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>What have you done to deserve this my friend?
That's a rather personal question don't you think?
>And it feels real, it feels like these thoughts are justified
These thoughts ARE justified, that's why I feel them. That's why I have countless tangible things I've done or am responsible for or are part of me that I can point to and go "Wow I'm a terrible person" or "Oh I'm a degenerate pervert", things that would make any rational person hate themselves, things that nobody would flinch from hating somebody for if it was anybody but themselves. These thoughts aren't cognitive distortions, they're a consistent application of principles.
>But you arent your rational self when you are depressed. You are seeing in black and white vision and have forgotten whats its like to see the beautiful colours of life.
But what if the reality is that I'm not beautifully multicolored, I'm just pitch black? See, the thing about this advice you're giving (or more likely, your shrink's advice) is that if my reasons for hating myself are indeed valid and true, then the only effect lying to myself that I am a good, valuable person who deserves to live and be happy will have is to manage and make me even more wretched than I already am, because I will be just as bad, but conceited. There is little I want less than that. I have an aunt, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, who I see as the spinning image of what I'm talking about. She's a dyke, but has been taught to accept herself, she is inconsiderate but is told do what's right for her (or something along those lines), worst of all she has been convinced to stop living in the real world, the real world which is a cold and unforgiving place, or even avoid pieces of fiction that are deemed "negative".
>But if you take my advice and seek help, what have you got to lose?
I've already made plans. I'm too much of a fucking coward to do it the proper way (I see my anxiety as a personal failure) so instead I'm counting on a routine doctor's visit I have coming up in about a month, I plan to make "a cry for help" by especially self-harming just before in thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.