Have you ever been so depressed that you couldn't play games

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I feel the same, My dad hate games, he doesn't allow me to play games either. I fell like dying coz of that.
I am always depressed coz of this problem and there is no one who can understand this.
He bought me a laptop with lowest graphics possible, low end phone, got a PC at home without any graphics.

I didn't have much of an interest in games when I was depressed but I kind of lost interest before I got depressed because I became obsessed with things that contributed to my depression.

It happens to me all the time. I first experienced this when I was about 13-ish, and I thought it was a worrying anomaly. I felt like I had some obligation to be a "gamer" and that I wasn't playing games enough to live up to this obligation. I learned later on that it was just a symptom of depression, to lose interest in activities you previously used to enjoy.

Right now, I'm just wasting away watching stupid TV shows and writing on forums. I wish I had the money or motivation or friends to do something enjoyable. Gaming is a lot more work than people give it credit for.

@coolabby1605: Your dad sounds like a cruel sonuvabitch. Fortunately, people have been playing computer games ever since we only had 1MHz processors and 64k of RAM, and even before that. Odds are your machine can probably run a few games, even if they're kind of old. What are your specs? Computer hardware is kind of my special interest.

^Why not try getting into electronic music production, bigmouth?

You seem very interested in it as a special interest.

It truly can be fun if listening/studying it's history is your special interest already, but it's almost a world of difference when you can pour blood, sweat and tears into making your own masterpieces.

Of course, the first few years you'll suck, and it's tough and stressful, but in the end it's all worth it.

On the topic of gaming, I completely relate to what you're saying.

I want to enjoy gaming but at times it can feel like a chore to go through the effort of setting it up and putting it on. Missions can feel more like a stressful chore than for fun.

Truth be told gaming is supposed to be played to be enjoyed but I find that almost all of us from time-to-time will instead not find it as fun due to difficult missions and such.

That's probably not the key cause of most of our fading interest in gaming, but it can be a factor.

Personally the few times I rarely game nowadays I just pick games I've already completed every story mission of and either repeat missions or just screw around in my own ways.

I never completed GTA IV but spent probably way more time just screwing around than ever actually trying to beat it. Sure, unlocking the new locations was fun but that was the only reason to do missions.

Life's too short to spend all your gaming time stressing yourself out...this is most definitely why I prefer open-world games to linear ones.

Consistently happens to me... in fact it's a major reason as to why I've hardly played any games in the past couple of years. I usually just want to stay in bed and watch YouTube or go on Facebook, because it takes a lot less effort than playing most games, which frustrates me a lot, as I both want to play and also do Let's Plays or other gaming-related videos.

"I've tried electronic music production, and I have no real grip on musical theory or how mastering works."

Sounds like you're over-complicating things.

Truth is most beginner and even some pro electronic musicians have little to no knowledge of musical theory or mastering.

Many electronic producers will jump straight into making music rather than take extensive time studying musical theory and mastering unnecessarily.

For some, it's better to learn all that stuff as you go.

My understanding of theory is still very simplistic but it's improved over time.

At the very least you know the basics of music, that is drum, bass, lead instruments, etc.

Most people in their first year just make whatever creative stuff they want, even if it's absolute crud and shows no understanding of musical theory or proper structure.

When you say mastering, I think you actually mean mixing.

Mixing is making everything in the right place and all frequenices and instruments sound clear and balanced in the song so nothing overshadows anything else.

Mastering is a much more complicated process.

I can't master for sh(t. Mixing takes a few years to get decent at, but mastering is a whole different league and takes many years to decades of studying to master mastering (pun intended).

I currently use LANDR to master my stuff, an automatic mastering tool for cheap instead of hiring human masterer for slightly more money. LANDR is unreliable, but gets the job done for my songs (but can ruin other songs).

"I've done bizarre sonic experiments and made atonal noise with softsynths, but other than that I can't say I've done anything of note."

Ambient can be your thing...

Besides, I do the same thing. It annoys me though when I create interesting synth sounds but can never think of how to actually fit it into a song.

Also, many beginners and, yep, the pros too, heavily sample their sounds. This is just what electronic music is generally about.

Typically it's royalty free, creative commons and copyright free samples.

In my new song the only things I can call my own are the bass (100% man-made), lead sounds (90% mine, got some presets and tweaked them so they're very different now), and some pads/soundscapes (75%, made it myself but from help from a youtube video).

Thing is my song has plenty of animal sound effects as well, and those are VERY hard to synthesize. The only way people have come close are bird sounds (usually robotic beeping tweets, too unnatural for me).

"I am NOT a creative type. I was somewhat when I was younger, many years ago, but I've kind of lost it as my neural pathways have pruned themselves."

I understand, just thought I might give encouragement to that sheletered artist deep inside.

"One of the main things I noticed when I was younger that sort of caused me to lose interest in gaming was that I would sometimes feel physically itchy after a while, particularly when playing a frustrating game."

I definitely feel sick and lethargic due to too much screentime. On days where I'd game I'd play from 1 to 4 and feel sick after...

Depression only stops me from playing harder or more challenging games. I find mindless ones that are story driven or fast action ones that are pretty easy are helpful for depression. The reason I avoid challenging games is depression for me makes me want to not do anything productive and playing a harder game feels like the effort isn't worth it. Now I love challenging games when I am not depressed but give me something I can just point and win within a few attempts if depressed. I am a slightly below average gamer I think so most games are within the realms of easy for me so its not a big problem. I normally play one level above normal difficultly unless that is the hardest mode, then I play normal.

I am playing Skyrim on expert and it has a good difficultly in my opinion if a bit hard at moments so I played the hell out of Skyrim when depressed a while ago. I stopped playing La-Mulana because of depression and difficultly but I should go back at it now that I am feeling okay. My avoidance of harder games makes me feel like a casual gamer but I guess it has more to do with depression then anything. Plus most casual gamers probably play on normal I would guess, I have never had much luck on the hardest difficultly depressed or not outside of the Silent Hill series cause I guess I just played it over and over again.

Not really. I don't get super depressed anymore but when I am in a bad mood and decide to play video games as a coping skill, I give it my all.

Last time I was in a really depressing environment, Pokemon and Mega Man Powered Up always put me in a great mood. Gaming is a hobby that has kept me happy since I was super young. It's part of my upbringing. I had a good childhood.

Back on topic. My last year of high school was very rough and every time I felt down on myself, I remembered that my Ps3 would be there when I got to my room. So gaming helps with sadness and bad moods for me.