don't be so hard on yourself, emilys. you aren't worthless, that could just be the voice in you that hates yourself. that voice is a douche. there's a part of you that loves yourself ... otherwise you wouldn't be in therapy right now. the fact that you are in therapy shows you're strong. stronger than a lot of people I know who struggle.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
emilys. i am p sure your mom would tell you she loves and admires you and thinks you are also a champ, not a pussy. the trick is you need to believe she's right and stop listening to the voice inside you that says she's wrong.
― Aimless, Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh I dunno if it's this time of year or what, been feeling worse this past week than I have in months. The year's been objectively pretty good to me overall but I don't feel that way, and the lack of anything external to blame it on makes me feel guilty for not being more appreciative? Right now I find it hard to acknowledge any progress I've made and I just focus on how my life still isn't what I want it to be.
― Vinnie, Monday, 17 December 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, I thought I was getting better cause I had nowhere to go but up after feeling suicidal a few weeks ago, except I'm getting worse these past few days and I just randomly broke down crying for no goddamn reason.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 December 2012 07:49 (eleven years ago) link
this happens to me every now and again when i feel low. it's a good release though. try and surround yourself with friends as much as you can. also, i think you're the best! <3
― tpp, Thursday, 20 December 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
all my friends live in the city and i live 45 minutes out and don't really have any expendable gas/bus money though :/
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 December 2012 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
so yeah, i haven't really seen any of my friends in weeks
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 December 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
ugh, i pretty much stay in my house all the time bc i can't afford to go anywhere
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 December 2012 08:11 (eleven years ago) link
sorry that sucks dude. i went through a period of being very down and very disconnected from friends for various reasons. i remember chatting to irl friends online sometimes made it worse and made me feel even more isolated. try and get some fresh air and human interaction even if it's strangers.
― tpp, Thursday, 20 December 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
Rev, it's a really small thing, but I hope you are supplementing with vitamin D. The lack of sun around Portland these past two months has been brutal.
― Aimless, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
It's been more than two years since I've lived there, but the same applies up here in the Seattle area, true.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
therapy's blowing my mind right now. i feel like i'm doing all the heavy lifting ... like, my therapist listens and throws out some ideas, offers some perspective, then i take that run with it ... i'm guessing that's how it should be? it's sure as hell working. i feel like i'm finally putting my overactive imagination to good use.
― Spectrum, Friday, 21 December 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
woah that was a little upbeat, guess i'm just enthused to see a little speck of light after years of darkness.
― Spectrum, Friday, 21 December 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
that's how it works
― the late great, Friday, 21 December 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
yep.
― wongo hulkington's jade palace late night buffet (silby), Friday, 21 December 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, it's not that I'm never happy, it's just that I'm sad a lot more often than is healthy.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Friday, 21 December 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
is this shitstain of a year over yet?
― packt like phoebe cates's dad in a chimney (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 22 December 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
not quite unfortunately
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
just a quick general question. are there really people out there who can genuinely -care- about people, like, from the heart? real caring? is that some kind-of illusion? my only experience from people is that they're out to use you for something, to get something from you for themselve and leave you out to dry when they're done. never had the good luck to happen upon one of these mythical beings who cared about you for the sake of you. is this childishly naive? i feel like my life experience is reminiscent of a william friedkin movie. i'm trying to get over my cynicism, but it's hard thinking of examples where there are truly good hearted people out there who took the time to give a crap.
if it's the case everyone's just out for themselves, then i might as well be a prick, too. i don't want to chase rainbows or other cliche phrases like that.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 23 December 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
No dude. There really are people out there that like people and love people and treat them with kindness.
You might not have any in your life right now, or you might not be able to recognize it or accept it right now if it is there.
I have a hard time with gifts or compliments. "Why are you doing this? I am confused. You know I'm shit, what is your motive for pretending otherwise?"
It's a hard time of year. Thoughts of my family infuriate me, and the desire for that "old-fashioned Christmas" stuff hurts if I think too much. Working retail, at least I can be consumed by the work.
― Zachary Taylor, Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
Spectrum, what ZT said. Also, here is a story about some people who definitely really care about people.
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
12th president otm
― mookieproof, Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
thanks ZT. totally hear you man about the family x-mas shit. holiday season will be over soon and then it's back to business as usual.
i have to believe there are people out there who can care, i feel that myself so it can't be that rare, just hard to express it when i see ulterior motives everywhere... they're all strangers, though, so that's prob just normal. it sounds like hell, like real hell, if everyone's really just out for themselves. what kind-of life is that to live, to just extract from others and peace out? the times i've done it i felt nothing but guilt for it. what emptiness to just live for yourself. yuggghhh.
