ThePermanentFix
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- Nov 21, 2023
There is some decent advice here, but sometimes there is no cure other than meds, either temporary or permanently. I was fucked from about 17/18 all the way until 26. I thought both my break-ups were the issue, I wasn't good enough, I wasn't attractive enough. I fed myself straight up lies all day. I was on a consistent roller coaster of self-improvement then deep depression. Girls were attracted to me when I was younger and just being myself, but every time my depressed period would ruin it and I would self sabotage.
It wasn't until I had to be hospitalised due to thoughts I was about to act on at 25 did I truly begin to get better. This was thanks to meds and finding someone to help me address the real issues like the fact I never had a challenge in my life until I left highschool so I didn't know how to deal with difficult things or failure at at all, any failure was the end of the world for me, I had no coping mechanism other than to give up and blame myself for being a shit cunt. Or the fact I stigmatised meds so bad I avoided them for 7 years and probably could have fixed myself much sooner. Shit like that.
Sometimes you just gotta be real and accept you need them to move on with your life. It has taken me from 26-29 to build up baseline skills and healthy coping mechanism other people developed naturally and another year to start truly figuring out what I want and start moving in that direction. I only joined here now because I know I have a real shot at making the changes and I know even if I fuck it all up I can simply just try again and improve.
You've made massive improvements so far bro, so keep at it, you've improved more in your time here than so many others will in their entire lifetime, especially those who have a similar mindset that you began with, but I somewhat agree with Jake that sometimes you need that extra help with certain things that a forum cannot provide (obviously still post here for the things the more experienced people here can help you with).
It wasn't until I had to be hospitalised due to thoughts I was about to act on at 25 did I truly begin to get better. This was thanks to meds and finding someone to help me address the real issues like the fact I never had a challenge in my life until I left highschool so I didn't know how to deal with difficult things or failure at at all, any failure was the end of the world for me, I had no coping mechanism other than to give up and blame myself for being a shit cunt. Or the fact I stigmatised meds so bad I avoided them for 7 years and probably could have fixed myself much sooner. Shit like that.
Sometimes you just gotta be real and accept you need them to move on with your life. It has taken me from 26-29 to build up baseline skills and healthy coping mechanism other people developed naturally and another year to start truly figuring out what I want and start moving in that direction. I only joined here now because I know I have a real shot at making the changes and I know even if I fuck it all up I can simply just try again and improve.
You've made massive improvements so far bro, so keep at it, you've improved more in your time here than so many others will in their entire lifetime, especially those who have a similar mindset that you began with, but I somewhat agree with Jake that sometimes you need that extra help with certain things that a forum cannot provide (obviously still post here for the things the more experienced people here can help you with).