Originally posted by RIPtotse
And what party should I expect to see you in the running for? Seriously tho if more people had this mentality we wouldn't have joe Biden sniffing kids and doing coke.
But I will totally agree to the sentiment that humans are social beings and being able to just talk to someone about bullshit is helpful, at least for me, and if you have to do that with a paid professional then so be it. There is literal science proving that social interactions and brain stimulation from other human beings is extremely beneficial to the brain and I actually equaite 3 specific things to my success in 'treatment' or as I like to call it, not being a shit scumbag human heroin drug dumpster literally is housing, 'therapy' which I actually consider anything beneficial to mental health[daily routine, family interaction, petting a stray cat, working out], and opioid replacement therapy in my case, because idk I'm a bitch but I'm working on it.
But yah being fully honest about all that shit and realizing it is like the first step and I feel like ur just not there but ur pretty young from what it seems
Tldr; human social interactions repair brain synapses and shit basically I'm a doctor trust me
yes. if you have absolutely no friends and nobody to listen to, unloading onto someone else or a therapist can be useful. i think most people are not in this situation though and have someone they can talk to.
and in your post you are erroneously assuming that all humans hold self improvement as a worthwhile goal, and worthwhile enough that they will take sometimes significantly difficult steps to pursue it. the hard and uncomfortable truth is that this is not the case. how many people do you know who dont indulge significantly in some sort of vice? its not literally everyone, but its pretty damn close. if theyre not some sort of degenerate like many of the users here who are drug addicts, alcoholics, sex addicts (not sure anyone here falls under that but whatever), they are almost certainly bingeing on netflix, sugar and shitty food. its all the same shit really. something to do to waste your time and self sabotage to some degree, because not indulging is hard and everyone else does anyways so in a fucked up way being at your peak means being somwhat isolated and having to deal with more mental harder shit in general than just "ugh i feel so fat and lazy after eating half that pizza i gotta take a nap" or burned out from doing drugs or whatever and then just cycling that. most people are in this same exact cycle but they will never realize it or admit it to themselves because its easier to just tell yourself that since your particular vice is x and thats not as bad as y or z, youre good. which may be the case but it still doesnt mean youre not doing essentially the same thing, maybe with just a lower risk for cancer.
people dont necessarily act rationally. in fact id say they avoid it most of the time. they do work that doesnt matter, mill about and take shits while doing nothing because they hate their job or just want to see how lazy they can be or whatever, and while they know in their heart they are just wasting time it gives them at least the ability to impress on others that they have some important role. then they go have beers or hella fucking candy and cigarettes then walk past the junkies on the sidewalk and think "oh thats terrible someone should do something about that i dont understand why so many people these days are resorting to such dangerous drugs etc" and they separate themselves mentally from those people because to look at their habits and realize they are stuck in the same exact cycle, just the person on the sidewalk for whatever reason was in circumstances at some point where instead of sugar or netflix they came across oxycodone or meth, made some bad decisions just like almost everyone else does, and got fucked up or just gave up.
and for me personally as someone who has been aware of these things for a long time, it just gets to a point where you dont want to entertain the lie. like im not going to be fulfilled by a life of netflix and pizza...thats fucking boring. and its just not in my makeup to pretend to be satiated by that. its gotta be something else and so if its not something that involves constant creativity, learning, experimentation, or self improvement or some combination of those things, its going to be meth and other crazy drugs because if im going to be killing myself im not trying to do it slowly, dragging out the process in the most boring manner possible.
