Serious "If you're depressed, just volunteer to help people" is the most nonsensical and bizarre advice I've heard.

[B33troot]

Supposedly, "volunteering" to help or serve others can supposedly benefit people suffering from loneliness and depression.

Here's a summary from Google search, under the question "How does volunteering help with depression?"

"Volunteering reduces stress and increases positive, relaxed feelings by releasing dopamine. By spending time in service to others, volunteers report feeling a sense of meaning and appreciation, both given and received, which can have a stress-reducing effect."

So essentially volunteering is just a way to distract oneself from their depression. By helping others you momentarily "feel" a sense of meaning and appreciation and forget about your depression. The source of your problems remains unaddressed, but hey, you feel happy things for a while. Your life is trash and you aren't receiving any help, but if you want to feel better go help some random strangers. If the whole point of volunteering is to reduce stress then why not just drink alcohol?

This such an idiotic piece of advice I don't even know where to begin.

Someone suffering from true depression is usually so broken they barely have the energy to do daily basic chores for themselves. So how the hell are they supposed to go out there help complete strangers?

I swear, people who write such garbage advice have no idea what they're even talking about. Or they are just conflating depression with boredom.

 

[Lv99_BixNood]

Those cucks should volunteer to help us instead

 

[blackpillednigga]

just volunteer to help normies or people that dont give a shit about you bro

 

[B33troot]

Dear starving Africans, if you're sad because you're hungry, just volunteer to prepare meals for overfed white people! Trust me, it will reduce your stress and you'll feel a sense of meaning!

 

[Murder Mario]

If the whole point of volunteering is to reduce stress then why not just drink alcohol?

Health effects.

 

[B33troot]

just volunteer to help normies or people that dont give a shit about you bro

"Ok. I volunteered all month. So when can I get some help for my depression stemming from a lifelong lack of intimacy and love?"

"You're not entitled to intimacy and love, sweetie. Just go for a walk in nature. And work on your hobbies!"

 

[ControlledInsanity]

"Ok. I volunteered all month. So when can I get some help for my depression stemming from a lifelong lack of intimacy and love?"

"You're not entitled to intimacy and love, sweetie. Just go for a walk in nature. And work on your hobbies!"

"Quietly exist outside of my view" its just like how people treat the homeless.

 

[IncelsNeverCry]

Oversocialization, "Just produce more resources and free labor for society goy, you'll love it we promise"

 

[FunkyMonk]

More virtue signalling. Fuck volunteering & charities, just a scam. The big wigs feed this bullshit to gullible people. They don't have to pay them for their time & they get more money in the process.

 

[jeetcel]

i unironically help those who come seeking for some advise or help to me though; but doing so and facing consequences of same has further pushed me towards blackpill

like when things do not turn out as per their expectations, same people lash at me on my face or poke fun of my other failures in life or badmouth me behind my back;
it's one hell of reason i try to not be so sociable among people with "resting bitch face" tier expression on face and trying to avoid eye contact and all

 

[MentallyCelibate]

everything normies say is a lie. they want to exploit your mental illness to get you to work for them for free. playing video games will help with depression more than feeding homeless crack heads.

 

[never began]

Those cucks should volunteer to help us instead

OPEN AN INCEL HELP VOLUNTEER CORP AND HAVE THE WOMEN HAVE SEX WITH US UAYAYGYYAGAHAHHGHA

 

[SoycuckGodOfReddit]

just volunteer to help normies or people that dont give a shit about you bro

 

[PoodankMcGee]

By that logic the treatment for "depressed" femoids should be volunteering her pussy to fuck my cock. She'll feel better for volunteering to do a good deed and making a man happy, and an incel gets deradicalized in the process.

Oh wait sorry sweaty our logic only applies when the result is exploiting your labor for free.

 

[SoycuckGodOfReddit]

Volunteering if you're depressed + non-normie is dumb

Volunteers are often treated like expendable shit by the two-faced people in charge, who are paid. If you're not being paid for it, people usually won't take you seriously, and even if you help out significantly they won't really value your contributions. In fact, since most volunteer normies treat it like a picnic, you might actually be treated as abnormal for doing things properly

It could also lower self-esteem by disrupting the reward system, replacing the usual more harmonious work-reward cycle with just working but not thinking you're worthy of recompense

If people are depressed, it might help them more to do something they were properly rewarded for

 

[Atavistic Autist]

Related thread:

I'm done with helping people

Not that anyone will lose sleep over it, its mainly for my self benefit/preservation. I've helped people out because I'm too altruistic and all it leads to is them coming back for more and trying to maximize their use for me and once they have gotten all they believe they can they always ghost...

incels.is

@telamon

 

[happiless]

Supposedly, "volunteering" to help or serve others can supposedly benefit people suffering from loneliness and depression.

Here's a summary from Google search, under the question "How does volunteering help with depression?"

"Volunteering reduces stress and increases positive, relaxed feelings by releasing dopamine. By spending time in service to others, volunteers report feeling a sense of meaning and appreciation, both given and received, which can have a stress-reducing effect."

So essentially volunteering is just a way to distract oneself from their depression. By helping others you momentarily "feel" a sense of meaning and appreciation and forget about your depression. The source of your problems remains unaddressed, but hey, you feel happy things for a while. Your life is trash and you aren't receiving any help, but if you want to feel better go help some random strangers. If the whole point of volunteering is to reduce stress then why not just drink alcohol?

This such an idiotic piece of advice I don't even know where to begin.

Someone suffering from true depression is usually so broken they barely have the energy to do daily basic chores for themselves. So how the hell are they supposed to go out there help complete strangers?

I swear, people who write such garbage advice have no idea what they're even talking about. Or they are just conflating depression with boredom.

Just ignore all the false normie explanations. The reason it can help with depression is because it lets you get exposed to people who have it worse than you, thereby alleviating your feelings of inferiority and maybe even making you feel a bit grateful for not being as badly off as the less fortunate people you help

 

[ClinicallyDeformed]

I don't give a flying fuck about others, if i could fucking sacrifice them to give myself a better looking face i'd go FMA on my whole city.