Love the content warning on this lmaoo

Pretty sure most people are only against circumcision for infants who do not consent. No one is talking about those with a medical need.

I get surgically removed foreskins every day at my work, but they are elective procedures by those who can consent for a relatively “common” condition called phimosis.

Glad to hear it :))

Thank you, man.

Well I reached out in a very harmful and manipulative way is the thing. Only a few EAP sessions are covered by my job. My insurance is shit so I pay the full price of therapy as if I had no insurance because it’s not covered. But I have still been in therapy anyway because I know it’s necessary and I am paid well enough to afford it.

Occasionally I feel like I need to talk to someone in the middle of the night, but that’s not really a thing. Suicide hotlines are for suicidal people. I was in extreme distress but not suicidal. I’ve never called one before. I have heard of warm lines like just recently after that event. Usually I am not to that level of extreme as the other day though, just high distress not extreme extreme distress lol. But idk that any of these are suitable idk what to do man.

Yeah I will def tell my therapist when I see her next and my provider was in the process of starting me on a new SSRI but I am not at the minimum therapeutic dose yet. I see her in a few days. I don’t have a DBT group but someone did suggest that to me. I wasn’t interested but maybe I’ll have to investigate further.

Yeah basically everyone at work knows I’m in therapy at this point.

Doesn’t it make me bad that I hurt them though? That I said those things and didn’t really mean it though? That I have made them concerned about me before?

Also, are you able to call suicide hotlines if you are not actively suicidal? Occasionally I have been at the level I was a couple nights ago with extreme extreme distress (usually it’s just high distress), but since I’ve never been to the point of like almost dying, I never called it. I don’t want to tie up the line and idk if they’d just hang up quickly anyway if I said I wasn’t gonna kill myself. I have also just found out about “warm lines”, but idk if it’s too intense for that too lol it’s like an intermediate issue. And a lot don’t seem to be open in the middle of the night.

Idk thanks for listening.

Curious how old you are if you wouldn’t mind sharing.

I know you didn’t ask for it this way, but I don’t believe in a good. Thing is we get only one life on this planet. At its core, we are all organisms simply fighting to survive with as minimal pain possible. So if life truly has no meaning then the only thing you need to worry about is pleasure. Not in a decompensatory way, but as a way to realize that that’s what we are here for. To survive and persist and do what we can to find kindness and pleasure for ourselves.

I’m sorry if that’s not overly helpful. I just hope that you see that we here you. You are not alone in this community. Please stay with us.

Wow! Do you have sex? Other forms of physical touch? I never knew two people who don’t enjoy kissing could find each other.

I did twice in life. It was very wet and tasted like spit. Confusing why it’s pleasant to others lol.

Thank you. :) Right now my issues are not from social anxiety, but rather from ongoing social “abuse” and rejection/abandonment at work. I used to wake up every day excited to go to work, but now I just feel so alone there. I cry often in the bathroom and before and after.

It’s not as simple as “get a new job” either. My field is small and it would necessitate moving away. Yet I own my place. Plus I am tied with someone who I felt to be my best friend at one point who no longer is. For someone with social anxiety, feeling accepted is important to me.

I feel very alone in person rn and am struggling, but that’s why I’ve always taken solace on the internet. Sure there are also a lot of shitheads online…often more than irl. But at the same time, you can run into people who you can pour your heart out and that will actually accept you. Maybe it’s “unhealthy”, but it has always helped me. I started talking to people online during my early teens when I had such extreme social anxiety that I could hardly talk to anyone in person. I credit my experiences online with helping me to develop social skills in person despite me being unable to do so at the time.

Hoping the best for you all. Happy Friday. :)

I feel like I need to buy some of those lights where you can choose the colors and just have them year round.

February - red, pink, white

March - green

October - orange or purple or a combo

November - red and orange?

December - red and green

And then other months just go with your vibe.

Glad to hear, OP! Anything in particular that helped? Or just the natural flow of things?

The only thing certain in life is change. Sometimes it’s change for the bad and sometimes it’s change for the good. But it will change. So the possibility of a good change always keeps me going.

Lmaooo. Tbf weirdos are what makes life a bit more interesting. :)

I’m sorry, dude. I don’t have anything that can help. But you are a human being and you matter. Best of luck.

Ok this is a dumb question, but do antidepressants help with this? I’m in therapy and tried an antidepressant before and one other class of med but it didn’t seem to help. My provider wants to try me on a different antidepressant again, but it’s a bit disheartening to have already tried two different meds.

Interestingly, I had a 23andme done for funsies. And there is a section I didn’t know about where it talks about how the action of some drugs can be affected by my genetics. It actually said that I would have reduced efficacy for the SSRI they had me on first. I brought this info to my provider which is why she wants me to try a different SSRI even after several failed meds.

Does she ever get stuck lol

Lmao what is this comment? Who shat in your cornflakes this morning?

I also found this to be odd.

Obviously anyone could donate their entire earnings to charity, but it doesn’t really make sense for the self. Why is he donating all of it instead of donating some and keeping some? Whose idea was this?