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[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 27 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I intentionally make up horrors and monsters to lurk in the shadows or under my bed. Sometimes when I can't fall asleep, I stare at a corner of the room, imagining some unsettling creature that could be lurking there, staring back at me (if it has eyes at all). I imagine something reaching up to grab the leg I'm stick out over the edge.

But they can't actually get me. They're created, sustained and dispelled by my will. They may stare at me, reach for me, but they're powerless. When I'm done with them, I send them back to the half-existence in the collection of ideas I built them from.

It's a cruel power fantasy, to make up monsters incapable of understanding that they're the lesser horror between us, but it's fun.

It also seems to help me sleep, but that might just be the fact that focusing my brain on one thing quiets all the background noise.

[–] FriendFatale@leminal.space 4 points 14 hours ago

youre fucked if a tulpa materializes!

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Similarly, the lines painted at the bottom of the pool became sharks when I jumped off the diving board as a child.

I never once really thought that sharks had somehow been smuggled into a shit little public pool, but that hammer head was real as hell until I'd crawled my way to the exit ladder.

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[–] obsoleteacct@lemm.ee 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was a kid I told a Special Ed teacher who I trusted that one of the gym teachers was having sex with high school students and grooming girls as young as 14.

Rather than report this to the authorities he told the gym teacher what was said. The next day the gym teacher (who was a big former semi-pro football player or something like that) cornered me and intimidated me into shutting my mouth.

2 years later a former student confronted the gym teacher's wife. In the fallout his behavior came to light and he left our school and went to teach a few towns over. The Special Ed teacher joked about it after the fact.

It was probably 20 years before I fully understood the scope of how disgusting that situation was.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago

Big props for you trying to get people involved though, most obviously did nothing.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I realized I was trans in middle school, i said something suicidal to my friend and he told on me. I never really talked to the therapists because my mom was very homophobic. I got put on antidepressants and suppressed my feelings so hard I can hardly remember my childhood.
5 years later my depression went into "full remission" couple of months before I came out. I then 180°d and got sent to the psych ward for suicide ideation this February.

The only thing that stopped me from killing myself is the realization that my cat would be rubbing against my body for pets in the ~10 hours it would take for my family to find me. I was planning to buy a knife after work but broke down in the bathroom.

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

I'm glad you're still here.

[–] goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago

I'm glad you stayed.

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 27 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

Covid probably saved my life.

I got bullied for about 5-6 years in school which ultimatively led to me just wanting to kill myself. Luckily for me the lockdown came so I got freed from the nightmare called school. My will to live devinetively improved, when not getting bullied the whole time you are sitting in class. However, when being in the lockdown I devinetively didnt process my feelings and thoughts about how I wanted to end myself. This led to me having almost a fill scale emotional breakdown mid class when school started, since we have been reading a play where someone killed himself and therefore learned stuff about the whole topic of suicide/mental health. Suddenly you realise, that all this shit kind of sounds very familiar for you which was quite overwhelming, but you can't let anyone see whats happening because that shit devinetively is going to get you bullied again. I never talked to a therapist about this and at this point it isn't needed, since I just went on and processed that time of my life for myself. I also kind of realised some time ago, that I also never told my family about this, but it isn't really relevant anymore and us just going to cause feelings of guilt in them for not acting.

[–] khaliso@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Therapy might still be a good idea in the future, trauma can show up in quite unexpected forms.

I'm really glad you're doing better!

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

Seconding this. I thought I was fine once I made it through college without therapy. Ha! All the shit I'd just bottled up for years was still sitting there, packed nicely in its little bottle, waiting to explode.

Ended up going through a couple years worth of therapy in my late 20s / early 30s

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[–] ouRKaoS 128 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My knife collection began because I was suicidal.

To keep myself around I got a bunch of knives so I wouldn't pick a favorite and "dissapoint" the others.

...I got better.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 23 points 22 hours ago

Out of all the reasons/sotires I have heard about why people didnt kill themselves this is by far the most absurd.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You know, that is one of the most creative safety solutions I have heard. Glad you came up with it (probably due to still wanting to fight). The fight never stops, hope you are still doing well.

