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c5b5ef No.724[Reply]

If you feel down or need help, we're here for you. Feel free to ask us any questions you may have and we'll do our best to answer. I only ask that you don't post NSFW content on this board and that you respect the global rules. Other than that you're free to ask what you want.

I have taken both this and /advice/ on, and posted a notice on the board to move their queries and questions here instead. This will now be the central advice board for 8ch, please help us by offering those in need of guidance what support you can offer.

As well as tidying the place up, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have for the board. If you would like to see something implemented then please throw it in this thread and i'll happily give it a read. If you need to contact me about the board and don't want to wait then feel free to hit up thetopbuddy@gmail.com and i'll do what I can.

Thank you all for your help.

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541870 No.803

>>780

this board is dead and abandoned. Claim it and revive it




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0aa75b No.910[Reply]

The whole thing of self-improvement is a will-o-the-wisp and a hoax.

65280b No.913

if you can improve yourself, why not?


0aa75b No.918

>>913

Because you can't.

>Now in this question, “Can I improve me?” there is the obvious difficulty that if I am in need of improvement, the person who is going to do the improving is the one who needs to be improved!

>There, immediately, we have a vicious circle.

>“Well I’d be better that way!”

>“Yeah, but WHY do you wanna be better?”

>You see, the reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren’t.

>Should I put it like that?

>We aren’t better because we want to be.

>Because the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

>Because all the do-gooders in the world, whether they’re doing good for others or doing it for themselves are troublemakers.

>On the basis of, “Kindly let me help you or you’ll drown,” said the monkey, putting the fish safely up a tree.

>See, because sometimes “doing good” to others and even doing good to oneself is amazingly destructive. Because it’s full of conceit:

>How do you know what’s good for other people?

>How do you know what’s good for you?

>If you say you wanna improve, then you ought to know what’s good for you. But obviously you don’t! Because if you did you would BE improved! So we don’t know.




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b9a53c No.915[Reply]

I've known all my life something is wrong with my head, wrong with me. What specifically, I don't know and have little idea on how to go about knowing. (Hence this post.)

The only two hard facts I have are:

1) I was shaken as an infant

2) Like a handful of you I grew up severely bullied and socially isolated which only fucked me up even worse.

I have many, more "soft examples" of my many social dysfunctions and unproductive proclivities which I'm sure a handful of you habe experienced too but I won't go into them here. Blah-blah HKV, yadah-yadah vidya only friend, le attention-whore suicidal and le edgy homicidal thoughts, you know the same old story.

Though I will say I was put in the special education classes all my school years. I've been "diagnosed" (i.e., "fuck if we know, let's just stamp the dumb child's forehead with SOMETHING so we can toss him in the sped room and fuhgeddaboutit until the next time his mom or dad comes bitching at us for not doing anything, fuck actually helping him and fuck his nagging cunt parents too") with just about everything from retardation, down's syndrome, schizophrenia, sociopathy, autism, asperger's… That last one seems the closest but still not quite (I understand empathy, I don't have a laser-focus on pointless shit, and so on), but I'm not going to trust any "diagnosis" from minimum-wage-paid middle- and high-school counselors. Especially since the idea about asperger's came from my mom watching Oprah of all things. That alone is enough to trip my bullshit meter.

Anyway, post-HS I've tried several generic therapists and counselors to try and get help but they don't really listen. I think they expect me to "just bee myslef xD" and treat my introspective tendencies like it were a disease – some of them were quite frankly insulting, dismissing my 3-5 page "this is how I feel, this is a short history of my painful upbringing, these are what I think are wrong about me," self-introductions since I suck at verbal communication; that one asshole refused to even take it from my hands, calling it "just information" and "I wanna hear from the 'real yoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

b9a53c No.916

>>915 (continued)

What I'm looking for is PROFESSIONAL, SPECIALIST help, and I have no idea where to go to get it because I have little specific idea about what the hell is wrong (or right?) with me except vague symptoms and nameless negative (neutral/posititve?) emotions and desires like:

>All my life I've felt like I were wrong to my very core, like I don't belong in this society/on this planet. My values, wants, needs, and such are completely at odds with those around me; they don't understand mine and I don't understand theirs.

>I don't know how to lead a conversation.

>I often feel an overwhelming urge to create things, anything from writing to drawing to animating to singing to sculpting to painting…

>I can't reconcile the want to belong and the want to be left alone; this cognitive dissonance makes my brain hurt if I try to dwell on it.

