (m26) also suffer from lifelong depression and I have also noticed that the more depressed I am, the more I tend to cope by turning to sex or sexual activities (like masturbation and watching pornography). At one point it developed into a dependance and became a major problem, severely interfering with my life. I was essentially self-medicating with orgasms instead of the more talked about methods like alcohol, drugs, food, self-harm, etc.

That, of course, only caused me to become more depressed as I developed a negative self-image, which in turn just made me hornier more often.

I'm sharing this because I want you to know that you are not alone and because I want you to know that getting to a point where your depression is manageable is possible.

The first step is going to see a therapist. Now, I went through many therapists and psychiatrists before finding one I felt I could connect to, like they got me and were helping. So please, try not to get discouraged if the first one you try isn't a good fit. Don't forget, though, that it takes a while to build up a rapport with your therapist and it's hard to judge if they're a good fit if you haven't been open and candid.

You may find that as your depression improves, your libido will return to normal levels as well. (Whatever is normal for you, that is.)

Remember, you are not alone, you can get better, and I'm rooting for you.

Oh, and P.S. in addition to medication and therapy, I find that SuperBetter really helps me a lot in managing my depression. Here's some more info on it and its creator, who developed SuperBetter to battle her own depression.

SuperBetter is for people who want more out of life—who want to feel happier, healthier, and more able to reach their goals.. However, no matter how awesome an app is, it won't work unless you do.

What you like to think is not necesserily what is true, I'm afraid. I've learned that the hard way. If you want to get better at anything - do it, then do it again and again - that goes for talking to women too.

If you really want to better your social abilities through a game (since we've talked game stats ;) ) I have a game I'd like you to try - SuperBetter, It helped me get better. Just -do- what the game asks you to do. Every time.

It's the chicken and the egg thing, right? I've seen your posts on here before and it seems like it's been a while.

You might want to look into spending a few days with some people who are willing to put you up and let you explore life in a bigger city.

I'm not local to you, but I do offer this to people living in small towns around me and it has been helpful for those who stay a few days.

BTW, one thing that has been helping me to deal with mental health issues is using SuperBetter. It's really helped me work on small things and overall increase my wellness.

https://www.superbetter.com/

With technology like this and Google Glass we can make learning and practically anything in real life a game. People don't mind playing games usually and I believe that this is a way that we as people can be much more productive.

There's a ted talk that's like number 6 here on /r/ted that talks about how games can increase our lifespan by up to 10 years if we use them in every day life.

Jane McGonigal from that ted talk made the game Super Better which is an example of how gaming can help us.

So augmented reality + Jane McGonigal's gaming tech can be absolutely beneficial to us.

There're are a lot of really good ideas in this thread. :)

I have PTSD, depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder so yeah, I'm totally with you on this. Just got new meds but I'm not really in a good place right now, so things are super-tough.

In addition to what people have recommended here, I'd recommend you checking out SuperBetter. It's helped me through some tough times by reminding me of what makes me happy when I'm too sad to think of anything to do besides crying in bed.

Coincidentally, my sister just sent me this. It's really inspiring stuff!

If you have an iPhone, you can download the app here: https://www.superbetter.com/

I hope they make one for the Android; being able to accomplish such minute tasks felt uplifting.

That sounds really hard, I'm sorry you went through all that. Brains are so weird. I don't know if I can tell you whether or not you should try anti-psychotics. It might be a very good idea, but I would do it in the context of a physician you like and trust, and after discussing it with someone(s) you like & trust. Also, there is a website I heard about at a neuroscience lecture once: https://www.superbetter.com - I recommend trying it, it's like an interactive game that can help you with goals, like health/ mental health goals, plus it's based on legit neuroscience research. So for you it'd be meta, it'd help you with your brain goal of getting your brain better.
Also I wish you the best wishes!

Aww, thank you so much! Haha that sounds awesome! You should both check out this site, it's called SuperBetter. It turns recovery from illness into a real-life game. I discovered it recently through a friend and it has helped me quite a bit. Plus you can have real friends sign up to be your "Allies" to help you out.

You guys should sign up and we can all be each others' allies and help and support each other :) Feel free to send me a private message if you'd like to keep in touch, whether through there or some other way! xx

I'm in my 20's, and I'm feeling the same things you are. I have a decent job but long hours, so when I come home I have that EXACT feeling that I'm just there to rest until the next day. What are your weekends like? That's what's been helping me lately, I make plans for the weekend, even if it's spend saturday playing through a game, and sunday working on my computer or whatever. Then I spend the week leading up to it doing laundry, getting enough sleep, etc.

You haven't been kicked out yet right? Well that gives you something to motivate you to work. Having a job you hate sucks, but remember, it's just there so that you can make money to do something you don't hate.

You like videogames, so maybe you'd like Superbetter.com. I used it in the beta and it's amazing what having little counters will do for your motivation. Find a goal, but keep it manageable. It could be anything. Even if your goal for next week is be on time every day, having something you can accomplish will help shift your perspective back to looking at what you CAN do.

I recently listened to the book Reality is Broken, where I heard about SuperBetter. When I read your story I thought this might be perfect for you to help you stay motivated and regain your skills faster. Have a look, and feel free to tell me what you think if you want to :)

https://www.superbetter.com/