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tl;dr - 26 yr old complains about life, can't play Minecraft "properly" and tolerate some difficulty curves of some mods and it's kinda impacting his life. Need halp. You do not have to read, but by posting I do feel better already. Thank you.

Hi guys,

It is a recurring thread and I have read a lot of threads discussing a "Minecraft Burn" or lack of creativity or motivation to play it. Since I'm frustrated by it, I feel like I should get this off my chest.

I do have a recurring health problem. Mental health problem. I'm battling with my depression for about 4 to 5 years. I received special treatment, took meds and got my up's and down's along these years. Had to stop it all because my self-steem was (is) going downhill because of all the weight I got from the meds.

And I got no money to go back to treatment. I'm paying for my future home (IRL) . There is no way to spend 200 usd monthly. Unfortunetaly my parents don't understand the matter, but they are helping with my wedding, so that is a relief.

So, my only way to turn off my all problems is by playing in my desktop that my fianceé helped me build. She's not that into games but she knows how important it is to me. After she and her father sold a house that belonged to her deceased sister, she got the money to buy a new mobo and a graphics card.

I live in a country, Brazil, that everything is expensive. Everything. And our money doesn't worth much. I am a general manager of a company and I got the same amount a McDonalds employee gets in the USA. The thoughts of throwing everything in the air and just run with my fiancee haunts me every night. It's been hell for me for about a year.

The weight and responsabilities of a grown me are wearing me, killing my soul every day. I see other people growing and moving on with their lifes and I can't get happy about them, neither I can see myself in the mirror, acknowledge that I have to improve my skills and start new hobbies, study something, but I can't find the motivation to do it.

Motivation, that's what's killing me.

4 years ago, when I decided to search help, the main thing I noticed was that I couldn't play anything. My main escape from reality, my drug, wasn't satisfying me anymore. Then, I noticed that something was wrong. And it's kinda happening again.

Minecraft is a game that always pulled me in, sucking hours of my life. And I always enjoyed. I built things, built little and simple gizmos, ore processing facilities. Nothing fancy, but every building was a accomplishment and always cheer'd me up. Minecraft helps me a lot everyday.

But I'm stuck. My "medicine" is not helping anymore. I'm playing Hermitcraft Modsauce on the ATL Launcher, dug a cave, built a simple Ender IO ore processing system and... I'm stuck. Everytime I load my map the only thing that I can do is to mine endlessly. I feel I'm growing tired of it all. Tried playing with a few of IRL friends but I do not have the time to teach them to play and my playstyle don't match them. And it's real hard to find a server with tolerable lag to play.

I really like the concept of GalacticCraft but I don't know how to start or where to start, since I don't even have a base in the first place.
 
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Yeah your best bet is not to force the motivation, motivation is a tricky thing when it comes to depression as a lack of it is one of the symptoms if not the most crushing. Also it's kind of alarming when someone uses something like a drug or activity to "medicate" ones self. You may simply need to give MC a rest, forcing yourself to play it will only turn it in to a bitter pass time.

Just count your blessings man, despite this posts tone you have a surprising amount of good things in your life I mean that's what most therapists will tell you anyway. It's super difficult to do as a person with depression to focus on the good in your life, too difficult to find solace, but you really have to try.

You state that you feel you haven't progressed enough in your life, which is funny as you have a partner and I assume you are your own man and a somewhat steady job. Let's just say you are ahead of me at least, you being depressed about what you have as little as it may be is kind of depressing to me...
Just try to take solace in that fact that while you may be behind but at least you aren't last.
 
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tl;dr - 26 yr old complains about life, can't play Minecraft "properly" and tolerate some difficulty curves of some mods and it's kinda impacting his life. Need halp. You do not have to read, but by posting I do feel better already. Thank you.

Hi guys,

It is a recurring thread and I have read a lot of threads discussing a "Minecraft Burn" or lack of creativity or motivation to play it. Since I'm frustrated by it, I feel like I should get this off my chest.

