I just found some Life Pro Tips post about mental health.
Fucking Reddit is the single most miserable ass website EVER. People just keep praising each other for not trying to do anything for themselves and it fucks me up.
I have my issues. I'm not talking out of my ass. I used to have this phase of multiple panic attacks a day, sometimes like every couple hours.
Those fucks are such lazy, miserable cunts who even encourage shitty, unhealthy behaviour. They claim they have no energy to do anything the first moment it feels hard, but then they bitch and moan about not getting free therapy indefinitely and not getting enough pills.
They seem to love pills so much and talking each other into getting hooked on them.
But you encourage people to go out for fucking walks? NO, NOT ON MY WATCH, HITLER. They yell at you if you encourage someone unwell to eat better, to get creative hobbies, to develop good habits. They just say it doesn't work.
Maybe it doesn't work because they don't want it to work. They will their own selves to be fucking unhappy.
This was a rant and probably random as shit, but I am baffled when people actively make each other feel worse like this.
That is modern social media in a nutshell (with very private/old-school message boards being an exception). It's a circle-jerk.
I would consider this site to be unhealthy for you too. Any site with up-votes/down-votes is a bad system. This site just lets you say more taboo things, it doesn't necessarily make you happier.
Pills should be the last option, everybody I know on pills have developed mental health issues later down the line (even the ones taking pills for mental health issues).
This site isn't as bad because you can see downvotes and upvotes separately so you can see how much the viewers approve or disapprove. On reddit it's all hive mind, by comment score they either 100% love you or 100% hate you.
What I'd like to see is downvotes worth 1/2 upvote, or such as. Then you'd get hivemind and counterculture views interlaced together.
Any site that bans all “taboo” things is controlled by some Marxist trying to invite BLM terrorists to destroy our cities.
It's the allowing self to broadcast taboo things will eventually turn you into the person you pretend to be.
Not you specifically, just remarking in general terms.
Pills should only be taken to calm yourself down in my opinion.
Best thing for mental health is forcing yourself outside, building relationships, exercise, and achieving set goals. This requires actually doing something which is antithetical to authoritarian simps.
I'm not going to rehash my own depressive episode, but I wholly agree that what shook me out of it was accepting a heavily physical job outdoors that required me to learn quickly or be fired.
This is something many people don't realize as being far more helpful than it first appears.
Even just going out for a walk means your body is actively doing something rather than sitting curled up on a soft sofa with blankets surrounding you, whatever sounds playing, and comfort food nearby.
Getting the body working, your metabolism firing, and not wallowing are some of the simplest and relatively effective things someone can do.
Did you know? Sufficient exercise fixes most behavioral issues in dogs. It's not that much different with people.
A tired dog is a happy dog.
Don't get me started on this. At my old workplace we were talking about our dogs. I said I took mine (a very small dog) on a nice, long walk. The weather was pretty dang hot and when we got home she just drank some water and went to sleep.
Then someone told me I was needlessly torturing my dog and I shouldn't do that to her, because it's not good she passed out when we got home. Funny enough, this person had two extremely destructive golden retrievers that just destroyed everything because they were bored.
Idleness breeds issues.
Too many people never physically create things, even though it's super satisfying. Especially the typical Reddit user, "intellectual" types, aka people who work in offices and live in big cities.
I saw some of them trying to convince each other how pills that make you feel absolutely dead are good and you just need to take them longer. They complained about being exhausted, drained, unmotivated, etc., but it's totes working. It made them unable to concentrate, some even said they can't work. But it must be working, y'all.
It reminds me of when vegans say hair loss, teeth just falling out and a loss of your period just means your body is detoxing.
Oh yea I started off that way, too: purely office type work and wanting to live in big cities. The older I got the more I realized that that 's soul-crushing and depressing. I've been starting a lot of more constructive hobbies like DIY and various crafts over the years, and staying away from big cities.
