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What is a good hobby for a depressed person? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So i still have depression and im constantly bored, i feel like a loser who cant do anything right. I want to let my creativeness out, make something i can share with the world or family, but im probably dreaming too big. I cant stand being depressed and bored, it stinks, everyone tells me to work out but i lack the motivation to do so.

i usually just watch youtube all day while complaining to family members that have no idea what to do about me.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukulele is a fun starting instrument, and you can get a serviceable one for ~$50.

Tons of YouTube tutorials, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukulele is such an underrated instrument too! It gets ragged on for no reason at all. I've been playing guitar fairly seriously for over two decades and have great guitars, but 90% of the time I find myself with my shitty 10 dollar, plastic-looking (paint) ukulele that has a hole on the back because it was thrown at a wall and writing more songs and still finding new things for playing guitar, just because. My playing transformed once I bought that little thing. I've written my best songs on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'd played steel strings for years, but picked up the uke my kid had (but never played) at the beginning of the pandemic. Played that thing nonstop and then got my own. Also got a nylon string guitar because I loved playing fingerstyle on uke so much. Like you said, it changed how I played guitar.