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Lightning Knight posted:hi cspam. I’m really sad. taking your meds regularly is extremely worth it, provided that you don't have meds that are hostile to your mental health. hostile in the sense that the negative effects outweigh the benefits. or even scenarios where you're taking a medicine that's supposed to be helping you that isn't doing much of anything; those i'd consider 'hostile' because they're taking up the space that something actually beneficial could fill the ones i've ended up taking don't really fix things for me. but they provide a floor, feelingswise, that i don't find myself plunging through. all of the suicidal ideation and extreme depression thoughts have ceased. the meds might not fix your poo poo, but can provide a base level to build upon as for seeing a therapist--regularly + in a productive way---that's what i'm hung up on rn as well, so i can't offer any advice. Finicums Wake has issued a correction as of 05:53 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Aug 4, 2019 05:48
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Dragomorph posted:
lol that owns. had the same exchange with my very first therapist many years ago. one thing to remember in that same vein as your positive post is that there was a time when the word capitalism wasn't even in the normal american lexicon. now it's front and center. being talked about and critiqued often. even normies/centrists don't recoil at the word as quickly anymore. as things get worse (i.e. rent and healthcare become more untenable) the arguments for leftist policies become so much easier to argue: "wait you work full time and cant afford to live, does that sound right to you?" also more and more boomers are dying every day and gen z, although somewhat enveloped by consumerism, are extremely open to leftist ideology. the future looks bright good luck my friend and thanks for the website
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Aug 4, 2019 09:45
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Chokes McGee posted:yes and then follow it with “I don’t seem to have the energy to do anything and now I feel bad because of it” i get this all the time and now that your story has given me the vocabulary to describe it I am going to bring it up on Monday
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Aug 4, 2019 09:57
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E:wrong thread
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Aug 4, 2019 10:01
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smarxist posted:Starting to stack up these mass shootings like hobbit meals CNN interrupted its live report of the aftermath of a mass shooting to go live to a mass shooting in progress.  
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Aug 4, 2019 10:02
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Aug 4, 2019 12:49
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last night I was at a bar that had an attempted armed robbery and a manager got shot in the hand (he's ok). after I got myself out of that spiral I wake up to another mass shooting. jesus christ
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Aug 4, 2019 19:05
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Addamere posted:i get this all the time and now that your story has given me the vocabulary to describe it I am going to bring it up on Monday 
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Aug 4, 2019 19:36
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Consummate Professional posted:last night I was at a bar that had an attempted armed robbery and a manager got shot in the hand (he's ok). after I got myself out of that spiral I wake up to another mass shooting. jesus christ My "flee to the hills and start a collective subsistence farm" plan is becoming less and less of a joke and half the reason is that I don't want to get loving shot
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Aug 4, 2019 19:44
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genuinely want to ask my boss if they can help me get in touch with our Canadian branch
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Aug 4, 2019 20:09
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I’ve started learning Swedish and wondering if they’d have me like it’s cold sure but it’d be nice to have a visa in a place that wasn’t god awful
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Aug 4, 2019 20:19
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Gotta remind myself it's okay to be sad today. It's a normal reaction to horrible events.
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Aug 4, 2019 20:37
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i asked my buddy a couple weeks ago if I could morally leave the u.s. while I can, or if i had to stay and fight for positive change, but he thought i was suicidal and reached out to my wife lol. it was nice of him to let her know he was concerned but nah, I meant lasso myself to my wife who works in medicine and can petition the canadian maritimes for a work visa based on her skills and education. she's got skills, and I've got a job I can do anywhere in the world provided I have an internet connection and reasonable access to an airport I just see this country getting a whole lit worse before it gets better
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Aug 4, 2019 21:58
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Eat This Glob posted:i asked my buddy a couple weeks ago if I could morally leave the u.s. while I can, or if i had to stay and fight for positive change, but he thought i was suicidal and reached out to my wife lol. it was nice of him to let her know he was concerned but nah, I meant lasso myself to my wife who works in medicine and can petition the canadian maritimes for a work visa based on her skills and education. she's got skills, and I've got a job I can do anywhere in the world provided I have an internet connection and reasonable access to an airport
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Aug 4, 2019 23:16
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FactsAreUseless posted:you have no moral obligation to remain in the US agreed - a dumb rear end who was in the military also. what job can I take around the world?
