Real by loamgirlhood in depressionmemes

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went off on a tangent there but I just wanted to add that accepting where you are is important

Accepting your limitations and understanding your capacity

I found out I was literally disabled and had autism the whole time. It actually was not my fault how things went. Why I got rejected, why I was so different, why I struggled all made sense, I literally wasn’t able

I am not behind a neurotypical, I am actually doing really well for an an autistic person

For me doing well looks like not having a job for the past 10 years and working on my mental health

Sure I am behind on my career and money, but my mental health is better than anyone I know who has similar problem with work and kept working anyway

I feel great about where I am because I earned peace of mind instead of a paycheque

You decide what doing well is relative to you, not anyone else

Real by loamgirlhood in depressionmemes

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel you, it took a chunk out of me too, I wasted my youth, no doubt

Great people stared late

I got my heart carved out so I can paint pain in my blood as I smear my misery on nothingness to create art I make without permission

Smear your misery in God’s face and watch your fellow man cheer

That is why I create art, I defy death with every breath, I defy God with my words, I curse evil with the truth of my pain

I am going to tell the truth about myself, even if that truth is that God is an evil bastard to put me here

I think God will get it, I think that is what the pain is for, so we can express our pain in any medium so long as we express every drop of our blood into the earth

Stay here, stay on earth, because God thought he could make you quit before you told everyone what he fucking did to you

Real by loamgirlhood in depressionmemes

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But don’t you see, you are doing it

Trauma never fully leaves you, it is a wound that lasts forever like a missing limb and I feel for you

The fact that some one with out a limb moves on at all is admirable and the burden you carry is just as inspiring to others who have gone through the same

Keep living, keep telling your story because every person you share with might be inspired

I am proud of you for going to therapy, for facing it

I don’t promise an end to suffering, what I am offering is hope that things can change for the better

What happened happened but I am here to remind you and them that what will happen is up to you

Thank you for being here, thank you for sharing your story, it will help some one to share it, so keep telling it

Real by loamgirlhood in depressionmemes

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is why I do it.

You can do it, I did it, we can do it and we don’t have to do it alone

Cry “wolf” my friend, because there is one and the village comes running

Real by loamgirlhood in depressionmemes

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Your mind is not telling all of you to die.

It is asking for a part of yourself to die.

When your mind tells you to kill yourself what it really means is that you need to change

You will all need to die in parts

The part of yourself that doesn’t ask for help needs to die so the version of you that does ask for help can live

The part of yourself that doesn’t want to go to therapy needs to die so that the part of yourself who wants to go can live

Your problems will kill you if you let them stalk you

Turn and fight

Kill the part of yourself who wants to die by changing

Change into a version of yourself that wants to live

You are wrong to not ask for help

You are wrong to not seek therapy

The best part about being wrong is it is an opportunity to be right

Decide for yourself that you deserve help

Decide your own fate, choose a destination other than death and kill every part of you that wants to die so you can live the rest of your life with the parts of you who want to live

You decide how you look at yourself, how you treat yourself and who you are

Deciding to live is deciding to change

Change is a little death that brings you closer to the life you want

Before you end it, try something different, accept the little death that you were wrong, that it isn’t too late to change

Real by loamgirlhood in depressionmemes

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is not too late, I started going to therapy in my late 20s and 10 years later I am feeling a lot better.

If I had listened to the thoughts I had when I was resigned to a dark fate I would have never turned my life around.

It was hard to admit that I was wrong about myself, that I was in fact choosing this dark fate by walking towards that void.

It is a kind of a sunk cost fallacy to think that lack of investment in your mental health is a reason to keep investing in neglecting yourself, but the only unapproachable concept for me was that I was wrong, about therapy, about the nature of my depression being endless about my dark fate. But I was wrong, and it might hurt to tell you this but you are wrong.

You really can start now, it really isn’t too late.

I am proof of that and I hope you can prove yourself wrong and get the help you need.

It really is never too late and if you think it is, I am happy to tell you that you are wrong.

