Mental health thread

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[fake-kun]

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Must be nice to have dopamine in your brain.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Life reminded me again that I am an irresponsible piece of shit who can't do anything well and has to depend most of the time of the others, but then I went to eat roasted chicken and went to the park and felt better

 

[fake-kun]

I've been feeling bored and understimulated lately. Nothing feels interesting enough.

On a completely unrelated note, the next person to tell me that "ADHD is overdiagnosed" is getting thrown into a river.

 

[χKai]

Bang your head.
Mental health'll drive you mad!

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

I wish I wasnt autistic, I wanna be normal.
Also when i'm offline it's just me and my constant self deprecating thoughts

 

[fake-kun]

I wish I wasnt autistic, I wanna be normal.

Why?

 

[popckorn]

Do you have pets?
My cat keeps me pretty occupied, entertained, and honestly makes me feel love almost everyday.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Do you have pets?
My cat keeps me pretty occupied, entertained, and honestly makes me feel love almost everyday.

I have fish, I feed them at morning and nights

Why?

I can only say I feel uncomfortable

 

[NobodyHere]

My Great Grandmother recently had another accident, she had one either at the beginning of the year or last year (I don’t quite remember), she broke her hip leading to her moving to assisted living. Where she fell the last time she could have gotten stuck and not been found. This time she hurt her hip and broke her wrist, but luckily was able to get to a phone (also someone would have come to check on her)

I don’t fully know how to feel, but I do know I’m terrified for her. She’s 94 years old, she’s a fragile old lady, I’ve always known this. she’s always felt like an unchanging constant in my life, but these incidents have really hit me over the head with how truly old and fragile she is, and that she’s only getting older.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

when i'm offline it's just me and my constant self deprecating thoughts

This is one of the main reasons why I like being online

 

[popckorn]

 

[Sinmenon]

For self-deprecating and negative thoughts, I recommend looking into behavior therapy if you have the mean$ to do so. It will teach you how to identify what makes you start having these thoughts, and teach you how to "de-program" yourself from having those thoughts. It isn't easy, but I can say it worked with me.

 

[popckorn]

For self-deprecating and negative thoughts, I recommend looking into behavior therapy if you have the mean$ to do so. It will teach you how to identify what makes you start having these thoughts, and teach you how to "de-program" yourself from having those thoughts. It isn't easy, but I can say it worked with me.

For self-deprecating and negative thoughts

Cut it out - your self-inflicted pain
Is getting too routine
The crowds are catching on
To the self inflicted song
Well, here we go again
The art of acting weak
Fall in love to fail
To boost your CD sales
You've got to repeat it
You gotta' sink to swim
If at first you don't succeed
You gotta recreate your misery
'Cause we all know art is hard
Young artists have got to starve
Try, and fail, and try again
The comforts of repetition
Keep churning out those hits
'Til it's all the same old shit
Oh, a second verse!
Well, color me fatigued
I'm hiding in hte leaves
In the CD jacket sleeves
Tired of entertaining
Some double-dipped meaning
A soft serve analogy
This drunken angry slur
In thirty-one flavors
You gotta' sink to swim
Immerse yourself in rejection
Regurgitate some sorry tale
About a boy who sells his love affairs
You gotta' fake the pain
You better make it sting
You're goin' break a long
When you get on stage
And they scream your name
"Oh, Cursive is so cool!"
You gotta sink to swim
Impersonate greater persons
'Cause we all know art is hard
When we don't know who we are

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Just a small update, but I'm doing much better right now. Last week was one of the longest weeks I've had in a while, between drama both online and IRL, not feeling great physically, and a close call with a severe storm, it had me really down in the dumps.

So far, things are looking up now, and today's been a great start to a good week! Thank you to everyone who gave me kind words here, it really did help. <3

 

[Cuestionador]

It's a tough year for me, i'm working on two jobs and i struggle to make the things i enjoy, but somehow i still have the energy to awake every morning.

 

[Deleted member 13897]

I don’t fully know how to feel, but I do know I’m terrified for her. She’s 94 years old, she’s a fragile old lady, I’ve always known this. she’s always felt like an unchanging constant in my life, but these incidents have really hit me over the head with how truly old and fragile she is, and that she’s only getting older.

