Does it get better? The joy has been sucked out of life

Fucking this.

I was thinking about doing nursing, helping people is one of the few things that makes me happy, being a doctor is too long though I think. Do you think 23 is too old to go back to uni and enjoy uni life? I lived at home when i first went to uni so it was basically high school for me...

I struggle with moderation...I had to go cold turkey. It's the first time I've actually done it for an extended period and I really don't want to relapse.

I shouldn't have said stopped. I still watch in moderation, I just don't binge series or anime anymore.

>Do you think 23 is too old to go back to uni and enjoy uni life?

No. When I was there, I had classmates who were 26-30 and fit right in. Even some of the older guys who were 40-50 were having a good time.

>incel

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I'm on the same boat. I'm 24 don't know what I want to do in life have a shit job, pretty much fell out of everything almost stopped playing video games completely, lost interest in basically everything I enjoyed. Started lifting a few months ago saw drastic changes in myself still haven't found the interest again. My family makes me feel depressed most of the time but they don't see it or understand and I can't really do anything because they think I can't handle things on my own.

You just have nothing to live for.
What do you want to do with your life?

WHAT DOES YOUR SOUL COMPEL YOU TO DO?

Best of luck user. My family also makes me feel depressed even though I love them. I just feel suffocated around them you know? Like I can't enjoy myself fully because they're always there. (I live at home)

Be famous, make people happy, make myself happy. One of the three would be amazing.

Nothing :(

Best of luck to you as well. Mine always makes me feel like shit for things I do/say even if they can't be avoided and I don't even know what to do anymore. But on one hand I really want to learn BJJ but it's too expensive for me.

What are you even slightly interested in doing?

Move out if you can? I'm planning on moving out in September. I can't live in this bubble anymore. As for BJJ, look for free classes? Sometimes they have those volunteer sessions you can get started out in.

My current plan is to do nursing. I wanted to help people from a few years ago and it's truly one of the only things that makes me happy. Unfortunately that goal kind of got lost a long the years...I really want to study abroad so I'm looking into some Scandinavian countries.

As for other things, I've started boxing again after all these years again as well, unfortunately 23 is probably too late to become a professional unless I pull out a miracle but maybe I can do it as a hobby and get some amateur fights in at least.

Coming from someone who is in shape, attractive, and only slightly autistic, a women won't solve your problems; they'll just distract you for a bit until they dump you.

Live for yourself user. Decide to live for something and pursue mastery of it. Women are a fucking waste of time and emotion.

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This is actually super good
Its almost subconsciously your being is shedding childhood and giving you fuel for greatness (in the form of mental anguish and suffering)

Go for it user i believe in you

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>Do you think 23 is too old to go back to uni and enjoy uni life?

hell fucking no, tons of older people at uni's, i didn't go do my bachelor until i was 24, there were some people in their 30s as well

i'm 33 right now and going back to school in february for aviation to become a pilot, average age is a bit higher there though cause it's fucking expensive

it's never too late man, some people take longer to figure out what they really want to do, don't become one of those people who settle with a shitty job/career/life because they think it's too late to change course

You need more specific goals. Do you want to become famous for being a musician, an author, an athlete, etc.? Will you be happy with financial security, health, etc.?

typical incel

only pathetic faggots from MGTOW go for nofap

See a psychiatrist

I have tried every hobby I could get my hands on and nothing feels remotely pleasurable. I have a joke degree and no real job and no direction. I'm tempted into just getting some fucking stem degree even though I suck massive dick at math. So to answer your question no it doesn't get better

University fucking sucks dick now. It got taken over by sjw career activists. The curricula is watered down and you’re very likely to get run out on a trumped up Title IX charge. Not even le STEM is safe

You need some amount of distractions in your life though; don't cut them out completely. But most importantly, you need a goal to strive for and focus on. People without a goal or reason tend to slowly fall apart as they just live through the days, going though the motions, not knowing what they would want to go for, what to work for, whether there's any point to their seeming shallow existence. It doesn't matter what kind of a goal, simply -something- to live for and work towards will be enough to make you feel somewhat better. Especially so if you're the kind of a person who tends to overthink too much and get lost in their mind, because focusing on something linear will make you worry less about other things.

