I don’t wanna constantly make my issues everyone’s problem by posting in a main forum regularly but I do wanna talk to other people about em. And I also wanna help other people through their shit as well. So some direction where it wouldn’t be out of place to talk about such things would be nice. Thanks!

  • GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml
    11·
    9 hours ago

    In 1913, Freud wrote to Jung:

    It is a convention among us analysts that none of us need feel ashamed of his own neurosis.

    https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/ex/131.html

    For Freud, the difference between a “normal” person and a neurotic is not a difference in kind, but a difference in degree. He argued that the same conflicts exist in both; the question is merely whether those conflicts have become pathogenic (disease-causing) and how the person defends against them.

    • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
      5·
      9 hours ago

      for freud a neurotic is a “normal” person. the abnormal would be a psychotic or a perverse. he may phrase it a bit weirdly but you cannot not be one of those.

  • Duchess@piefed.linenoise.vipEnglish
    8·
    9 hours ago

    7cups.com has free lightly trained peer counseling. I audited a bunch of their courses to become a better listener and they are ok. I dunno how helpful it will be but it’s folks who want to listen to you 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    9 hours ago

    There are some specific communities, depending on what you’ve got going on. A quick search says there are a few bipolar communities, there are some autism communities, adhd, and I’m sure there are many others, all on Lemmy.

    Similarly, several have meme communities that at a minimum give the occasional feeling of “oh hey, it’s not just me” and sometimes that’s really nice.