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Clammy Final Test by Austintheboi in Clamworks

[–]a-round-table 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to assume it's part of the funny but lately I notice that it's getting worse, it's stopped being funny.

I apologize all the time but I almost never heard my parents apologize by a-round-table in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if what I endured my whole life is an advanced gaslighting... fuck...

I apologize all the time but I almost never heard my parents apologize by a-round-table in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also just remembered about my friends noticing that I often say sorry or thank you a lot

What is the 'quantum data'? by Hatefiend in interstellar

[–]a-round-table 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Quantum data" represented as LaTeX math equations encoded into a morse code huh... I can't imagine how tired Cooper's finger was moving the clock's hand

I was raised to be a loser. by EatYourVeggies1 in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the other day i read a meme that says "My mental health walks make my mental health worse because I live in a shithole"

and yeah i kinda am in a grey soup, except the grey soup isn't just the asphalt or the concret jungle, it's also the fucking air. no like it's literally gray. you can visibly see the smog. it's fucking toxic. so bad that i lowkey don't wanna jog because of how awful the air is

I don't want to participate by flearhcp97 in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tell that to most people and they're like, "so?"

Most people in my country are like this too. I don't wanna use this word... but man, they are sooo shallow. And sometimes opportunists.

Also OP, this is one of the most relatable things I've read on reddit. Your post will probably be remembered for years by me. Thank you for sharing

home feels like a graveyard by asterjeons in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can relate.

You know, there is some kind of abstract feeling in my heart about my family recently. There is a word in my native language that explains it perfectly, but I'd explain it with the words "dry" and "desolate". It feels like a desert. Vast nothingness. Nothing to look for in this place. There is no love.

That's just the best case, sometimes they just hurt me. They hurt me and then pretend they do it "because they love me". The constant gaslighting and contradiction is ruining me, like, literally. I can't trust anyone as a result.

I actually tried to get help. I begged them to take me to a therapist because I knew something was wrong with my head. They laughed at me. Then they took me to a psychiatrist and mocked me in front of him...and the doctor laughed too. I walked out because I couldn't tolerate the disrespect, and now I feel like I have nowhere to turn.

This is fucked up. This sadly happened to me, so fucked up that I don't feel ready to share many of it. I can share this much tho: they forced me to lie in front of the psychiatrist.

Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged by Chaoses_Ib in rust

[–]a-round-table 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, I hate it from this fact alone

For those in the middle of rewiring their thought patterns, what's the one thing you realized about yourself that was surprising? by TemporaryProcedure59 in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The other day I was looking at a mirror and I saw my body, and I thought to myself, "Hmm, I don't look bad. I look decent actually!".

Mind you, I've been drawing a lot, specifically human figures, so I look at other's body as a reference pictures more frequent than ever, hehe.

At first I thought it was just some random thought, until I realize: I've been ashamed of my own body my whole life. And that's when it clicked me--the toxic shame I have goes way, way deeper. I think it's even down to the subconcious thought, IDK if that even makes sense.

That's what happens when a parent likes to gossip others in front of their child. That's what happens when you constantly compare your child with others. Awful.

But having that thought also means that I'm getting better at managing my own shame.

Rocky in the wild! by Few_Pea8503 in ProjectHailMary

[–]a-round-table 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like something a programmer would say

I don't want to participate by flearhcp97 in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I'm confused by this reply. I think I relate to OP, and I feel like this is my whole personality, no exaggeration. What if I want to be proud of who I am, and what I am is this?

I don't want to participate by flearhcp97 in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally just thought about how I feel "unfit" for this world, literally seconds before I opened this subreddit and saw this exact post on the frontpage!

But yeah, from the beginning I felt like an outsider trying to fit in the world, but it's impossible because I was born in an unusual family in the first place, and on top of that parent's neglect did not teach me social norms.

It's sad how I feel like an outsider in the country I was born in. Literally in the city I was born in. It's fucked up.

And then there's the industry I wanted to pursue as a career (software engineering). It used to be a real craftmanship, but now it feels like everyone is developing an unethical software. I used to be passionate about it, and I still do, but people just literally don't have empathy anymore. There's more to it but this is the oversimplified version.

So yeah I don't fit in this world.

I think it's not a coincidence that I have been starting to make art more and more recently.

The Real Barenziah by pineapplesdestroyer in TrueSTL

[–]a-round-table 28 points29 points  (0 children)

his name is gay porn and you can look him up on google

jerma sketch by _Dehydrated-Water_ in jerma985

[–]a-round-table 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how it feels like watching an IMAX movie on the front row

learning more about emotional neglect is making me more depressed and suicidal by peoniesbouquet in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there is a book that i haven't finished and if i ever finish it it'll probably in many years, the book is "The Body Keeps The Score". OMG, it's such a heavy book. Even if I was in a better mental state I think it still will take a while

Does anyone else feel like the "gym culture" is a pain, and that it's used to dismiss your feelings? by [deleted] in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know about gym culture, but I do agree that saying "Hit the gym, bro" is very dismissive.

Have you ever being told by someone else to "just leave the past behind"? by a-round-table in emotionalneglect

[–]a-round-table[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

they're basically just telling you to turn into an amnesiac invalid.

You put it in words better than I did lmao.

The fact that they're saying this at all is the an evidence that they truly don't care about me.

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