• FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I believe it is possible to get frustrated with playing too many video games.

    Presumably this happened when anon was a kid, before we learn to rationalise why playing videogames non stop is unhealthy, attaching thoughts like “oh i need to do something productive”

    You could say he was just over-stimulated, like a cat getting pet too much. Make sense?

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    2 days ago

    Have people forgotten about people cutting themselves? Not advocating. Self harm sometimes triggers a survival response that makes you feel better. This was alarmingly common in the aughts.

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    2 days ago

    yea, i got that. it has to be sharp and sudden pain. all that talk of using cold to safely manage is complete utter bullshit. recently i used a hammer to hit the space between the bones in my fore arm, and that straightened me out incredibly quick, but man the recovery from that sucked. i usually slam my fists against my steel desk, but my hands are always creaky now.

    i should sleep but i cant. i should do things that i enjoy, but doing them is not joyful, and that makes me compound the frustration and the anger. the weekends are dangerous. holidays more so. my work has mandated time off because i don’t take pto. so in three month i will have to face the prospect of 20 days off

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      2 days ago

      You’ll get a similar natural adrenaline / endorphin speedball with much less lasting harm to your body if you run or do jumping jacks for five minutes.

    • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      You sound a bit like me a few years ago. Chronic loneliness and BPD was awful.

      You should try see if you can get a decent therapist. Even if it’s just online in a different country.

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        2 days ago

        i tried doing that (findinga therapist) when i had the energy a couple days ago. i walked away from that failure with new levels of frustration.

        i have learned that any efforts to improve my situation is paid back two fold in depression and urges. the harder i try the worse it gets

        • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 day ago

          a couple days? it took me 2-3 years to find a therapist I clicked with.

          Not finding a therapist isnt a failure on your part. Stop calling shit failures. You were successful in trying to help yourself, just, didnt get the results you wanted and thats okay. You were successful in trying.

  • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Anon is not aware and exposed to a vulnerable narcissistic parent day to day and doesn’t realise how taxing subconcious manipulation and emotional exploitation is. A first symptom of bad mood starts and will result in no-contact and a long taking process through means of therapy to recover from the years of neglect and psychological terror.

    You can do it anon.