Discussion At what age is it too late to try to fix things?

[Dr Iron Arc]

Depends on what the issues and circumstances are but I suppose for the average victim's average problems, then 25 might be the point of no return or whenever the brain is fully developed.

 

[silence ends]

Hey you know what? I've got so much trauma, fucked up genetics, CPTSD; how do I fix this? OH YEAH let me create a spiteful mutant so they can inherit all these things and live a lovely life. Lmao. Absolute insanity.

That's how i came to this world. Parents both fukd up from head. My dad even tried to ctb year after i born, maybe he realized mistake he done.
Now its my duty to end these genes for good.

 

[nexus2049]

You could argue that you have "your whole life ahead of you" and all that in your early 20s.

But what about if you're in your 40s or 50s, and still havn't gotten anywhere with mental health, work/education, social/love life, or really anything?

Considering the amout of time and effort it would take to fix any of these things, to the point where life is acctually meaningful, when is it too late?
What do you guys think?

Well, I'm 41. When I lost everything I was married, had half a mortgage paid off, was CFO of a company.

That was 3 years ago.

I think I'm fucked now.

You can only lose everything when you have everything to lose. In your 20s you can definitely make it all back. But for me, now? It's not worth tolerating.

 

[Jorms_McGander]

There is no upper age limit on a person trying to improve their quality of life or their coping skills to deal with it.

Conversely, there is no lower age limit on a person who wishes not to try and would rather end their own life, which requires its own set of coping skills to accomplish.

No toddler is capable of a deliberate hanging and the parents would be responsible, so y'know, unfortunately kids are gonna be excluded from my comments but with the caveat that if a child commits suicide there is undoubtedly something deeply broken whether it's psychological or situational. All things meaningless, I wouldn't put my energy into worrying about things which are that broken except for how to isolate them from society at large in a humane fashion.

 

[ollo]

You could argue that you have "your whole life ahead of you" and all that in your early 20s.

But what about if you're in your 40s or 50s, and still havn't gotten anywhere with mental health, work/education, social/love life, or really anything?

Considering the amout of time and effort it would take to fix any of these things, to the point where life is acctually meaningful, when is it too late?
What do you guys think?

What i feel is, 25 is the start of the end. Comforting lies are always put forth to keep one going, some might succeed in their life while some endup worse

 

[Apathy79]

I don't think there's an age. I went to Uni with a 94 yo first year student. Whose husband had died 2 years earlier and she wanted to start fresh. She was hoping to break the record for oldest first year student but apparently wasn't even close!

As others have said, the point of no return is usually about other things than age.

 

[Dark Window]

Depends on what you want really?

If you're looking to just repair/manage your mental and physical health to some degree and find some level of inner peace and self awareness etc, it's never too late until you're so old that you're basically dying.

Basically unless what you wanted was specific to being young then it's not too late.

If you're a grown adult it's too late to go back and have a highschool romance.

 

[Hotsackage]

You can always learn things, and work on yourself by yourself. I've long given up to be successful by my friends or society's standards. That will never happen, and I'm turning 37 next week.

 

[4am]

it's never too late to kill yourself, unless you're disabled ig

 

[grungy自殺]

Same, but for me, it's 23, maximum 25. I'll fix things for myself by ctb because I was never meant for this world anyways. I have Asperger's/autism as well, on top of ADHD and social anxiety. I also just don't want to have to enter the real world. I don't want to have to live out adulthood. I will ctb to escape life itself and having to become a real adult. The only way to fix my life is to end it, because I never even wanted to exist in the first place

Agreed no less

To absolutely fix all.

It's to ctb

I was just never been prepared to deal with hardships in life and understand to problem solve things that are required with a experienced mind that would make you resistant and resilient

due to me having a immigrant family that is very clueless upon social forms in america

Significant cultural differences and lack of experience in youth (especially for the new generation that was spurring out in the 2000s) combined with barriers in communication. It's extremely futile to try to make the child you want to assimilate just for them to suffer in Existential dread and crisis in the years to come.