• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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    37 minutes ago

    Covid probably saved my life.

    I got bullied for about 5-6 years in school which ultimatively led to me just wanting to kill myself. Luckily for me the lockdown came so I got freed from the nightmare called school. My will to live devinetively improved, when not getting bullied the whole time you are sitting in class. However, when being in the lockdown I devinetively didnt process my feelings and thoughts about how I wanted to end myself. This led to me having almost a fill scale emotional breakdown mid class when school started, since we have been reading a play where someone killed himself and therefore learned stuff about the whole topic of suicide/mental health. Suddenly you realise, that all this shit kind of sounds very familiar for you which was quite overwhelming, but you can’t let anyone see whats happening because that shit devinetively is going to get you bullied again. I never talked to a therapist about this and at this point it isn’t needed, since I just went on and processed that time of my life for myself. I also kind of realised some time ago, that I also never told my family about this, but it isn’t really relevant anymore and us just going to cause feelings of guilt in them for not acting.

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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    I realized I was trans in middle school, i said something suicidal to my friend and he told on me. I never really talked to the therapists because my mom was very homophobic. I got put on antidepressants and suppressed my feelings so hard I can hardly remember my childhood.
    5 years later my depression went into “full remission” couple of months before I came out. I then 180°d and got sent to the psych ward for suicide ideation this February.

    The only thing that stopped me from killing myself is the realization that my cat would be rubbing against my body for pets in the ~10 hours it would take for my family to find me. I was planning to buy a knife after work but broke down in the bathroom.

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    1 hour ago

    My ideal partner would have exactly identical personality to me.

    During highschool I would regularly imagine a “perfect crush” during bus rides. In my last year I had that “damn I was an edgy asshole during middle and highschool” moment and I wanted to change.

    So since my friend group is also jerks like me I just started imitating that imaginary person until “fake it til you make it” kicked in.

    Everything from my sense of humour to taste in music changed over time. I even became a slightly bit more feminine when I used to be hardcore Matt Walsh fan until this point.

    I also got hobbies I just thought looked attractive like Archery. I got into computers because this.

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    When I was a kid I told a Special Ed teacher who I trusted that one of the gym teachers was having sex with high school students and grooming girls as young as 14.

    Rather than report this to the authorities he told the gym teacher what was said. The next day the gym teacher (who was a big former semi-pro football player or something like that) cornered me and intimidated me into shutting my mouth.

    2 years later a former student confronted the gym teacher’s wife. In the fallout his behavior came to light and he left our school and went to teach a few towns over. The Special Ed teacher joked about it after the fact.

    It was probably 20 years before I fully understood the scope of how disgusting that situation was.

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      3 hours ago

      Big props for you trying to get people involved though, most obviously did nothing.

  • jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    I was witness to a very gorey and fatal lathe accident. It was bad enough that they shut the shop down for a month and paid for some therapy.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    I’m wondering if there being 99.99% humans would make them all more valuable. And sometimes I just think maybe it would be for the best. But that is a bit insane, so I push it aside. But being treated like living garbage really does give you some ideas

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    I can honestly say I don’t feel the emotion of guilt. I’m not a psychopath. I have a conscience and have a very strong moral compass.

    But I don’t feel guilty. Just fear of getting caught… In fact what I feel most is fear. The only person who I feel happy with is my girlfriend and if she ever breaks up with me it’ll probably break me as a man.

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      But I don’t feel guilty. Just fear of getting caught…

      That sounds an awful lot like you’re cheating on her.

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    7 hours ago

    My knife collection began because I was suicidal.

    To keep myself around I got a bunch of knives so I wouldn’t pick a favorite and “dissapoint” the others.

    …I got better.

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      40 minutes ago

      Suppose I have it similar, don’t remember when exactly I got into knives but was depressed since 14 so it correlates.

  • brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    almost blew myself up for good after a pistol flare exploded half a meter from my face.
    went to the ER with superficial burns on my left hand and hearing damage that still rears its ugly head out to this day.
    each time i think about that moment i realise that if i had been in any other position when that flare blew up i probably wouldn’t be here today

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    When I was younger, I believed that if a woman was raped, it was her fault for what she was wearing. My highschool friends called me the most unempathetic person they’d ever met and I was proud of that.

    Thankfully I’ve turned right around on all that and learned empathy. I’m ashamed for my younger self, but I know they were just doing the best they could with the very few tools they were given.

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      I am in the same situation. “When I was a child I was the most unhinged asshole I know” is extremly common in this community and I have no clue why.