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Aug 4, 2019 23:18
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Aug 4, 2019 23:25
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sometimes I'll feel really depressed and tired for an hour or two and then comparatively fine and I've never really been able to figure out why it is
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Aug 5, 2019 02:08
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turn off the TV posted:sometimes I'll feel really depressed and tired for an hour or two and then comparatively fine and I've never really been able to figure out why it is Depressive mood swings are a well known characteristic of the disorder, given certain conditions ("triggers" aren't the proper word) the mind abates in reaction, as if trying to preserve itself If possible, try to notice what leads to those episodes: they rarely need a precise, very noticeable event that makes you "oh that was most definitely the cause" in a day-to-day basis, the majority of those led by combinations of factors or even the unconscious perception of different situations that, in retrospect, were about handling a bunch of difficult emotions (For example, I remember a particular day months ago that, after dealing with a lot of what we could call life bullshit in a single day, listening to the bad stuff that happened to different friends and feeling a lot of empathy, I got home late and in ten minutes, for what I couldn't figure out for the life of me, I bawled myself out and had a very strong "life is simply too much", only to much later realize that actually, yeah, I had a pretty full plate that day listening to the bad things that happened to my friends and being sensitive to that sort of stuff, that was an adequate response given my treatment of chronic depression. Dysthymia leads us to the contrary: to the shutdown of emotional expression, as a means of the mind to limit the load that it can handle)
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Aug 5, 2019 05:14
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Just feels like I have absolutely no control over my life. I feel certain society will collapse in 10-20 years, I'm so pessimistic about the left's chances just judging from how no one can loving agree on anything, but I can't seem to make anything go right so I can at least be happy in those years. Can't get a job that makes me a good amount of money so I don't feel stressed out every time I spend on anything, couldn't hold together a relationship because I'm such a loving chore to be around, can't stop feeling ashamed about being trans. I feel like I just constantly seek out arguments here because I feel like maybe I can have some control over something small if I can at least win a stupid rear end fight online, but all the loving people here are just way better at being a petty rear end in a top hat than I am because I have barely any sense of humor or ability to banter.
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Aug 5, 2019 13:23
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Aug 5, 2019 16:54
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dead gay comedy forums posted:Depressive mood swings are a well known characteristic of the disorder, given certain conditions ("triggers" aren't the proper word) the mind abates in reaction, as if trying to preserve itself triggers are absolutely the correct word, especially if it's bipolar.
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Aug 5, 2019 17:03
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FactsAreUseless posted:you have no moral obligation to remain in the US I seriously wish my French was still up to snuff, but I don't think MY WIFE would be happy there 
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Aug 5, 2019 17:04
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does she only eat freedom fries france owns
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Aug 5, 2019 17:06
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Chokes McGee posted:triggers are absolutely the correct word, especially if it's bipolar. Good to know! To clarify, I meant that I didn't know if trigger was the precise term edit: fast shitpost ahoy
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Aug 5, 2019 17:08
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yeah if I spoke any french beyond please, thank you, and move your tongue - i need to fart, I'd move there in a heartbeat. my wife took 6 years of spanish though I doubt it'd be work-in-a-hospital-good without a lot of immersive learning, so I'm eyeballing english speaking places lol
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Aug 5, 2019 17:09
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SunAndSpring posted:I feel like I just constantly seek out arguments here because I feel like maybe I can have some control over something small if I can at least win a stupid rear end fight online that's a good observation, friend  "Control", in the way that we are taught to think of it, is an illusion: if life (the world, God, fate, anything that fits the bill) goes to gently caress us up, it will gently caress us up, regardless of how "in control" we are of things. If anything, "having more control" leads to much greater levels of stress and unhealthy mental behavior. I find that remembering that the world can't be dealt in terms of "personal responsibility" very helpful in such situations. If possible, according to your own capacity, take your time to do the things you need to and allow yourself the necessary space to catch your breath.
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Aug 5, 2019 17:26
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dead gay comedy forums posted:Good to know! To clarify, I meant that I didn't know if trigger was the precise term all good friendo
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Aug 5, 2019 18:59
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i wish that i knew what to do when i get irrationally anxious or terrified of something. i can recognize that my reaction doesn't make sense i can't seem to stop that reaction from happening. like i can sit here and think about why nothing bad is going to happen if i buy more trash bags but lol i still feel like i'm having a heart attack
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Aug 5, 2019 19:15
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turn off the TV posted:i wish that i knew what to do when i get irrationally anxious or terrified of something. i can recognize that my reaction doesn't make sense i can't seem to stop that reaction from happening. Breathe in through your nose for a four count. Hold your breath for a four count. Breathe out through your mouth for a four count. Repeat for a couple of minutes, and it may help get things under control. Failing that, if you've been prescribed benzos, use 'em.
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Aug 5, 2019 19:42
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just a reminder for the thread that its extremely easy to find marxists saying that the u.s. (or the entire capitalist system!!) has been doomed to implode in the next 5 to 10 years since like the 50's (The 70's were a particularly juicy time since S T A G F L A T I ON.) You don't have to imprison yourself within the iron bars of self-assured clairvoyance. If you're specifically worried about society collapsing in x years... you're overestimating your own capabilities. Hell, it's easy to find marxist economists saying that the u.s. has been ready for an economic downturn within the next 3 months on any number of blogs written in the past 20 years. It's interesting that in the 90's it was the liberals who convinced themselves that they were living at the end of history, but now its our turn. And we don't have to to do this to ourselves. If you're having climate related anxiety, this website was extremely helpful to me: https://climatefeedback.org/ . It's a website run by scientists (they have a sister one that does healthfeedback) where they respond to popular articles on climate change. Most of them are useful takedowns of denialism, but every month or so they come out with one that responds to the other side of denialism - apocalyptic despair.
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Aug 5, 2019 20:10
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90s liberal end of history wasn't/isn't apocalyptic, it's the notion that the world has simply settled into a final state of perpetual equilibrium. less "we're all going to die soon", more "everything important has already happened and now for the rest of eternity this well-oiled machine will simply hum along needing only minor tuning from technocrats"
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Aug 5, 2019 20:42
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Hey thanks for the Climate Feedback website! A lot of my anxiety about the whole climate thing, besides being a minuscule piece of a gigantic, systemic problem, is just I'm not terribly well informed. And every time I go to learn more, it's like dunking my head into a bucket of anxiety.
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Aug 5, 2019 20:43
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SunAndSpring posted:Just feels like I have absolutely no control over my life. I feel certain society will collapse in 10-20 years, I'm so pessimistic about the left's chances just judging from how no one can loving agree on anything, but I can't seem to make anything go right so I can at least be happy in those years. Can't get a job that makes me a good amount of money so I don't feel stressed out every time I spend on anything, couldn't hold together a relationship because I'm such a loving chore to be around, can't stop feeling ashamed about being trans. I feel like I just constantly seek out arguments here because I feel like maybe I can have some control over something small if I can at least win a stupid rear end fight online, but all the loving people here are just way better at being a petty rear end in a top hat than I am because I have barely any sense of humor or ability to banter. It's been worse before this. I mean there was a civil war with 600k+ people dead from it. Societal collapse is even beyond a civil war.
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Aug 5, 2019 20:51
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hailthefish posted:90s liberal end of history wasn't/isn't apocalyptic, it's the notion that the world has simply settled into a final state of perpetual equilibrium. More like Francis Fuckyouyama
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Aug 5, 2019 20:59
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hailthefish posted:90s liberal end of history wasn't/isn't apocalyptic, it's the notion that the world has simply settled into a final state of perpetual equilibrium. I’m not saying you’re wrong but I am saying that particular equilibrium is an apocalypse, just one of collective consciousness
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Aug 5, 2019 21:08
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yeah don't go full /r/collapse, but its important to acknowledge that things are really bad, but not ending
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Aug 5, 2019 21:48
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Is stress addiction a thing? I mean, that's probably why I feel comfortable here, constantly on the verge of breaking completely, isn't it?
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Aug 5, 2019 21:54
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Sometimes people with PTSD do that
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Aug 5, 2019 22:22
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hailthefish posted:90s liberal end of history wasn't/isn't apocalyptic, it's the notion that the world has simply settled into a final state of perpetual equilibrium. Yeah what I'm comparing is the paradigm of pretending to have completely made a constellation of all future events perfectly within a theoretical framework. We are now doing it to declare the game's over and we've lost, wheras earlier the libs were doing it to declare the game's over and they had won.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:28
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hooray i got a phone interview this week, which will lead to getting ghosted again i bet
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