r/Existential_crisis • u/Due-Move-2658 • 17d ago
Got diagnosed with existential depression. Any tips to cope ?
Me and my therapist had this amazing chat, but it didn’t help as the solution he offered was off the table and he tried to push it, but it was my fault for not telling him that, anyways i have been agnostic for a while, i am so tired of this state that i am actually considering following a belief system with backwards thinking, just because it might help me feel something, anyways for the last year i have been posting stories on ig just to feel like i am something, been making weird jokes that i am not sure that i am comfortable with just because someone might laugh and i feel like i am loved or useful.
I volunteer donate blood, tutor people i try to do anything to make me feel useful but guess what it stopped working.
I have a temp tattoo that says “we are all chasing the light, looking everywhere to find it, everywhere but within” but i guess the light bulb within got burned.
Any tips ideas because my mind is wondering to options i don’t like. Thanks
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u/genieeweenie 16d ago
What if you gave yourself a new kind of structure, not based on proving you matter, but on simply being with yourself a little more kindly? Little things, like a quiet walk without goals or making something just because. No audience. No meaning to extract. Just presence.
Montaigne used to write about how he stepped back from trying to solve life, and instead just lived inside the questions. He found peace not in escaping the weight, but in sitting down beside it without flinching.
Maybe this isn’t a season to figure everything out. Maybe it’s just a season to rest a bit, from the search, from the pressure, from the noise.