For me venting online really helps. And spending one day just to feel suicidal sp the feeling passes. Then i ignore it. Watching or reading things also helps cause it's like a quick seratonin shot for me.
Also if you really think about why you need to live, and have an agenda set for the day to work towards that goal or reason. Like for instance I want to take my bestie to a Nigerian restaurant and move out, so i set small goals to help reach that goal, like graduate, then get a job, then i set smaller goals to reach that goal. Just be careful of goalception where u end up procrastinating by making an infinite amount of goals.
But honestly that's still better than active suicidal ideation.
Basically my advice is, set aside time to feel ur emotions then just keep ur brain as busy as possible till u have some actual achievements. Then as u achieve more u also feel better.
Ofc this might not work as well if u have like chemical depression, which can usually only be fixed with antidepressants.
My depression is situational so antidepressants did nothing.
Sorry for rambling. I'm not sire if any of this makes sense.
But my method only works short term, in order to eventually build long term happiness.
And stay away from shortform, infinite scroll content like tiktok and insta reels. They may help with instant dopamine and keeping your brain busy but it's just as self distructive as laying in bed being suicidal and these algorithms pray on mentally ill ppl like us to keep scrolling as a distraction.
It becomes a genuine addiction. Like before reading too much, watching too much and playing too many games used to be the worst thing a depressed person can do but at least they engaged your brain and maybe your hands but social media addiction genuinely does nothing for u.
