ZenAlex

1. Get your mind in a better place. You cannot save the world yourself, so accept what you cannot change. 2. Do your small part to contribute to making it better. 3. Just because so many people are miserable, doesn't mean you have to be.

Have you ever been diagnosed with ADHD?

I'm basically schizoid. I rarely to never find anyone attractive. I don't get laid ever and I don't care. The way it feels? Just think of everything else you enjoy, and imagine being able to do all that and be happy with life without need for orgasm, an no sexual urges.

I think people take this "alpha" and "beta" thing far too seriously. The only thing objective about being an alpha male is that you are the dominant male in a social hierarchy. That's it. Everything else is just people making up shit as they go along, creating characters like "alphas" to try and become that thing so they can think better of themselves and compare themselves more positively to others. I've seen so many people descriptions of alpha males and they often differ quite significantly. And considering humans live in big societies where you can be dominant in one situation and not dominant in another, the whole alpha male/beta male thing really doesn't make much sense when applied to humans. We don't live in tribes/packs anymore, we don't assert dominance through violence as a primary tactic to establish order. Sometimes we might, but you don't see people doing this often. You try to assert dominance through violence and you'll often end up in jail. You've just created an idea of what you consider to be an ideal man and applied the term "alpha male" to it. Those traits are simply your preferred traits. The reality is a dominant male may be a complete psychopath womanzier who doesn't give a shit about women and sees them as nothing but pieces of meat, and can end up being far more sexually successful than 99% of men. Or a dominant male could end up being a fantastic lover who loves women and treats them with respect. The only thing that determines being an alpha male is dominance over others, nothing else matters to determine who is the alpha or not. But I really think humans who really give a shit about being "alpha" are just insecure people who care way too much about how they compare to others, and think worth is purely determined through social class.

Caffeine is the main issue. If you enjoy coffee just go for decaf. If you need caffeine to get you through your day then your lifestyle likely sucks.,

Nah, I'd say the psychologists definition is correct, it's just about finding a method to make it work, it's not as simple as flipping a switch.

Does anyone have any decent sources to determine what the limit on eating nuts should be? I can eat between 35-70g per day of mixed nuts - Cashews and almonds. They're a great way to get enough calories and be healthy, just wanting to know what you guys think?

Well regardless of what you believe, you are taking a risk here. So it's up to you to decide whether or not that risk is going to be worth it. The drugs could help you a lot, or they could make you worse, and your blind belief that you should be able to just overcome it is potentially dangerous. If you have a history of serious mental health issues, be very careful. I'm not telling you not to take them or to take them bro. Just be careful. You don't know fully what these drugs could do to you.

@ShardMare As @Leo Gura says right at the top of this section. SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP FOR SERIOUS ISSUES. As much as anyone on this forum wants to believe they know best, if someone in deep shit mentally/physically needs support, remember that we're just a bunch of random people on internet. As much as you may want to argue about corruption or incompetence at times in professional fields, you need to make a decision, and if you're in serious shit mental/physical health wise, and you want to know who to listen to, your safest option is professionals. By all means educate yourself, don't blindly trust authority, just realise that no one on here has anything more than info we gathered over the internet. If someone is telling you do something as a substitute for professional help, be very concerned. If I was in your situation, from what you've described, I'd personally not take them, but I don't know you, so I wont tell you not to take them. You may not have fully articulated your issues.

When did I ever say this? When did I ever say a single word of this? When did I even imply this shit? You are doing the same shit you always fucking do on every fucking thread. You twist and manipulate what I say. I never said you knew nothing, on the contrary, I said you're more than welcome to try and advise him on the subject. You may be very knowledgeable on the subject. AND I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU. I don't want to take medications either, and I realise the issues they can cause, and you are well within your right to educate him. But just give him the information and let him make his own mind up!!!!!! The issue I took is that you told him NOT to take medications. IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE TO TELL PEOPLE NOT TO TAKE THEM. You shouldn't do this. You don't know his circumstances. NEVER EVER EVER tell someone to take or not to take meds. This is not me forcing me view on you, you are forcing your view on him by telling him not to take meds. I'm not saying take meds or don't take meds THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE FUCKING DOING!!! As much as I may not want to go on meds myself, I know people who would be dead without them right now, so what you are saying is irresponsible. This is the final straw with you. I'm adding you to my ignore list, I can't be bothered to deal with your slimy personality anymore. You misrepresent what I say, you often don't focus on what the person is actually saying and just them themselves. You have the audacity to sit there and preach to me and others at times about their own bias and paradigms, yes you are so sure of yourself that you think you have the right to tell someone not to take medications. What you have said to him is irresponsible and reckless.

100% this. Life is life, choose an option, try it. If the end result is that you are satisfied, then that's all that matters.

How dare you sir.

People take MBTI way too seriously. Being a good musician has nothing to do with MBTI.

