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eb6564 No.1[Reply]

Warning: If you feel that you have a truly serious mental issue, you are encouraged to seek out a professional. Advise, opinions, and information provided on this board are subjective and do not constitute real professional help.

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27f766 No.96

This is the board administrator/moderator speaking. Either I have forgotten my password or the board has locked me out from inactivity.

I have not actually been here in months. The wild success and popularity of /mental/ rendered me profoundly depressed and the only solution I had was to abandon this project and forget it all ever happened. I considered it a failure.

I became drunk last night, and curious. Much to my surprise, I found /ment/ still alive. That means you have all been self-governed for the past few months. I am very impressed.

Anyway, I encourage everyone to abandon ship and return to Cyberia Cafe & Club, /mental/, or wherever you came from. It was an interesting experiment.

Thank you for participating and following the rules. I have the uttermost appreciation and love for you, and hope you find happiness.

-PFC Galatas


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d7a7c9 No.101[Reply]

>women with dad issues are promiscuous and have borderline traits

>men with dad issues are aggressive and have antisocial traits

Do you agree with these statements?


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0d0159 No.3[Reply]

ITT Talk about any issues you have in general.

I get anxious thoughts everyday that can drag down my mood significantly, and I consider myself an anxious person in general. I can't remember the last time I've maintained a decent mood for a week and been achieving the things I want to be achieving during that time. I feel like I should be more descriptive but I'm worried I'll say something I disagree with after I post it. I'm looking for people that have felt similarly in the past to ask me questions and give me advice, and I can do the same for others, though I'm not sure how confident I would be in solving anyone's problems.
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9ab05e No.66

I'm a degenerate tranny, SJWs like to make it out to be a huge issue, it's substance, and without hormones I'd probably an hero, but it's the kind of condition that if your genetics are substance and you have at least some small amount of money, you can treat it.

Some people are batsubstance and attention whore about it, which is probably why they believe being a tranny is a lot worst than it actually is.

I've only met two other sane trannies, there are obviously more of us, but most are batsubstance, don't date trannies unless you're sure that you can deal with batsubstance.

9ab05e No.67

>>66
mods pls, let us say alternative words for poop without being replaced with "substance"

Also, am kind of drunk, ignore issues that I'm too lazy to fix.

6e8275 No.70

I salted my capacity for delusion.
That may sound like a good thing, and it is in many ways, but it has a plethora of problems.
Although it means my reasoning is uncannily sound, it also means I rarely dream, I can't keep a lucid dream going for more than a matter of seconds even if I respond calmly and try do a good initiation procedure, and I have little capacity to create tulpas.
I've probably lost more things that I never even thought about. I do believe there's some basic "negative" emotions that I have never felt for years.

As it turns out, sanity is just another mental illness; for if you respond in a cautious and appropriate way to everything, what is there to look back on and forward to? You'd just be following a line. A line towards "success" and "happiness", but what counts most is that it's a line.

9b692f No.88

>>26
Sounds like you're having hypomanic symptoms that are being triggered by SSRI (SNRI?) withdrawal.

That's not to say that you're bipolar, as practitioners discount substance-induced episodes when talking about mood, but you shouldn't normally be getting those symptoms in withdrawal from an antidepressant.

I would tread very carefully, and consider switching to a different medication group.

f159a1 No.100

Death anxiety

i constantly fear of my unavoidable and permanent loss of consciousness and it makes me really feel like i'm just trying to draw focus away from it no matter what i do. every time i see myself trying to do something like a hobby, be it drawing or writing, or playing an instrument, or working, hanging around with friends, i just see myself dying at some point the next day due to circumstances, be it disease, car collision, and so forth. i keep losing motivation to try an be joyful.



583a1a No.99[Reply]

Maybe someone can help somewhat determine what this person I'm about to talk about has…

I've been working with this guy for the past 7 years, over time he has changed personality wise to the point where any issue he seems to have in his life, he tries to drag others down with him as well.

For example, the guy is 5'5", not exactly tall, but he is a bit taller than my 5'3" height. A few years ago after his girlfriend cheated on him, he would begin to exhibit this trait and have ideas about how it has to be possible to genetically modify oneself to grow taller. He deemed himself "undesirable" and began to deem me even more "undesirable" due to my height.

Once he got over this issue, and found a girlfriend, he still had this idea that him and her were not compatible because he learned she was 5'7" compared to his 5'5". So he came to me and was telling me that at least he isn't as short as me. I never really let this stuff get to me.

