Essential The Mental Health Thread

[SupaVillain]

The adulterous acts I've committed to my ex haunt me to this day; I was so selfish and absorbed by my temptations/desires/feelings and didn't care to think that I was in relationship that gave me her world. But in lieu, I chewed it up and spat it back at her face. That supreme guilt of doing wrong to others when they deserved none is what really eats me up alive. We've been broken up for some time (will be 5 years this June) and I dwell on it frequently.


I sincerely wish her the best, but I'd be a damned liar if i sat here and told you my actions didn't create an irrepressible feeling of shame and guilt.


Only thing I can tell myself to do now is move on, be better and not let the past dictate how I maneuver in life... and always treat people accordingly.


Mama taught me better than that.


When you screw someone over, you're only fukking up yourself. And don't get it twisted, the cosmos are indeed watching and respond/react to every little thing you do.



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I hope everything is good well for you Breh and you learned how to be better

 

[Rozay Oro]

Be careful with 5-HTP, has very serious side effects

Echo the social circle front, I just have no interest in seeing anyone and it makes me feel bad as its like what are friends for, hanging with

I didn’t know that but it still serves a good boost

 

[WesCrook]

If any of you work in a call center, don't commit to it long-term.

Constantly listening to people gripe about an issue call after call, all day long is mentally exhausting.

 

[Afro]

Therapist was talking about "wise mind" solutions

Anyone heard of this? I Google it and youtubed it but want yall opinion if u heard of this.

This is new to me, you bring together your logical and emotional states of mind into one harmonious state?

Using your "inner wisdom" to help guide you.

Interesting. At first glance, I feel like it's over-complicating things, but I'm not a therapist

 

[Slic Ric]

Maybe you should ask the breh, next time you are there, why do you have these thoughts that you are being weird.

You are their client, challenge em. You aren't there to be comfortable.

You there to give yourself some mental push ups.

I think being judged is an issue, the cac I was talking to before all but called me a weirdo and was a dikk

I need to start taking lions mane again

What are the benefits of this, I hear it all the time

 

[Afro]

I think being judged is an issue, the cac I was talking to before all but called me a weirdo and was a dikk


What are the benefits of this, I hear it all the time

fukk that guy, I've had one cac tell me I had half of the DSM IV.

You'll know who to trust after a session or two, don't let the idiots sour your experience.

There was a reason he had a slot open. Stick to the breh.

 

[Coolin']

I so wish I could have a relationship with my mom but it’s just not going to happen. I’ve accepted it long ago but it still hurts from time-to-time. We’re just too different.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I so wish I could have a relationship with my mom but it’s just not going to happen. I’ve accepted it long ago but it still hurts from time-to-time. We’re just too different.

Work on that brother. Before it's too late. Trust me when I tell you this.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I finally went to sleep sober and I had 2 dreams.

Had one, woke up, went back to sleep and had another.

I know it's because I have shyt on my mind I've been trying to block out and being high blocked it out.

When you're sober it's just you and all the shyt you feel like is fukked up in your life lingering in your head.

 

[Coolin']

Work on that brother. Before it's too late. Trust me when I tell you this.

I think about this more than you would know,

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I think about this more than you would know,

The regret you'll have if you don't, and your mother passes away, will be unbearable.

I'm saying this from 2 perspectives
1. When my grandmother passed she was arguing with my Uncle. He hasn't been the same person since then. You don't want that.

2. When my mom passed, we weren't on the best of terms, but I know my mother loved me and I loved her. Knowing that has helped. My mother's passing wasn't sudden. It was slow and agonizing. But my father and I were by my mother's side up until the day she passed away.

If I didn't have the opportunity to work on our relationship before she passed, I don't think I'd be able to live with myself.

Don't let that happen.

 

[Bossino]

Very numb, when not high nowadays. I don't care about much of anything anymore, and with each new challenge/setback I don't really care to rise to the occasion. I'm tired. When I try to engage in the tasks/goals/daily operations there's underlying stress and dread to the point it flares up my IBS at times. I've been unhappy most of my life, but I guess I had hope/expectation then and moments of joy sprinkled in. Now it's just seemingly obligation and strife. Sleep has been the best part of existing for going on 2 months, but that ether of waking up is getting tougher.

 

[EffYou]

I think the real mental issue among black men is lack of self confidence from the way we’re viewed and treated by the rest of society , and that’s why a lot of us move to drugs and other escape “mechanisms”. Learn to love ourselves , love your personality, no you are not weird ... yes things will be difficult but if you can survive I promise you are a legend. Keep your head up fellas we got this, decade of the black man!

 

[Stoop Kid]

Very numb, when not high nowadays. I don't care about much of anything anymore, and with each new challenge/setback I don't really care to rise to the occasion. I'm tired. When I try to engage in the tasks/goals/daily operations there's underlying stress and dread to the point it flares up my IBS at times. I've been unhappy most of my life, but I guess I had hope/expectation then and moments of joy sprinkled in. Now it's just seemingly obligation and strife. Sleep has been the best part of existing for going on 2 months, but that ether of waking up is getting tougher.

Have you tried therapy yet?... And if so, have you tried medication yet? Such as Wellbutrin.

 

[Bossino]

Have you tried therapy yet?... And if so, have you tried medication yet? Such as Wellbutrin.

Nah working through school, and I won't do therapy until I finish, settled into where I'm living post school, and find a black male therapist I could trust/get along with. I just get high when the discontent becomes unbearable. I'm in a transitional phase rn trying to move and that with how my life is in general and added bad breaks has me on the ropes. If I'm in still in the same headspace a month from now serious/reevaluations/inventory will need to be taken. I appreciate the reply, I mainly come in here/random thoughts to express myself since you can't really IRL, without people getting shook