All that social anxiety, worrying about things that could possibly go wrong, none of it was real. None of it was ever true. I wasted my life for no reason, I put barriers in front of myself for literally no reason at all. The reasons were purely fabricated by my mind.
Holy fuck. I screwed up so bad, I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep tonight. What in the fuck have I done? It was all fake, all of it had nothing to do with reality, I was just being an anxious weirdo for no real reason, I could’ve just stopped if I realized what I know now, all those things I worried about were always fake. Nobody was going to make fun of me for no reason, nobody was going to try and humiliate or scream at me in public. Nobody was going to laugh in my face. It was fake the whole time. I wasted all of my college years, I hid from everyone, I made no friends, I didn’t get involved in anything, I failed courses, all because my brain invented reasons to be scared of things. Holy fuck. I ruined my own life for no reason at all.
You've still got time, user. You can use this knowledge and make it count. Your past self may have failed you, but you can't fail your future self.
Cameron King
Sorry user, but they only don't make fun of you when you're around. They do it when you leave and then laugh and say, "oh that's mean we should stop haha"
Anthony Wood
As a normie turned NEET you really didnt miss much. NEET life is much better and you are in control of your own life. You can always make friends and do social shit, but being comfy is where its at.
Jeremiah Lewis
Just dropped some acid?
Brandon Gutierrez
Screw it, move on with your new knowledge and enjoy life from now on.
I don’t know how to describe what is happening to me right now. It’s like I’m in my old brain again, I feel like I’m more present. I haven’t felt like this for 7-8 years, I feel like I’m normal again or something. I sound like a lunatic but I can’t describe it, I didn’t do anything different today either. Will this last forever? I can read things again without feeling anxious, I don’t feel afraid to talk to my parents or get out of bed.
Jonathan Sanchez
How long has it been going on? Sounds like you had some sort of non-psychotropically induced moment of clarity. I would say embrace it and assume it is your new default state if it feels natural to you.
Isaac Sanchez
I usually get this feeling during lsd trips.
Christopher Lee
Just for the last 30 minutes or so. I can’t explain it, I wonder if I’ve got a fucking brain tumor or something. I feel normal again. I’m not afraid anymore
Matthew Edwards
Same boat here. Slowly trying to snap back to reality and get a hold of myself. We really are our own worst enemies in the end. Practically none of this shit that we impose on ourselves matters. I just have to get it through my head that it's okay to care about me for a change.
Wyatt Bennett
Why are we r9k?
Tyler Evans
Damn dude. It really be like that. I feel sorry for neglected and abused children that end up like this.
Cameron Sullivan
>I’m not afraid anymore Based. Don't be. You wasted your time on meaningless shit and overthinking.
John Reed
good man, hold on to that feeling. Now go and do something with your liberation.
Noah Hill
Ok, but how does one overcome it?
Bentley Powell
You're living a lie.
Cooper Young
I used to be like you, op, always doubting myself and being afraid. Now I have bowel cancer and will die in a few months. The pain is so bad I can't even move. Live your life while there is still time.
Aaron Jones
Nice try social workernon, I know it's all in my head, doesn't change anything
Nathan Watson
There will come a point where you'll realize it was all meaningless and forcefully self imposed. It can be a year from now, when you're 30, or when you're 60, but you will find out the truth eventually. As cliche as it sounds, try being yourself for a change, and don't be apologetic about it. You deserve it, same as everybody else.
Carson Anderson
I spilled some acid on the floor of my work and it totally fucked up the floor enamel so I applied acid to the entire floor so no one would notice. Every fucking day I'm terrified of someone noticing.
Lucas Moore
Yeah, but this is real *unzips dick*
Dominic Thomas
Most people know it's irrational you dip. It's something that can't be controlled even so.
Jaxson Hill
Yeah I realised this as well. Everyone kept telling me to join a society or club in uni but I was “embarrassed” and I don’t even know why.
Dominic Young
I only come to this Mongolian yut forum to laugh.
Adrian Sanchez
It can though, through willpower. You have to force yourself at first, but you get used to it later on.
Cooper James
Turn that emotion into something
Benjamin Powell
What if i'm a boring person?
Kevin Phillips
e v e r y o n e knows this None of this is groundbreaking. But no. Not everyone gets used to it.