>I find interacting with people beyond the superficial (e.g., grocery store clerks or passing by a coworker) for long leaves me mentally and emotionally drained and I can only recover by sitting quietly and doing 'nothing' in seculsion for a while, and if I don't get my alone time I start going neurotic and short-tempered.

>I have nasty and violent fantasies about people who slight me.

>People keep ignoring and talking over me, then asking "wat's wrong?" and "y so quiet?"

>I hate myself. I don't want to live anymore. Why? See above.

And so forth.

Who's to say if some of the things I've listed are actual "defects" in my being or are just personality traits/quirks that are incompatible (or I just don't know how to make them work "correctly") with the surrounding society I just so happened to be born in and need to learn ways to route around them like two pieces of electronics that have no way to connect on their own so need an "adapter" of some sort?

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426a06 No.909[Reply]

So these two girls I know were talking in my group, and one of them said, "I have anon's number." and the other said, "I don't have anon's number…" And a few minutes later gave me her phone and told me to put it in. I did, and she hasn't texted me yet. It's been a few hours, am I overthinking this?

1292d2 No.912

>implying girls ever call first

and when they do it's truly an event




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d1c5bc No.900[Reply]

Guys, some serious shit is about to go down.

So, it all started a couple of days ago. I hadn't jacked off in days, so I was a bit eager.

I went on craigslist and put up an ad. I put up an ad m4t (male for trans) and said I was looking for a cross dresser. I did this because its actually just a fact to me that its easier to get it on with a guy than it is with a girl, so I might as well go for a guy that looks like and seems like a girl. So, the first day I get a reply. We exchange face pics and when and where, etc. This guy had already "been a girl" for the last 2 years, and I looked through is facebook and he/she's honestly like a strong 4 to a light 5. Its Filipino and I don't know its height, but I think its possibility that that it may be taller than me.

I think "What the fuck. Who cares, just get this over with"

Then the next day I got reply from another CD, and this one actually seems decent (even though I didn't get to see his/her full face, he/she seemed already way better than the last one). So he/she said that we can do it in the back of his/her car.

The flipino said that we can do it in the back of its car.

Anyways. So, today I just jacked off and this chilled wave of "what th' fuck?" crashed over me as I realized that I'm gonna have to bang 2 trannies this upcoming week (don't really have the guts to say no, but as time goes by I think I might be able to). But, as time goes by, I think that I can also bang these trannies.

And I'm scared that if I get in one of their cars they're gonna stab me during or before sex and bang my corpse or something.

Also, the decent one actually seemed more interested than the other one. But that could just be me.

And since I'm pretty much gonna be losing my V-card to one of these CD's, I had to rearrange the meetings, which one I'm gonna bang first.

So. I'm asking for advice.

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37a883 No.901

Sex is as mental as it is physical. Meeting dirty trannies on craigslist and then fucking them in a car won't have any mental or emotional effrct at all. It'll just be your dick inside some guy's ass. I've never done any gay shit, but I've done anal with women and vaginas feel way better.


9bfc7f No.911

OP is really a faggot this time




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7c0bc5 No.907[Reply]

I just got back from spring break. I have to go back to class tomorrow. I've been doing well and I'm half-way through but I don't want to go. I can't think of any particular part that's hard enough for me to be dreading this much but I'm freaking out here and I don't know why.

b708d9 No.908

What year are you in? If you're a college senior you might be seeing job searching, responsibilities, and all that shit on the near horizon.




0e3e7d No.868[Reply]

I have a SM-B312EH (Samsung) phone and I reset it accidentally :/ Any ideas on how I can recover my messages?

0e3e7d No.869

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d2b468 No.883


b00319 No.906

You could maybe install and run scalpel. I doubt you'll get any useful data off of it unless the phone stores all the messages as text files.




7e8ff1 No.862[Reply]

hi guys,

so there is this girl i met on party about one and half month back. we danced and had fun, and i think she liked me. so now we text on facebook, she is telling me that she likes me and care about me, but ever since we met, we scheduled much first dates but everytime she canceled.

she is pretty and i like her but this date canceling is sorcery for me, im very emotional and this is bad for me

do you guys think i should wait, that one day, she doesnt cancel ?

is it worth ?

