Book

The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad

Self-described as an "anti-depression guide/guide to a freer, more lawless life." Gnade's book looks at the root causes of sadness, anxiety, and general malaise/boredom and offers helpful point-by-point suggestions (in list form) and short essay pep-talks

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“I'm a lot more capable than I was led to believe. Fuck the unbelievers in your life. You're as strong and as read as you want.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Love, Believe In Yourself, strength

“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are enough people out there who’ll do it for you. Don’t let the assholes win.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Paranoia, Social Anxiety, Anxiety, Self-Doubt, I Hate Myself

“Don't waste your time with friends you don't love... with anything that doesn’t make you better in its presence.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Bad Friendship, Love Yourself

“Be sweet to a baby and let them know all big people aren’t a) dead inside, b) angry, or c) afraid of adventure.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Random Acts Of Kindness, Parenting

“Open your heart to the sky. Live.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Inspirational, Open Heart

“If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Social Anxiety, Anxiety, Perspective, Important

“We’re all braver and stronger than we give ourselves credit for.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational, Motivational, Brave, strength

“I’m seeing the circular conversations of stress and fatalism and the bad cycles of self-doubt. It’s all a product of fear. I’m afraid of tomorrow, and I’m afraid of next week and I’m afraid that each choice I make will be the one I’ll look back on and regret forever… life’s a sh*t business sometimes…”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, perseverance, Motivational

“Adapt until you flourish; confront all obstacles presented until there’s something new. Push forward. Push until it breaks open and shows the golden yolk. Push until you’re walking in the clear, the wind in your face, a clean path before you.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: perseverance, Motivational

“Don’t waste your life in front of a screen. If given the choice, avoid any kind of prison. Especially the ones we put ourselves in.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Technology, Social Media, Zen

“Learn the difference between honesty and being a dick.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Important, Freedom of Speech, Honesty, Making Friends

“One thing people overlook is that friends can be anywhere. They don’t have to have the same diet or music taste or politics as you. They don’t have to be your age or your color or your class... Making friends can be one of the scariest fucking things you’ll ever do, but once you have them they’ll he…”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Making Friends, Social Anxiety

“Life is short and lonely and mean but there are good things that make it worth living. The idea is to grab those things when they show up and hold onto them as long as you can.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, alive

“Life is water through wet cloth. It’s all trees and sky passing by a car window, and you can never own any of it, no matter how much you want it. The key is to make peace with that and have as much fun as you can without hurting anyone. There’s no meaning of life but there is meaning and life, and i…”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, The Meaning Of Life, purpose, Acceptance

“If you live with monsters, you’ll become monstrous. This can be good and it can be bad. You need to keep your perspective and know when it’s time to quit a bad scene.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Toxic People, Child Abuse, Abusive Parents

“Shit-talkers are like black mold: They’ll infect you and you might not even know it. you don’t need that darkness in your life. Bitterness will jump from you to them.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Gossip, Negativity, Toxic People

“Fuck security. Give us the mess. Give us the big splash of life and color and failure. It’s beautiful.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Security, Risk, Failure, Life, danger

“Next time the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad comes calling, don’t pick up the phone.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Seasonal Depression, Sadness, Motivational

“Watching the news will always make you feel like the world is ending. The world isn’t ending. The world is changing.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: News, Media, Change, Depression, War

“I’m in a fog and even though I feel like I’m living a good, authentic life, I spend a lot of my life numb. There’s this sleepwalk I do where it’s like I’m under a layer of ice and I slump through the day without any real inner dialogue. It’s like being dead on your feet. Or stuffed with cotton. And…”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

Tagged: Seasonal Depression, Depression