I do have a recurring health problem. Mental health problem. I'm battling with my depression for about 4 to 5 years. I received special treatment, took meds and got my up's and down's along these years. Had to stop it all because my self-steem was (is) going downhill because of all the weight I got from the meds.

And I got no money to go back to treatment. I'm paying for my future home (IRL) . There is no way to spend 200 usd monthly. Unfortunetaly my parents don't understand the matter, but they are helping with my wedding, so that is a relief.

So, my only way to turn off my all problems is by playing in my desktop that my fianceé helped me build. She's not that into games but she knows how important it is to me. After she and her father sold a house that belonged to her deceased sister, she got the money to buy a new mobo and a graphics card.

I live in a country, Brazil, that everything is expensive. Everything. And our money doesn't worth much. I am a general manager of a company and I got the same amount a McDonalds employee gets in the USA. The thoughts of throwing everything in the air and just run with my fiancee haunts me every night. It's been hell for me for about a year.

The weight and responsabilities of a grown me are wearing me, killing my soul every day. I see other people growing and moving on with their lifes and I can't get happy about them, neither I can see myself in the mirror, acknowledge that I have to improve my skills and start new hobbies, study something, but I can't find the motivation to do it.

Motivation, that's what's killing me.

4 years ago, when I decided to search help, the main thing I noticed was that I couldn't play anything. My main escape from reality, my drug, wasn't satisfying me anymore. Then, I noticed that something was wrong. And it's kinda happening again.

Minecraft is a game that always pulled me in, sucking hours of my life. And I always enjoyed. I built things, built little and simple gizmos, ore processing facilities. Nothing fancy, but every building was a accomplishment and always cheer'd me up. Minecraft helps me a lot everyday.

But I'm stuck. My "medicine" is not helping anymore. I'm playing Hermitcraft Modsauce on the ATL Launcher, dug a cave, built a simple Ender IO ore processing system and... I'm stuck. Everytime I load my map the only thing that I can do is to mine endlessly. I feel I'm growing tired of it all. Tried playing with a few of IRL friends but I do not have the time to teach them to play and my playstyle don't match them. And it's real hard to find a server with tolerable lag to play.

I really like the concept of GalacticCraft but I don't know how to start or where to start, since I don't even have a base in the first place.
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Take a break from minecraft.

If I play too much minecraft in one go, I get bored of it too, and lack the motivation to start all over again. Instead, take your time to either play something else on your desktop, do it with your fiancée if possible (I'd personally reccommend one of the lego games or Guacamelee, as they're very easy to get into and understand mechanically). If you really really want to play minecraft, play with someone from the forums, as most of them know what they're doing, and you won't have to teach them the mechanics of the game; they already know them. Either look into hosting your own server via hamachi or port forwarding if you aren't feeling like going on a public or whitelist one. Also have a picture of a doge to cheer you up.
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I really don't think minecraft is the problem. It sounds like the OP needs to figure out a lot of things, and work on some issues he may have that he's put on the "back burner" due to his self medication. Low self esteem impacts people far more than they realize.

OP, i've been there. Once you sort yourself out, you'll be fine.
 
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acker said:
tl;dr - 26 yr old complains about life, can't play Minecraft "properly" and tolerate some difficulty curves of some mods and it's kinda impacting his life. Need halp. You do not have to read, but by posting I do feel better already. Thank you.

Hi guys,

It is a recurring thread and I have read a lot of threads discussing a "Minecraft Burn" or lack of creativity or motivation to play it. Since I'm frustrated by it, I feel like I should get this off my chest.

I do have a recurring health problem. Mental health problem. I'm battling with my depression for about 4 to 5 years. I received special treatment, took meds and got my up's and down's along these years. Had to stop it all because my self-steem was (is) going downhill because of all the weight I got from the meds.

And I got no money to go back to treatment. I'm paying for my future home (IRL) . There is no way to spend 200 usd monthly. Unfortunetaly my parents don't understand the matter, but they are helping with my wedding, so that is a relief.

So, my only way to turn off my all problems is by playing in my desktop that my fianceé helped me build. She's not that into games but she knows how important it is to me. After she and her father sold a house that belonged to her deceased sister, she got the money to buy a new mobo and a graphics card.

