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[Anonymous No.18054292]

>Feel depressed
>Tried every cope in the book, from excersize and healthy living to drugs and casual sex
>Nothing works
>Start reading philosophy
>Actually feel better, and not just short-term

Thanks philosohy

[Anonymous No.18054300]

>Start reading philosophy
>Actually feel better, and not just short-term
which ones in particular?

[Anonymous No.18054313]

>>18054292
Do you agree with Marcus Aurelius that your beliefs shape how you react to things and that there's nothing "inherent" about how you react to the world/your circumstances and therefore you can change how you feel simply by changing your beliefs?

[Anonymous No.18054425]

>>18054300
i wanna know too, op

[Anonymous No.18054471]

>>18054292
Likewise, philosophy changed my life for the better
I started with picrel

[Anonymous No.18054500]

>>18054300
>>18054425
Currently Stoicism and Epicur and (i know it sounds silly) Ted Kacyznski, after that im moving into existentialism with Kierkegaard>Sartre>Camus

Ive only recently started, as ive decide i want to go to philosophy university (im 18), so i have kind of a baseline understanding about western philosophy, but id lovs to get into eastern aswell

>>18054300
I think that our beliefs are what shape us, and that they are what it means that "you" decided what you did.
This sounds like an offshoot of determinism?

[Anonymous No.18056237]

>>18054500
>Ted Kacyznski
How does reading him not make you depressed.
I guess I'm a weakling.

[Anonymous No.18057233]

>>18054500
>Ive only recently started, as ive decide i want to go to philosophy university (im 18)

[Anonymous No.18057299]

>>18054292
same, fren. I'm eternally indebted to the divine Plato