This is wreckless advice. Yeah I agree I'm skeptical of anti-depressants, but don't tell people not to take them. You are not a doctor, and you don't know that person. Anti-depressants do help some people. You should never advise anyone to take or not to take their medications. If you want to advise on the impact it could potentially have and just state facts, then fine, but you're not an expert or a professional. Telling someone to take or not to take medications is irresponsible. No one on here should be saying this. Give people the facts and let them decide for themselves. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't you the guy who gave his girlfriend a psychedelic and it harmed her mental health massively? @ShardMare - Take everyone's advice about medications on here with a pinch of salt. I personally don't ever want to take anti-depressants, but they can be useful in some situations if someone is really bad. Anti-depressants have saved lives, even if they are not a good long term solution, that's a fact. I'm not a fan, but some people have said it's helped them, so I wont argue with them. Read into the science, anecdotes and evidence, and then decide for yourself.

Why can't you just stop coming to the website? I didn't use the website in over a year for a while.

What do you consider his job title exactly? Since you think that being on a forum hours a day is his job.

The much better option would be to just stop giving a fuck. Go outside with your stomach showing, stop hiding it, convince your brain there's nothing wrong. That feeling is priceless.

You keep saying you're not engaging with me anymore, but every time you respond with a rant, and don't even address any of my points. You're also trying to out-ego me by saying you're just too far ahead of me lol. Are you serious? Grow up. You sound very unstable, which is what makes me think you are mentally ill even more. I wouldn't give a shit if you dismissed my traumatic experiences because I'd be resolving them on my own time and deal with it myself or with professionals who are trained. I'd be trying to practically resolve them, not seek validation from people online and getting triggered over everything. You keep saying you're not interesting in debating me, yet you keep responding. I keep on making arguments and you don't even bother responding to the points I'm making, you just get triggered over one part of them, and go on a rant. You'd see that I've made way more of an attempt to discuss this topic here than just insult you.

The Hulk 2003.

Depends how I'm gonna die really. Am I ill? Or just gonna drop dead suddenly in 24 hours? @Someone here

Can you post links to this shit because I cannot find it

Link to the tiktok?

What about instinctual fear of a grizzly bear running at you.

It depends what you mean by free will. If you mean the freedom to make decisions based on your own will rather than being slave to someone elses, then sure. But your will is not controlled by you. Your will determines your actions, and your will is not chosen by you. So there is no free will, at least not as a human. There is no free will in the sense that there is no choice for you. That's an illusion. The decision making process happens like any other natural process, on it's own, and you can watch this happen.

Wow you're actually discussing the topic for once, finally!!! And your points aren't too bad! I understand your point about so called psychotic people potentially being able to access levels of perception that most people are not, and It's a point I've considered at times. "How could we disprove it unless we're them experiencing it?". Maybe all those labelled psychotic as simply blessed with super powers or higher levels of awareness? The problem here is what we risk to try and find out. If you couldn't experience these spirits naturally, like you weren't "blessed", you may end up turning to psychedelic drugs for the answers, and risk ruining your mental health. Even if not drugs, who would you turn to for advice on what techniques to use to see so called spirits? Probably others who claim they've experienced them. People who could be mentally ill or malevolent. It's a big risk, and who's to say you'd interpret your experience in a healthy way if you have it? If I was to have a similar experience to OP, I'd be really cautious about labeling the experience or establishing any belief on it. But the fact would be either the experience would be pleasant or not, and if it would impact my ability to function, and what caused the experience. And the reality is many of the people who are labeled psychotic, who claim to have experiences of such things as spirits, often end up experiencing very distressful symptoms, which you could assume is merely the cost of the gifts you may believe they have, or it may simply be confirmation that all of these things that they are experiencing are a product of mental health issues, which seems to be the most likely explanation in this case, as OP is showing signs of being unstable and easily offended. "It could be a higher dimensional entity representing itself in etherial human form. The word ghost or spirit is being used here but I think he knows that those words are just placeholders and it could be interchangeable with anything else. He's not claiming that he understands this fully he's just genuinely communicating his experience". The term "higher dimensional entity" is about as useful as the term "spirit". The reality is neither you nor him have any idea what he's experiencing. You place more faith in the term higher dimensional entity, and seem to have confidence that such a thing exists but less faith in the term spirit. This is the whole reason my bullshit alarm arises when viewing this thread. You're all so quick to throw a term on to this, and I keep saying "it could be aliens, it could be a time traveler, or something beyond understanding so much that there's not even a word for it". You both try to imply that I'm close minded, but you're both far quicker to be certain of what to label what he's experiencing as if you fucking know!!! Spirit, higher dimensional being - These things could be WAY WAY off what this 'thing', if it even exists, actually is! The reality is, OP is claiming to have an experience, and if it's true, his belief about what it is could be massively different to the reality of it. I fail to see how all the people on this thread validating OP's experience, asking the OP to ask the spirit questions, are supposedly more open minded, for blindly accepting OP's explanation that he's experiencing a spirit. They could be very well validating the experience of a mentally ill person. You ask me to be open minded, but you need to be open minded to the possibility OP is mentally Ill also.