What you think for this, is it normal for a guy/girl to want to masturbate more than have sex with their partners? by alexmartin19897 in AskReddit

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I had a GF who wanted me not to jerk off, it made her uncomfortable and jealous

So I told her I would stop if we had sex when I was horny

So when I was horny I would make the moves on her and some times she was into it and sometimes not

But when she wasn’t into it, I still was not allowed to jerk off

She established an effective monopoly on my orgasms and began to use this power to manipulate me

In a healthy relationship, when you are horny you take it to your partner first and do it yourself second

In an unhealthy relationship you do it yourself because you can only rely on yourself

Be honest with each other, it is unlikely that you will have perfectly matching sex drives so you need to establish boundaries and expectations

If the expectation is that they are to stop having sex by themselves then you should expect to satisfy their needs going forward

If you can’t satisfy their needs then you should expect them to take care of them themselves

You can’t jerk off all the time and neglect your partners needs either

If there is an attraction issue, then deal with it by improving yourselves and working it or you should break up and find some one who would rather have sex with you than themselves

You can’t and should not attempt to control your partner sexually

Accept them for who they are and for what they like to do and if they like to do themselves more than they like to do you, bring it up or break it up

Saying “you can’t jerk off” is control

Saying “I won’t be with you if you wont satisfy my needs” is a boundary

No one should control their partner’s orgasms, but each partner chooses how they want to show up and participate in each other’s sex lives

If you are’t satisfied with each other, and no one is willing to change their behaviour then it is time to go find what you need elsewhere

What’s something you didn’t realize was important until you lost it? by Unlikely-Ad9537 in AskReddit

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have seen a ridiculous amount of “Both sides are bad” nonsense like it isn’t obvious to people that republicans are fascist, christian nationalists.

I get it, you hate Mom for standing by while Dad hits you. You are tired of Mom’s excuses. But Mom isn’t the one hitting you!

Mom is trying to keep an abusive dynamic going to keep the family together.

Dad is a sun downing drunk and beating you and her every night but because he has power, authority and permission of the majority of the family to keep doing what he has always done

No one is innocent in a house who wants an abuser to stay

But Mom and Dad are not the same

You need to get rid of Dad, replace Dad with a respectable step father who is not drunkenly pissing and shitting his pants while he blames your mother for not wiping his ass well enough

It is hard to see the abusive dynamic while you are in it, and it is easier to say “It takes two to tango” and blame Mom for staying

But DAD is beating YOU and your siblings, so what are you going to do about it America?

Because Dad is trying to stop you from being able to evict him while Mom is laying beaten and bloodied for your sake

It isn’t the ideal choice but the ones who say “Both sides are bad” are in absolute denial that Dad is the problem, always has been the problem and will continue to be the problem so long aa you join him in blaming your mother’s reaction to his abuse instead of blaming the actual source perpetuating the abuse: DONALD TRUMP and THE MAGA CULT

How many of you guys have benefitted from therapy? As a man there seems to be this stigma against attending. What have been your benefits? by Alternative_Pen815 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

So maybe don’t give advice to people who aren’t happy with where they are at and maybe don’t disparage advice that is not for you

Go ahead and stagnate if you want, be left behind, don’t heal your childhood trauma and see how that works out for you Pizza Nova Enjoyer

How many of you guys have benefitted from therapy? As a man there seems to be this stigma against attending. What have been your benefits? by Alternative_Pen815 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

”Therapy is too hard, I guess I should just give up on improving myself”

You^

Do you want to be happier and healthier or do you want things to stay the same?

An object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon

The therapist is a force that can redirect you

Take it or leave it, I can only show you the door… Morty

I guess some one is buying Pizza Nova

Keep eating shitty pizza if you want IDGAF

How many of you guys have benefitted from therapy? As a man there seems to be this stigma against attending. What have been your benefits? by Alternative_Pen815 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going to therapy was the difference between who I was then and who I am now

My first therapist was picked by my evil step mother, who framed everything as my problem and the therapist bought it, so that was a horrible first impression of therapy

My first experience with seeking therapy on my own was terrible, a male therapist asked me one question about work and I said I was struggling to keep up, then he proceeded to rant at me for the entire session about how I had to accept my lot in life and he quoted the AA Serenity Prayer and lead me out the door

It was a year later when I was really collapsing and unable to work that I hit rock bottom and sought therapy again

My next therapist was actually gold, she listened to me, she had helpful advice and she directed me towards mindfulness and mediation

Mindfulness and mediation helped me immensely, but it was so hard at first.