I live in a country, Brazil, that everything is expensive. Everything. And our money doesn't worth much. I am a general manager of a company and I got the same amount a McDonalds employee gets in the USA. The thoughts of throwing everything in the air and just run with my fiancee haunts me every night. It's been hell for me for about a year.

The weight and responsabilities of a grown me are wearing me, killing my soul every day. I see other people growing and moving on with their lifes and I can't get happy about them, neither I can see myself in the mirror, acknowledge that I have to improve my skills and start new hobbies, study something, but I can't find the motivation to do it.

Motivation, that's what's killing me.

4 years ago, when I decided to search help, the main thing I noticed was that I couldn't play anything. My main escape from reality, my drug, wasn't satisfying me anymore. Then, I noticed that something was wrong. And it's kinda happening again.

Minecraft is a game that always pulled me in, sucking hours of my life. And I always enjoyed. I built things, built little and simple gizmos, ore processing facilities. Nothing fancy, but every building was a accomplishment and always cheer'd me up. Minecraft helps me a lot everyday.

But I'm stuck. My "medicine" is not helping anymore. I'm playing Hermitcraft Modsauce on the ATL Launcher, dug a cave, built a simple Ender IO ore processing system and... I'm stuck. Everytime I load my map the only thing that I can do is to mine endlessly. I feel I'm growing tired of it all. Tried playing with a few of IRL friends but I do not have the time to teach them to play and my playstyle don't match them. And it's real hard to find a server with tolerable lag to play.

I really like the concept of GalacticCraft but I don't know how to start or where to start, since I don't even have a base in the first place.
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But, as others have mentioned, packs using Hardcore Questing Mode have changed things up quite a bit. Stuff like Running Red, Running Red 2, ME^3, Crash Landing, and Agrarian Skies all provide different and unique styles of play.
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You must have something against me.
 
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Cheat in a few items that will make the early game less tedious. Boots of the traveler, builders wand maybe.
 
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If you want ill play mc. I run servers all the time. (And im testing a modpack that I am going to try to get added to the 3rd party launcher.

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So yah I've lost my motivation to play minecraft.... I will probably play it again in a week or 2 but for now I'm taking a break( from the game not the forums you guys are awesome)

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Ye, even when I dont play the game, I visit the forums :p
Its just so much fun :D
(Its totally not the only social life I have. Totally)
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It is mine since I'm homeschooled and I haven't talked to anyone from my class in the public school since I left there 4 years ago

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jedi13 said:
Not in my family :p
Baked chicken...
Baked Chicken...
And Baked Chicken...
With a side of Baked Chicken...
With a small order of Baked Chicken...
And for Dessert: Baked Chicken.
No flavouring, gravy, or anything.
Thats what Ive eaten the majority of the time Ive done homecshooling.
*sadface*
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Eh we mix it up... A lot. We have eaten everything from steak to octopus to mac and cheese

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To the OP: Get those background problems solved. When you're depressed almost anything can bring you down, so make sure everything is cool background wise.
Source: Depressive and medicated.
Also, play another sandboxy game. Something you can dump lots of hours into. Skyrim is awesome for this. Sometimes I need to take a break from MC and play some Final Fantasy or Skyrim.
 
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Wagon153 said:
To the OP: Get those background problems solved. When you're depressed almost anything can bring you down, so make sure everything is cool background wise.
Source: Depressive and medicated.
Also, play another sandboxy game. Something you can dump lots of hours into. Skyrim is awesome for this. Sometimes I need to take a break from MC and play some Final Fantasy or Skyrim.
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Thanks for all the tips guys. It helped me a lot. I had to tell somebody (everybody) and I see that I'm not the only one struggling with it.

On Skyrim: I already spent about more than 200 hours in it :)
 
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Thanks for all the tips guys. It helped me a lot. I had to tell somebody (everybody) and I see that I'm not the only one struggling with it.

On Skyrim: I already spent about more than 200 hours in it :)
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Glad we helped you! Feel free to shoot me a PM if you need to talk. Depression is serious business.
 
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