Aaron Green
You're boring as a side-effect of your low self-value. Everybody brings something unique to the table. Let others decide if you're boring or not. Work on being more honest and social.
Luis Adams
No Im not. Of course I hangout with my friends on occasion, but most of my time is spent on my own pursuits like research, studying, relaxing, reading, drinking, basically whatever the fuck I want to do. Being a loner is better than being social, but it is good to keep your social skills sharp.
Nathan Jones
It can be groundbreaking if you snap out of it, and some do. But like I said, it can require work.
Liam Jones
What I'm telling you is that most people understand it's irrational but a lot of people will never be able to overcome it. I'm not advocating they don't try but to tell people it's a 100% success rate will cause suicides when they can't break through.
Blake Barnes
Counter: Work on being more dishonest, fake your confidence, tell fake stories which are semi based on real experience, assume you're funnier than you really are. Seriously, the other day I fucked a chick that I managed to consistently tell "jokes" to with NO punchlines and she fell for it. All you need to do is literally don't be yourself and fake the confidence.
Connor Price
What do you research?
Lincoln Long
Does this work?
Austin Cooper
Sounds like you’re still in a dark place if you’re still stressing about the past.
Hunter Gonzalez
It was all real user. Every last minute of it. Make of it what you will and move on. That's what we all have do for better and for worse
Wyatt Lee
dumb frogposter
Jaxon Scott
>will cause suicides when they can't break through. This condition causes suicides either way. But another important thing to do is to be able to forgive yourself even if you can't snap out of it. To realize that even if you've tried and failed, it's not a huge deal. Ultimately, you're doing this for yourself, not for everyone else. And being able to discuss these feelings on a basket weaving forum is still something. Technically, you are being social right now. Just not face to face. Alternatively, there are people who enjoy their own company more than anything else.
Ayden Evans
I’ve been telling the incel faggots on /whine9k/ this for years. It’s literally all just your imagination.
Alexander Thomas
You still have your health. For now. But if you continue down this path you won't. Get out. Do things.
Leo Brown
Have sex.
Jackson King
Normie and NEET are not the only two ways of living life.
Jacob Allen
The answer is to do whatever you feel personally helps. For some it can be more honesty, and others can treat it as a role. Any action that you feel will work is good.
Dominic Cruz
never too late unless you're a geriatricfag and even then there's time for happiness
Joseph Brooks
No, it's real. But it's not because of your social awkwardness. It's because you're ugly.
Evan Gonzalez
I was speaking in general. I used to be a normalfag but I still did struggle with that stuff mentally but it definitely wasn't holding my life up. I just know what that mental frame is like.
Brody Wilson
"No!"
Cameron Edwards
OP could be the ugliest person in the world but that doesn't mean he shouldn't try to achieve some happiness in his life. Not to mention most people on average aren't that good looking, but normies don't really overthink this fact or go into lookism. Imagine if Einstein gave up on everything just because he was ugly.
Gabriel Bailey
Wrong. Your image directly contributes to your status and social standing. What you do, how you behave, your actions and reactions are under constant scrutiny by others who use this information in determining where to place you on their scale of social importance. Weird and autistic behaviours will diminish your value. Failures in life, brought about by incompetence, poor physicality, stupidity, anxiety, or mental illness directly implicate you as being undependable and weak. Action is certainly more likely to improve your standing than inaction. That is where low IQ and low self awareness can be of benefit by allowing you to not think of the consequences of failure brought about by your actions. These conditions are, however, detrimental to risk assessment that ould save you from unnecessary failures that would damage your image. Low inhibition is only helpful when you are neurotypical or competent. Without at least on of the two, your anxiety is absolutely justified as it is saving you from the consequences of actions and appearances that will very likely end in severe damage to your social standing. The lower your social standing, the lower your opportunities in life for happiness and success.
Thomas Martin
All kinds of shit, kind of like a Sherlock Holmes.
William Gomez
No honesty sucks. Look at every comedian, they're all honest but also dishonest at the same time. They present a heightened version of themselves that is infinitely more interesting than their ordinary selves. You got to fake it, to what degree is up to you. Being yourself is fucking booooooring.
