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tony the tiger
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- Mar 24, 2024
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I'm ~35 years old, non binary / feminine leaning amab, ASD/Asperger's, undiagnosed but probably ADHD. I've struggled with a chronic health condition for about a decade and gone through a string of hard experiences in life generally.
I'm not really suicidal I think, I could never, I love my friends and family too much... but I felt I haven't really had a safe place to talk about depression related stuff with people who would fully relate or understand.
I'm finding a lot of help resources put me off too, they often feel hard to relate to and weirdly fake, like a veneer of kindness/caring/love on top of a calculated generic strategy. Idk, maybe this isn't making much sense, but in my darkest moments when I did try looking up "suicide" on Google, the "Help is available call Samaritans 12 34 56" and the screens of generic "don't do it your life has SO much left to offer" pages in the results just felt weirdly empty to me.
Like when you ask chatgpt something remotely sensitive and it just clams up and says "I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I advise you to contact a mental health professional", it gives me that same feeling.
That actually drove me to seek out this forum, I wanted something that didn't feel fake. I'm sorry for all of us here who are suffering, and thankful that there is this space, I might hang out and post a bit.
I'm not really suicidal I think, I could never, I love my friends and family too much... but I felt I haven't really had a safe place to talk about depression related stuff with people who would fully relate or understand.
I'm finding a lot of help resources put me off too, they often feel hard to relate to and weirdly fake, like a veneer of kindness/caring/love on top of a calculated generic strategy. Idk, maybe this isn't making much sense, but in my darkest moments when I did try looking up "suicide" on Google, the "Help is available call Samaritans 12 34 56" and the screens of generic "don't do it your life has SO much left to offer" pages in the results just felt weirdly empty to me.
Like when you ask chatgpt something remotely sensitive and it just clams up and says "I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I advise you to contact a mental health professional", it gives me that same feeling.
That actually drove me to seek out this forum, I wanted something that didn't feel fake. I'm sorry for all of us here who are suffering, and thankful that there is this space, I might hang out and post a bit.