Quit clinging to the past. I've moved on from my abusive childhood, clearly you haven't. What's more amusing to me is the lengths you'll go to attacking me, desperately trying to get a reaction. I'm cool as a cucumber, darlin'.
Turncoat stated: source post
Quit clinging to the past. I've moved on from my abusive childhood, clearly you haven't.
Do you see a pattern here?
Freyja stated: source post
Ok TC, serious question - do you actually want your life to get better? That might sound like a trick question, but it's not really. You seem to have based your entire identity around how you're this unique special snowflake who doesn't think like anyone else and has mental problems nobody can solve. I remember reading back through some of your posts on the old forum and thinking how proud you sounded of the fact that you'd tried so many different therapists and none of them could figure you out. You're so keen to stress how different you are and how the way you think is not like others that at times you become a parody of yourself.
I mean, this whole conversation people have offered you advice both practical and philosophical and you're clearly not open to it at all - you're just looking for ways to show how XXX wouldn't work for you because you're too special and different. Let's face it, if things started to go well for you in life - perhaps if you found a therapist who had seen cases like yours and could work with you and help you see things with a new clarity - that would be your worst nightmare, wouldn't it? Your very sense of self is constructed around your perceived uniqueness, and you don't want there to be anyone out there who can relate to you because it would challenge your very notion of who you are. You're as keen to impress people (and yourself) with your uniqueness as TK was that she was a big bad socio. The vast majority of your 11,467 posts involve you overanalysing stuff to the point of absurdity or trying to impress people with how 'different' you are.
For somebody supposedly open-minded, you seem to have a rather constrained, narrow-minded definition of what 'normal' is (just re-read some of your posts in this thread and notice how much you've talked about 'normally functioning' people and synonyms thereof). Your obsession with lolcows, 'weird' stuff on the internet, putting people into categories and analysing the minutiae of people's lives to the point of obsession is symptomatic of this. Would it completely blow your mind if I were to tell you that there is no 'normal', and that everyone on this earth has their own interior world that is as complex and unique as your own?
I'm sure that you do have genuine mental health problems, and you do have my sympathy there, but LOTS of people in the world do and still manage to live happy, meaningful lives. Maybe your issues are unique, but again, there are LOTS of people out there with unique issues. Yes, there are some people with very severe problems who can't get out of bed, but you're clearly not one of them, so why bring them into it? You manage to come to this forum pretty much every day and withstand the atmosphere here, and you managed to go travelling. That is a lot more than many people with serious mental health issues could manage. Yes, i'm sure your issues make life difficult for you, but it's not like you're disabled.
It's not that your problems in life aren't solvable, it's that you don't want to solve them. Even if you're not open to the idea of medication, there are plenty of people out there who could help you, but until you realise that you are in fact just a human being like everybody else it won't happen. Everything you've wrote on this thread just reads to me like a giant list of excuses. You seem to have this idea of genetic determinism - that your genes are a certain way and your brain is wired a certain way and that's that, it governs everything you do and there's nothing you can do about it. It's such a lazy way to go through life and completely illogical. It's like saying, there's no point in studying for this exam or training for this marathon because either I'll make it or I won't. It's quite sad really, because although I don't think you're half as smart as you think you are, you still have a lot to offer and could do a lot with your life.
It's like you feel entitled to happiness and success without putting any actual work into it. As someone who has learnt languages without having any natural ability, I can tell you that what you've wrote about language-learning is such a pile of BS. I could point you in the direction of approaches that might work better for you (check out Benny Lewis for starters) and offer you a tonne of advice, but won't waste my breath because I know you don't actually want to succeed at learning a language. In stuff like language learning, and, you know, life, EVERYONE has to work hard at it, nothing gets given to you on a plate. Some of us have to work harder than others, and that's not fair, but it is the way it is.
You moan about how competitive things are nowadays and how there are people out there much better than you. Again, literally EVERYONE feels this way, it's nothing specific to you. Talking about career success, I don't know what industry you're planning on working in, but in pretty much any given field those who succeed aren't actually the ones who are best at what they do or know the most about the subject, it's about mental attitude - someone who is talented but lazy nine times out of ten won't be able to compete with someone who has little talent but puts in the hours, talks to the right people, tries again many times after failure etc. Just look at many celebrities, politicians, business people, middle managers etc and you realise lack of talent or subject knowledge has never been a barrier to success.
For me, motivation is an attitude you choose to have. If I had waited until I felt like getting out of bed this morning I would probably still be in there. But why do you have to feel like doing something in order to do it? Happiness and motivation are not things that strike you like a bolt of lightening, and it's not pre-determined by genetics and brain chemistry either, it's an attitude that you are choosing, either consciously or subconsciously, every day.
This is fucking awesome. Well said.
corsair stated: source post
Turncoat stated: source post
Quit clinging to the past. I've moved on from my abusive childhood, clearly you haven't.
Do you see a pattern here?
You're always right
You know I'm right. That's why you're not going to respond to my post properly. Because you can't.
Thanks for bowing out so easily. When push comes to shove your true colors show, don't they.
corsair stated: source post
Have you ever admitted to being wrong before?
Shit, I can't find any TK quotes about admitting to being wrong.
The Anti Ed Coalition stated: source post
It's probably Pray. Freyja only ever logs on when Ed is being attacked.
If that was sarcasm, I assume this sounds ridiculous to you?~