If you come out of social encounters that you truly feel good about being geniune in, but you still don't feel you made an impact, you may want to expand your hobbies/general shit you spend time on. Yea Forums, for instance, is essentially a complete waste of time for most social interactions. You gain nothing by being here. Are you going to tell an anecdote about when baneposting was good, of course not. So either start things that give you real life experiences to bring up and leverage, or simply dive deeper into the things you do enjoy that just need more time put in. Let yourself be known for a couple things whether it's fashion or exercise or a piece of entertainment or genre. It's a good starting point at least
Jaxson Peterson
True. Im working on my ascended master life path.
Thomas Wood
All experiences lead to one experience which will make you realize all experiences you ever had are nothing compared to current experience and so on until eternity.
Jason Bennett
Finally graduate from high school?
Adam Collins
>and you are in control of your own life. Faggot, someone else pays for you to exist, you are not in control of your life, you're just a parasite leeching off people to dumb or too caring to put an end to your infestation. You are even worse than niggers, at least they make money for themselves when they nigger around
Nathan Sullivan
Failed normies are pitiful
Dominic Taylor
Einstein was extremely competent in his field thanks to his hyper intelligence so he had plenty of reason not to give up. Also lookism was less prevalent in his day. Also normies are neurotypical which provides them an edge in coping and drive. Their neurotypical minds also allow them to naturally socialize and connect with others who are of the same looks as them.
Noah Wright
>Weird and autistic behaviours will diminish your value Correct. And the best way to act weird and autistic is to constantly worry that you're acting weird and autistic. There's a solid middle ground between worrying about every action and just doing whatever the fuck you want. Being aware of how well you are doing is good, stressing over every action makes you look desperate. And while certain things require skill or practice to really nail, you have to get that practice in and the only way is to do it
Zachary Roberts
Everyone's judging you (and others) but they ultimately don't care at all. Like people being self conscious about going to a bar/restaurant/movie alone. I couldn't bring myself to do it either but I also realize that I never give a shit about the people who do that when I go to those places with friends, and don't even view it negatively.
Brandon Anderson
>retard realized that he isn't a center of universe and world doesn't really gives a shit about him
Can we give this brave millenial a round of applause? He might be the only one of his kind that developed a tiny bit of self-reflection.
>Being yourself is fucking booooooring If you're a boring person yourself, sure. And everyone fakes it to a certain extent. But you don't have to wear a mask all the time. Not to mention people can call you out on your fake persona when they get to know you. You can sprinkle some fairy dust on your personality, but make sure your core self is rooted in reality, is what I'd suggest. If you're fake to the degree of not being yourself in the slightest, and have to create a "role" for every interaction you participate in, it can get tiresome pretty quickly without any results. Be fake, flamboyant, etc, but carry something of yourself in there too.
Jacob Morris
Not giving a fuck masterrace here. Who has same philoshopy as me?
You need to be somewhat neurotypical for your suggestion to work. If you truly are a sperg or poor socializer, doing what feels natural to you will not be natural to others and you will be rejected. You need to appease the normals by acting, behaving, and speaking like they do if you wish to be accepted and have any social standing. Sadly this requires that you be self aware of your defect and that you deliberately mimic and copy the normals.
Jonathan Howard
Imagine being this shallow
Liam King
> defect normie...
Lucas Sullivan
Better to not give a fuck than to overthink every little thing. As grandiose as some of the anons here are making it sound, it really just doesn't matter much. This isn't "cope". It's just the truth. Hell, even if you embarrass yourself in front of a group of people, it doesn't matter that much unless you soiled yourself or something.
Ayden Hernandez
Without competence in something that allows you to succeed in a field where you do not have to worry as much about socializing alot getting a girlfriend, it is a defect. You must be capable of interacting with your species and being accepted to survive.
Asher Green
I always suspect the real /r9k/ migrated to Yea Forums and /fit/.
I don't even see this much delusion anymore on /r9k/, only when I go on fit and tv do I see this much brainlet activity
Gabriel Thomas
People on Yea Forums are shallow and bitchy in general, even when they are otherwise intelligent. I wouldn't rate the interactions here as a believable example on what real life communication is. It may seem obvious, but there can come a point wherein you've spent too much of your time "socializing" here, and then you go out into the real world and expect someone to call you a fag, and to kys on the street. Don't take anything here at face value.
Kevin Hall
I always suspect the real /r9k/ migrated to Yea Forums and /fit/.
