man who needs therapy discovers he may need therapy
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Then discovers he can't afford therapy
just so you know, it's a lot more affordable than you might think, and many therapists offer reduced rates for people on low incomes
The best therapy is to just go in the forest and fight a bear. It'll put some hair on your chest and it'll put things in perspective.
I doubt fighting a bear would have helped me overcome my trauma from being abused as a kid tbh
I'm sorry that happened to you and I'm glad you found the support and care that you needed now please go fight a bear.
I don't know. Ever win a fight? I felt like the gorilla god king of the block for like a week after beating up someone who attacked me. It was better then cocaine
you can do both
Forcing your self to feel feelings that you think "are right" is a good way to guilt trip yourself into insanity. The reality is feelings are oscillatory, sometimes you love someone to bits, sometimes you are impartial to them, sometimes you want a bit of space. If one is overweighing the others in a way that you think contradicts your proximity to this person then it is time to have an adult conversation. But you can't judge your relation, yourself or the other person based on a single moment of feeling you had one morning.
The point is not to squish feelings that may look contradictory to your perceived relation with a person, the point is to finesse them, i.e live them without hurting the other person. ex, don't act like a dick when you want a bit of space (also don't be a dick when the other person does too).
Very well put! I'm always impressed with thoughtful writing that is fluid and natural to follow as a reader. Just curious, do you write a lot?
And on the actual topic, I'd add that observation of such feelings, and their relation to physical, mental, and social events and environment, is often an important starting point. I've been surprised myself at how much some pretty simple causality had been obscured by ad hoc constructions. For whatever reason, THC has been quite a tool for me to make those underlying foundations obvious.
Thanks and no I am not much of a writer but this just turns out to be one particular topic that I thought alot about.
The point is to regulate and control your feelings. Not let them control you.
A partner won't fix you, or at least you shouldn't expect them to. A partner is there to support you in good times and bad. A crutch to lean on when you need it. Someone to comfort you when you need it. They aren't some magic tool to correct issues you might have.
However partner can be a driving force for you to start fighting for yourself - an external motivation. And partner can offer a boost to perceived self worth. Enough to enable you to try to fight for yourself.
A partner can also the source of your misery and separating yourself from them can finally allow you to respect yourself.
I wanted to argue. I really did. I hate it and I don't want to connect partner as a word to abusive fucks you mention. But I cannot as they are included. Have an updoot and know you ruined my day ;-;
haha, it gets worse. you can have a partner who was wonderful and morphs into an abusive horrible person over time, because they become unhappy with their life and you become their punching bag.
Trying doing some ecstasy/mushrooms/LSD
(It won't necessarily fix you not having a gf, just to be clear)
Tried, doesn't work. Just makes you feel sick.
It also depends a lot on how you did and what and in what sort of an environment and with what sort of company.
These experiences are highly subjective and I don't deny that often mushrooms cause nausea for instance. LSD and MDMA less so, but it's not unheard of.
They're not perfect, but there's very much is science behind my point.
I believe enjoying these things needs the kind of environment that had it been available, you simply wouldn't need narcotics to enjoy yourself in the first place.
LSD, shrooms and MDMA are a specific groups of drugs. Just like narcotics are. But they aren't the same group. Opiates, benzos, etc "downers" are narcotics if we're being technical.
Tell me, how long have you suffered from treatment resistant severe clinical depression? Oh you haven't? Ah. But you're just saying those people would be just as well off without said medication?
Mind you, I don't think you complain when people have a drink or two to relax.
Huh, bottom three, the least dangerous ones. Which are those?
It also won't fix the problem, and also make you realize that you've never felt true happiness before in your life. And then you further realize that you never will feel that way again without drugs. (Remember that the first time is always the strongest!)
It also won't fix the problem
It most definitely can. While obviously recreational use is a bit different than having MDMA/psilocybin/LSD-therapy (or ketamine, which is slightly more acceptable for some reason, but works in a different fashion psychoactively so not relevant here).
And then you further realize that you never will feel that way again without drugs.
Lol any other drug propaganda you heard in preschool you wish to share? I've done every single drug you can think of, never addicted to anything except maybe weed a bit (and when I was younger also cigarettes and caffeine), and I've never felt anything even close as powerful as when you properly get infatuated. Because that is honestly a very strong cocktail of hormones and the difference between hormones and neurotransmitters is quite small, some acting as both.
Remember that the first time is always the strongest!)
Also incorrect. Was you first time tasting coffee the strongest caffeine rush you've had, or was it a bit later when you'd got used to it and could binge? Same with alcohol. Except that with serotonergic substances, you don't do that.
One single use can alleviate severely depression on terminally ill patients for months. Literally. That's not those people being high or having some false sense of happiness.
If you want me to get more objective about how it works and why I suggest it to OP, then here. Think of your emotional memory being associative memory, like smells are. You can probably remember what your first gf/bf smelled like, at least vaguely, but if you actually had the taste in front of your nose, it would unlock just tons of visceral memories. Now you had those memories even before having the scent in your nose, but they were sort of "locked" behind the associated trigger. It's not about what is a trigger and what is not, but the general associative nature of it. When you do a serotonergic substance for a sufficient dose, it floods your head with all sorts of those triggers, but the ones that have to do with serotonin, ie good feelings of unity etc orrr on the flipside high anxiety (that's why MDMA with a therapist is preferred to shrooms by yourself, so it actually goes the pleasant route and you don't get a serotonin induced panic response, ie a "bad trip"). And since your brain is flooded, it also unlocks a lot of memories of happy times and contentedness, which in depression just sort of "fade away" because you haven't felt them in a long time and depression is a feedback loop.
Thats why you need a powerful substance to break the loop.
So unlike psychiatrist have been pushing for like 30 years, serotonin reuptake inhibitors (prozac, cipralex, escitalopram, etc) don't actually function well, despite there being a little bit of an idea behind it (as in a correctly identified system, serotonin). The problem is that low dose over a long time won't help, high dose over a short time will. Kinda like setting something on fire. A slightly warm electric battery won't help no matter how long you keep dry grass on it.
Shit analogy at the end but the theories hold true.
I can find more detailed sources but I'm kinda tired and wrote all that already so leave your questions/doubts under this akd I'll adress them tomorrow if you can't find it on this basic wiki which I didn't read currently I've just read a lot over the years and can't be arsed to try and look for specific references rn
It can also force you to confront your issues rather than just staring at them cowering. Every acid trip I've had has included about an hour of my brain sitting me down and going "ok, real talk Cap, here's something you've been up to that's hurting you and/or others." It also forced me to really confront the feelings I'd been strong in the face of. It also forces you to rethink and reevaluate situations. And all that was semi recreational
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I mean that's not actual loneliness then? You can be depressed without feeling lonely I think?
Congratulations on correctly reading the post.
Why won't it be? You can be lonely despite having company.
Sure but that's not what's happening here. Anon thought he was lonely but he was actually depressed.
Be sad together
Lmao same 🤣🤣🤣
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