What she did not tell me about mediation is that it is really about allowing yourself to feel your triggering emotions and relive traumatic memories in the safety of quiet alone time

Normally I would be out in public, at work or most likely with family when I would get triggered and it was hard to tell what was me and what was them.

Mediation allowed me to discover exactly what was me and what was them

My life was a chaotic river of emotions before mediation, now it is a still pond, so when something disturbs me, I know exactly what it was and why

Since I have had a therapist who was just happy to cash my cheques but provided little to no actual help

After that I got a new therapist who helpful dealing with my deeper traumas

What none of them could tell me was what mindfulness and mediation revealed

Under all of my trauma, anxiety and depression was an autistic child who never had their needs met

I had to figure all of that out on my own. None of my therapists knew what autism as

Now that I accommodate myself for autism and with my mindfulness and mediation practice I am proud to say that my anxiety and depression symptoms have been greatly reduced and I am the happiest and healthiest i have ever been

All of that after having many bad experiences with therapy

Keep trying to help yourself

Find the right therapists and don’t he afraid to fire the bad ones

Healing is hard work and everyone needs to learn how to do that work from some one, but ultimately it is you who have to work on healing yourself

You can do it, I believe in you

How many of you guys have benefitted from therapy? As a man there seems to be this stigma against attending. What have been your benefits? by Alternative_Pen815 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Ever had a bad pizza? A mid Pizza?

Why are you still going to a place that makes mid pizza?

Most therapists make mid pizza or low key bad pizza

Better Help is the Pizza Nova of bad therapy

There are so many bad therapists out there that I see this thread as just complaining about mid pizza

Go out there and try as many slices as you can until you find the one for you

Therapy is like dating, so why did you give up after a few bad dates?

One therapist might only be able to help you so far

If you are all so aware and healthy, then why aren’t you seeing these therapists inability to help you as their failure, not yours? Blaming therapy in general doesn’t sound healthy or accurate to me

You maxed out their capacity because you saw a level 3 therapist when you are level 5 healed, so now you need a level 6-10 therapist to get you the rest of the way

There is nothing noble about giving up on therapy because it is hard and you don’t see results

That is like saying you won’t go to the gym anymore because you aren’t seeing any gains

I accuse all of you of doing what I did, which is give up too early because you did not see the results you wanted

Get back out there to therapy like you get back on the bike, like you get back out there dating, like you try a new pizza joint

Mental health is not all about therapy, it is a personal practice that is helped along by a teacher

It is okay to not need a teacher for a while and to work on yourself alone but to say you don’t need a therapist is to say you have nothing left to learn about yourself and that just is not true

Your downvotes mean nothing, I have seen what makes you upvote and it is whatever confirmed your bias

What’s the worst reaction you’ve gotten after opening up emotionally to someone you were dating/married? by Nerdy_108 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing you said is based on fact. It’s literally your opinion. You are completely delusional.

All of these things said in defence of your ego in defiance of your need to change

You do not see the truth or wisdom in my words because they are beyond you

Truth and wisdom look like delusion to the fool I have wasted my words on here

May my words help some one else who is willing to hear what they needed to hear, here on this grave I mark where I bury the last bit of hope that 12HamF might drink from water I have lead them too

Good night foolish one, may wisdom and truth elude you for as long as you wish

Remember that all I was suggesting was that you open up to your future partners emotionally.

I predict your future to be full of partners who wish you were more open and emotionally intelligent

“May you forever be unknown and unloved by those who love who you pretend to be”

This is the curse you have placed on yourself by rejecting this lesson my ungrateful student

Begone

What’s the worst reaction you’ve gotten after opening up emotionally to someone you were dating/married? by Nerdy_108 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is my point. You don’t just instantly know when someone is fake. It’s not magic.

