• FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    what’s fucked up … is the only reason I’m still here is literally because of my mother and pets. without them, I just don’t see the point.

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      Have you ever tried shrooms? They have helped many people get out of very long term dark places

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        ya know … the only thing that’s taken my out of this bad headspace was mushrooms. done it twice over 4-5 years when I heard about micro dosing. perhaps I should board the pets and see if it can help for another 6-8 months

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          You should! It’s absolutely mental healthcare. For me it would be best if i did it around every 3 months, but i usually only wind up doing it like every 9 months. We both need to take our vitamin M

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        Yes I did and I was exactly the same person before and after. Only if you already believe in hippie shit will you see hippie shit on shrooms

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          There’s studied scientific proof of it’s benefits to mental health. Just because it didn’t do anything for you doesn’t mean it doesn’t do anything for other people. And if you didn’t feel any effect then the shrooms you had were very weak or you didn’t take enough

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      I, for a long time, tried to kill myself, but couldn’t do it due to my mum and brother getting hurt too much by it. I am in a much better place now.

      I recommend trying to get some help, and I hope you’re out of the US, so you can get some too, because that message rang way too close to home.

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        not American no. I’ve gone the therapy route, that was expensive af even with coverage and made things worse sadly.

        I like caring for others, there just isn’t others in my life. I could cancel my phone and nobody would know. haven’t had a guest over in easily over 3 years. covid really fucked me up and I’ve never recovered. still isolated.

        I’m not going to do anything to myself, the thoughts are always there. life’s just super lonely and really getting to me.

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          I feel you. If you ever feel lonely, you can dm me here and we can talk about anything you like. Having even someone to talk to online helps a lot. No one deserves to be alone in this world.

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          Getting into an MMO like WoW or FFXIV might help with staving off the loneliness even if for a little while if you have a PC or a laptop.

          Plenty of people on them spending their nights in discord calls chatting away and sometimes plying other games too.

          It’s a great way to make some friends

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    I really can’t put into words the satisfaction of stepping on crunchy leaves.

    As a coinessuer though, the leaf depicted is not a crunchy one.

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      I used to contemplated sending a box of crunchy leaves to a friend who’s always lived in Florida. She used to lament that the dry leaves around her didn’t crunch the way “autumn leaves” are supposed to (and it’s true. A lot of plants in Florida have waxy or fuzzy leaves, neither of which is as satisfying to stomp on as a crispy, dry, red maple leaf.)

      The idea sounded better before I thought about how when you’re camping, it’s best to source firewood from the nearby area - bringing wood from far away could inadvertently spread diseases and pests into new locations. If that’s true of firewood from a few counties over, it’s probably true for leaves from northern states going to south Florida. Sigh.

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        I know I’m going to call down the wrath of the gods here, but it’s pretty hard to believe that Florida could actually get worse.

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    Nothing pushes me closer to suicide (not very at the moment) quite like lists like this that suck.

    Like damn, when you put it like that it REALLY isn’t worth it huh.

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      The whole list is kind of sad, but “It will get better” is the most infuriating bullshit. Like, the others are all demonstrable: I am in the middle of a TV series, I did hear about a new album coming out, and my dog might starve if I died suddenly and without a care plan. But, especially going off of data trends, blind and brainless optimism is uncalled for and patronizing.

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    • Friendships- getting to experience life through their stories and having someone to share your own
    • children - watching them grow, observe and learn their world. My daughter called the moving sidewalk at the airport today “the travelator”
    • travel - experiencing life, architecture and food from a different culture’s perspective are some of the best parts of living
    • stories - you have Netflix on there, but I’d add to finish that long form podcast or that good book
    • volunteering - use acts of service to serve yourself. You’ll have people who rely on you. Also helps with garnering a few friendships.
    • Hobbies - that ruby throated hummingbird needs you to keep filling up the feeder. Why is it still here in late fall anyway? Maybe it knows you need it too.

    If it helps, I’m not some happy bunny traipsing through the tulips of life. I’ve been severely depressed before. I was so depressed that I dropped out of university at one point and it took me nearly 10 years to return to get a degree. I was so depressed after my SO left me 4 months after I thought she was the one and moved away from everything I knew for her, that I laid in bed for half a year. I was so depressed when I just worked and rarely, if ever, dated for 3 years in my late 20s - I ended up quitting my job and moving, which led to me learning my passion for long distance cycling, new friends and renewed career opportunities.

    It does get better if you let it, if you will it even, and sprinkled with little bit of luck when those opportunities present themselves.

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    Get your new music from somewhere better tho, like community radio. Found so many new and local artists recently from doing this. And it’s great because you find out about upcoming gigs that are usually cheap coz the acts are small.

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    Honestly, spite against a cold and uncaring universe is pretty valid. Living a fulfilling life because oblivion isn’t the boss of you and you can do what you want is based.