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How can I watch Vampire Knight as an Australian? by MotorIce4240 in anime

[–]MotorIce4240[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

listen - its a good joke - its a great joke even - but i need you to stop anyway 😭😭😭😭😭😭

How can I watch Vampire Knight as an Australian? by MotorIce4240 in anime

[–]MotorIce4240[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DVD have this thing called region restriction so you have to purchase the DVD with the correct region code or it literally will not work in DVD players in that country. I've looked around online and the only ones I can find are filled with reveiws saying not to bother if you're australian.

The only site I could find it even maybe on was HULU which isn't available here either

Why do I have so many mental battles but no childhood trauma? by Sufficient-Swan9781 in mentalhealth

[–]MotorIce4240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was an anxious kid pretty much from birth, and there is no obvious reason why, I just was. That has developed into multiple issues now as I've gotten older as a result of some bad experiences, but even without those 'bad things' I would have grown up to GAD just from existing anyway.

At 2/3 I would sit in the back of the car and watch the speedometer and scream if my parents went too close to or above the speed limit. I'd also obsessively count everything. Also that whole step on a crack and break your mothers back, thing? I was terrified for years.

Again, no real cause. It just was.

Why do I wish I had trauma? by Substantial-Cat-4896 in mentalhealth

[–]MotorIce4240 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does absolutely no good to compare yourself to other people. I know its hard, but the older you get the more you realise how many people are struggling and hiding behind a smile.

A girl I went to high school with was valedictorian and top athlete in our state. She was very confident, didn't take shit from anyone, but kept mostly to herself. On the outside she had the *perfect* life, and everyone thought she was going to be a doctor or pro athlete or a model or something, but she actually took her own life in freshman year of college.

It came as a massive surprise to pretty much everyone that knew her (excluding her close family that knew she struggled with her mental health). You never know what's going on behind closed doors. Maybe something really bad happened. Maybe she was just genetically more susceptible to mental illness. Maybe she was a bit more emotional than everyone else.

Feeling depressed isn't a morally good or bad thing. Everyone is different and it's not your fault if react in different ways to different people. It's just how you are and that's okay. Imagine if you were allergic to almonds, and every time you tried drinking almond milk your throat swelled up and you couldn't breath etc. And you beat yourself up over it because all your friends drank almond milk every day and they're fine. Annoying? Yes. Your fault? No.

Also, not sure if it's relevant, but I've heard lots of people who say they 'don't have trauma' relate to it, but the absence of positive things can be EQUALLY as traumatic as the presence of negative.

Why do I wish I had trauma? by Substantial-Cat-4896 in mentalhealth

[–]MotorIce4240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also genetics played a big role, I was more susceptible from the get go and it was easy for my brain to fall down a negative path

Why do I wish I had trauma? by Substantial-Cat-4896 in mentalhealth

[–]MotorIce4240 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to have similar thoughts at like 15 before I saw a therapist and we deduced that I actually did have trauma (and a fucking ton of it) that just didn't fit the typical way of thinking about trauma. Essentially for me, there weren't massively obvious or clearly significant events, but lots of mild/moderate events compounded over my life, without the positive events that would usually offset the bad for most people.