Just make sure to not doubt your desires as to what you want to do and what makes you happy. If it does, then go for it, climb and reach for it, never worry on what other people may think of you. It's your life and your happiness, not theirs.

this desu

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Thanks but I still don't know what I want out of life and I feel like I won't ever figure it out.

Disregard whatever this piece of shit site has to say and realize what you actually want to do with your life. And be sure that the thing you want is genuine and not a short term urge

You just need time alone with your toughts. And also try to disregard your ego and pride and embrace the painful ones

Go clubbing and dancing more etc. Get your own place too what the fuck dude. Stop watching porn, animes and other bullshit that fucks with your brain and turns you into a little bitch insect. Read books. You probably already know what you need to do.

I’m 27 and in my first year of uni. I’m not really focused on the “uni life” though, I’m there to study. Like you, I want to help people so I’m getting into social work which at my uni is 3 years undergrad, 2 years masters. Social work is also something to consider if you want to help people, if you’re not sure about nursing.

If you wanna be famous just spend the next 20 years developing a new theory on how time works, you’ll the the wisest person and the greatest thinker

Give an example please

If you "need" a woman you won't get one. You should be more social. Living on your own would be best if you can afford to.

If you cut out all the normal fun activities you did and don't replace them with anything you will feel empty because you are empty.

Sit in a semi uncomfortable position, stare at a wall for 45 minutes

Or take LSD

both work, LSD may result in running around town naked

>2k in debt from college
>had 6k in my bank account
>pressured into buying a car by my parents for 5500
>car just broke down
>found myself the job i was looking for
>cant work it because no vehicle no job

life feels so hopeless, just fuck my shit up

but i like watching anime

I'm very lonely now.

I'm 19 and both my parents passed away earlier this year and I basically have no family. I've just been working the whole time (both jobs and on my studies) and that's the only thing that kept me going and not get down.

However, whenever I stop working I feel so lonely. I had very good social life before my parents passed away and their deaths made me completely uninterested in anything with party or trying to hookup with girls. It seemed quite meaningless and pointless.

I haven't spoken to anyone about my parents death as rest of my family is basically dead too. On a holiday, like the Fourth, I can't do as much work as normal because things are closed and all and I realize how cut off I've become from anything besides work.

How do I dig myself out of this? I know this can't be healthy in long run, but I want genuine, goal-driven friends which I know are so rare to find at my age.

Thanks in advance anons

how did they pass away user?

therapy. confront the things you're not confronting. i'm sorry for your parents passing. godspeed

> incel

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Car crash
I don't trust psychologists desu

promise you wont drown your sorrows in alcohol boyo put some effort into finding some hobbies that can sustain you through your entire life. i dont think you can rely on other people for long term emotional support. you need to find strength from within unironically desu

I don't want to write 10 paragraph blog post but I'm living proof that it does get better, to the point where you'll look back and wonder how you even had thoughts that it wouldn't.

You have to remember that life is not a constant upward trajectory, you will have insane ups and downs, there is no avoiding that. I was at a point where I debating killing myself or running away, these days I can't imagine doing either of those things. Getting to this point was very hard but it happened and going through those deep valleys had only made me appreciate this period in my life more.

I can't give you specific advice on how to fix your life since everyone is different, but to be happy you have to truly understand what you want, not what other people want for you. Sometimes what you want out of life will align with social norms and what people expect of you, sometimes it won't, the point is that either way you shouldn't care. Look into yourself and ask what makes you happy, what makes life worth living to you personally. A girl is a person, she won't come in and fix everything, maybe as a form of validation, but beyond that she's just another soul and if you just want her there for your own ego you will be immensely unhappy and so will she. If you want a gf that's normal, but expecting that to fix you isn't. Find personal fulfillment and start enjoying life on your own, the gf will follow that and you will both be happy.