Now it seems his dilemma is about his girlfriend cheating on him like his ex did. And since I don't have a girlfriend currently, he brings stuff up about human nature and how the chance of me being cheated on is high, and how he hopes that I get a girlfriend soon so that I too can "experience the sting of infidelity".

Do you feel that he is just pushing his issues onto me? If so, why would that be? I tried to figure him out and it seems that he can be narcissistic in a way.


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54c40c No.97[Reply]

looking for a psychological description of a woman embodying this trope

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GirlyBruiser

I am trying to describe a world where:

1. women and men are statistically equal in all areas, because the psychological traits influencing the numbers are as well.

2. sexual attraction is exclusive to the members of only one sex, and is indisputably a genetically determined trait.

3. there are no developed fetishes.

3. all traits possibly affected by the character customization in video games are feminine in females, and masculine in males.

I've got the first three down, but the fourth is a bit tricky.

so I came to you for help with it.

54c40c No.98

i guess these traits cover:

voice

animations

appearance

dress

but would not include:

character decisions made by the player

including those in combat

if only there as a handy scientific way to describe all these traits?



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704833 No.7[Reply]

Commentary on social illness, whether as the main focus or just as an underlying theme.

What I have watched or read at least some of so far pertaining to this:

Great Teacher Onizuka

Serial Experiments Lain

Boogiepop Phantom

Welcome to the NHK

Watamote

Each seems to have something to say about the social issues which have been effecting Japan for years, and some of those appear to be migrating oversees to the Western world.
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60c68d No.25

Mirai Nikki maybe? All the characters may be psychiatrical ill.

c1a4be No.27

>>7
sayonara zetsuburu sensei )or however you spell that(
kinda deals with it. at least in the anime)haven't read the manga(the first sequence of episode 1 is a schoolgirl saving a man hanging himself in a tree, by tugging on his feet till he falls down.
after coughing profusely, he shouts at her: "why did you do that?! i could have died!"

it eases up on the mental illness thing as it goes, but the early episodes are well worth watching.

b527ee No.38

I would say that Paranoia Agent falls into the social illness category. If I recall correctly, the plot all led back to that one girl's attention whore complex. I haven't seen it in years so I might be incorrect…

Another one I can think of is Colorful, a movie about a boy who gets a second chance at life to figure out the sins he had committed.

7ab656 No.41

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>>38
I forgot about it in the OP list, but I watched Paranoia Agent a few times, and I think it would definitely qualify. It was very similar to Boogiepop Phantom, just more colorful, comedic, and less drably grim.

Stories about the mentally unstable, people going through socioeconomic and personal problems, etcetera.

832e61 No.95

Oh cool, I'm watching paranoia agent right now and will look at differently


b3deaa No.90[Reply]

it is time to talk about psychopathy…discuss

b3deaa No.91

psychopathy is lack of empathy for others, serial killers are psychopaths

26f5bb No.94

Spciopathy is lack of empathy, not psychopathy


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519a5e No.89[Reply]

Does anyone else see a weird optical illusion when you move your head and look at this?

ca42c0 No.92

No

3967c5 No.93

It looks like its wiggling or breathing for me.


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058637 No.72[Reply]

Hey, is there anyone with actual psychiatric knowledge here? I have a (probably) short question. I'm going through a really stressful period in my life and the only thing keeping me going is a mental image of a perfect life I've created inside my head. Like a personal paradise. I imagine living the rest of my days with my girlfriend and my dog, at the mountain cabin my grandparents built, autonomously, self-sustaining and (here comes the interesting part) a dense forest of trees on a radius of 500m around the property to cut contact off from the rest of the world. I want us to live just like that, the two of us, growing our own food and looking after animals, safe and far away from all the corruption and hypocrisy and greed of society. A place where there is no un-natural death and no destroying without building.

So my question is: What does this say about me? About my mental health, more specifically.

I currently know I have a degree of paranoia and a pretty bad case of OCD. Is there anything else I should get tested for?
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f77f8d No.80

>>79
Well, you can probably do a lot of good for the child in those 8 years.
Also, how close is the property to the nearest decent school?

15a280 No.81

>>80
Well there is a school in the village, 10 minutes walking distance, but a "decent" school would be in the town where I live now, ~60km away.

d9a60d No.82

>>81
Ah, that is a problem.
But how many years do you guess it is until the first child turns 8?

1cbefb No.85

>>82
i'm not sure. it was just a utopic idea. substance changed fast in the last year and i'm struggling to keep up with it. it'll be a long time until this idea will be close to possible.

