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Imagine starving and there’s a chocolate cake in front of you.

There’s nothing physically stopping you from eating the cake. You’re not tied up, there’s no barrier between you and the cake.

Everyday you see others eating the cake easily.

Yet, for some reason you just can’t eat it. You know your inability to do so is in your head but it only makes the situation worst.

that’s what it’s like having social anxiety.

Just got a 14% pay rise just before christmas!

got called for a meeting and we were all told that due to the company being unable to entice or keep new starters they’re raising the hourly wage to £11 an hour.

just when i thought i was out they pull me back in

now to find a job that pays more than that

verifiedcryptid

time to bake something! sure hope there won’t be dishes once i’m finished!

bakerandred

Do what I do and throw them away

My therapist told me I need to be more assertive.

I said “No”.

He said, “Well Done”.

#therapy #mental health #assertiveness #joke

I think that I was happiest in my life when I was delusional.

Some people have a shell they need to come out of.

I have a fucking nuclear war bunker

You cannot build a strong house on shit foundations

Reminders

All things have a potential within them to carry triggers that can fling us backwards to long forgotten, whether by accident or through hard effort, memories and events in our lives.

This past two weeks i’ve felt like I’ve regressed about eight years. A couple of things happened together and they unlocked my 20 year old self who is far closer to my current state of being than I would like.

Sitting at home with nothing to do. Mum bringing up marriage.

A documentary about a mountaineer. That’s what it took to bring her back. Not only her; the feelings, mainly sadness and frustration. The memories of those years, I can’t even remember how long just that it started at eighteen built up hope and then ended some years later with a fierce depression.

How do you get over something you were never under?

Applying for an English for Speakers of other Languages course because my speaking skills are so shit

#ESOL #So no one told you life was gonna be this way

would legitimately consider having my sinuses removed

#hayfever #allergies

tikkety-tok

Say what you will, but these moves are sick.

fan-fares

This is Norwegian folk dancing. (Men’s halling dance, solo). Traditionally, this was the kind of slick moves a man would do to show off to, and impress a woman. If he was particularly bold, he’d ask the hat to be raised even higher(!) and impress with being able to kick it off impressive heights!

My life changed after eighteen when I realised that who I was was a delusion I’d been feeding myself.

I was not a smart person with a group of friends but an idiot who easily grasped some rudimentary ideas who hung around with a bunch of people through a collective convenience and when the time came where we could choose to spend time with each other I was not party to that.

I’ve never understood why, ‘you’re not alone in how you feel’ is supposed to be helpful to people going through difficulties.

Look, if I was on the Titanic and I was freaking out about the fact that I was about to slip into the freezing cold Atlantic ocean, swallow lungfuls of water and slowly descend into its depths, I would not be comforted by some cunt telling me I’m not alone in my predicament.

Not being alone in a problem doesn’t make things better, it makes things so much worse.

#anxiety #help

This retard cooked his first meal yesterday, chickpea curry which was bland as fuck