Can you guys recommend a book which helps with processing emotions, and being more in touch with your emotions and with the outside world as a man generally speaking?I think years of self-isolation, misery, a soulless data job and other things have really fucked up my ability to appreciate the beauty of life, and more worrying to feel love. It fucked up my one and only relationship, and realistically whatever issue I have has fucked up my life for many years. I feel like I'm becoming a robot and it terrifies me.
>>25236972not really. go to therapy.but along with therapy, i recommend The Mind Illuminated. it says meditation and a little bit buddhism or whatever, but it's really about introspection.
>>25236972The Courage to be Disliked
>>25236972Don't do it. Feeling emotions sucks.
>>25236981Thank you.I've considered therapy, but it's expensive and I hate being vulnerable around people, especially if I'm paying them to listen to my bullshit. Also I'm an older anon so it feels pathetic to have these issues at my age.
>>25236985How is this relevant? Genuine question.I'll admit I have a terminal case people pleaser, but I'm gradually overcoming this.>>25236986I'm getting older Anon, and I can't ignore the feeling that what I truly desire in life, and what will make life worthwhile for me, is to feel love and have enough of what it takes to feel loved in return without sabotaging it. Emotion has to play a part in that.
>>25236988the only valid thing you've said is that it's expensive.i relished in dumping the details of my chud life on the therapist and watching the joy gradually drain out of her. but also don't underestimate them, they can work out issues that you would never see through by yourself.
>>25236994Okay, I'll consider it although I don't know where to start.Can I ask what techniques she suggested for you and whether they worked?I feel so fucked up, although meeting me you'd probably think I had everything under control.
>>25236997i went thinking i had ADHD or something of the sort, she told me it sounds more like i'm chronically depressed and i should think about my past and what made me this way. she was right, my childhood fucking sucked, it makes perfect sense that i'm like this, and more importantly, why i'm occasionally able to perform in situations where someone with any of the problems i thought i had wouldn't.
>>25236972>Thinly veiled blogpostFalse and homosexual
>>25236972>and other things have really fucked up my ability to appreciate the beauty of life, and more worrying to feel love>beauty of life, and more worrying to feel love>of life, and more worryingyou need a book that helps you with comma usage, retard
>>25237000>perform in situationsLike what?>>25237003I'm not blogposting, or not trying to at least. But I'm an anon with a story behind my request, so I posted some of it for context.
>>25237021>Like what?hard to explain exactly, but in general my ability to do things depends more on how much i actually want to do them than for someone with ADHD for example.but like, you don't need all these details, just go to the fucking therapy man. this is turning into a discord chat isn't it?
>>25236972>Can you guys recommend a book which helps with processing emotions, and being more in touch with your emotions and with the outside world as a man generally speaking?No quit being a little bitch you queer
>>25236991Same anon but gonna be 44 in June. Trust me, you don't. Never married, no kids, pointless life.
>>25237028I don't what? How come your life feels pointless?
>>25237036I dunno, the world seems to going in the opposite direction of where I want it to go and I just don't see much of a point anymore.
>>25237040I feel the same about the lack of a point, but I'm still (delusionally probably at this point) hoping it works out in the end. I imagine this feeling will give way to despair in the next few years. Wishing you well, brother.
>>25236972The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
>>25237180Thanks
>>25237000Is your therapist retarded and doesn't know that ADHD is linked to depression because it's a dopamine disorder where your brain doesn't give you the normal reward signal for doing shitYou can fix it either by leaving the online loosh farm and getting proper sleep or getting prescribed ADHD stimulants or taking tyrosine
>>25237328That never worked for me, but thanks for the advice, quack.
>>25236981Therapy is for goys who can't do introspection.
