/lit/ - Literature

>>21726456
>Sounds like you have a shitty job, and not enough marketable skills to get a better one.
The jobs I described are every line of work on the low-skill end of the labor market right now. Obviously there are plenty of good jobs remaining right now, can't deny it. The problem is they are limited to high skill people, and they are very slowly shrinking over time.

Is it even possible to explain Hegel in simple terms?

>>19464710
In around 2014, my family collapsed and my parents divorced a couple years later. Well, from about 2014-2017 my mind went through a process of decay that you can only really call "mental illness". At first, I became unable to feel emotions for my family. Then, I became unable to enjoy films, or enjoy a conversation with people. Long-term memories slowly began to disappear, I struggled to keep up with my studies since I forgot almost everything, and playing chess became extremely hard. Food also became tasteless, warm showers were no longer comfy, and my breath was no longer calming during meditation. My senses also became significantly weaker, and my sense of smell doesn't really work 90% of the time. In essence, I lost literally everything that makes life worth living.

To get to the point, the cause of this decline is the collapse of my family. I've had nightmares about the exact moment something snapped inside me - when my father was yelling at my sister and I felt awful because I couldn't protect her, so I mentally checked out of the situation. Whenever my father shows up in my dreams, he's doing something awful, like trying to hurt my sister or threatening to kill himself (things he did in real life). Then I wake up. These dreams used to be rare, but after I noticed the pattern they've been getting more common. And lately they're getting very frequent.

And what's even crazier? My sense of smell is coming back. Tonight, for the past 30 minutes I feel a slight emotion or sensation when I breathe in and out through my nose. This is normal, but it hasn't happened to me in literal years - that's how absolutely insane this condition is, it literally doesn't let up. I took over a dozen antidepressants and only 2 produced even a single side effect. Yet this whole stuff with my dreams is changing me. I think I might be feeling something again. It's absolutely nuts. I've been in these threads blogging about this condition of mine for about 5 years now, and I might finally be free if I pursue this

Got extra pay so I decided to buy the following books:
Faust
Lolita
Moby Dick
War and Peace
Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment
Brothers Karamazov
Discourses on the Livy
Any suggestions for which one I should start with?