re: Seeing a lot of "mental health" posts here and in the news in general

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it's funny how everyone assumes I have not been through these things and worse and that my life has always been easy and ive never had "real" challenges like them...I'm not going to be one of these people who want to compare adversities and try and prove Ive had it worse. Thats a losers mentality. deal with it and keep moving

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It’s your reference to challenges and tough times people question, and rightly so. See, you still think you’re made of Kevlar, when in reality, you’re just an egg the same as everyone else, and you can be broken, just like all the rest of the eggs. You just haven’t come to that reality yet in your life because you haven’t been put in the position to be broken, and so that explains the whole “suck it up and rub some dirt on it” nonsense you’re spewing.

Stuck in the house for a year during Covid, trying to work with screaming kids, pets and a complaining spouse, with no escape.

I think a lot of people suffered some lasting damage from that. Understandably.

This fake tough guy shite doesn't fool anyone. If you were a real tough guy, you wouldn't be trying so hard to impress randos on the internet.

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you are the most ignorant low life scum on here. you think youre some tough guy. You are just mentally unable to process real world. You are too uneducated.

You either work in plant or construction. 100 percent would bet my life.

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Like i said lash out as much as you need to in order to feel better. And i'm sorry to tell you that you'd lose that bet 100%

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I had your issues regarding driving in the past. Crazy, use to drive so fast and didn't care. When I started having some issues in my 30s I couldn't drive on interstates or big bridges without feeling like I was gonna pass out, hands clammy, sick, and I just didn't understand why that became an issue all of a sudden. Had a complete anxiety attack in front of my son once on the interstate between Shreveport and Dallas, had to pull over for 5-10 minutes to straighten myself up. I know longer have any of that but it was unbearable for a couple years.

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Ha! Bridges were hell for me, too.

Glad you're past it, man.

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How do you feel about microdosing MDMA?

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If it works go for it. I've mega dosed it before. was fun i was young. didnt feel the need to keep doing it or anything else i did when i partied when i was younger. If it works do it. keep it moving.

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Haven't you stated before you are on the spectrum and have ADHD or something similar? Just curious if there was something you wish your parents would have done different when you were younger?

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I was always a weird kid, but I was incredibly smart so school was no effort. It’s socially okay to be weird when you’re 5, less so when you’re 13. I started really struggling socially when I was in middle school after moving schools from where I had a large close friend group developed in primary school. I started struggling more than I was used to in school work because the amount of responsibilities I had to keep track of multiplied. I wasn’t struggling to do the work when I would do it, I was struggling with the basic concept of remembering that I had work to do or checking my book to see if I had any homework. I also was bullied a lot (at school, at home, at all of my after school activities) and had anger issues (probably from losing so many fights that I didn’t start). All of this resulted in a pretty bad public meltdown at school in 8th grade and some suspensions for fighting.

My mom enrolled me in therapy, and the therapist was useless. All he did was listen. I didn’t need someone to just listen, I needed HELP! I needed advice on what I could do to solve my problems. I needed systems that would keep me organized, I needed social skills to defuse situations I couldn’t physically fight out of, I needed social skills to make friends and foster relationships as an adult, I needed ways to manage my out of control brain so I could focus. I got NONE of that.

I tried again in college when I was on the verge of dropping out, and they at least helped me understand my personality and learning styles a lot better. This helped me switch majors and improve my grades enough to graduate.

It wasn’t until I was almost 30, and working in a professional setting after graduate school that I finally got some real help that sorta worked. “What you’re describing is called x. Some techniques you can use in your everyday life when x comes up are y and z”. The bipolar diagnosis and the techniques used to mitigate it were literally life changing. If I had that at 13, I probably would have been so much more successful socially, scholastically, and financially as a young adult.

So essentially every veteran who goes through this shite is just a weak minded pussy. Okay!!

All you veterans crying that you went through some stuff.. Move along.

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first thing I quite is alcohol — I find it makes things worse and gives me worse anxiety. But maybe it’s just me.

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It's not.

The day after I've had a decent amount of alcohol, I've always felt irrationally anxious.

Alcohol is basically borrowing from tomorrow's feel good chemicals/hormones and using them today. Once your done drinking, your body the next day is trying to reduce these chemicals back to their normal levels.

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Seeing a lot of "mental health" posts here

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I deal with anxiety and depression

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