>>14122017I usually feel the same way around the holidays, but not this year for some reason.
Hang in there, anon. I know you feel like you have wasted your whole life, but 26 is very young. You can turn it around.
All I can tell you is what got me out of my 20's depression hole.
For me it was jiu jitsu and other combat sports, but mostly jiu jitsu.
>26Perfect age to start. I was 30.
>dead end jobnot going to help there besides maybe confidence
>no money not going to help there
>barely any friendsyou will make friends in a jiu jitsu gym. You can't not. They will be quality dudes who have the heart to get beat up on and persevere.
>no gf for yearsyou'll get fit and confident. You end up getting better girls once you are fit and confident, which jiu jitsu can do for you.
It won't be easy, but it worked for me. The claws of depression find your mind's idle time and fill it with cringe from the past. Jiu jitsu occupies that idle time instead if you train. Instead of your mind wandering and thinking about the times you got bullied for being fat as a kid, it thinks about sparring last night and what you could have done differently or what you did properly.
I tried therapy. I tried drugs. Nothing fought my depression like combat sports.
It's (almost) a male only space where the entire point is to make yourself (and the men around you) better a little every day.
I can't tell you how powerful that is.
t. purple belt training for 5 years now
