It's weird. I have a lot of problems. Mainly I've identified my main problems are: A lack of control over my life, a lack of long term motivation (like a life goal, or just even a vague plan of what I want to do with myself), a lack of a short term motivation/joy thing (like a hobby or something that I can just look forward to on a daily basis), my family as a large source of negativity and a big contributor to my horrible mental state and a lack of friends/community. 

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I've thought a lot about my problems. And initially, before I came up with this list of problems, I had the idea that if I moved out, everything would be fine. My idea was based on the fact that my largest source of depression/anxiety was my parents. And that once I moved out I wouldn't be depressed anymore, because I would've removed the source of it. 

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But then I came up with that list I wrote out at the start and I thought, maybe my old way of thinking was too simplistic and too kind of just praying for an instant easy solution (not that moving out is easy, its gonna be really hard given my dad doesn't want me to move out and given that I will have to entirely support myself and given that this will (if I go through with it) be the first time living without my parents supervising me for longer than like 4 days, but like its still a relatively simple and straight forward solution). 

And then my new plan was to push my target date for moving out back, so I could find a short term motivator/hobby to allow me to look forward to each new day. The idea was that I would still have most of my problems if I moved out so it was probably a better idea to fix most of my problems first, and then move out as like one of the final steps to ridding myself of all my problems. 

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But then I looked at the top posts in this subreddit. And although they don't go into much detail about their personal situation, but there was basically a bunch of people saying that the best move they made was moving out and that all of their depression went away after that. 

And now Im reassessing my plans once again. I mean I don't know their personal situation but moving out and cutting or severely reducing contact with my family will immediately solve 2 out of 5 of my problems. 

Obviously they'd be removed from my life but also I'd get back control of my life. (Yes my actions would still be limited due to financial and other reasons but those are so much easier to work with/around vs like my parents demanding i immediately drop everything im doing to go do that thing they asked me to do or other stuff i don't want to get into). 

And it doesn't solve my other problems directly. But with the largest source of my depression/suicidal thoughts/anxiety gone I don't need to keep up my coping mechanism of consuming mindless entertainment and instead, without the need to have to deal with/sustain their negativity, I get back my time and effort to find what I really enjoy doing when Im not spending 24/7 just struggling to survive. And so its very reasonable to believe that within a short time of moving out, I would be able to discover passions and activities that interest me and make me happy. 

And then finding a hobby/hobbies will instantly have a knock on effect making me a more interesting person, have more to talk about, and have a community of like minded people I can make friends with. 

So thats literally 4/5 of my problems solved. 

The last problem, the one about long term motivation and life's purpose is hard to solve. Not just for me or other people with depression, but I think for everyone. So idk if I'll solve this, I will say though, as with the short term motivation/hobby problem, it'll be vastly easier to solve this once im not long struggling everyday just to survive. 

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Idk i kinda start off this post not knowing whether moving out really would be like the single greatest decision/act to helping me make my life better. But I think I ended up convincing myself.