[–] ouRKaoS 6 points 20 hours ago

I have my moments, just like everyone else, but I have more good ones than bad ones. I do have a genuine love for knives though now, and still don't have a favorite.

I keep seeing videos of a guy who buys TSA confiscated knives by weight & laughs at them for sucking, and I laugh harder because my angsty teenage self collected a lot of them back in the day.

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I love this so much, is it that you have a lot of empathy?

[–] ouRKaoS 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yep -- It's a gift & a curse.

I find it super easy to put myself in other people's shoes and see what they're going through, but I have a hard time expressing my own feelings. It's turned me into a bit of a loner, but I do have a small circle of people I know & trust that I can be myself with.

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I hear ya. I'm participating in a hiring panel and finding it really tough to reject candidates, especially when they're nice. I just feel so much for them.

Hard not to start building a tough shell, take care of yourself

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[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was younger, I believed that if a woman was raped, it was her fault for what she was wearing. My highschool friends called me the most unempathetic person they'd ever met and I was proud of that.

Thankfully I've turned right around on all that and learned empathy. I'm ashamed for my younger self, but I know they were just doing the best they could with the very few tools they were given.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I am in the same situation. "When I was a child I was the most unhinged asshole I know" is extremly common in this community and I have no clue why.

[–] Sprinks@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

just a guess, but it could be because kids are dumb and we were all kids once trying to figure out the world with no experience. And then on top of that we tend to remember the cringe moments about ourselves even though those moments were likely an after thought to those around us.

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[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was witness to a very gorey and fatal lathe accident. It was bad enough that they shut the shop down for a month and paid for some therapy.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

My ideal partner would have exactly identical personality to me.

In highschool I would regularly imagine a "perfect crush" during bus rides. In my last year I had that "damn I was an edgy asshole during middle and highschool" moment and I wanted to change.

So since my friend group is also jerks like me I just started imitating that imaginary person until "fake it til you make it" kicked in.

Everything from my sense of humour to taste in music changed over time. I even became a slightly bit more feminine when I used to be hardcore Matt Walsh fan until this point.

I also got hobbies I just thought looked attractive like Archery. I got into computers because this.

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I read somewhere ages ago that you should become the person you want to be with the most, which I think is great advice. And less about searching for someone else who is that. Sounds like this is what you did.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I'm 99% sure I know my killer is me... eventually as my spine falls apart and suffering massively increases with time. And I'm okay with that so long as it is my choice. When people talk about suicide, I strongly believe in the saying, "no permanent solutions for temporary problems." But I strongly believe in this saying from both perspectives, aka "permanent solutions are your personal choice that I fully respect as an unalienable human right, if you choose, due to permanent problems." Anyone trying to steal such an unalienable human right from another is exceptionally ignorant of the magnitude of potential suffering and is criminally sadistic as far as I'm concerned.

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[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I kicked a decrepit german shepard to death.

WHY?!Wasn't my fault really, the owner had trained his dog to be aggressive and I was deathly afraid of dogs. The animal escaped the leash and charged me, I don't know if it would have bitten me, but I instinctively kicked it in the face... I'm an extremely overweight guy and was scared shitless, that's propably why my leg had some serious power behind it, so I kicked that poor puppies snout straight into its braincase.

Still have nightmares of that day. Good news is: I have sinced learned to be less afraid and love dogs now. I even regularly put my hand down the throat of a huge japanese Akita Inu who loves me to death and pull on his teeth in play.

[–] feddup@feddit.uk 14 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Good on you, it's the owners fault. I really hate most dog owners, they just let their dogs off the leash and let them come up to you, not giving a shit whether the person is afraid of dogs or not or basically taking the risk for someone else.

Since having a daughter every time I'm out and there's dogs I hate having to imagine how I'd save her from an attack and how I'd either have to try killing it or escaping.

They have the audacity to say "don't worry they won't harm her" when I pick my daughter up to stop them getting near. "No fuck you and leash your dog"

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