Dealing with depression and anxiety

[D'Snowth]

 

[LittleJerry92]

Partially yes lol

 

[LittleJerry92]

So my depression has been acting up a bit today but I really don’t feel like explaining why publicly.

Feel free to message me if you want to know what’s going on.

 

[Flaky Pudding]

I just need to talk about something:


Around my birthday ever year, I become very depressed. Why is that? Because it's a harsh reminder of how I haven't accomplished anything in life. I'm about to turn 22. I have no friends, no job, no car, I've never had a girlfriend before, I still live with my parents, I basically have no life whatsoever! I also have a hard time doing many basic things. I can't cut my food, I can't do laundry, and I can't cook. I mean come on, even Chris-Chan has accomplished more than I have! At least he's had a couple jobs before (he was quickly fired from all of them but that's still more experience than me), and he has (or at least had) a car. Seriously, if the creator of freaking Sonichu himself has done more "adulting" than you, you're basically screwed! You ever seen the movie Failure To Launch before? That's basically where I see my life heading and that feeling gets worse each and every year.

I just feel so pathetic and useless. I've never contributed to society in any way. This might surprise some of the people here because I normally seem to be a very happy and positive person. But I do have a dark side that I don't feel comfortable sharing as much. The reason I don't talk much about my problems is because I don't want to feel like a whiner or a complainer. If I'm constantly going "Boo-hoo, poor me!" then people would roll their eyes and think it's all just a cheap ploy to get attention when in reality, it's far from that. In fact, I've experienced people like that online before. I used to follow a YouTube/Deviantart user named Reitanna Seishin but then every post she made ended up being her complaining about how bad her life is over and over again. I just couldn't take it anymore. At first, I felt genuinely sorry for her but the more she kept b*tching about her life, the more it became annoying and eventually lead to me unfollowing all of her social media accounts.

I've had enough now though. This time, I finally decided to just get it all out. You have no idea how much I needed that!

I just wanted everyone to know that with my birthday coming up in a little over a week, I'm not feeling depressed about it this way. In fact, I feel the opposite way!

I'm looking forward to the future, rather than complaining about things I wish I'd changed in the past which never accomplishes anything.

Even if I still have a long way to go, I've also come a long way already and that's something that is worth celebrating. I know it may not be the best idea to post in this thread without having a legit struggle with depression but I just wanted to provide an update and let you all know that I'm feeling so much better this year .

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I had been dealing with some very bad depression for the last year. Bad to the point of being suicidal bad that i never told anyone about because i couldnt afford to be in a psych ward even though i probably needed it. I actually tried to jump out of a moving car into traffic.

let's just say my last job along with many other factors led me on a horrible spiral downwards. I was just all around not a pleasant person to talk to and lost a friend because of it.

but now, while i cant say im 'happy' exactly, I'm so much happier than i've been in a very long time. i've done things i didnt think were possible. like at 30 years old i FINALLY got my drivers license beating back some very crippling anxiety about driving. i've also finally stopped living in utter denial and finally admitted to myself that im trans. which is still honestly very weird to say but man it explains so much. though thats a road i havent tackled yet irl.

overall though im doing a lot better than i was.

 

[WazzupMyBoyz]

I just learned that a device punishment can cause depression and social isolation. My two siblings do this to me because of how I act. Please help me on how to go through this.

 

[CoolGuy1013]

Why do people in these fandoms act this way?

Honestly (and this pains me to say since Sesame Street meant so much to me growing up), given the behavior of those people, I’m starting to think adults shouldn’t be in preschool show fandoms to begin with. Between the Sesame brats, the sheer toxicity of other popular ones (such as Thomas the Tank Engine and Bluey), and ones where I don’t even understand how they have adult fans to begin with, maybe there are some things that should just be left in the past.

 

[LittleJerry92]

It’s a big case where a lot of these fandoms have people on the spectrum, and speaking as an autistic person myself (higher end of PDD NOS), I get it’s something we’re born with but it’s also very clear there are so many clueless parents that use their child’s disability as a way to just let them behave however they want with zero discipline or consequences. And then that completely carries over into adulthood.

Then there are others who aren’t neurodivergent but still have a case of clearly being allowed to behave however they wanted growing up. Again. Carrying over into adulthood.

Half the instances of inappropriate behavior I’ve seen from these literal ******* grown adults in their 20s, 30s or even higher, I’d be in deep **** if I behaved like that while my parents were bringing me up.

Speaking of Thomas, let me just say the Thomas community is an even bigger nightmare than the SS community is. I’m VERY casual in that fandom.

 

[CoolGuy1013]

Speaking of Thomas, let me just say the Thomas community is an even bigger nightmare than the SS community is. I’m VERY casual in that fandom.

Yikes! Good thing I’ve avoided that one.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Be very grateful. That’s all I can honestly say.