I'm not doing so well.

[Jaranja]

EDIT: I was in a band but got kicked out because a better friend of the rest of the band members wanted to be the drummer instead.

Happens a lot.

Simple solution to band woes - do what I did. Start a new band, one where you call the shots and decide who you want to play with.

Not forward enough. I don't have my drum kit anymore and I don't have any money that I'm willing to use. I don't have a job either.

So get a job then.

Surely you can rustle up a secondhand kit with very minimal money, even without a job. I work with some of the brokest people alive and yet they can acquire instruments somehow. And a great way to be more "forward" is to get practice at it. Practice makes perfect with anything whether it be drumming or talking to other people.

Not very easy. Everyone my age has a job. I haven't already tried, so they're all gone.

 

[BonsaiK]

EDIT: I was in a band but got kicked out because a better friend of the rest of the band members wanted to be the drummer instead.

Happens a lot.

Simple solution to band woes - do what I did. Start a new band, one where you call the shots and decide who you want to play with.

Not forward enough. I don't have my drum kit anymore and I don't have any money that I'm willing to use. I don't have a job either.

So get a job then.

Surely you can rustle up a secondhand kit with very minimal money, even without a job. I work with some of the brokest people alive and yet they can acquire instruments somehow. And a great way to be more "forward" is to get practice at it. Practice makes perfect with anything whether it be drumming or talking to other people.

Not very easy. Everyone my age has a job. I haven't already tried, so they're all gone.

What a load of nonsense. Even you must realise that this is obvious rubbish. People gain and lose jobs all the time. If you keep talking yourself and everything down you'll never get anywhere because you'll talk yourself out of the race before it even starts. Just because you've got depression is no excuse to be negative about everything. Sure, life sucks and bad things happen but they don't just only happen to you. Everyone deals with crap, millions of people around the world are depressed, yet their lives still function, and that's because they MAKE them function despite the odds and the shitty circumstances. You're a relatively young person, living in a rich western country, with the world at your feet and plenty of opportunity to do all sorts of things. The only thing that's holding you back is that you're depressed. Don't deny your depression or bury it, just say to yourself "I'm depressed, but I'm going to do things anyway, because I can". The only way you'll get somewhere is by getting there.