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You should be clear with him that you think it's important that he seeks out help. Tell him that he should get help because it's better both for him and for yourself. Neither one of you can be in a situation where you can't relax because you don't know what's going to happen next. He has to seek out...

Elysium, forgive me for saying this, you speak as if you have the answers for all of us. I believe the only answers we have are those to a few of our personal questions. Hehe, yes I do write in a very absolute fashion, but that’s only because I want to strike directly at the root. I do only (and I ...

Oh, they most likely read the responses. Maybe people don't really feel like they have good answers at the time, but they certainly read. In my honest experience it does help to get a reasonably sane response from the world for once though. The amazing thing with people is that there's always the po...

I would say I'm pretty sad all the time. It is kind of like a dull ache that never completely goes away. This sense is very prevalent in your life right now, even during occasional moments of joy, right? In the exact same way, sincere happiness and serenity can be completely dominating. I am only p...

Professional help would probably be beneficial. Other than that, two general suggestions that I would exercise are: Make her look at the world outside. State the obvious. "the obvious" does not need to be clashing pictures to her own, neither does it need to be enhancing her ideas or minds...

Hello Marus. I'm 21 years old as well. At university. Male. I guess that's hardly relevant for the rest of my answer but well, go figure, right? I understand your stress and sadness, of course I do. This stress and sadness is the natural results of expectations not being met. These expectations are ...

Life is infinitely complex because it is limitless potential manifest. Human minds fool themselves to believe that life or parts of it can be conceptualized and understood in a way that's completely satisfactory. To be able to function, we have to create concepts of parts of life. "Thoughts in ...

What agenda does your partner have? That is to ask the question: what's the highest authority that your partner subjects to and acts on? If he ultimately subjects to his mind’s image of things, rather than to life or the universe itself; to the relative instead of to absolute truth, then there is li...

Your letter seems honest on a profound level. Highly reasonable. Of course I cannot stand for much more than that because I know not of any intricate details regarding your relationship and your day to day experience with each other, right? However, like I said, your communication here gives the fee...

To Elysium; That was totally helpful. It's the kind of advice that, A) is solid and really does work B) is the sort of advice I like to hear and it's so much easier to take someone else's advice than my own. I've done meditation on and off for years. It's like charging a battery. You have to keep d...

You seem to have great spirit, Frame. You've been helping others here on the forums with your insights constantly. I recognize a strive in you to approach profound human interaction, putting vast amounts of energy into this. Coming from the same kind of default state myself, I know this can be a cur...

If your father were still here, wouldn't he tell you to please don't give up? Right now, it may seem to you that things will never get any better...but when you hit rock bottom, the only place you can look is up. Please don't give up. There could be relief and happiness in your future that you're n...

Thanks a bunch, Elysium... :D the comments here have been very helpful and positive. I try to break up the days routine as much as possible, but I need a regular schedule, partly because I take meds 3 times a day, and they have to be pretty evenly spaced throughout the day, with meals for them to w...

Wow you guys.....I never really considered an option like volunteering. My parents are very religious and do that stuff all the time through the church or elsewhere. I had defiantly overlooked that option for me. Thx everyone!!! :D P.S. I felt better today, and I'm goin 2 bed early so I can better ...

my issue is , i say things that to me are totally fine, but to everyone else it's inappropriate, i am amoral, apparently when normal kids learn right and wrong, i was being abused so now my right or wrong ..part of the brain is not there, i know right from wrong, i just don't understand why people ...