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This is why I'm not going to get better. It's something my doctors don't seem to comprehend. No emotional support = little chance of improvement.

Not going to get better. Have to accept that.

When I feel depressed, I feel the other emotions less . It's a way of dulling the other feelings, without being less of a feeling. People seem to want me to believe in myself, but this is only a handful of people, namely doctors or mental health professionals. There aren't people in my life who are ...

What about the "the-truth-hurts" type of people? From my experience, those people only solidify negative thought patterns. As far as I'm concerned, and as far as they are concerned as well, the negative thoughts I have about myself are painful truths that I "can't handle". What t...

Someone had posted some "doctor" advice as to why they are against antidepressants. It's not here right now, but this was my response to their post. That being said, I did not make this post to attempt to convince people to not take antidepressants, so I'm not being "insensitive"...

I think I know what you mean? I no longer know who I am anymore. ... I'd pick "neither". Not in the mood for parties, but not in the mood to be in a stuffy library. I'd like to be ... - On a rooftop in N.Y.C (at night) - In a Nevada desert - In the city in Vancouver - In a forest in Newfou...

Bees, spiders, and cockroaches are generally a little more dangerous than ants and flies. Cockroaches may be the exception there. You can't be blamed at all for hating them. People make fun of people because they're cruel. Human beings, for the most part, are prone to a ridiculous amount of cruelty....

I have self-diagnosed myself as having a mind that is more than one standard deviation up the Asperger's scale. I've mentioned this to other professionals. I had a psychiatrist tell me that I absolutely do not seem autistic. I've been questioning whether or not -- at a point in my life, I believed ...

You're welcome. And thank you for reading.

Go easy on me. This was ridiculously difficult to post ... emotionally-speaking and technologically-speaking.

**Trigger Warning** Gotta get some beer into me before I type. I'm sorry if I broke any rules with that first sentence.... One of the worst triggers I have is sedation. Thereason for this is that I have emotional-memory of witnessing an alleged event, while under the influence of a mind-altering su...

I tend to suffer from dry-eye, but I wanted to read it all, even if it took a while. Finally did. From my POV, I can't relate to anything that has to do with relationships. The only response that I have to your post is that ... a few years back, I started to feel that friendships were pointless ... ...

No, I'm afraid I'm not. Unless maybe you mean something that I do not understand?

I was talking along the lines of intimacy, by the way, which is a healthy expression of love. I don't have that and it hurts.

I'm deeply sorry friend. However, I want, no, I need you to understand something for me. Nobody on this planet is perfect. Not a single person. So, when you tell me that people say that you have things wrong with you, all I hear is those people telling you that they lack so much empathy, that they ...

What if your whole life was a lie? What if you thought so highly of yourself, only to find out that you were lying to yourself. That other people were allowing you to lie to yourself. Then, to top it all off, at a super weak area in your life, people told you "the truth" that you were not ...

*hugs metaltrees*