The only advice I can offer for certain is that you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. That fixes nothing and is retarded, I don't care how heavy of shit you've been through, nobody gives a shit about you or your problems and the quicker you realize that the better off you are.

I promise user, I don't drink at all because my dad and other people have long history of alcoholism. I've luckily never felt urge to pick up the bottle.

And you're completely right about having to rely on myself. I just miss my mom so much, we were very close. Last night, I dreamt of my mom and I together and I remember smiling and laughing and I woke up with such a big grin on my face. Then, I remembered she wasn't here anymore. I just wish I had someone to confide into like I did with my mom, but I think I have to realize that stage of my life is over and I need to grow up.

And my hobbies are my work. I really enjoy working, but when I'm not working it sucks.

I've always wanted to try LSD but I need to do it with people I feel. As for staring at a wall for 45 mins how does one do that without going insane?

Lmao what degree do you have? I thought mine sucked until I found out I could do careers I wanted to do

>The amount of dissociation ITT
WEW. The advice to cut your vices hoping you will magically get better is utter stupidity. Embrace them. Only through them you may find a solution.
Behaviorism advice are themselves a distraction disguised as 'help'. Say no to dissociation. Search inside motherfuckers

>tfw can't even concentrate on my distractions (vidya) anymore
Lads what's the next step? Ascension? Rope?

I just get bored easily now Idk why.

Listen to me OP, it's okay to have these things in your life, to pass some time. But these are all just that, short ways to pass time for entertainment.

Nothing, and I really do mean this, nothing can replace the joy you feel through another human being.

t~ someone who has literally no friends and is very lonely :(

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Thanks for the encouraging words boomer user
t. fellow boomer

Convert to Christianity.

>tfw 28yo KV and just want a nice girl to fall asleep with

I fell for the CS meme.

>high enough GPA
>reputable state school
>dealt with horribly racist chinese and indian classmates that blatantly cheated and sabotaged group projects
>interned at microsoft
>applied aggressively for jobs from 2015-2016
>closely interrogated about the election, trump, gamergate, etc like I was facing a tribunal
>don't even make it to the technical interviews I was thoroughly prepared for after being weeded out due to lack of public activism, social media presence
meanwhile, some anal retentive autist in a dress keyword searches repositories for common problematic no-no words like "master", "slave", "trap" and gets paid in good girl points by github

Social media was a mistake, and I hope Damore shakes up the tech industry.

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You were living the life of the modern male, which is closely related to a castrated dog. Just existing for dopamine hits and your next meal. Despite doing the right thing, it only shows you the facade you have built up around yourself to distract from the existential crisis creeping up. I'm in the same spot user. But I can tell you that you need to have a purpose in your life. Something you can hang your hat on and say "this is why i keep waking up".

The "going insane" is things in your subconscious coming up you are repressing. You may or may not be able to get past them.

LSD chemically triggers this event. Having a trip sitter can be nice but you can always take half a tab which isn't very strong. You really only need assistance above 400ug because at that level everyone flips their shit the first time I've heard.

I’ll keep it short. But never become complacent....ever. I was placed on antipsychotics for 3 years for bipolar disorder and my life went to shit. I stood around looking at the stars all day, thinking “gee my life is going to shit, but I guess I’m happy...”

Got off the meds through a doctors care and now my balls are back. Have to dig myself out of the hole I created

Memory repression isn't actually a thing, fyi.

>applying to meme companies with no portfolio or claims to big projects
Hurrdurr. Just go to military programs.

>Chinese gunner spotted

I need to get past them. I'll try this later tonight then.

Government. Fuck me for wanting to work at City Hall or some shit. God fuck fuck fuck I'm so lost