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Don't suggest hobbies or human contact. It's been suggested and it doesn't work.

I have a job I don't particularly hate nor like, some coworkers I get along with others are just morons, I go to work, then buy groceries, go home, eat, watch tv, go to bed. Rinse and repeat.

On my free days I do sport and watch pirated netflix. I don't spend much money on clothing or media and save most of my paycheck. What for? I have no idea. I don't eat out because I like cooking my own food and restaurants are expensive and the food is bland.

Everything is so expensive nowadays btw...

Most people bore me. I'm like an atheist monk.

I don't want to kill myself or anybody fwiw. It's like I don't give a crap about anything or anyone and don't see what's the point of living.

I don't want to travel because it costs money.

As soon as my cognitive abilities start to fail I'm going to be very easy prey for any online scammer.

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[–] flyboy_146@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hey, I just want to say that in case you did give therapists, SEVERAL times, a chance to be a solution, and they showed themselves to be charlatans, you may want to consider that they are absolutely not the end all be all that some people may sound them to be.

I don't have the answer, but there are leads to follow still. Someone here was suggesting giving your time to help others. If possible, this may actually help. Or not... Then try something else. Just don't think therapists know it all, because they sure as fuck don't...

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A therapist that claims to know it all or makes promises that they can help you (esp. Short term) is just a licensed grifter. Can that fucker and find one that gives a shit.

The most significant factor for success in therapy is that the therapist has a similar condition to yours and they're engaging in therapies that worked for them. Next it's important they look like you (share your demographic somehow). Your dedication comes immediately after that.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This needs to be said more. What if the therapist can't help you? Even worse, what if they don't understand you? Wouldn't that make you feel even worse?

I have tried a couple therapists. With both, it was as if we were speaking different languages. Needlas to say, I stopped seeing them.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Sounds a therapist problem and not a therapy problem. Not that therapy is perfect nor always the solution, just that you didn't receive any.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can't spend all my money searching for a therapist.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

100% fair, that's my current issue. Honestly it's bullshit they even charge for the first session.