10905e No.867

At this point it'd be too awkward. Move along anon, move along.


f60af9 No.905

You should have asked her out at the party. At this point it's too late. You're her friend now, and you have been since about a week into you two facebooking




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092a7f No.853[Reply]

First of all, thank you for listening

So my ex broke up with me ages ago, 5 months to be exact, and during Christmas, I was in a depressive rut and she stopped me from wanting to just an hero (I had a surgery done, felt like nothing was going right any more, health was shot, family was fighting over the medical bill, still lonely, and my school was in bad shape because of the surgery).

I helped her with her rebound boyfriend, who physically and emotionally abused her for 3 months, after our relationship, I was there when she was crying. So in a sense her helping me was getting even.

Anyway, some time in January, she dropped by late to see of a mutual friend of ours. We had been drinking prior to her arrival, and she couldn't stay for long. A force of habit had me kiss her (on the forehead) as she left.

She told me the next day that she missed me. I asked her if she wanted to get back together, do things right this time (because both of us messed up). She said she wanted to, but she also wanted us to both be at our best, with our shit together before trying.

Ever since I've been working on myself physically, and working hard at school to compensate for nearly dropping out of most of my classes.

So everything was fine at first. We were talking like when we were together, and I was (am still) getting in the best state I've ever been in my life, physically, emotionally and mentally.

Then she started drifting. Through a little twitter stalking and from noticing her actions around me, she seemed to be looking at other guys. She became colder, even apparently had an outburst against me texting her according to my friends.

Do I drop her like a sack of bricks? All this time I've been there for her emotionally, and even when I confronted her, asking her if she still wants to try, she can't give me a straight answer. I feel lead on, and I'm tired. I'm making all the right changes and working hard every day. I feel like I deserve better, but my stupid fucking hearPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

cf3c79 No.885

She must have moved on, shes clearly not interested, find someone else.


644cf3 No.904

She didn't mean it when she said she wanted you to be at your best. She was making an excuse, and the fact that you took it seriously scared her because she doesn't want to tell you she has no interest, for fear of hurting your feelings. If you push it she'll explode at you and then probably block you out of her life.




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8e1e9d No.838[Reply]

>Recently decided that I don't really care much about sex, had a few one night stands in my life, never been very satisfied after

>Feeling lonely, really want to find a girl who I actually have a connection with and hopefully be with long-term

>Look around a bit (go for lunch with a few women etc), they're all boring or stupid or arrogant

>couple of months a go I went to university in a different city, meet a girl who lives real close to me but due to the fact that I literally see her every day (she does same subject as me as well) I decide not to shit where I eat so don't make a move on her

>We do keep hanging out however and we actually get on really well, eventually realise that she is the girl I was looking for, get really mad for friendzoning myself but don't know how to handle the situation so don't make a move still

>eventually when we are both very drunk it all comes out, tell her everything, tell her I love her, she gets very upset

>"Anon, I really love you as well but it's still too soon, I can't be with anyone right now, I need time to figure out what I want"

>she says this because she only split up with her ex-boyfriend of 3 years about 2 weeks before she met me so it's still pretty painful for her

>she also says to me that until she is ready she wants to be able to have meaningless sex with randoms and not have to feel guilty about hurting my feelings, she says that I shouldn't just wait for her and do the same but as I said at the start, I don't care at all about sex with randomers any more.

>What do I do /adv/? we still hang out all the time which I really enjoy but it also makes me really depressed. I don't want to give up on her but at the same time I can't just float around being some sort of beta orbiting faggot for an indefinite amount of time. Never loved anyone this much and it's driving me completely fucking crazy.

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73ffda No.850

Sounds like she doesn't mind hurting your feelings as long as she doesn't have to or is expected to feel guilty. All or nothing. Are you really gonna be something that will wait on her? You don't want to be her platonic friend.


73ffda No.851

Liking someone means wanting to take of them in exchange for some kind of exclusive relationship. She'd like for you to take care of her, but is unwilling to give up anything for it. Move on. Don't settle for poor treatment. Doesn't mean she's a bad person. Doesn't mean you don't want to take care of her. It means you just want more, and that's okay.


86a47e No.854

>>838

Either you turn into a beta provider and you wait for her. In which case she'll lose all respect for you anyway.

OR

You just move on and give up on her. It'll fucking kill her to see you live witouth her. Don't accept her though, and don't try to get into a relation with her anymore even if she runs at you with open arms.

Good luck.


5d605c No.890

>>850

Not OP, But I'd love a platonic friend.


bfe6a3 No.903

She's never gonna get with you. It's ogre. If she doesn't say yes right away she never will. Don't waste any more time trying to be more than her friend and find someone else.




