/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

How severe are they?

They may just be intrusive thoughts. That isn't to say it is necessarily a good thing as if you let it actually get to you…bad things can happen.

That or maybe what you are subconsciously craving is someone to talk to. Not just shooting the shit and whatnot, but someone who you can talk deeply about things bugging you.

Do you feel distant from your friends or whoever it is you talk to? Like you aren't able to tell them how you really feel for fear of losing them?

>>8134
i feel extremely distant, without any strong meaningful bonds, every interest i have is not viewed by anyone around me. The people i care about are just too different for them to understand… 8chan feels like the only welcoming place to be, but unable to talk to anyone about 8chan or just my thoughts in general is eating me alive.

>>8137
this webm makes me feel like killing myself even more, a permenant solution sounds very appealing, meaning these things will never happen to me again

>>8138
>i feel extremely distant, without any strong meaningful bonds, every interest i have is not viewed by anyone around me. The people i care about are just too different for them to understand… 8chan feels like the only welcoming place to be, but unable to talk to anyone about 8chan or just my thoughts in general is eating me alive.

Can relate. What you need, I think, is to find someone you can trust, someone you can actually truly talk to face to face about these things. The hardest part is trusting someone enough. This is why therapists exist. They are basically professional "temporary best friends" for the while you have meetings with them, but they aren't quite the same as actually having a person who you can actually confide the things you are talking about into.

There are two options you can take here:

A: Find someone out of the people you know who you can trust the most and talk with them about it. Who you would consider your "best friend" would be the ideal choice, I believe. The hard part is not making it awkward to the point where it annoys them. Simply starting by bringing it up with "Hey man, I know this sounds kinda weird but…" while keeping a light tone about it will generally ease the awkwardness.

or

B: Find a therapist who you can talk through these problems with. Judging by the wording of your post, it doesn't sound like you are really familiar with these types of issues and it has (relatively)recently started to bother you to the point where you need to bring it up. Now, they aren't near as bad as a few here make them out to be(it is the psychiatrists you want to avoid if at all possible.) If you have suicidal thoughts, however, psychiatric pills may be unavoidable.

Obviously, I suggest the former, but choosing either option is a better idea than letting it consume you.

>>8140
>This is why therapists exist. They are basically professional "temporary best friends" for the while you have meetings with them, but they aren't quite the same as actually having a person who you can actually confide the things you are talking about into.

Yeah, they're basically prostitutes.

>>8138

Oh that does sound quite similar. Although I have given up on human relations completely. I keep up appearances, platonic relationships to family, neighbors and one acquittance/friend. I don't particularly want to interact with them, but they are good to have around because of the services they can provide.

But I cannot talk to them about anything really. There is nothing to talk to them about, they have no interest in same shit I do, and I have no interest in their things.

Loneliness is a funny thing in a way, that you eventually grow used to it, and after that, you start kinda enjoying it.

>>8140

How many of you actually tell therapist the truth? I don't. I can't. I just can't tell therapist the 100% unfiltered truth about anything basically.

>>8191
Have you thought about telling them that you can't tell the truth?

>>8198
Chances are they probably already know.

>>8201
They truly would be idiots for not assuming as much.


How come lying feels more natural and easier than explaining the truth about certain things?

>>8216
Because lies are interchangeable and truth isn't. When you tell the truth, you leave your true self open to criticism.

>>8137
Who the fuck wants a tempory solution as opposed to a permenent one.

>>8191
>Loneliness is a funny thing in a way, that you eventually grow used to it, and after that, you start kinda enjoying it.
(I'm not OP)
I used to be like that, but recently the lack of social interaction hit me hard in the feels, or in the lack of feels. I have lost any will to do anything. I have abandoned working, then reading books, then going to the cinema, then playing vidya (aside from Minesweeper). I spend my days shitposting on the web, crying, watching the Simpsons, and I get out of my bed once per day (usually aroud 4 p.m.) to buy a sandwich and cookies. Oh, and I lost most hygiene. I feel dumber every day.
I am too afraid to check my university emails ("anon, why are you fucking up your scholarship?").

As much as it hurts to be lonely, i know it is better to be alone then with people who could dox you.

>>8897
>but gave her the usual "I'm fine" bullshit instead and she bought it.
I did that, now she is angry at me because she believes I was selfish and aggressive.
Is asking for a hug being aggressive?

>>8898
That's not aggressive at all. Perhaps she just isn't the kind of person who likes to be hugged?

>>8137
Jesus fuck Robin Williams.