This is a plea for help. My whole life I've been a failure. I've really never had any sense of belonging. From a young age I was socially withdrawn, all I did with my time was draw. I remember in Elementary school I'd take colored chalk from the classroom and draw on the paved parking lot, distancing myself from the other children. At most I'd have between 1-2 friends at a time. I was anxious and would panic at the slightest inconvenience. The only thing that provided solace was drawing, it was my diversion from reality. I was never interested in sports or music, so I never participated in those activities after Elementary School. It feels to me at age 14 I had given up on life. I stopped contacting friends, my only activity was attending school. I was a lonely person, and I resorted to disassociation to fill in the void of loneliness.
Now I am 21. The past seven years of my life, from high school until now, have felt largely empty. I have no real interesting stories to speak of. I was enjoying myself for the most part at college, met some cool people, but now with the pandemic I've reverted back to a state of NEETdom. Is it true that your twenties are supposed to be the peak of your life? If it's true this pandemic lasts for 2 more years, that means I'll graduate before the lock-down is lifted. All my current friends will have either moved away or found jobs, I'll be totally alone again. I was betting on making lifelong friends in college, but now that seems improbable.
give me your energy anons. I was on nofap, I was exercising, but the past few weeks I've lost all self-esteem and determination. Please give me strength, please help me ascend to godhood.
>Is it true that your twenties are supposed to be the peak of your life? No. >I'll be totally alone again You must learn to be okay with this before it's useful to be around others. >I was betting on making lifelong friends in college, but now that seems improbable. You are still very young. >give me your energy anons. I was on nofap, I was exercising, but the past few weeks I've lost all self-esteem and determination You know what needs to be done. Do it.
You're going to be okay, user. I was a mess in my twenties. It does get better.
Your twenties aren't your peak. I used to live in San Francisco, and I understand why people jump off your big red bridge.
Much of it is just finding a good match. In friends, lovers, work, domicile.
Not every person, every friend, every lover, every job, or every country are mutually good matches. It doesn't mean either of them are defective.
Chaos is coming. Yet with chaos comes opportunity. Realize that many of the greatest men were lost much of their lives. Hungry. Worse.
You'll make it. You've got fight in you. Anxiety is good for many jobs; mine is included. There is a great need for nervous people; plenty of things need to be watched closely. Nervous people are the best at that.
Lincoln Thomas
Jannies, don't fucking delete this you braindead fucking nigger tranny cunts.
Still steeped in symbol drawing. Read the sticky. Has plenty of resources to get you on the path to drawing properly.
Also, get back on nofap. The main reason you feel like a sack of shit is due to being over saturated on dopamine, robbing yourself of your motivation and will to succeed. You will find your motivation returning after a couple weeks, but don't give in. Even one coom is enough to bring you back down, never do it again.
Aaron Murphy
Thank you all for your wonderful words.
Colton Gray
Wasn't it merged into /nsg/ to avoid deletion? Expect jannies bombing this in the next 5mins
Jace Cruz
The reason why I was so happy at college was because I befriended someone who wasn't a NEET. He was a genuine good guy and gave me the motivation to exercise and be a great person. I'm an only child I never had any siblings to support me. I have "brothers" but they're mostly NEETs and Doomers who have little going for them. I want to overcome the odds and become a Chad.
Camden Morgan
Do mods legitimately target /sig/ threads?
Joshua Allen
I see it as less about becoming a Chad and more about making it, reasonably well. Expectations need to be kept reasonable.
At the same time, many people are struggling. Not that you should immerse yourself in people's struggles to look down on them, but a bit of perspective can be helpful.
Many years ago, at one of the lowest points of my life (virgin, drug issues, money issues, legal issues, you name it), I remember walking into an elevator that I thought was empty, and then being startled to hear a voice ask me which floor I wanted.
There was a man in the elevator.
He was in a wheelchair.
If you can walk, then in some ways, you have it damn good. Worthwhile to remember, user. Also, social media is incredibly fake. Nobody's life is as good as it looks on social media. The beauty? It's all photoshop. The money? It's all rented cars and houses.
Elijah Thompson
Yas Forums is largely controlled by interests which aim to degrade the mental health of its users. /sig/, no matter how explicitly political the OP, has been under attack since the early Iron Pill threads in 2014/2015.
/sig/ is better on its own and entirely political.
No, but if it gets too big and/or prominent, they'll move it to /bant/.
Usually the threads targeted are more sensational than this (ex. "my girlfriend cheated on me and I'm on the run from an angry meth dealer who I robbed and also I knocked up my stepmom, what should I do?")
