I would know since I am one. I even frequently visit r/offmychest just to scroll by new and try to understand the human condition.

That is the lie I tell myself. It's sick. I'm sick. Even still I go peek back at them and just get lost in the raw emotion of it. There's a pureness to it. It's the nature of the subreddit to just go mask off and just let out what's been troubling them. No one can experience everything, the scope of one's day-to-day life can never allow it. But going there gives such a voyeur-like view.

  • Self_Hating_Moid [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I love that sub because onr post will br "i kulled my wife in 1970" snf the other will be "i piss in thr shower"

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    A whole lot of my own writing was a way to process my emotions regarding the horrifying world that billionaire techbros deliberately want to make come true.

    As a former "futurology" optimist, I attended a lot of conferences and conventions in my local area, over time seeing billionaires literally buy them out and use them for advertising space while at the same time the military-industrial complex was openly glad-handing genuinely creepy and terrifying people announcing "good news" such as a no-rest no-sleep nightmare world that they saw as "optimal" for the rest of us. It baffled me that seemingly no one else around me seemed as put off about it all.

    For the most part, I started with a premise of "fine, the bazingas get clinical immortality, uncontested worldwide resource extraction enterprises without the slightest regulatory restrictions, a cybernetically shackled working class that is physically unable to oppose them anymore, and they even get their unsustainably stupid Martian colony vanity project, but then what?" and the story practically wrote itself from there.

    I then added mecha because of course I did. :shinji-screm:

  • serveranim [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Have you taken a BPD test? People with that condition really love feeling feelings, and it doesn't matter too much if they're good or bad feelings. Not saying you are, it's not BPD until it rises to the level of a problem.

  • GaveUp [love/loves]
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    1 year ago

    Haven't been for years but I could never tell how many posts on there are real anymore thanks to karma farming

    I like doing the same as you though but on r/drugs, r/ilovedph, r/dph, r/datura, r/salvia

    Far, far more intense than any confession, offmychest subreddit (for obvious reasons)

  • Poogona [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I find myself doing stuff like this too. But somehow I always feel gross and pull away from it after a few scrolls.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Same. I do the sympathy thing but I have my limits and just feel compassion fatigue after a while. :sadness: