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Hungover and uncaffeinated; posting but can't think of a response to either of thesequote:I'm in my mid 30s, and for about as long as I can remember, I have had basically no strong emotional feelings about anything. I don't feel lonely or sad, I don't get angry, and some things make me happy but I can't really imagine feeling joy or whatever. I used to think that was normal, but there's been a few times in my life that make me realize I'm pretty different from other people. quote:Let the thread fall back and finally got back to reading it.
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Oct 26, 2019 15:21
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Ex-girlfriend goon: That's good. It sounded like she just needs attention at all times and was reaching out to you since she figured you'd give it to her. Good luck on the new relationship! Robo-goon: I don't think that's all that uncommon. Lots of people are unemotional and you also understand that you should be feeling something so I don't think it's that bad (I'm kinda like that too. I know when I should be upset at something, but most of the time I just find myself not caring and give a "that sucks" or "gently caress this" accordingly). I could be wrong, I'm no therapist or anything, but I don't think you should worry about it. See how it feels when your kid comes and then go to therapy if you think you should.
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Oct 26, 2019 18:00
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Robo-goon: have you tried lsd???
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Oct 26, 2019 18:29
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Cacator posted:Robo-goon: have you tried lsd??? This but unironically
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Oct 26, 2019 19:00
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I recall a similar story I read somewhere about an unemotional guy. Until the day his first kid was born and holding his son for the first time, it was like a switch flipped and he cried for the first time. Then spent the next few weeks crying over every loss he'd had in his life; grandparents and friends who had died sometimes decades prior. Maybe that'll happen to you, robo goon
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Oct 26, 2019 19:24
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I believe that story was right here in this very thread and if not, it’s from this forum for sure.
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Oct 26, 2019 19:42
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I heard some guy even wrote a song about it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgK-1mpSljI
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Oct 26, 2019 20:17
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I think different human beings have different emotional ranges - and that's okay. Especially since getting sober I've felt more or less how robogoon describes it.
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Oct 26, 2019 22:42
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Super Waffle posted:I recall a similar story I read somewhere about an unemotional guy. Until the day his first kid was born and holding his son for the first time, it was like a switch flipped and he cried for the first time. Then spent the next few weeks crying over every loss he'd had in his life; grandparents and friends who had died sometimes decades prior. Maybe that'll happen to you, robo goon Also if this doesn't happen that's okay too. You sound like you've got a good compass, so just keep on going, I guess? Try therapy if you ever feel like it, otherwise I wouldn't. Uh maybe the LSD thing but I couldn't imagine taking the time for that with a newborn so now or in a few years lol. Also I don't know your wife but, "hey honey, now that you're pregnant I did drugs and now I'm a different person!" seems like a conversation that could go radically different ways.
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Oct 26, 2019 23:09
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Is the "LSD fixes depression/emotions" thing real? Because I did a ton of LSD in my 20's and it never really seemed to change me at all. Just let me have a good time for about a dozen hours and then feel a bit slow and crummy for a day afterward.
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Oct 27, 2019 00:38
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[reading confession from someone who is almost certainly a sociopath / psychopath] my dude, get on LSD. you will LOVE it. no bad can come of this.
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Oct 27, 2019 00:43
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Solice Kirsk posted:Is the "LSD fixes depression/emotions" thing real? Because I did a ton of LSD in my 20's and it never really seemed to change me at all. Just let me have a good time for about a dozen hours and then feel a bit slow and crummy for a day afterward. Well someone said it on the internet so...definitely
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Oct 27, 2019 00:44
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Solice Kirsk posted:Is the "LSD fixes depression/emotions" thing real? Because I did a ton of LSD in my 20's and it never really seemed to change me at all. Just let me have a good time for about a dozen hours and then feel a bit slow and crummy for a day afterward. There’s reason to believe in the therapeutic value of LSD.
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Oct 27, 2019 01:42
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Solice Kirsk posted:Is the "LSD fixes depression/emotions" thing real? Because I did a ton of LSD in my 20's and it never really seemed to change me at all. Just let me have a good time for about a dozen hours and then feel a bit slow and crummy for a day afterward.
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Oct 27, 2019 02:05
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Real thugs blaze ergotamine.
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Oct 27, 2019 02:41
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The most remarkable therapeutic results are from mushrooms, which are also way less counterfeited. Like 3 sigma for treatment resistant depression compared to prozac's like half a sigma. Lasts for about a month ish. Current biggest trials all have pretty bad methodological flaws and are small tho
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Oct 27, 2019 03:20
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not liking phonecalls isn’t weird and preferring face to face makes you more human, imo. 
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Oct 27, 2019 04:43
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Super Waffle posted:I recall a similar story I read somewhere about an unemotional guy. Until the day his first kid was born and holding his son for the first time, it was like a switch flipped and he cried for the first time. Then spent the next few weeks crying over every loss he'd had in his life; grandparents and friends who had died sometimes decades prior. Maybe that'll happen to you, robo goon I remember that coming up in a TG chat thread of all things where a new father didn't feel attached to his kid until one day the baby looked into his eyes and suddenly it opened the floodgates. Probably something with how men are basically trained from birth that they're not supposed to have emotions, and so once they do find they're allowed to express them it all comes flooding out.
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Oct 27, 2019 05:22
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Robo goon: seek therapy. Like seriously. Don't knock up a lady and expect looking into an infant's eyes to fix your depression/mental health issues.
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Oct 27, 2019 05:33
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There is no therapy that will put empathy into someone with anti-social personality disorder/whatever umbrella term is appropriate here. You can only teach someone afflicted with this to practice aping empathy and to curb their worst impulses. It's super depressing no matter how you look at it.
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Oct 27, 2019 06:32
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Rad-daddio posted:My wife and I were painting the kitchen a few years ago, and she actually managed to hit her face against a cabinet door and it gave her a legit black eye. Aww, the poor dear. It must have been a stressful experience for her and yourself. I bet that she's all better now with a beautiful face, and with a beautiful kitchen! My sister walked into the metal lock part of the gate, she's short and it's up high, so it was eye level to her. When she would walk around with her then boyfriend, they would give him dirty looks too. It's refreshing to see how people are protective of women, even though it's an accident, it kinda makes you feel a little bit better about society for shunning violence towards women instead of being complacent and cracking a joke.
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Oct 27, 2019 08:30
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Good Ol Filbert posted:Aww, the poor dear. It must have been a stressful experience for her and yourself. I bet that she's all better now with a beautiful face, and with a beautiful kitchen! If they weren't black eyes but something equally as obvious as abuse no one would give a poo poo and tut it off in the same vein as "she deserved it". It's hosed how easily our and really in society will give a wide breadth to the possibility of obvious abuse Through an insane series of bad events a girlfriend of mine gave me not one, but two black eyes at once and not a single person, stranger or family/friend, ever said a word lol
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Oct 27, 2019 09:21
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kazr posted:If they weren't black eyes but something equally as obvious as abuse no one would give a poo poo and tut it off in the same vein as "she deserved it". It's hosed how easily our and really in society will give a wide breadth to the possibility of obvious abuse It breaks my heart when I hear of abuse towards men, I'm sorry that you went through that. I'm assuming that you're a man. Machismo runs rampant and I feel like people may believe that you were in a fight over being hit by your loved one. It sounds scary and it sounds like it left your scarred physically and emotionally. I'm sorry that you went through that.
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Oct 27, 2019 09:28
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My wife caught a t-grip to the eye while Whitewater rafting. She then left for a conference on the other side of the country, where she received lots of comments and a few offers to take her someplace safe. I'm glad so many people looked out for her, even if that meant that I looked like a monster for a couple of weeks.
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Oct 27, 2019 11:31
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My wife fell over into some tree debris after a storm and came to work all covered in bruises and scratch marks for weeks. Unfortunately we're pretty sure her colleagues' comments were more about their love of scandal than actual concern. She doesn't work there anymore.
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Oct 27, 2019 12:30
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I was curling my hair and I accidentally burned a bit of my neck and it scabbed over, it was a bit on the purplish brownish side, so it looked like a hickey. I showed up to work with it, and my coworkers wanted to know who the lucky person was that gave me a vampire kiss. I laughed because, what am I in middle school? Get outta here!
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Oct 27, 2019 12:36
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I got mugged, well attempted mugging, and went into work with a big gash on my forehead, a black eye, and torn up knuckles and the only person to ask what happened was one of my clients that kinda has a little crush on me. Not one of my managers, none of the other bankers, non of my other clients asked or mentioned it at all. But if I wear a tiger tie they freak out.
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Oct 27, 2019 14:39
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I came to work with a strained back and my 15 year younger coworkers just assumed I had sex the previous night because olds hurt themselves doin’ it right? Hah hah yeah I had sex with my wife... hah hah. I hurt it picking up my kids toys.
