SketchMaster
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- Feb 23, 2005
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when i was in 5th grade, i had started smoking and skipped school for the 1st time, then the next year i commited arson, i've changed a lot since then and looking back i was headed down a steep hill into being a fvck up (thank god my parents cared about me)
Specop 007
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This was about 2 yrs after I graduated from college.
I was still hanging on by taking a classes here and there even though I graduated already.
I just picked up Diablo II and a month later I hit rock bottom.
For about 2 months, I did nothing but played that game all day long.
I would scheduled my sleep during the day so I can play at night where the lag was less bearable.
All I did was play everyday to keep a few of my guys on top of the ladder.
Only went out to get food.
Dropped my classes.
Didn't work.
After doing this all 2 months, I finally came to the conlusion I've hit rock bottom.
After I decided to quit, I never touched it again.
I was still hanging on by taking a classes here and there even though I graduated already.
I just picked up Diablo II and a month later I hit rock bottom.
For about 2 months, I did nothing but played that game all day long.
I would scheduled my sleep during the day so I can play at night where the lag was less bearable.
All I did was play everyday to keep a few of my guys on top of the ladder.
Only went out to get food.
Dropped my classes.
Didn't work.
After doing this all 2 months, I finally came to the conlusion I've hit rock bottom.
After I decided to quit, I never touched it again.
shilala
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- Oct 5, 2004
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A few years ago I was hopelessly lost, alcoholic, suicidal, depressed and had terrible anxiety attacks.
Went to doctors, took medicine, couldn't quit drinking, eventually found AA and immersed myself.
Now all the anxiety and depression is gone, I've been sober almost three years, my marriage is mending and I feel wonderful.
I don't take any meds and I don't get fvcked up anymore, either.
I sure hope you find a way, too!!!
Went to doctors, took medicine, couldn't quit drinking, eventually found AA and immersed myself.
Now all the anxiety and depression is gone, I've been sober almost three years, my marriage is mending and I feel wonderful.
I don't take any meds and I don't get fvcked up anymore, either.
I sure hope you find a way, too!!!
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
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That happened to me some decades ago. My GF found someone else and got married and my life fell apart. I rejected all my support systems and was alone, unemployed and had to just struggle to survive in a nutty complex competitive world and I had no profession or line of work. Things got steadily better after a rough year or two and I know I was tougher, stronger for what I went through then and for the next x years. Sometimes you just have to go through some tough times to overcome your problems.
I think it's a song: You can't have the highs without the lows.
One of my favorite William Blake quotes: Man was made for Joy and Woe, And when this we rightly know Safely through the world we go.
I can't remember that really low point but I can tell you for a good while it just feels like I'm coasting with no good or bad happening.
Addiction to Counter-Strike. Stayed in my house for six months literally plaing eighteen hours a day. Gained about 60 pounds, blah blah, I'm not addicted anymore. Ha.
Last year, upon realizing my brother, a COP, had conned me out of $7,500.00 in bills paid off and upgrades and repairs to his house and had no intention of repaying me. Then he assualted me, breaking 2 ribs. I left Soth Carolina to return to California 3 days later. The realization that he has done the same to our Mother and Grandmother ( to the tune of another $7000.00) only exacerbated the feelings of anger towards him.
How did I "Get out of it"? I have no brother anymore, just a criminal with a badge and a gun and an over-inflated view of his power. With any luck, the dept will take a dim view of his alcoholic behavior or he'll meet someone on the street a little faster and bigger than him.
At any rate, my sympathies for him are all dried up. Just like he needs to be.
I can make more money, he'll always be an asshole PIG.
How did I "Get out of it"? I have no brother anymore, just a criminal with a badge and a gun and an over-inflated view of his power. With any luck, the dept will take a dim view of his alcoholic behavior or he'll meet someone on the street a little faster and bigger than him.
At any rate, my sympathies for him are all dried up. Just like he needs to be.
I can make more money, he'll always be an asshole PIG.
Originally posted by: JEDI
welcome to my decade
*cue floyd*
"I, ahh, I...have become...comfortably numb"
My lowest point occurred about 5 years ago. I was wrestling for my high school, 2nd year, and i was going to be varsity if I cut a lot of weight. I did so, and as a result developed a bad eating disorder. 2 months into the season i couldnt hack the cutting anymore so i started gaining tons of weight and was much fatter for it after the season was over. Needless to say I lost the respect of most of the members on my team.
After that I was very depressed, had body image issues and all, and spent a good couple years going about things the wrong way by crazy dieting and focusing my life on my body. The part right after the season ended though was the worst part by far.
Thankfully, my eating habits and obsession about body image have been much more healthy over the last 3 years, and the disorder is basically gone. But now i have other big self issues to work on, lol.
I can believe it. It was only a week ago that I got my speeding ticket and that still has been bothering me. Like it made me seriously depressed this last week. I dont know why. its not my first speeding ticket.
I think I found a way to console the pain (by thinking about other stuff) but paying the ticket straight up or going to court is gonna be a pain in the butt!
thats really unfortunate to hear
Did you consider/try pressing charges against him for what he has done?
In any case, i feel bad for you, its horrible when things like that happen inside the family. Hopefully someone will eventually set him straight and he will realize his wrongs, and change who he his, but I guess one can't expect that.
its interesting how you arent the only one who has suggested a computer game addiction as being a low.
in some ways i wonder if my addiction to the internet in general has created a low for me. Its been about 8 years (14 years when i started) and I still function and all, but I wonder if my life could be better without computers, and if I'd be more social.
I spend lots of times on forums like these, and lots of time browsing the web to expand my knowledge. I really dont spend that much time playing games, looking at porn, or any of the othe common addictions, but rather just browse forums and read stuff.
Sometimes I wonder if its even possible to 'quit the internet' persay. computers are everywhere, at the library, at my school, etc.
I hope one day I can at least learn to limit myself more, because I have a feeling that when I do, my life will get a lot better.
kranky
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Some of you have had some very rough times. Wow.
For me it was flunking out of college second semester freshman year, completely due to lack of effort. Went to work at a lousy company and suffered for a couple years until I got it together enough to find a better job.
For me it was flunking out of college second semester freshman year, completely due to lack of effort. Went to work at a lousy company and suffered for a couple years until I got it together enough to find a better job.
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