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  • I used Ai to vent my problems to, and binged research papers. Read up on cognitive behavior therapy and the mechanics of depression.

    I also made some big life changes and cut WAY back on drinking, but it took months and years to ease into the changes. Im still having shit days often, but can actually troubleshoot my mood and see why I’m depressed.

    Half if it is don’t dwell on the bad things and that is damn hard. You got to catch your brain thinking something like “im a fuck up”, or “I get no benefit from $hobby”. Once you catch it stop or distract the though, literally tell the thought to fuck off if that works for your head.

    Once your ready start stacking little things like showing and walking a few laps around the house over time. Its sound like bs but it helps.








  • I live in a small shithole town in Pennsylvania about an hour drive outside a major city and 15 minutes outside of a smaller city.

    The liquor store a dollar store and a few tiny shops are within ~4k Big Macs(top to bottom length) away, but everywhere else needs a car. There is nothing in town other than a few small shops, everything else was closed long before my time.

    It’s about a 15 minute drive to get to the next town over since all the stores are there. There is no other non car transportation infrastructure near by other than county buses that you shouldn’t use unarmed.

    The nearest landmark of any cultural significance (outside of going into the city) is the empty field in Somerset county a few hours away.

    Basically if I want something other than whiskey or bread, it’s a 15 minute drive. Still better than when I was still living with my parents because they were even further out from civilization.

    Getting to the next closest state is about a 3 hours trip and I’m close to the border.






  • I may be outside the question a little but as is tradition, I will ignore and answer anyways.

    I am on the border millennial and genZ I grew up in the later 90s and 2000s and my parents adopted it early. I don’t really recall not having some form of internet access outside of being too young to operate it, basically by the time I could read I was online. Dial up at first but things kicked off getting DSL. We learned how to search and some PC basics on the elementary school computers as part of a class, before that I knew computers for games and seen my parents using the internet. Nothing needed to click as it was as I was familiar with what it was like. Started searching stuff at home once I learned how to connect the dial up. I mostly used it for games and chatting with friends until I found memes and porn.

    I knew the internet was amazing way before I could wrap my head around why. If you don’t know something, you just type it in and find out. I missed a lot on early social media as I thought Twitter and Facebook was for idiots even as a kid so I didn’t connect with many peers outside of gaming.

    I had free reign online even as a kid since my parents didn’t understand it past a few basics. I learned and navigated things on my own knowing nothing outside of don’t give out personal info and stranger danger. I know having unrestricted access to the internet as a kid fucked me up a little bit, but seeing something horrific online is almost a part of growing up. Unpleasant and sickening, but you see how the world really is, and appreciate not getting beheaded with a rusty knife.