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post 1691393713 10-09-2023, 04:23 PM
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I’m struggling with life and I don’t know how to fix it (serious)

The last 3 months have been difficult.

I have a wife, a home and a good job but I just feel miserable all the time.

I took a 10 year break from misc, I remembered about it and came back hoping for laughs and joy.

I never use to drink but in the last 3 months I find myself drinking more and more to the point I don’t even know how I got to bed. And end up talking complete nonsense to people I don’t know on discord.

I know my misses is hurting from me pulling away from her. I swore vows to this woman and I’m breaking them more and more by the day.

I don’t even know how to explain my mind or why I’m feeling like this but I know it’s not healthy and I feel even worse hurting my family like this.

I turn 30 next week, I don’t know if this is some midlife crisis or something but I can’t go on like this, feel horrible acting this way.

Have any of you been through this and what helped?

I’d never rope, couldn’t do that to my misses and parents but I just feel so numb to everything.

I know misc jokes around a lot but I’m seriousness I could use some help, I feel too weird talking about this kind of thing with people in real life.
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This existence is absolutely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things if that makes you feel any better.
post 1691394393 10-09-2023, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted By ATotemSwole
The last 3 months have been difficult.

I have a wife, a home and a good job but I just feel miserable all the time.

I took a 10 year break from misc, I remembered about it and came back hoping for laughs and joy.

I never use to drink but in the last 3 months I find myself drinking more and more to the point I don’t even know how I got to bed. And end up talking complete nonsense to people I don’t know on discord.

I know my misses is hurting from me pulling away from her. I swore vows to this woman and I’m breaking them more and more by the day.

I don’t even know how to explain my mind or why I’m feeling like this but I know it’s not healthy and I feel even worse hurting my family like this.

I turn 30 next week, I don’t know if this is some midlife crisis or something but I can’t go on like this, feel horrible acting this way.

Have any of you been through this and what helped?

I’d never rope, couldn’t do that to my misses and parents but I just feel so numb to everything.

I know misc jokes around a lot but I’m seriousness I could use some help, I feel too weird talking about this kind of thing with people in real life.
Go see a therapist.
post 1691394423 10-09-2023, 04:37 PM
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If you ever spiral out of control and end up losing your house and wife, you can always look back to this day and say "wow, why was I being such a fuking pussy?"
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Most likely I’d say your problem was quitting misk


I’d say that with respect to your drinking is it is time to re-evaluate your life. I don’t know if you went to university or not. But there’s a time and a place for everything, that place is college. The truth is most people who party incessantly do so because of undiagnosed or untreated medical maladies. I know for me it was not taking adhd seriously. Because when I took my adhd meds, partying became useless because I was always sober when I took adhd meds. It may be different for you, however… I’d suggest you seek out medical help and talk to a doctor or psychologist. That chit becomes old after a while and the sooner you realize the better.


Speaking though on the lines of a problem. I have a problem with extra Jading my thought process. It’s like in my head I had it in my mind that the excess of females I’d interacted with in college? Lead to bad, ended up making me feel empty and then the intent to avoid emotional connection/proclivity to save girls lead me…


So I had the redemption heavy on my mind… but then in some ways all the extra kind of has me in this reverted mentality of? Well I’d rather go back to a bunch of random women… vs being subject to extra
post 1691394883 10-09-2023, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted By alexz28
Go see a therapist.
I’ve been avoiding it but I think I will.

Somethings I just don’t know how to react anymore.
Originally Posted By stevemckenna
If you ever spiral out of control and end up losing your house and wife, you can always look back to this day and say "wow, why was I being such a fuking pussy?"
**** like you’ve just said is why it’s so difficult for guys to open up.

I hope you feel the way I do one day, maybe then you’ll understand and not be such a can’t!
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post 1691395413 10-09-2023, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted By ATotemSwole
**** like you’ve just said is why it’s so difficult for guys to open up.

I hope you feel the way I do one day, maybe then you’ll understand and not be such a can’t!
Yeah, I'm a little older than you and I've gone through similar phases in my life and I can assure you as long as you stay mentally strong, you'll get through it and you'll look back and you'll realize your priorities were all out of wack.
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Honestly OP, i can tell you. Go take some time off from everything: city, technology, people, etc.

Go out into the wilderness in a remote area and be one with nature for a couple of days, get away from the everyday life.

I am going to do this as I am going through a similar situation of tired of everything going on and the negative aspects these past years.

