• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    This is me every single time I have gotten a job rejection email since the election. Every single time.

    “You suck and no one will ever hire you and you will be stuck in this country and watch people get marched into camps.”

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        17 hours ago

        It feels like all I do is apply. And then notice something about my CV or the cover letter that I just sent and realize it could have been better and then say, “well fuck, I’m not going to get that job, am I?”

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      17 hours ago

      Absolutely excessive but it appears they at least used it mostly correctly to emphasize key areas.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      19 hours ago

      Mental health recovery journey in a nutshell: don’t do what you want, do what your brain needs. Some day you will actually want that thing AND it will still help your brain! What? Didn’t you read the brain manual?

      (Assistant leans in) “sir, we never figured out how to do those brain manuals”

      …well good luck. Oh and you’ll want to find the right medication to give you a fighting chance. That should only take a couple years.

  • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    And then you melt down because you’re very, very, very sorry and you know it’s not a big deal but your brain is making you grovel and beg for forgiveness and you’re sorry for acting like this and it’s weirding everyone out and now you’re sorry about that too, and now all your friends have run away and you’re alone and sorry you made them run away.

    • VoilaChihuahua@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Well maybe that’s why I ran out of my exercise class tearing up because I bumped into another person. And leaving abruptly made everything 100xs worse. Which I know it really didn’t. But also yes I looked insane and that person is right to hate me now. So now I can never exercise there again just to be safe.

  • Cadenza@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    And one day, brain did shut up for good and started to follow reason’s evaluations of these kind of situations. And I hope it will happen to those needing this.

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        20 hours ago

        For me it was finding people who cared about me, which gave me the self-esteem to ignore bullies (including the bully-informed “voice” in my head)

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        1 day ago

        For me it was a strange and unintended cocktail of the lowest point of a depression (crisis state and constant dissociation), quitting an addiction and reading a book and declaring it was my new existential guideline. It was a philosophy book. Spinoza’s ethics.

        Recipies may vary to suit different tastes.

  • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Me: YOU ARE BEING COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE! Brain: I KNOW, AND I’M GOING TO MAKE YOU FEEL BAD BECAUSE OF IT

    🫠