What do you struggle with?

I struggle with executive functioning skills, procrastinating, masturbating, time management, financial planning, and to a lesser extent depression and anxiety.

How about you?

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[re- Yamsmos]

A feeling of intense mediocrity, disappointment and dissatisfaction with self, a fear of being alone and forgotten, and an insatiable love for Corgis.

Oh and I hate myself.

[TheExhaustedBrony]

I have an inferiority complex that leads to needless spending. I don't want this to be all about me so I'll just leave it at that.

[flux the unhinged]

You sound like a carbon copy of me, except my depression and anxienty tend to swallow me whole

[Super Trampoline]

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Is that why you're so exhausted?

On a more serious note, if I may ask, how does your inferiority complex lead to overspending?

[Super Trampoline]

EDIT: I have also struggled for about six years now to get my weight down. Was gaining weight for about 3 1/2 years and have had a fairly stable wait for about 2 1/2 years. Now I just need to get it down again.

[Super Trampoline]

4641549
I'm sorry to hear that. Have you found and harnessed techniques , medications, or lifestyle changes that have helped at all?

[Super Trampoline]

4641542
If I may ask, why do you hate yourself?

[flux the unhinged]

4641557
weeellll, when I get depressed I try my damndest not to think, because depression makes me change my attitude towards life and thinking while depressed only makes me fall deeper in the rabbit hole at which point I get my friends to tell me how much they want me in their lives and how sad they would be if I were to die...
Anxiety also comes from my overthinking which is so hard to ignore when I get neurotic that the only solution is getting drunk, no seriously, once I was so anxious no matter how much water I drank I was still thirsty like I just run a marathon at noon.
Now that you got me thinking, I used to care about everything to an unhealthy point, I remember crying cause my mother was yelling to my sister on christmas and everyone is supposed to be nicer on christmas (yep). Then I lost something that I so attached with I cried for three days... that was the point I started not caring about anything which led to the worst period of my life, I felt so hurt I contemplated suicide on a daily, dammit, I knew how I wanted to die but I always too much of a coward to go ahead with it, looking back at it now I feel ashamed about it. I should also note that up until that point the only friends I had were a bunch of abusive cunts that wouldn't leave me be until I started crying my eyes out and here's the kicker, I thought it was normal, I thought hurting that much was normal, that everyone felt that pain and I should just ignore it. Then I met some people that treated me with respect and were fun to hang with and I was confused as fuck so fourteen years old me looked up friendship on the internet, stumbled upon mlp and got his head straight. Also I give my parents most of the blame, don't get me wrong, they're good folks but they suck ass at parenting, I mean my mother saw my depressed state and tried to make me happy by buying me stuff to no avail and my father flatout ignored it and thought it would go away with time. Someday I'll man up and tell just how much they fucked up alas they're not going to take me seriously
TLDR: treat depression with caring friends and anxiety with alcohol, also me venting about my life and how fucked up my view of life was and how I got better, I went on a wee bit bit of a tangent didn't I? Gonna post it anyway cause I actually put effort into this
I'm usually the quiet guy but damn get me started and I get to pinkie levels of rambling

[Super Trampoline]

4641576
Sounds like you've had a lot on your mind and on your chest. I'm sorry you had shitty friends until recently. Have you had the opportunity to try therapy? I think in some instances it can be very beneficial for people

[Super Trampoline]

4641576
For some people, medication or certain off the market mind altering substances can also help with brain chemistry but that varies person-to-person.

[Chinchillax]

Constant desire to die I've been dealing with for decades, acute apeirophobia (fear of the duration of eternity), and high functioning anxiety.

And a bizzare acceptance of those states to the point I don't want to change. Even though I know I should want to want to live.

[PresentPerfect]

Depression, the sense that I have no inherent value, writing, plumbing the depths of the cavalcade of fickle gods known as the job market.

[RainbowSparkle3]

I struggle with laziness, procrastination, some pressure about certain things, weight loss, etc..

[Hap]

There are, uh, tutorials out there if you struggle with masturbating. Lots of folks have figured it out on their own, but there's nothing wrong with asking for help.

[edit]You know what? I think that just unnecessarily brings down the mood.[/edit]

[Super Trampoline]

4641684
Oh no, I have absolutely no problem masturbating. I have a problem not masturbating.

[book_burner]

Trauma, minor anxiety surrounding working on some things even when I know I have plenty of ability, intense lack of confidence in myself about anything I haven't done before, childhood trauma, seething resentment of my past mistakes, complete lack of faith that any of those mistakes are recoverable at all, constant weariness from how much stuff life hits me with, constant weariness from the effort needed to maintain mere normality, and just a constant background desire to die and have my well-deserved rest.
4641684
Oh my God, I'm so sorry!

[re- Yamsmos]

4641561
I don't have a clue. I just find it astounding that people even consider talking to me worthwhile. Something about me is something I don't like. Or maybe it's everything.

EDIT: Think I've narrowed it down. I just don't feel like I'm good to people in my life. Ungrateful and all that.

[toxiconym]

I also struggle with masturbation, thankfully my girlfriend is understanding and supportive. I'm also struggling from procrastination and minor depression, which isn't letting me feel as much anymore, and makes life boring and episodic. I struggle with the fact that I'm not excitable anymore, nothing phases me, and that worries me.
Thanks for letting your followers vent, man.

[Wise Cracker]

I struggle with three of those, fourth is less of an issue. Mostly I struggle with putting myself out there to find gainful employment, and both starting and finishing things that might get me closer to some semblance of income. I'm also very attached to things, like the laptop I'm on. I'm terrified of cleaning it, for fear I'll break it.

Aside from all that... the news recently doesn't so much depress me as it demotivates me. Can't stick to a routine, and can't determine which problems are my own fault and which ones aren't, leading to a nice cycle of self-doubt at times and major delays in writing both pony and original. I always make lots of lovely plans that never work out.

[Petrichord]

a lack of ambition inexorably linked with lethargy and the comparatively diffused ability to care about victory or defeat in competitions; the ultimately failed attempts to come to terms with a multitude of fetishes and a subsequent sense of estrangement and alienation from such; a lingering sense that i'm a "pussy" for having not been successful on my two previous attempts at suicide; generalized anxiety disorder;

A very complicated relationship with parents that showed multiple traits strongly associated with emotional abuse, and

and i'm really sorry to anyone who's reading this

Essentially placing all of my self-worth on the admiration and approval of others i like or respect, creating unrealistic pressure and expectations on them to give me said admiration or approval, behaving grossly irrational and antagonistically towards them when they show signs of not reciprocating said approval, and recognizing the above and honest to god being unable to stop myself from being like this, fuck i've tried i promise.

I know that maybe some of you who are reading this have been like me when i'm around this, and

I tried to be normal, i promise. I really did.

I'm so sorry.