One thing that always helped when I was so stressed and depressed was going into nature in a remote area. Go hiking in the mountains, take in the waterfalls, take in the animals around. Take on a new appreciation beyond what you see and experience.
post 1691396003 10-09-2023, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted By stevemckenna
Yeah, I'm a little older than you and I've gone through similar phases in my life and I can assure you as long as you stay mentally strong, you'll get through it and you'll look back and you'll realize your priorities were all out of wack.
I’ve never had a problem before and now I don’t even know where this came from. Everything was going well and happy. I feel like a total **** because I’ve pulled away and I don’t even know why?

Nothing notable has changed in my life, I don’t know how to attack this problem!?
"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul." ~William Ernest Henley

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post 1691396213 10-09-2023, 05:12 PM
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Jesus christ bro. It's a mid life crisis. Just get some corny tats and a Harley...blow some lines off a strippers ass and you'll be good as cookies in no time

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post 1691396273 10-09-2023, 05:13 PM
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I think visiting a therapist might be the most sensible idea for the simple fact that you seemingly have no idea as to what might be causing your misery. If you had at least SOME idea, there might be an avenue or two you could explore, but this does not seem to be the case.

Talking with a therapist will shine a light on EVERYTHING, and thus with their help you might develop a better idea of where you need to explore to address your problems.
post 1691396573 10-09-2023, 05:19 PM
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post 1691396653 10-09-2023, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted By ATotemSwole
I’ve never had a problem before and now I don’t even know where this came from. Everything was going well and happy. I feel like a total **** because I’ve pulled away and I don’t even know why?

Nothing notable has changed in my life, I don’t know how to attack this problem!?
Dude, you're only 30 with a house, a caring wife, and a good job where you don't lie awake every night worried about how you're going to pay next month's mortgage. You're doing better than 98% of people in your age range. You need to learn perspective and realize how grateful of a life you have - and you will...it just takes time but in the mean time, don't do something you will regret 5 years from now.
post 1691396793 10-09-2023, 05:24 PM
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Mate, lots of us are the same as you. I work in Healthcare and see good kids, dying the most effed up slow deaths that are painful. We need to get back to ground zero. We need to remember what we do have. I've recently discovered it's small things that make me the happiest srs. My pet fish, means the world to me and brings me the most happiness. Srs. It cost me $4 from a random fish shop. I got it because I was looking to put an ornament in my lounge room. It's now my most valued possession. Why I like it?, it tries to play games with me and is happy when I get home and give it attention, and food. Sometimes I wonder if God sent me that fish because it's what I needed. I had everything in life, but I felt like I had hit rock bottom. Much like yourself. Also, I felt HEEEEAAAPPPSSSS better stopping drinking. Get rid of the booze in the bin, and don't even entertain buying anymore. Us guys need projects to work on, and I suggest always building or renovating something. An old car, the house, anything. This makes us feel heaps better, restoring our feelings of accomplishment and proud of ourselves because we turned something crap, into something awesome.
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Brb doing better than most people in the entire world but still manages to feel like chit
post 1691397003 10-09-2023, 05:27 PM
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Quit alcohol immediately.
Talk with your wife. Genuinely.
Talk with your parents.
Live in the moment with your family.

Also, what's your goal anyways? What are you and your wife striving for? Do you guys even have a plan for life and where it is heading? Are you guys attacking life together? It sounds like you two are just fulfilling basic responsibilities and then living separate lives in the same household.

Life isn't about you anymore. It's about your child. It's about your wife and being the best husband and father you can be to create the best life for your child. Remember your wife raises the child too, especially in the beginning. How as a man can you sit there and get drunk and talk to people on discord at the expense of the relationship of you and your wife which can ONLY negatively impact your child.

I get we all go through stuff in life and have to vent and figure things out, but get a grip bro. You are letting your mind control you instead of taking the initiative to control your own mind and in turn your actions.

Here I am wishing nothing more than to be a father and create and family to attack life with and yet you're here talking about getting piss drunk and shunning your wife and failing your family because you "feel" numb." I say this with good intent, but man the fuk up and figure it out.
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Originally Posted By ATotemSwole
The last 3 months have been difficult.

I have a wife, a home and a good job but I just feel miserable all the time.

I took a 10 year break from misc, I remembered about it and came back hoping for laughs and joy.