94305f No.86

I don't think your scenario really says anything about you other than that you're an introvert and you prefer to keep to yourself and the people you trust. Nothing wrong with that, not everyone needs to be a social butterfly.

Anxiety issues like OCD and paranoia go hand in hand with introversion, so it's not altogether that surprising. Just as long as you're not hearing voices or forming delusions (remember the difference between OCD and real delusions is that you recognize in the former case that the strange thoughts are irrational).

OCD can be pretty substance on its own, so it wouldn't hurt to go into therapy just for that.


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8cee7b No.78[Reply]

>virtually no oxytocin
>have alternative psychological systems to compensate for the lack of oxytocin
>I avert the primitive behaviour caused by oxytocin
>tfw

0ec1ee No.87

>has space travel
>browses a *chan
>talking about primitive behavior


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3ad774 No.2[Reply]

In this thread: post if you are struggling with internet addiction.
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3ad774 No.30

>>29
I do not really find anything objectionable there. Here, in the Southern states, a lot of people are now so used to air-conditioning, they make a similar reason, that the weather outside it too hot to go anywhere or do anything during the summer. I have always thought below freezing temperatures and snow are more constrictive though.

Interestingly, I read a book about depression(published in the 1980s) in which the author said he noticed the severity of depression from cabin fever during the cold months in his patients was lessened when people had television to keep themselves mentally stimulated. The internet would be even better under that logic then, since it allows for access to more varied forms of entertainment and actual two-way conversations.

76ef4a No.46

flamingo

3ad774 No.49

>>46
Figuring out the word-filters eh?

fe57b7 No.62

i've been online for 16 hours

f2ce1b No.77

I've been addicted to this substance for about 16 years now! I always hate when I see people say things like "I just got the internet back, goodbye social life! XD". If only they really knew…


7cd2da No.50[Reply]

Help with dysgraphia and dyscalculia?

c8693c No.71

>>50
Yo dude, i've got dysgraphia, i've just started taking vyvanse to treat ADD. I find i can actually focus on writing and substance and actually write. Handwriting still looks like substance but at least i'm writing more.

ee55b1 No.74

>>71
Try and keep track of all the mental effects(however minor) that vyvanse has.
With enough information I might be able to find a means of permanently emulating the effect.


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53e386 No.64[Reply]

Hello /ment/
I've been in psychotherapy for my social phobia for several years now and I'm doing quite some progress.

Also I've been thinking about the causes of my shyness and anxiety a lot. I think the cause for my shyness is that during my childhood and teenage year I only had one real close friend I spent my time with. We spent our time mostly around the place we lived (we were neighbors) and never really met other people or discovered new exciting things. He is and always was a very shy, introvert guy (he likely got this from his parents, his sisters are just the same as him), but I found this a likable trait.
The thing is, my social learning was completely limited to this friend until I went to school. Of course I got to know other people in school then, but I still spent my whole time after school with him or alone.

Now that I'm 20 we see each other maybe once a year, because I moved away several years ago. It was difficult for me to socialize, because I was afraid to leave my comfort zone (which I never did at my old place) and my social phobia got worse and worse until I was in almost complete social isolation for two years (2010-2012).

I'm back in school now and - as I already said - I'm doing pretty good. I still have trouble getting out with friends and meeting new people. I think that's because my childhood was very sheltered from other kids my age and my social learning wasn't quite the best.

My question is, is it possible as an adult to "overwrite" the behaviours I learned during my childhood? I would very much profit from being more social, but I have a hard time to change my mental state.

Thank you for your help!

def793 No.65

Perhaps jumping in a conversation at a free-for-all party would work well.

If you can find a club, or a party that has enough people and chaos that no one would notice if a random stranger turned up, you could hang around and wait for a conversation that you could make an interesting contribution to and just jump in.
The people would be a tad drunk or disoriented to care that someone just jumped in the conversation out of nowhere, and people like contribution to a conversation.
Bam. New people met.

Social phobia often stems from fear of the consequences, so a chaotic party or a club is perfect.
Strangers and alcohol means no one who counts will remember you screwing up, no matter how badly.
And the chaos means that you can easily back out of any situation without being noticed. Unless you hit on the girlfriend of a muscle-for-brains type.

e0fe31 No.68

Hello OP.
I think so.
Also have been/am in social phobia, even it's for different reasons.
I found some tricks, some ways to go (a little bit only, okay, but still a bit) trough it in social situations and conversations.
Feel free to talk more if you want, some anons 'll try to be around.