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Oct 27, 2019 15:30
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Good Ol Filbert posted:It breaks my heart when I hear of abuse towards men, I'm sorry that you went through that. I'm assuming that you're a man. Machismo runs rampant and I feel like people may believe that you were in a fight over being hit by your loved one. It sounds scary and it sounds like it left your scarred physically and emotionally. I'm sorry that you went through that. I should have clarified better that it was a legitimate accident. She was a good person that wouldn't do something like that intentionally.
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Oct 28, 2019 02:05
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Lots of abusers coming up with bullshit cover up stories in this thread
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Oct 28, 2019 07:16
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Solice Kirsk posted:I got mugged, well attempted mugging, and went into work with a big gash on my forehead, a black eye, and torn up knuckles and the only person to ask what happened was one of my clients that kinda has a little crush on me. Not one of my managers, none of the other bankers, non of my other clients asked or mentioned it at all. But if I wear a tiger tie they freak out. Hey mugged buddy, I got attempted mugged/robbed when I was in Savannah, GA riding my bike home from a party, luckily I was pretty buzzed so I took the first hit pretty well, second hit came that split my eyebrow, I just kept pedaling (heard em yellin "get your rear end over here imma take your poo poo!". Two busted rear end bike tires afterwards, pulled my bloody face and broken rear end bike to a convenience store down the street and there was a cop there. I went up to her and she goes "oh my gawd, can I help you with something?" and I said "yeah a couple dudes down the street tried to rob me, could you head down there and see if they're still lurking?" and she just goes "nah, I'm not gonna do that, but do you need an ambulance or anything?" I said gently caress it and ruined my bike rims even more getting back and just decided to pass out on my dorm bed. Woke up with a bloody face crusted to my pillow and the only empathy I got was my roomie looking at my face the next day saying "drat man, that looks bad, gross." So yeh sorry bruv but people dont really give a poo poo about attempted muggins these days huh lol oh yeah same city I also had my car totalled by a group of folks that decided to steal a car, run a red light, t-bone me, and then 4 people take off running. Good times. ceebee fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Oct 29, 2019 |
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Oct 29, 2019 03:49
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loquacius posted:Robogoon I experience a similar phenomena, for me it's rooted in the fact that I don't see my life as special, notable, or particularly valuable so things that happen in it just don't touch me. Things that get other people all riled up and emotional seem silly and small. None of it actually matters all that much, so why would I let myself feel anything about it. Probably rooted in deep-seated depression and too much internal philosophizing. If you don't have symptoms of depression, maybe you're just autistic
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Play posted:I experience a similar phenomena, for me it's rooted in the fact that I don't see my life as special, notable, or particularly valuable so things that happen in it just don't touch me. Things that get other people all riled up and emotional seem silly and small. None of it actually matters all that much, so why would I let myself feel anything about it. Anonymous confessions: maybe you're just autistic? 
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Oct 29, 2019 23:21
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ceebee posted:a cop there. I went up to her and she goes "oh my gawd, can I help you with something?" and I said "yeah a couple dudes down the street tried to rob me, could you head down there and see if they're still lurking?" and she just goes "nah, I'm not gonna do that, but do you need an ambulance or anything?" Lmao
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Oct 30, 2019 02:57
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In some jurisdictions, cops have deals with ambulance companies and will try to push as hard as they can for an ambulance ride, no matter what the situation, so they get the kickback for “referring” you.
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Oct 30, 2019 08:03
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HerStuddMuffin posted:In some jurisdictions, cops have deals with ambulance companies and will try to push as hard as they can for an ambulance ride, no matter what the situation, so they get the kickback for “referring” you. and will often cause your injuries necessitating the need for the ambulance 
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Oct 30, 2019 13:14
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HerStuddMuffin posted:In some jurisdictions, cops have deals with ambulance companies and will try to push as hard as they can for an ambulance ride, no matter what the situation, so they get the kickback for “referring” you. Do you have a link to this or something? I haven't been outraged enough lately I guess.
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quote:(English as a second language, so sorry for any weird grammar etc.) Yeah absolutely don't make too big a "thing" of it, but it sounds like you know that. Hope everything goes well! quote:i'm not really scared of anything (i mean anything, including death), except mental decline. the thought of my mental faculties failing absolutely terrifies me. Honestly, same As I've gotten older I've found it really does feel like all of your past events kind of blend together (there's a lot of "wait, was that last year or the year before, I have no loving clue" type stuff) and if you're not careful you can feel like you're sleepwalking through life. I find it kind of interesting how since my insecurities are different from yours (you're worried about mental decline, while I'm worried about life passing me by) we can interpret the same symptoms (the past getting blurry, and feeling sluggish) as worrying indications of completely different problems.
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of course you remembered things better when you were little, you didn't have much to remember
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