I never use to drink but in the last 3 months I find myself drinking more and more to the point I don’t even know how I got to bed. And end up talking complete nonsense to people I don’t know on discord.

I know my misses is hurting from me pulling away from her. I swore vows to this woman and I’m breaking them more and more by the day.

I don’t even know how to explain my mind or why I’m feeling like this but I know it’s not healthy and I feel even worse hurting my family like this.

I turn 30 next week, I don’t know if this is some midlife crisis or something but I can’t go on like this, feel horrible acting this way.

Have any of you been through this and what helped?

I’d never rope, couldn’t do that to my misses and parents but I just feel so numb to everything.

I know misc jokes around a lot but I’m seriousness I could use some help, I feel too weird talking about this kind of thing with people in real life.
Quit drinking and find something to help you with your coping skills.. I started doing yoga almost three years ago and am a recovering alcoholic.. id say that yoga has been life changer for me. I also had 20 years of alcoholism leading up to me quitting so there were many hard lessons along the way. So that’s where my advice comes from but drinking is always the worst **** you can be doing.. it makes 0 better!!
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Originally Posted By JustiNtense
This existence is absolutely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things if that makes you feel any better.
not opie

but not really, just makes it all feel even more retarded that people carry on producing life when it's clearly so full to the brim with suffering.

ying and yang, all that stuff. one of the most arrogant acts in humanity has to be deciding for an unborn child that they will want the burden of life. sure, there are fun things in life, but there's no denying it's hard as ****. at leats I find it hard as ****, so yeah I know i'm projecting
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Go to church, read and study the Bible, let Jesus into your heart.

Doesn't sound too hard, right?
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Originally Posted By ATotemSwole
The last 3 months have been difficult.

I have a wife, a home and a good job but I just feel miserable all the time.

I took a 10 year break from misc, I remembered about it and came back hoping for laughs and joy.

I never use to drink but in the last 3 months I find myself drinking more and more to the point I don’t even know how I got to bed. And end up talking complete nonsense to people I don’t know on discord.

I know my misses is hurting from me pulling away from her. I swore vows to this woman and I’m breaking them more and more by the day.

I don’t even know how to explain my mind or why I’m feeling like this but I know it’s not healthy and I feel even worse hurting my family like this.

I turn 30 next week, I don’t know if this is some midlife crisis or something but I can’t go on like this, feel horrible acting this way.

Have any of you been through this and what helped?

I’d never rope, couldn’t do that to my misses and parents but I just feel so numb to everything.

I know misc jokes around a lot but I’m seriousness I could use some help, I feel too weird talking about this kind of thing with people in real life.
**** ppl who diminish your suffering too. we're all wired differently, so to people who don't suffer - lucky you. but try have a bit of compassion just because someone does have the same outlook as you

anyway, sorry I don't have any advice brah cause i'm in a similar boat minus the wife and job

the only advice I can give is the same advice i'm giving to myself right now which is just keep existing
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See a therapist and a doctor. Meds should help. Quit drinking. You have any friends to cope with? Don’t neglect family time.
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Honestly OP all I can tell you is you choose to be happy and you choose to be miserable

If you have a decent job, a good quality of living and a quality woman who loves you, you're better off than 99.99% of the world. You have to choose to be grateful and happy for what you have. Take joys in simple things in life - a nice evening with your wife, a delicious meal, a great sports game, a fun videogame

There's no perfect solution that's external to make you happy. You have to decide to be happy
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Originally Posted By AVB117
Honestly OP all I can tell you is you choose to be happy and you choose to be miserable

If you have a decent job, a good quality of living and a quality woman who loves you, you're better off than 99.99% of the world. You have to choose to be grateful and happy for what you have. Take joys in simple things in life - a nice evening with your wife, a delicious meal, a great sports game, a fun videogame

There's no perfect solution that's external to make you happy. You have to decide to be happy
it's mad how hapiness is a choice but feels so unobtainable for so many, for myself included. it's literally a choice but you gotta seriously wire your brain in a different way to see life so positively and i think the only way to do this is only be around positive/upbeat/optimisiti people

negative vibes spread like wildfire.
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dont listen to the therapist bs. they're mostly liberal fgts that will tell you its normal to be sad & in no way help you. start by cutting down alcohol slowly dont go cold turkey it will mess with your hormones even more. slowly work your way up to the gym. even a small walk with a beer to start with will help. small steps daily & in 6 months you'll be a new man. just make sure everyday you're doing a little more to go in the right direction.
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