I don't even see this much delusion anymore on /r9k/, only when I go on fit and tv do I see this much brainlet activity
Ryder Jones
>someone else pays for you to exist, you are not in control of your life,
Kek, imagine saying this unironically mr. '50 000-dollars-in-debt-since-birth'
Caleb Cox
The sentiments don't arise from nowhere
Camden Harris
That is fucking hilarious.
Asher Price
>Ellis : Well all the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it.
You're literally still doing it, inventing reasons to be a failure. Your life isn't over. It could be so much worse. If you carry on like this, in 10 years, you'll look back at how much you have now, and wish you could go back.
>someone else pays for you to exist, you are not in control of your life >says the wagie as he has to rely on the paycheck he gets wageslaving some useless job for mr shekelstein
Lincoln Nguyen
They're not imaginary, but they're blown out of proportion. You can improve pretty much everything in your life, even your looks if that's the main issue, but it shockingly requires work, and these people are mad that it wasn't handed to them on a silver platter.
Easton Edwards
Shhhhh shh shhhh, quiet wagie go back to sleep, you need your strength so you can make money for Mr. Globohomostein and me and my NEET senpaitachi.
Luke Kelly
Its the opposite, the interactions here are the most believable since you can say what you actually think without any social stigma or whatever
Joseph Bell
I nearly had a total breakdown trying to follow shitty advice like this. Not everybody adjusts.
Charles Thompson
If there is no future interactions to be had from the person/people you are self conscious about, your self-consciousness is misplaced as there is nothing to gain from behaving a certain way for those individuals. However, once again, if you will continue to interact with any of the people around you, or I'd they will interact with people you know, your image will be important. And your image is what your social standing is, and based on your behaviours and actions.
Camden King
Yeah ill just magically grow 8 inches taller and change the bone structure of my face i just need to put in the work for it, maybe ill even be able to make my dick bigger if i work extra hard
Julian Lopez
Human interaction is real. You are not conversing with a computer. You are not hiding on Yea Forums reading a social anxiety thread because you're a low inhibition alpha.
Samuel King
The interactions may be honest, but are the PEOPLE behind the interactions the kind of people you would want to spend time with? Not to mention, anonymity means you can say whatever the hell you want, without any consequences which leads to an overwhelming amount of name-calling and the like. Not everyone you'll encounter IRL is an asshole deep down.
Lucas Stewart
Wear a nice fitting outfit and go to a barber and get a fade. There are not too many people it doesn't significantly enhance.
Hudson Ramirez
>yeah bro anxiety isnt real haha just stop thinking about it and itll go away
Chase Rogers
Hope, fuck you
William Miller
Just make sure you don't let your kid be turned into a tranny. That's very real.
Charles Hill
>I ruined my own life nah, the past doesn't exist anywhere else than in your head so you didn't ruin anything. you're putting new fake barriers by thinking like this. at this precise moment you're at the same point in life as any chad. only difference is you can't fap to the memory of previous girlfriends like i do
Jaxson Jackson
Yeah just get a haircut and some clothes then i just gotta be myself and all problems will go away
Jace Young
Chances are, if you look average, you already look good enough, and you can look even better with grooming/styling/working out/etc. You don't have to be a 10ft tall gigachad to get things in life. There are so many sub-par looking people who are having the time of their life, in terms of professions, relationships, etc. A lot of people who fall into the lookism meme simply don't have other shit going for them, and when you couple that with that fact that they're average or sub-par in looks, you immediately start thinking that's the sole reason you're alone. The truth is, looks are rarely the sole reason you're unsuccessful in life. They don't matter NEARLY as much as you think.
Tyler Martinez
You specifically talked about appearance. Even super fat people do wonders by taking care of their appearance. Definitely doesn't make them attractive but makes them approachable.
Landon Allen
Since when do women approach men
Asher Adams
I wasn't speaking in those terms dammit. But even so, women do. And the women who don't will put in some effort on their end, like staring at you, smiling, and/or walking in your vicinity to give you an opening.
Ghetto girls and fat girls will defitiely be approachers though. The hot girls are rarer but they're the ones who are usually more subtle. Oh, and also, the hot ones tend to be the most insecure. So that's even a part of it.
John Johnson
holy fuck i hate normalnigs
Blake Reed
Ironically, memeing every symptom of my anxiety helped a lot
Tyler Brooks
I always suspect the real /r9k/ migrated to Yea Forums and /fit/.
