On the other had, it leads to wearing red hats and voting for Trump.

Like a list, a very detailed list with clear instructions. I know I used to fight the 1 with parts a,b,c but now I welcome it.

Might be me. Massive social anxiety but people say I am the life of a party.

I always loved to imagine myself in fairytales.

diciplin is one of the most important things to train, and like a mucle it goes limp if you don't use it. That was really easy to say, and very hard to practice.

Or you just got met with impatience, anger, or shaming everytime you asked for something, so you internalised that and are afraid to ask for anything.

I only learned this recently about myself. Its a hard train of thought to break as well but I guess knowing it is a start.

I feel seen, not in a good way.

Ooooh, right in my feelings

yes

This is why my parents call me the more stoic child. I blame the grade school principal who used to beat me and lock me in a supply closet. A couple years of that and being ignored by all the adults tends to do a real number on your ability to internalize emotional pain.

No, I'm just lazy.

Oh I don't like how seen I feel in this at all.

well, yeah. ?

Definitely the latter. Learned at my mother's knee: I am monumentally unlovable. I'd better never need anyone or anything because of that.

Yes

Yeahhh...I also can't express pain or illness without feeling like a burden so I just pretend I'm all good when I'm actually dying on the floor lmao. Coz if I don't, you know, it'll just ruin someone's day and make them think less of me coz now my existence is affecting their life, you know, and then they would hate me and tell everyone what a piece of shxt drama queen I am and everyone will just roll their eyes and talk about all the attention I apparently seek...from people I hide everything from in fear of getting their attention lmaooo

Nope, I'm just lazy and easily pleased.

I am so grateful for the fact that young me had a defeatist attitude and was just like “I’ll never be low maintenance enough so I won’t try to be”. 👍

As someone who works in a very email-y job, there are very few emails that deserve your haunting guilt for responding late.

Think about it, pink toed tarantulas...maybe it's not toes...maybe it's pink flip flops....OoO

Perfectly expressed.

Anger also makes you blind to other points of view or opinions. It's a primal tool.

Well it is often the fear of failure that drives the procrastination. It is when the fear becomes too hard to deal with that you procrastinate in order to distract yourself in an attempt at easing the load on your mind. It is a short term strategy, that only makes the trouble further down the line worse... but that is only a problem for future-you, and that guy is way easier to screw over, as he is (at least at this moment) only a hypothetical being.

Sorcery * it’s the only explanation

Never knew a therapist who did house calls.

'Puns' and 'Don't Be Awkward', please change places. It's a no-brainer, thank you.

We do it with books too, a "Comfort Read" is a book or series that you just go back and re-read again and again.

Take that depression! (Hazbin reference for anyone that's been watching)

This is me when I open a door at night and knowing that I locked it but I have to get up and double check anyways.

Thanks molecule!

Even on vacation I can't relax. I will try to sit down in the sunshine and just chill out and think about all the things that I could or should be doing.

I heard once that “you become the person you needed when you didn’t have anyone.” I think that’s really interesting lens to view life through.

Rest in Peace Matthew 💖💖

Why would you even think that?!

It could happen.

...and that is one of the reason that combatting depression is so hard. A bit like with alcoholism, what causes the problem masks as the solution.

So damn ready for spring!

Can we get a Marie Kondo method of therapy, where you and the therapist agree "This does not spark joy" and you can just bin that trauma and never have to deal with it again?

I let my mind wander at a work meeting and it never came back.

So what do you think is the problem Doc?

I love this! I'm also very good at lying about how I feel so beware, therapist! ;-) Mine had to tell me not to smile when I was recounting traumatic things.

Is that some weird Latin-Hawaiian chant for summoning demons???

Oh hell, who let you post story of my life

It's gone

And the million other me's

Trés chique, the heart beats quick.

It's like "I feel overwhelmed and sad about the future" and part of that is me, and the other part of that is that the future is already set up to be a dumster fire, because humans have filled the world with trash and set it on fire. Repeatedly.

Telling the therapist they've gone into therapy to predict people's actions and pretend to have some control over circumstances...

Y’all are telling your parents that?

Both. 2024 will be both of these. Sigh, prepare accordingly.