11ea48 No.898[Reply]

Alright guys so there's this girl who is really sweet and awesome. I have liked her some time and I think its mutual. We snapchat nonstop and occasionally flirt. We have known each other for some time but it's never been like this. She is the perfect girl in my opinion. But there are some things that hold me back and I want your opinions.

1. She lives 30-40 minutes away.

2. We are in a lot of the same groups and clubs.

3. She's prude. Not a problem I'm just afraid she won't want a relationship.

What do you all think? Are these to be of concern?

b0574b No.899

>1. She lives 30-40 minutes away.

So? If you both have cars you can meet in the middle. If not, then you can just go out once/twice a week.

>2. We are in a lot of the same groups and clubs.

Again, so?

>3. She's prude. Not a problem I'm just afraid she won't want a relationship.

Everyone wants a relationship of some sort, and you shouldn't worry about this if you're flirting already.


9fa2e1 No.902

I think it sounds like you're friendzoned. Women want to be dominated. They don't want to see you as their equal. She undoubtedly just sees you as a friend amd the flirting is just messing around. If you ask her out she'll probably awkwardly reject you and slowly stop replying to your messages.




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601a07 No.887[Reply]

I am a Mathematical Physics major. As part of my degree, I have to study an Arts subject, such as philosophy, literature, history, political science, psychology etc. What Arts subject does /adv/ suggest I study? I plan to become a physicist.

35daa7 No.897

If you're not a Women's Studies faggot or whatever, the cardinal rule of taking breadth classes you'll never use is to not fuck up your GPA. That, in turn, means taking classes where your useless professor's personal opinion of you isn't going to affect the grade she gives your useless bullshit homework.

From that list, history is your best bet by far, and political science is probably your worst. BUT, always browse the course catalog in detail. My friends and I, faced with a breadth requirement, found out that there was a logic class in the philosophy department that was, essentially, a beginner math class.




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97ce26 No.889[Reply]

I-Is this board only for dating advice?

Anyway, in germany there are "Applied Sciences Universities" And "Traditional Universities", is there such a thing in the US.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.thehagueuniversity.com/xmsp/xms_itm_p.download_file?p_itm_id=92016

In which type of university would you rather study? Why?

fbc371 No.892

>>889

I went to community college for heating and air conditioning repair. Traditional universities in the US are just leftist indoctrination centers. I got a job right away with my certification but I have friends who went to "real" college and are stuck living at home working dead end retail jobs.


eb0ad9 No.894

Yes, here they're called "Trade Schools" as we refer to Plumbers, Carpenters, Electricians, etc, as "Tradespeople" but some trade schools are also community colleges. I just graduated in December from one like that and I'm lined up for an excellently paying job at an excellent company.

The problem I had with university was that their classes are so specialized, and I've always been interested in and admired cross-disciplinary people and their skills. I don't want to just be a motorcycle mechanic, I don't just want to know about computers. I want to be able to configure a server, rebuild carburetors, and wire up three phase transformers. I just feel much cooler that way.

>dating advice

Here's my advice:

Don't.


d20ed4 No.895

>>894

That's interesting, but you can build up cross-disciplinary people without college. with books, MOOCs, and researching over the internet.

Since that theorical stuff is better found on th internet than practical stuff. You could just replace it with internet stuff.


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>>895

> but you can build up cross-disciplinary people without college. with books, MOOCs, and researching over the internet.

Well, I got the motorcycle and computer stuff all outside of school, but you tell me if you would, "Just for fun" "just to learn" put a screwdriver near a high voltage 3 phase transformer.

In carpentry, if you fuck up slightly, some things might not look straight. In plumbing if you fuck up slightly, you'll get some water damage or more frequent clogging. In electrical if you fuck up slightly you burn the building down with everyone in it. Things I've learned from the instructors who have been in the trades for decades that would seem innocuous to a layman are actually very deadly, whether in the short or long term.




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701505 No.866[Reply]

I'm very thankful for taking the time to read this.

I dated my old gf, i was so happy at first, and as expected later the relationship sucked. I've been exposed to true beauty and there's no personality like no personality. Women look so ugly for the bullshit they're expecting me to go through while dating, it's like everyone is an MKultra victim and i'm suppose to work a miracle and save them.

I have dated two women, both were in high school, and i'm 25 now. I've had chances and ignored numbers, but i know once i get to know them enough they remove their sleeps clothing.

I'm trying really hard not to be r9k or just shit on women, because i genuinely like women and not in the faggy nice guy obsessively feminine kind of way. I've hung out with conservative and liberal women who i thought were cool at first then started displaying their periods more honestly.

