>reminisce the better days
>friendships that are long gone
>suddenly overwhelmed with a deep melancholy for the entire day
I can't really tell if it's melancholy anymore, or if I'm just depressed. Nothing I do seems to help fend it off. No matter what I do, the heavy feeling in my chest makes it hard to breathe. I can't seem to focus on anything.
What do you do to distract yourself from this feeling, frens?

I have a earbud in at all times of the day playing funny YouTube compilations contract myself from sadness

>>81637995
To distract*

>>81637984 (OP)
It's called saudade, it gets worse the older you get.

>>81638102
>Saudade is a word in Portuguese and Galician denoting an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something. It derives from the Latin word for solitude. It is often associated with a repressed understanding that one might never encounter the object of longing ever again.
Pretty accurate... but how do I escape it?

>>81638445
You can't, the best thing you can do is treat the people you have around you well. The more loss you experience the worse it feels. Live life never taking people for granted, and make the most happy memories you can.