I got lucky and never went down the pills route. A cousin of mine did and it made her miserable. IMHO all pills do is numb you to the point where you can't even be bothered to jump in front of a train. That's it. They're not going to help you get better. At best they keep you from getting worse by turning you into a zombie.
I’ve been taking anti-depressants for years, but I’ve told my psychiatrist that I want to get off them. If you miss a day of taking the pills it makes you feel like absolute shit (I.e severe headaches/dizziness), and I HATE that dependency. I’m genuinely afraid that these pills are going to potentially have long term repercussions such as Alzheimer’s when I get older.
FTFY
I stopped using all social media years ago because of a mix of needlessly checking for updates, that fucking "seen ✔✔" feature which plagues other servives too, and the general pettiness/bitching that happened from so many people who never seem to have left the school playground.
yep. i gave up a long time ago trying to help people on that site, specifically young depressed men who need the most help.
No one has any right to claim depression as a chemical imbalance that requires pills unless they do the following:
eat right
get enough sleep
exercise several times a week
have a robust social/romantic life
have a somewhat fulfilling job where they feel accomplished
make enough money to keep the bill collectors at bay
most people who are depressed is a result of a shitty life that they can fix, its not a random chemical imbalance, its a natural reaction to living a shitty life. But I have experienced the same think as OP, people wanting pills as the first and sometimes only attempt to change it.
Well, yeah. It's an oppression Olympics, the only thing they value is dysfunction and misery.
It's easy to resort to being unhappy because it requires no effort. It's also easy to hate those that aren't too lazy to improve their lives.
Redditors are basically all seven deadly sins personified :D
Social media has a tendency to become toxic after a while. The concept of a news aggregator forum is not new - just ask Digg, or even Slashdot. Reddit just took the concept and, largely thanks to Digg's failure and subsequent remake, amassed the largest userbase among all news aggregators of all time.
Now this is where I'd stop and call it a day. Lot of users = lot of toxicity. Right?
Not even close...
Websites like Reddit specifically fall prey to what I like to call a toxic spiral. Toxic users post toxic content. toxic users react to it. It gets upvoted, starts trending and gets frontpaged. Some "normal" users see this and engage with it as well. As they do, these "normal" users start acquiring what I like to refer to as a toxic bias. This influences their behavior on the site, what content they engage with, what they post and share, and so on - except it becomes gradually more and more toxic as the user's exposure to toxic content is extended, and exacerbated due to their behavior, giving rise to the toxic spiral. A normal user:
Then along comes another user, who stumbles upon toxic content, and if he/she is susceptible, the cycle repeats itself. Give it a few million iterations (Reddit is over a decade old) and you've got yourself a dedicated group of people who spread toxicity like wildfire. And to add fuel to that fire is the fact that most people who bring toxic behavior to the platform - SJW's, feminists, hard leftists/communists, woke types, etc - tend to be losers in real life, and probably have tons of free time to spend online. More time investment = more content = more toxicity. More toxicity -> more users become toxic -> toxicity further spreads.
TL;DR Toxicity is literally the cancer of the Internet, and in that analogy, websites like Reddit are akin to radiation chambers.
This post explains the entire left wing.
Progressive "culture" is about people actively making themselves miserable.
I think you're half right. Reddit is a machine designed to make it's users mentally unwell. That was the real point of "community moderation." To turn the entire place into one giant self-guided struggle session.
Just observe how it makes major decisions, like banning NoNewNormal or TheDonald.
This is why it was purchased. This is why they did Cambridge Analytica, and this is the product of what they've learned. You can't make people do anything, but you can make them so unwell that they don't want to do anything.
They have banned almost everyone that would drop links in comments to information regarding the issues of today. Now when I go to the r\conspiracy, there arre a bunch of people there that are so close to learning, but have no-one left who are flipping stones to help them understand what details they are missing. So I figure, the people that are left at r\conspiracy are not the kind of savvy people to figure out how to flip heavy stones using the proper search query strings.
