i'm just about to get a shitty apartment via welfare, at the ripe age of 25 fucking years old. I've had a single job, ever.
boy i fucking wonder why i would be a raging socialist, truly the mystery of all time.
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Yeah, this is one of the things that really does get me steaming. I don't want anyone to have the experiences I did as a kid, whether that's the emotional abuse of one parent, the neglect of the other, the steaming pile of religious guilt shoved on me, and the relentless unhappiness that pervaded my teenage years. People denying the illness aspect of it, merely dismissing it as a phase, and pushing the philosophy that kids don't need help and treatment (which also leads to isolation in the already fucked up social world the child is now finding themself in) are cruel.
Lost a good chunk of my adulthood too. Still working on it. Probably always will be.
It took me until after university to be able to figure out how to lose weight and get my depression/anxiety in check.
Fuck man.
Better late than never? I hear ya though. Lost time sucks and the current time doesn't seem very appealing.
Did I miss the pro-mental-illness crowd? I feel like I never meet people like "depression is great! We should have more of it!"
You'd be suprised.
In 10 years I'll probably be saying this about my 30s.
I never thought about it so much. I just know it has been traumatizing and yes. Time I will never get Back. And the time now trying "to fix" myself neither.
~~Posting/talking about it this way so many years later is not a constructive use of your time though. Be positive instead, lest you relapse.~~
EDIT: I stand corrected; gratitude. I worded it wrong, my point is that there are better ways. Should not have diminished.
Absolutely not. Acknowledging that it was fucking awful is the only place from which actual progress can be made. Posting about it is a perfectly valid way to do that and provides an entry point into that conversation, provided people don't shut it down with toxic positivity.
Source: raised by gaslighting narcissists.
Merci, see edit.
I hope I didn't come off as hostile, I just feel the need to go to bat for people dealing with trauma sometimes. Thanks for understanding and take care.
You guys both seem really cool
Thank you. All is well, only a matter of syntax. Aligned, our thoughts are.
I will simply neglect the absence of what I have lost for fear that I will lose more if I acknowledge it.