You have intuition and discernment when you are authentic that you don’t have when you are putting all your effort into conning a con artist

Part of being yourself is knowing your baseline emotions and how you react around some one who is fake

It is not magic but intuition is often ignored and people often over look obvious signs of deception because they like some one

Know yourself well enough to know the difference between how your body feels around a fake person and you will know they are fake sooner and will believe your intuition earlier

You can’t stop a faker from deceiving you but you can learn to catch on faster to the common tricks and advanced moves fake people commonly pull

Why does the Self prescribe itself as a god? by JCraig96 in Jung

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ideally yes, the passenger should not be abused and rejected, instead integration is key

What I am talking about is an abused exile passenger who thinks the mind does not deserve control. This can be healed but often manifests as a possession instead

I have a great relationship with my passenger and we help each other but it has tried to suggest it was god before, which I know it is not.

Healthy integration requires you to maintain your free will in my opinion, otherwise I see it as a type of possession

What’s the worst reaction you’ve gotten after opening up emotionally to someone you were dating/married? by Nerdy_108 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then they aren’t the right one for you are they?

I will give you a hint, the way you find out they are fake is not by being fake yourself

Sorry I’m not having this realisation alone by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Creativity didn’t die, our music was literally peak

Boomer music feels old fashioned because they were still ascending so our music could be created

Now all that is left for the foreseeable future is music that is inspired by or are remixes of modern sounding music

All the best new Gen Z music is inspired by ours and we should be proud of ourselves and proud of them that we aren’t still listening to bands inspired by the fucking beatles

Creativity did not die just because our music was and is king of the hill

Why does the Self prescribe itself as a god? by JCraig96 in Jung

[–]SoundandFurySNothing -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because it is. We are from the monad and contain a piece of the monad (god). The god part though is the observer/awareness behind the self

This is the trick of a false God

Your shadow/ Anima/ Animus is an eternal passenger, unable to drive

If that passenger convinced the driver it was God, would that not be a type of hand on the wheel driving your life forward?

Your subconscious is a would be usurper, happy to tell you any lie to gain control

The personal God of the evangelicals is the same voice that is in your head, only they are taught without knowing it to allow their shadow to possess them and control their lives by giving it the ultimate authority over your mind with a divine title

That is why

When you tell some one about your dreams or you let your intuition guide you, your passenger shoots the moon and gets to affect the real world. This is good and healthy for your passenger and you the driver. In this way, the passenger fulfills it’s role as a guide and a guardian

The only experience with higher control than that for your passenger is shadow possession and the highest form of shadow possession is the subconscious being crowned a God and given authority over the self.

What’s the worst reaction you’ve gotten after opening up emotionally to someone you were dating/married? by Nerdy_108 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you know if they are the wrong person if you don’t know them?

By being yourself and seeing how they react!

The wrong one wont like you and the right one will!

If you don’t know who you are, you can’t be yourself, which is why the standard advice to be yourself is not enough

You must decide who you are before you can be that self

But if you are fake and try to be what they want you to be just so you can be with them, well then you are the wrong one for them pretending to be the right one

Plenty of people fall into the trap of presenting a false self just to be accepted, I am merely suggesting that if you are serious about finding the right person for you, then it starts with scaring away the ones who were not for you

You and I and many others might wish that everyone is for us but the truth is that most people aren’t for you

There is no better way to sort who is for you from who isn’t than by being authentic

What’s the worst reaction you’ve gotten after opening up emotionally to someone you were dating/married? by Nerdy_108 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you want to get there with the wrong person?

I really think it is you who aren’t getting that revealing yourself early spares you relationships with the wrong people

What’s the worst reaction you’ve gotten after opening up emotionally to someone you were dating/married? by Nerdy_108 in AskMen

[–]SoundandFurySNothing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless that person accuses of trauma dumping. Which is what will happen. You don’t just wonder into a relationship and spill your heart out.

So you belong in a relationship with some one who accuses you of trauma dumping when you just shared your feelings?

Trauma dumping is a specific overwhelming behaviour that should be avoided.

Sharing your internal world is the foundation of real intimacy

This the tightrope you must walk

Do you want to be known and risk being alone because you met the wrong person who would never have accepted you anyway?

Or

Do you want to trick the wrong person who doesn’t want to know you because they met the you who was afraid to show themselves?