I try to advise something that feeds the beast while breaching the outer shell:
Make some cookies. From scratch. Lots of super easy recipes online. Make a batch, and give a third of it to someone. No friends? Go for a walk and give it to a homeless. Do with the other two thirds as you will, eat or freeze or give away or throw to the birds, doesn't matter. Well, try one at least.
By wording it as cookies, you auto-defend against a lot of naysayers who fear the HAAS ("Healthy At Any Size") crowd, which is a lot of lefties. But it forces a hobby. Likely forces TWO trips outside, one for ingredients and one for the giveaway. It forces at least a brief in-passing social interaction. And for many of them, it forces trying something new. And it's hard to fuck up cookies, under or overcooked a bit and they're still fine, too much flour or sugar or egg and they're still fine, so the result is probably going to be palatable for them, some minor success which might jar them out of their funk if it isn't chemical in nature.
I love baking and cooking and even when I was at my lowest, it helped . My peanut butter chocolate chip cookies always win.
At my workplace we regularly bring food or even cook here in the lab kitchen. They love my gyoza, I even knead the dough from scratch. Then I bring a bunch of them and cook them here, so they are fresh.
Remember, to be a good citizen, eat the bugs, live in the pod, own nothing and don't exercise.
When you read a story about a tranny thinking they were male, that finally got some help for their depression. Now on some medicine the depression is under control suddenly the gender dysphoria fades away. How many fucking kids these days operate like they're mentally ill because of all the attention they get. How much of this mental illness is self-inflicted and what are the knock-on effects?
Look up stress breathing. Try it out when you have a panic attack
Learn to meditate. Really try it out even if you think it's a waste of time. It could be the best thing you can do for yourself.
Find something to learn or a skill to master. Something simple and learn everything you can about it. Study how your brain picked it up and then try something harder. Learn how to think and use that to dissect your problems.
Just some suggestions. The stress breathing really helped me though
Oh, thanks, I am doing much better now. Learning stuff really works for me, actually. Plus, with a lot of things i really had to push through. Like i used to be absolutely terrified of driving. I was forced to do it about a year ago and I just updated to a nicer car.
I think it's definitely intentional in the case of Faggit, and probably intentional in the case of the the other social media sites. You can't groom well adjusted people into becoming trannies, and Faggit has an entire network subs dedicated to doing just that. Why would they undermine their own mission by encouraging healthy habits? I suspect a lot of the subs you're referring to are pipelines to the troomer subs.
In the grand scheme of things the whole tranny thing is just a small aspect. It's about control of society. The tranny craze is just one cudgel with which to beat non-believers into submission. It's an extension of weaponized "tolerance".
I must be doing it wrong then, because I enjoy shitposting and laughs on a lot of the subreddits I follow for anime or games I like. Have never really had any problems and when there are disagreements it ends well as long as people are constructive and not needlessly flaming. Maybe I just rolled well on fandoms.
That said:
I do feel this is very much the case with a lot of subreddits, especially the ones with toxic fandoms or that are politically charged. They are lazy, miserable bastards, who demand everyone else be as lazy and miserable as they are, because if someone is happy it means they could be too if they werent such lazy, miserable bastards.
Now with THAT said, I do believe there are more than a few people on our own "side" who have the same sort of problem. They have been in the trenches for too long, and seen too much, so now they are becoming increasingly bitter and angry instead of stepping back and taking some much needed RNR.
So I feel the same sort of stuff applies to us: Turn off the internet, go for a walk, take a deep breath, and go play some games or whatever your hobby is. The world isnt anywhere near as boned as you think it is, and things can change.
The only place I miss in reddit is /ketoscience.
Cult of misery.
I havent been on reddit in years but the “im an introvert that hates going out and socializing” shit used to piss me off.
Look if youre a homebody, great. Whatever, I dont care. But the way they fuckin glorified that shit was sick. Being afraid of interpersonal interaction was idolized.