>>65
I actually like drunk people so much for this.

bcfc04 No.69

>>68
Good, my uneducated guess worked.


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67c387 No.56[Reply]

The most interesting psychology I seem to have identified in someone is an oxymoron.

As is relatively common with aspergics(Still a rare trait), their subconscious is an abnormally efficient and stable; it seems to adjust itself in a manner irrespective of experience, based on the high efficiency of processing concepts the person should not be used to.
Despite this, they have traits that make no sense for someone with such a well-calibrated mind; their dreams are perhaps even crazier and more vivid than average, and they seem to be just as drawn to chaos and mystery as sanity and reason.
Interestingly, they handle the chaos and mystery they thrive in with sanity and reason; because they act as a Dungeon Master and also just like making scenarios at random, they have a tendency of making an imperfect scenario, and then without fundamentally changing it they link everything up so that the scenario is perfect after all.

Leading me to believe that they have a stable, efficient subconscious, which is attempting to emulate its antipode.
I have no idea how that occurs naturally, assuming they didn't make their mind like that deliberately.

67c387 No.57

>>56
Oh, yeah, and I should also point out what was actually the main thing that caused me to believe their subconscious was emulating its antipode; that insanity seems to be a common theme in his imagination.

0d8c74 No.59

i am aspergic hhaha

d3236b No.63

>>59
So?
There are demographics that are mostly aspergics.
In the world I care about, aspergers is the norm.
But the condition has so many variations in its effects, and said effects can change dramatically over relatively short periods of time.
One year I have issues with anger and control, the next I have uncanny stability, and on two occasions after that my psychology made long-term changes in a matter of hours. (Which puts my mind in its 4th distinct phase. I preferred the 3rd, though I might as well design the 5th now that I have the required information.)
Aspergers is a powerful trait for some, just most neither consciously or subconsciously exploit it.


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6ffb7b No.34[Reply]

This board doesn't seem too active, but I can't think of anywhere else to go.
Do dreams have meanings? Do they paint a picture of what's going on in your head for you while you sleep?
I recently had a dream which ended with me shooting someone I've never seen. I started out looking for someone I used to play videogames with, but shortly after it started, I was being chased by two men with guns. I eventually got to the first house I lived in. I hid in the guest bedroom which was completely empty. Something about it was different though, and one of the men appeared in the window, which was odd because it was a second story room. I ran into my old bedroom to see my mom (who died two years ago) and my brother, both laying on the bed. Unlike the guest room, my room was furnished. My brother handed me a pistol. It resembled one I've used before, a Smith and Wesson 1076 10mm. I walked out into the hallway and pointed at one of the men, the other wasn't there. He yelled "What the flamingo!", then I shot him 5 times. I woke up after he fell.
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9403f5 No.43

>>40
Just saying.

e97b52 No.45

>>40
>>43
only if you're a persongot liberal who thinks everyone should be a winner


or a millennial

99df06 No.47

>>45
Persongot… Is that a new buzzword?

Also I am not sure that someone has to be a leftist raised on participation trophies in order to understand that sometimes, competition is petty.

I made this board to help people, not win a contest.

527df6 No.48

>>47
Do your thing, see what happens. Either your board is maintained, grows, or dies. There's very little that you can do to affect it. No reason to kill it, no reason not to let it self-die.

48b5c9 No.61

>>34
Try checking out some dream interpretation sites, think of key words in your dream and see if you think the interpretations are somewhat realistic, for example murdering someone:
http://www.dreambible.com/search.php?q=Murder

Dreams can be rather all or nothing, sometimes they reflect your thought processes and sometimes they're just an outlet during a stressful period and don't mean much else than your mind trying to get some colour out.

As an example, I lost a family member at a time where I hadn't seen them for a long time and missed them terribly, and I kept dreaming that I killed them - in different ways, but it was always my fault they died in my dreams.

I worked through my guilty feelings (I wasn't there for them, I didn't get to tell them I loved them before they passed, I wasn't able to apologize for whatever bad things I had done in the past, I never got to help them feel better before they died etc.) - guilt can make you feel like you almost killed them just by not doing what you felt you should have done.

When I was able to let go of some of these feelings, my dreams changed.
I still have dreams of this person, but the dreams are more positive now, about future and past, memories and what I interpret as "reminders" to lead a good life and not stray off my path.

Good luck to you OP.


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