( i guess this is one questions, why do girls get so comfortable with their periods around me, i think i'm enough of an asshole that i don't come off as a push over, or maybe i not enough of an asshole or too much)

question 1 is (i know this sounds juvenile but) how do you know when a woman is using her period as an excuse to be angry, and even if she was angry is the period making it worse?

When my ex liked me she become so emotional, was this her or the period? it was a terrible relationship that should have ended early, so i guess it was dead on arrival.

question 2 when do you take period talk seriously??

The main reason i posted her and why video is related is because i feel like women aren't worth it. ==I wish women could be straight forward==. But women are so difficult and controlling despite being able to fuck up my shit.

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701505 No.882

>>880

>It doesn't matter.

>The only way to diffuse a woman's anger is to let it burn out, or extinguish it by making her feel bad. Notice that her feeling bad is VERY different from her "looking" bad.

>But you see the difference? You can't have a logical approach. You must fight fire with fire and manipulation with manipulation.

That makes complete sense, i should have realize male autism can't combat female autism, thank you for such a clear explanation, i've been lost with this for years. Everyone would just get offended or tell me not to react/be more masculine.

>I'm not sure what you mean by this.

I was asking when a period stops being just exaggerated hormones and when it becomes genuinely personal anger. When should i say something about her shit talking during irrational periods? or does this go into male logic vs female manipulation?

>One thing to consider: Not physically, but psychologically, you may be attracted to, and attracting, these women that you don't like.

I am clearly attracting/attracted to unstable women do to my traumatic past, i'm going to therapy for this. If you've found a way to deal with this i'd love the advice, i'm guess it's best not to date women i'm attracted to?

Thank you for replying.


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>>882

>thank you for such a clear explanation

No problem.

>or does this go into male logic vs female manipulation?

Yes, it absolutely does. Whether or not she is on her period is irrelevant.

> i'm going to therapy for this.

I hope it works.

> If you've found a way to deal with this i'd love the advice, i'm guess it's best not to date women i'm attracted to?

Sorry man, but I don't have the answers for you; I don't have them for myself. I'm the same as you - attracted to insane women, because I am insane. I don't feel attracted to any woman who isn't emotionally powerful enough to really challenge me, and that kind of emotional power only comes from trauma and insanity, unfortunately.

My only "solution" is the same one you came with: Avoid women I'm attracted to. But I will never be sexually attracted to a woman who doesn't have some grasp of this psychic phenomena, and so will never date one. Intimacy aside from masturbation is pretty much off the table for me. Such is life.


701505 No.888

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>>886

>Such is life.

Love Line is a show with an addiction medical specialist who knows psychology with a comedia who take calls from people looking help in unstable relationships. They've also covered our problem, as well as constantly go through the warning flags of an unstable woman/man. Video related.

Therapy does indeed help overcome this intimacy problem.


701505 No.891

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>>886

Also there is this guy, even though hes black, bluepilled and anti-religious, hes pretty insightful on the errors in masculinity/femininity and dating. Hes a little feminist but ultimately hes for the family unit and the principals behind masculinity/femininity in men and women.

>Refine yourself, then you will have something to offer to who you date.


16f730 No.893

>>888

>>891

I already know how to spot people that are full of shit, I've been taken advantage of my whole life, and been lucky enough to meet some people who aren't full of shit.

>overcome the intimacy problem

I don't need to change my preferences. It would just be convenient to find a woman whose insanity is compatible and balanced by her own effort. I'll never compromise that I need an insane woman. "Perfect" people who were the cheerleaders in HS, got good grades, partied, "normal" shit, etc. are hopelessly boring, psychically devoid, and hollowed of personal depth.




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530690 No.864[Reply]

Would one like to share a story about how their life got better.

Sometimes I feel as though Im unfit to live in this world. I litreally have no friends and I heard about people who live like this for their entire lives.

Ive gone through a lot of shit and i may have trust issues because everything happens again and again the same way every time.

If you have stories please share thank you.

Pic says I want to die

bth i hate anime i just found that picture somewhere.

2d1907 No.884

I am currently recovering from nerve damage in my hands, slowly i am training the nerves to be usable again, everyday i get a little closer to hands free of strange pressure.

I spend my time waiting to get better by walking into my town (it no longer bothers my hands just to walk with them), i've discovered a warm group of shop owners and have grown closer to my family.

Enjoy your healthy and take care of it.




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