"i want sex" "i want love" "i want everyone to like me" "i don't want to be alone" ... i see what you want. is this a bargain or something? how do we set our temporary contracts here? maybe i'm too much of a romantic, too emotional or something, who the heck knows.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know, i just feel like people only pretend to give a fuck and they expect you to play along in this stupid game of pretend where we all act like we care but don't. nominal attention takes precedence over genuineness ... an act of thought to resemble thought as opposed to real thought. what the crap is that? might as well just be straight about it. yet when you call a spade a spade and see through all the bullshit, you get called out on not playing this stupid game nobody wants to play anyway but we all have to because we expect it cuz it's just the way it is. oh life!!! what a ridiculous thing.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:44 (eleven years ago) link
i wish i could shoot myself in the heart sometimes
― Spectrum, Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
You have to understand though, that yes caring is a two-way street. People are indeed more likely to care about someone who cares about them too, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. That's simply the way human relationships work. You're not the only one who needs someone to care for them.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
It seems to me your problems are a) you don't want to care about anyone else because you feel it's false, and b) you reject other people who care about you for the same reasons. Neither of these things are conducive to creating the mutuality that is required for actual care to exist.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Sunday, 23 December 2012 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, maybe i need to give other people a shot. i pin my experiences on the few bad people out there, not so much on the good. cognitive distortion shit still. i also throw my attention at bad instead of good ... ugh. thanks dude. looks like i need to spend a few more years up in the himalayas.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 23 December 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
I guess what I'm trying to say is you can't expect empathy unless you're willing to give it.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Sunday, 23 December 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
but on the other hand, if you give empathy in the expectation of getting it in return, you're not doing it right.
― c sharp major, Sunday, 23 December 2012 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
the easiest way to make sure that there are people in the world who genuinely care about others is to be one of them.
― c sharp major, Sunday, 23 December 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
well, trying to be one. it's almost impossible to be one all the time.
― c sharp major, Sunday, 23 December 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JEEIn.jpg
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 23 December 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
"what kind-of life is that to live, to just extract from others and peace out?"http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2011/110615/1110615-Images/POTW-Tinkerbell.jpg
pretty awesome life is what kind it is.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 23 December 2012 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
Thank christ we're past the shortest day
― paolo, Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Thank christ we're past Christmas
― paolo, Saturday, 29 December 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― Nhex, Saturday, 29 December 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
so gracious of him to have only one bday a year
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Saturday, 29 December 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
it's like rain on yr wedding day
― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 December 2012 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
nth christmas in a row where stepdad's needless shittiness towards me (and rest of family's blindness to/ignorance of said shittiness) has left me super super super miserable.
i have literally no respect for this guy. why should i let his bullshit upset me so much?
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
this is what to myself in these situations: fuck that guy, right in the ear
― Nhex, Sunday, 30 December 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
do you think the shittiness upsets you because you don't say anything about it?
― the late great, Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
also your family is invalidating your emotions by acting like nothing's happening, which is another layer of hurt
― the late great, Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
i've definitely had a lot of esprit d'escalier since getting back home, thinking of the perfect response, the things i would've said if doing so wouldn't have broken my mum's heart. my little brother handles it all really well, but it gets under my skin so bad. and i can't tell if i'm being too sensitive about it all, and am bummed at myself for letting myself get hurt by it all.
and it was the first xmas since my granma, my favourite person on the planet, passed away. i guess there was no way it was going to go well, but...
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
why not just say "stepdad, when you say x, it makes me feel y, and i understand you are trying to z, but if you don't stop i'm going to ..."
― the late great, Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://studentservices.fgcu.edu/StudentConduct/files/D.E.S.C._Script.pdf
― the late great, Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not sure i'd go with that wording, but i do believe in saying your piece and hoping something good will come out of it, but not expecting anything really to change, because everything is full of shit and what can you do
― Nhex, Monday, 31 December 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
thanks both of you. i'm sure i should say what you're suggesting, late great, though when my partner has responded to him in similar ways the results were really unpleasant. most of all, this xmas has made me realise i should probably go back into therapy again.
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Monday, 31 December 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
You should now explain to your mom that, as much as you love her and want to see her, you won't be in the same room as your stepdad again until such time as he stops acting like (insert full explanantion of his actions). If she takes his side or brushes off your concerns as baseless or trivial, then talk to your mom on the phone in the future, reminding her from time to time that you'd love to come see her but...
― Aimless, Monday, 31 December 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
aimless otm
― the late great, Monday, 31 December 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link