I'm sorry to hear that nobdyhere. The treasure of having a great-grandparent is such an intensely bittersweet experience. My great-grandmother helped raise me, and by the time I was in my late teens, I was usually the one helping her. Unfortunately the nature of having a relationship with a family member that much older than you sets you up to face grief or fear sooner than you may be ready for. I'm sure your great grandmother's wealth of life experiences and happy memories with family provide her a peace you may even be unfamiliar with, and I'm sure you still have time together to make even more memories.

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So far, things are looking up now, and today's been a great start to a good week!

Sorry for ing a bunch of stuff from the past week but I was just catching up with this thread--I'm happy to hear you're doing better!! You're a ray of sunshine for RGT and we're all glad you're here.

 

[Kamako]

I can feel a little blue sometimes.

 

[χKai]

Is it alright to express angry thoughts in here? Just nasty stuff aimed at no-one in particular.
I can't be the only one here that feels a desire to spew hate sometimes to ease the internal pressure, and I don't know where else to write it or say it. I've called helplines before, but they try to be all understanding and I don't want to hear that fucking tone, I just want to voice coldness at something that listens and not hear any response or thoughts about it, because I'm not interested.

No
Express it at me instead

 

[Kamako]

No
Express it at me instead

That's kind of you. Thanks :)

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

For self-deprecating and negative thoughts, I recommend looking into behavior therapy if you have the mean$ to do so.

I don't want to.

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Unrelated but I think i'm emotionally sensitive and being scolded always makes me sad

 

[NobodyHere]

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Unrelated but I think i'm emotionally sensitive and being scolded always makes me sad

No one likes being scolded. From my experience everyone is sensitive it’s all measured off of how one hides or deals with it. If I recall properly you’re in high or middle school, and going through family issues. Not to undermine your experiences but it’s not uncommon to feel the way you do, a lot of people here in this forum, in irl, everywhere, feel the same way as you do.

Personally I’ve only just started to get my shit together in the past year - after I’ve gotten proper help and gotten out of high school.

I'm sorry to hear that nobdyhere. The treasure of having a great-grandparent is such an intensely bittersweet experience. My great-grandmother helped raise me, and by the time I was in my late teens, I was usually the one helping her. Unfortunately the nature of having a relationship with a family member that much older than you sets you up to face grief or fear sooner than you may be ready for. I'm sure your great grandmother's wealth of life experiences and happy memories with family provide her a peace you may even be unfamiliar with, and I'm sure you still have time together to make even more memories.

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Sorry for ing a bunch of stuff from the past week but I was just catching up with this thread--I'm happy to hear you're doing better!! You're a ray of sunshine for RGT and we're all glad you're here.

Thank you so much for the support, and for sharing

I’m not as close with my great grandmother as I wish I could be. My family lives away from everyone else (still in the same country but still a long and expensive trip away ), so I only get to see here every so often, I’d like to visit but things are complicated , and I don’t want to make them even more so.

I talked with my grandfather (him and my grandma live close to her) and she sounds like she’s doing good and getting lots of company. Luckily she healed rather well and quickly from her last tumble (for her age). She’s always been a very strong, and stubborn, which gives me hope yet also makes me worry more.

I’m glad at least she’s mentally fully here. When I was very young I had another great grandmother who passed away. I only visited her once but she was never really ’here’ during the time we were both alive. When I did visit she was already nearing the end, not moving, laying in bed the entire trip, her mind already gone. I remember being terribly hurt when I heard of her passing, I was too young to fully understand what upset me so much, besides the fact someone in the family died, after all I didn’t know her. That was it though I was grieving because I never got to, I didn’t ever have the chance to. Alzheimer's disease is truly horrifying.

By the time I was alive she wasn’t truly herself anymore. I’m extremely thankful at least I get the chance to know my great grandmother for who she is and not a shadow of that in my life time.

Sorry I started getting rather emotional well writing this, started rambling

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

after I’ve gotten proper help and gotten out of high school.

I don't want proper help

 

[Sinmenon]

It is someone's choice if they want proper help or not, so I won't insist. I will only say that proper help and medication do make a difference, especially the latter, because your own brain chemistry needs the assistance to go back on track, at least when it comes to the dopamine.
I won't say it magically cured my 15+ years of depression, but in a little over 2 years I had my anxiety under control and could enjoy being alive.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Does insulting myself count as loving myself? There are people who insult the ones they love