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Cake day: August 29th, 2024

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  • It’s very interesting honestly. I swapped from Catholic to evangelicalism at 14 (just me not my family, tho they supported it) and stuck with it till I was 20. It was super about it. Youth group 2 days a week plus 3 hour mass on Sundays, God was ALWAYS on my mind, every decision, every action, every goal. Then my friends went to college, and I didn’t, I stuck around now forced to interact with the older crowd. They weren’t just hypocrites, they were cruel and controlling and pointlessly manipulative. It became clear that the church I was at wasn’t the place It was for me for years so one day I decided to just stop showing.

    It was the first addiction I ever quit. The anxiety I felt was… Immense. It took two weeks for me to start thinking clearly about it, and it was wild how easily I recognized I was literally brainwashed. I no longer needed the mental gymnastics to justify myself.

    My life didn’t improve or anything after that, and funnily enough I only ever saw one of my, off to college, friends again, many years later. He did try and get me back in but I was way past that stiff by that point. Surreal experience in hindsight






  • It kinda depends, I have very light tennitus from construction, most of the time I can ignore it and it only becomes noticeable when it’s exceptionally quiet or I think about it like breathing (HAH your manually breathing now), but 95% of the time I don’t even notice it

    I do have a friend who, has it really bad from listening to music at mega volumes. He can’t have silence to any degree. Plays music, drums his fingers on any wooden object in reach, whatever he can find for noise to drown out the ringing. Seems like a lot, but it’s apparently really bad for him.

    Here’s to hoping yours ain’t that extreme