"Chad" might of been misleading, I meant athletic and healthy, not a douche fucking ladies left and right. And yes I understand my circumstances are relative to others.
I think my problem is I binge on a lot of Dopamine-inducing activities. I gave up video games years ago, but masturbation has been a difficult addiction to fight. I've never gone longer than 10 days without fapping sadly.
Eli Sanchez
Here's a little secret: Everyone faps. Even guys who bang models fap. I just don't see it as that important.
Different people have different worldviews...Jordan Peterson has a strongly sexual/religious worldview (i.e. he views sexuality as a major driver of history and culture).
I tend to have an economic worldview. I firmly believe that the planting of the first potato in England changed more lives than the deeds of a thousand kings.
I'm not saying that masturbation or pornography are good, but to me they're more symptoms than problems in and of themselves. And, if they are problems, they're far from the largest we face.
Dominic Adams
And when I don't get my fix, I become very irritable and unfocused. It's like my ADHD accelerates tenfold. These addcitions sort of remedy the symptoms of my ADHD but at the cost of my motivation to do other things besides work.
Asher Brown
I bet you that Ghengis Khan fapped.
Eli Flores
Partly that will improve as you get older. You'll last longer, too. Just a change in one's body with time. Hormones are real, and you're young, a decade younger than I, or thereabouts.
Joshua Gray
That's fair, I just want to have more self-control. It's embarrassing when your roommate walks in on you in the moment. I sometimes masturbate 2-3 times a day I just couldn't restrain myself. I think by 21 I should have more control.
Luis Nguyen
Hundreds of people have found that their lives improved dramatically when they stopped masturbating, becoming imbued with new energy and vigor that was previously thought to be unknowable and alien to them. Check out these anecdotes on doing nofap and decide for yourself if it's worthy of your time: imgur.com/gallery/g4eGH Just know that it never a bad option to stop. Your self perception is also largely due in part to brain chemistry.
Kayden Bell
Look how big that fucking baby is I’d kill it too if my wife shit that monstrosity out
Connor Parker
These were thumbnails for a painting assignment. I would it post it but this is my career on the line and I don't want to get doxxed
My problem is after several days I become highly irritable and confrontational. And given the circumstances, I fear I may do stupid, drastic things in the heat of rage.
Brayden Hill
Everyone does, those are called withdrawal symptoms. Persist through them and they will recede. Steel yourself, you will find that it dissipates quickly and you will begin to think with a clear head again.
Nathaniel Brown
Thank you for your faith you've endowed me with the courage to pursue nofap again
Nicholas Young
Go join the military. If you can’t go to school. Do something crazy go work in a county jail. Break your mold with something 100% different than what you’d typically want to do.
Asher Martin
You can do it. I also recommend reading up on autosuggestion, so you can identify negative thoughts that shape your perceptions and introduce new, positive outlooks into your life. I found the book Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic to be a very good read on this, and other mental faculty subjects. You have power to shape your reality, but others do as well by influencing your beliefs. Improvement starts in your mind, your physicality will change to reflect that.
Cameron Phillips
I've been doing graffiti art. Not degenerate like calligraphy and occasionally Yas Forums memes like "Epstein didn't kill himself."
Jose Jenkins
Fuck. I miss the /SIG/ threads. I think I literally only kept on Yas Forums because of those and the art threads. What happened to this place? Is it the mods that are really deleting these?
If anyone wants to start on a good track, just take out grains and especially wheat from your diet. Most northern europeans are adapted to a paleo/pastorial diet consisting mostly on meat, above-ground vegetables and herbs, few nuts, berries, beans and grains and a whole lot of dairy and brewed or pickled food. After a few weeks off of grains, you should notice a change in energy. If you want to go deeper:
*Focus on the gut with lots of pickles, yogurt/kefir and daily probiotics. *Focus on meat, cheese and milk. If on low-fat anything - get full fat versions including no added oil butter, whole milk and a huge variety of cheeses, especially the smelly kind for gut flora. *Get a vitamin regiment, especially vitamin D and C, but try Co-Q10, B 12 + Complex and fish oil. You should also get some apple juice and apple cider vinegar, and mix a little of it in for a drink once a week. It WILL CLEAR YOUR HEAD. *Focus heavily on above-ground vegetables, including few beans and try to go for organic foods without contact with plastics as much as possible. *Take teflon coating pans and throw them away. Never microwave or cook plastics because of hormone off-gassing. *Literally just take a walk every two days if that's all you can manage and if you get into a paleo or ketogenic diet, you'll want to do more automatically.
Please, please, please mods /SIG/ IS political. It's the best thing on Yas Forums hands-down.
