šŸ—£ Sessions with Lafayette - Serious Issues Thread

I have had my fair share of lost love Mano. It takes time before you feel that way about it. For a while you just want to die or you think youā€™ll never be happy again, but eventually you realise itā€™ll be ok.

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About 3 weeks ago, I had a big falling out with someone I had been friends with for over 10 years. The cause of the falling out was my fault. But she also said some things that I think were out of line. In the argument, I think she got angrier that I wasnā€™t more emotive. I think she incinuated that my depression wasnā€™t something that I had, that I donā€™t appreciate how lucky I am. I had told her of my autism but I think the argument showed that she didnā€™t actually understand it. I worry Iā€™m making excuses for my own behaviour, but I do feel bad for the argument for it being my fault but for also realising that someone I thought knew me didnā€™t know me at all.

Really, as of late, I just feelā€¦ disconnected. I do perk up when Iā€™m talking to people, but I struggle to really connect properly. I think my default is to try and be positive and praise others. I feel I have no real talent or qualities or skills to contribute, so I try to make up for it with enthusiasm and positivity. But after talking to people, I often feel like all Iā€™ve done is perhaps annoy them or be overbearing. That Iā€™m a burden on other people.

Iā€™m worried that the anti-depressant Iā€™m on, Sertralin, is causing my apathy to get a lot worse. It has made me feel a lot less sad and down, but it also causes me to feel very blank and empty. Honestly, with the type 2 diabetes diagnosis, a part of me just doesnā€™t care about it. I donā€™t want to take care of myself, I mean why bother, I donā€™t like being me. I donā€™t want to be me.

Iā€™m very tired. Iā€™m meant to do a check up with the doctor this week, Iā€™ll ask them about the medication.

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Never ever, ever mistake positivity or kindness for a weakness or think it is some useless skill. There are so many people in this world who are or become huge assholes because it is so much easier to be a bitter prick than it is to actively want to see the good in others.

If being nice, genuine or not, wasnā€™t a real skill then I would have been given one of the hundred PR or secretary or receptionist jobs I have applied for over the past year. Either way and I know it is probably the advice you want to hear least (because it is the most obvious) but you may not just simply have found something you are truly good at.

Just experiment and take a chance on a hobby but more importantly just stick with it for a while. You are a Sonic fan; maybe join their art community, maybe take up programming like the Sonic Mania team or even make an abridged series or something to experiment with video creation. The internet can always use more positive people on it, now more than ever.

I mean if they minimised your depression then I donā€™t think they understand mental illness. If they wanted you to get as angry as they were then all that means is she just wanted to have an argument instead of a mature discussion or meaningful resolution.

Autism or not, not getting as angry as she was is the mature and correct thing to do in any argument even if the other person thinks you should be mutually angry. Anger is another emotion you should never let people feel they are entitled to have.

People are often more forgiving than you think they are even if it never really seems like it. We all really like you, sure you never see our faces but never once have I felt like it is a burden to talk.

I am no medical practitioner but that sounds a lot like emotional blunting, which is a common side effect of SSRIs. That sort of shit is why I never asked to be medicated at all, it fucks you up and if you quit when it is too late then it can fuck you in other fun ways.

Between that and the suicidal ideation (common in children, teens and young adults taking Zoloft) I would recommend you do talk to your doctor and I wouldnā€™t leave anything out especially the suicidal ideation. They will need that information if they need to reformulate your current dosage or when prepare alternative medication.

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Thank you @Accidental_Kills98, that means a lot. I do want to emphasise, Iā€™m not suicidal. I donā€™t want to die. Itā€™s more that I just want to give up, stay in bed, never leave the house. You may be right about it being emotional blunting, but I still do get periods of happiness and sadness, Iā€™m not totally cold. I just really donā€™t like myself, how I look, how I talk, I feel constantly awkward around others, especially in public spaces. I think the problem I have is that the Diabetes is invisible, and so hard to really perceive it as a problem when I canā€™t see it. I have made big diet changes and started doing more excercise to combat it, but itā€™s going to be another month before the doctor does another blood test and see if my level goes down. Iā€™m at 51, the goal is to hit 41 which would take me out of diabetic range. I just have no idea how much work or time it takes just to go down one point, let alone ten.

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I feel the same way at times and I am not on any meds. They are very sucky thoughts to have and that is precisely why I never entertain them.

And that is precisely why you should do all of those things and dot them more that you do now. If all you ever did was maintain the same old you that makes you unhappy then you will make yourself unhappy. If all you ever did was avoid the public then all you will ever feel is an aversion to the public.

It will probably be hard, harder than anything in your life so far and maybe harder than what comes after especially if you fail. But every time it feels hard just ask yourself: ā€œIs the person I really want to be a diabetic?ā€ You and I know the answer to that my friend.

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Thanks @Accidental_Kills98, I appreciate the kind words. Iā€™m going to bed now, and sleep on them. I plan to call the surgery in the morning and see if I can book an appointment. Hope youā€™re doing well yourself.

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I am well enough, I take each day as a plane lands.

Any one I walk away from is a good one.

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You HAVE talent. You ARE a good person. Thanks again for helping me with that one thing.

As to the way your autism and drugs work, I canā€™t help. TALK TO YOUR MED PSYCH. I donā€™t know how it works in the UK but in the US you have talk therapy with a non MD who then talks to your psychiatrist once a quarter about your meds. You also talk once a quarter. Here all you have to do is email you Pysch and they will converse with you. Talk to them! Iā€™m not taking anything away from your therapist but the psychiatrist is a fucking doctor. Talk to them too. They are all real people. They will help you.

Hang in there SILVER! Youā€™ll be ok.

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Thanks @Yacob, I really appreciate it.

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Today a drunk driver hit three cars in front of my house.

Two of my neighbors and me.

Fortunately for my neighbors they didnā€™t get the worst of it.

For me the left-most part of my bumper is hanging loose now and thereā€™s other debris from my car that I have no clue where it belongs.

Most likely gonna be making a claim through the womanā€™s insurance provider so that I can get the body-shop repairs covered for whatever it takes to fix it. Just waiting to get the police report.

In the meantime some temporary ingenuity.

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Oh man! Iā€™m glad you werenā€™t in the car. See if her coverage includes a rental for you. If not perhaps yours does even if the main claim for repairs is through hers.

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