@Mab Asakura sounds like you have a bit of an anxiety problem. Speaking from experience

@ToastMcGhost A bit is an understatement lol. My fingers are all trashed with me picking it all the time.

DO you take medication for it?

Mine manifests in OCD usually

I take meds

I got some anxiety meds, but I refrain from taking any anti-depressant due to job.

I take the anxiety meds when it gets "too bad", but that is far and few in between.

Oh well i was going to say buspirone and gabapentin work wonders for me. I suffer from general anxiety disorder. What do you take benzo's?

It's just like, I never learned how to be a normal person with other people. I've goten beter with watching what I say and act in front of people, but it takes a while for me ot warm up to someone to be truly comfortable with them. LIke a LONG while.

Uh, Hydroxyzine Pamoate

@Mab Asakura there are some DBT terms you project like disastrophising, all-or-nothing thinking and rumination. Look into those

DBTs?

@Mab Asakura the introvert struggle is real. lol

DIaletical behavioral therapy

I feel that

introvert

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. It's basically changing your base thoughts

Like someone who is suicidal, their base thought is "if I'm dead, I don't have to worry about my problems"

I do have a lot of negative recursive thinking going on when I'm in a rut. I've been taken care of it by just fapping it away. Though now that the faps aren't as effective, I'm forced to face the music lol

Shoulda faced it when I was in late teens/early twenties.

@Mab Asakura I feel for you brother I was never really completely an introvert but I think I may have had a bit of social anxiety in certain situations, it is a problem so many suffer from and as men truly nobody gives a fuck

@ToastMcGhost Wow I never knew that was a thing. Will definitely look into those. Thanks for showing me options my dude.

I'm glad to help. I wanted to start my own mental health YT channel at some point

@Reaper Nobody gives a fuck is right. Like, if I pipe up about my issues, It either gets brushed aside as weakness or blown out of proportion for no reason. People really don't know how to react with moderation.

Men are more likey to go undaignosed/not seek help due to stigmas

We're also... like 80 something percent of suicides?

@Mab Asakura it's actually pretty disgusting that in a society where men are constantly under mental attack our mental health is also put on low to no priority

Btw I didn't mean to divert the attention away from @GingerSnaps problem.

Look at the gynocentric world we live in. It takes a lot of mental fortitude and character to not be depressed at least a little bit if you ask me.

Just that you lot are really fun to talk to so I kinda went with it.

I don't think it's that men don't reach out, reaching out doesn't seem to help.

@GingerSnaps truth

@ColdEmbraceOfDeath facts

Yeah i'm with cold on that one

Reaching out will likely just get u shamed and mis-diagnosed

I mean this whole open up crap doesn't help, like for men things need to be pragmatic and solution oriented instead of a feeling based approach to things.

From what I've heard all these healthcare professionals slap people with some prescriptions meds and are done with it.

When we don't fully understand how they work.

@ColdEmbraceOfDeath Easy fix. Presscribe more opioids and keep that big pharma wheel a-turning.

In relation to this, I'd suggest watching Wandering Wojak's video recently on this subject.

@ColdEmbraceOfDeath exactly pills can only regulate feelings they can never fix a problem... a total female oriented solution