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submitted 3 days ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Facing your fears and learning to overcome them is not easy, but possible.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah. Having to get a job and ending up in a customer facing role did more for getting me over a lot of my shit than anything else I tried. There's still things that are just absolute no-gos for me (singing is the biggest one that comes to mind) but I got over all the shit I had to get over to be able to function more or less normally day to day without too much anxiety.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

i have heard "Why did you do x? And you cant use your autism as an excuse" said

i dont understand these peoples thinking

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Paranoia?

[+] saltesc@lemmy.world -10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And a hell of a lot of egoism.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don't get how mental health works

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes I do.

I think you're perceiving egos as a negative thing rather than literal, which is kind of coincidental considering the context.

Egoism is a train of thought establishing ideas of how one or others should be based on self sense. It is something internalised that can be externalisrd. This is a core trigger of social anxiety for many and other frictions in society in general.

It very often means an individual pays a lot of attention to and dissects other people. They see the faults in others and so they assume, without any evidence, that this is what others do to them too. Or they have experienced an elevated situation of this happening to them with significant time or individuals of social infouence, so to them, being scrutinised has become normal when it is not. This makes for very anxious interaction with society and social spaces.

Actually one of the far less complex things to diagnose and repair. Like many forms of anxiety, you'd be surprised by the proportion of people suffering who have simply kicked it off with poor sleep behaviour and physical apathy. This is far more common than trauma by externalisation or as a symptom of a personality disorder.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Much more helpful of a response than the first one

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

In this economic climate, this is just Tuesday.