• folkrav@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, this. I have a history of depression, and the first two are, no kidding, legitimately how I know I’m spiralling down.

    • GroteStreet 🦘@aussie.zone
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      2 years ago

      some kind of hobby (especially one with a social component)

      Okay, I just joined a guild in WoW and started doing 40-man raids. What’s the next step?

      • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 years ago

        Farm materials for consumables and/or do big business on the AH to purchase them. Do your dailies for attunement. In your spare time, you can fly around a little, as a treat.

    • dingus@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Weirdly, I’ll do the first two points from time to time. But for me, it’s not depression. It’s just that I don’t like video games anymore even though I did as a child. Occasionally I’ll try playing one to hope to get back into it, but it never really pans out. Video games are just too much like work to me, but it’s such an easy and relatively inexpensive “hobby” to pick up that I try it now and then. Never really ends up panning out but such is life.