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How to cure depression in Project Zomboid

Cure your depression in Project Zomboid!

To cure depression in Project Zomboid, you will need to increase your happiness level and avoid becoming bored. 

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Increasing happiness will make the depression go down until it eventually disappears, and improving your character's condition will prevent you from getting depressed.  

You can increase your character's happiness by eating foods like ice cream, taking antidepressants, and drinking alcohol. Drinking pop and eating food items such as peanut butter and chocolate will also help increase happiness. 

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But in general, you can prevent getting depression by not becoming bored. If you get bored, you will eventually become unhappy to the point where you get the depression moodle. 

Because of this, the best thing to do to prevent depression in the first place is to manage your boredom. 

How to lower boredom in Project Zomboid?

To lower boredom in Project Zomboid, players will need to become more active. The reason is that players will get bored when they stay indoors or inactive for too long. 

So if you want to get rid of boredom, you will need to stay active, but if you already have the moodle, you will need to do one of the following actions. 

  • Reading books, magazines, comic books. 
  • Watching TV
  • Listening to CDs
  • Killing Zombies
  • Doing activities while outdoors. 

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Andrew Vaughan is a Contributing Writer at Pro Game Guides that has written guides on popular RPGs and FPS survival titles for several years. Andrew Vaughan specializes in survival and roleplaying games and has been a lifelong gamer.