>>11207976I agree. Even just buying a field guide and learning to ID plants/mushrooms/birds in the forest would be very therapeutic while also compelling you to keep learning and therefore keep going. A lot more people these days seem to enjoy going full autistic into hobbies, from making coffee, gardening, woodwork, biking, running, pocket knives whatever. If you are depressed and lack the funds you can find a cheap/free hobby and spend time researching and getting into it, which will improve your current mindset and could very well lead to meeting people with similar interests.
I had a really rough time in high school and looking back I was very likely depressed but refused to acknowledge it. I got into looking identifying birds from when I'd basically hide out in a forest near my high school during lunch break. I ended up getting really into it and after running into some people I joined a birding club. It was full of bird geeks but I actually met my first gf there, which was a pretty amazing change of pace and still sticks out as a wonderful six months during what was otherwise a time in my life I used to avoid thinking back on.
Sitting at home and doing the same thing day after day is not only going to keep you depressed it is going to exacerbate it. If staying in front of a screen 12+ hours a day with no sense of creativity or productivity or interaction doesn't make you depressed, you have something wrong with you. The obvious answer is to walk away from the screen and force yourself outside so that you can experience new things which might lead into surprising good fortune. Gfs, jobs, money, travel, good opportunities, happiness and the rest are unlikely fall on your lap if you are invisible at home.