I don't even see this much delusion anymore on /r9k/, only when I go on fit and tv do I see this much brainlet activity
Henry Gray
This. At most come here for the small possibility that people will be discussion whatever current TV show/movie that just saw and don't stick around if they aren't.
Jackson Sanchez
Yes we get it You're white. You're male. You're a virgin You're "depressed" and think all the media sucks now and can't consume it anymore
We get it? Okay? Now kill yourself.
Jordan Rodriguez
And you would never reveal yourself for the sad sack of shit you are
Julian Martinez
>Nobody is self employed and everyone payed for a useless college degree and is therefore in debt Enjoy living with your parents and posting frog pictures and horny memes while doing absolutely nothing with your life, retard
I always suspect the real /r9k/ migrated to Yea Forums and /fit/.
I don't even see this much delusion anymore on /r9k/, only when I go on fit and tv do I see this much brainlet activity
Zachary Reed
90s born queer kill yourself
Jackson Thomas
Ok help me out bros whats the point of doing all of this shit, conquering my anxiety, getting a job, bettering myself, getting a gf, getting married, etc, when i could just stay at home and be a neet doing what i want and be perfectly happy?
Colton Diaz
My dad(cringe I have to stop saying that) screamed at me that I was a loser today. Talk about a self-own, no?
Yea Forums used to have the best feels threads on Yea Forums, now that hiro and the faggot mods have let tge discord trannies take over /r9k/ where do you expect people to go.
Justin Walker
>bragging about being born in 1989 You're over 30 and you still browse 4channel, that's just pathetic. Leave me the fuck alone, grandpa.
Nathan Lee
You could just kill yourself
Easton Kelly
But i dont want to
Angel Turner
>1989 you wish kiddo. It's always so easy to spot you feminised fucks.
Evan Gonzalez
dont worry itll wear off by tmrw and youll be right back to being anxio-man. anxiety is shit i want to kill myself
Jayden Clark
I had this happen once, it only lasted the morning then I was back to my old ways.
Jaxson Clark
>4channel nigger tourist
Cooper Turner
ok boomer Check the url nigger
Lincoln Jones
only quality post in the whole thread
Nathaniel Nelson
>The important question is will you ever wake up >wake up >please wake up Damn that was a crazy good sequel to that creepypasta.
Chase Young
If you really did discover this, and that's all it took to make the problem go away, then you would be rejoicing in your newfound power right now. You may feel in the moment that your anxiety is gone now you've come to the sudden realisation that it's irrational, but it isn't gone. It's an involuntary compulsion and plenty of people suffer those while recognising they're irrational.
If you really are cured then it isn't because you discovered some truth abiut the illness, it's because your brain got fixed, and that's why the truth became apparent.
Lincoln Hall
>it's a zoomer sucks hiro's corporate cock episode.
Jeremiah Young
That means you've got the energy to find a solution.
Parker Sullivan
may I recommend Rick and Morty? I think you will like it very much OP
Juan Martinez
>dont be a neet or youll go homeless
wow very insightful post, also that shitty example with the faggot investing his meager salary will barely be able to do shit, hell be forced to live a semi neet or keep wagecucking
Elijah Ward
>just b yourself >say nigger nigger faggot retarded nigger faggot in public >get blacklisted from society wow thanks
Brayden Morgan
Don't most Rick and Morty fans have a GF?
Gavin Jones
Kino.
Brayden Green
Was just browsing the catalog while falling asleep as I found this thread. If you truly are sincere about wanting to change now that you have come to this place, begin feeling comfortable taking as much time as you need to sit and thing long and hard about what makes life enjoyable not on a basis of whether or not poeple would consider that thing worth while, but simply for the joy of thinking about it. Very sensitive people like myself and I would assume you as well have great difficulty with putting too much of their self worth into poeple thinking highly of them, but the benefit of being on this side of things with a mind gone on purpose is that from here on out, it's all smooth sailing. Goodnight friend and remember, it was never about what you said to people but how you said it
Carson Martin
*honed on purpose my b lol. I guess while I'm at it, dont be afraid to find mistakes fun
Jayden Reyes
>All kinds of shit, kind of like a Sherlock Holmes. now this is fucking based anything in the attic come in handy yet?