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? asked in Social SciencePsychology · 1 decade ago

I'm addicted to depressing myself, please help me?

Okay, so I know how long questions don't get as many good answers as brief ones do, so I'll try to make this short.

Basically, I'm addicted to depressing myself. And it's been increasing rapidly recently (past 2 months)

The way I depress myself is that I'm CONSTANTLY thinking and constantly reading (on the internet) about controversial issues about culture, society, and humanity in general.

I'm constantly asking/answering/looking up questions that while I feel educate me, the make me more and more depressed and pessimistic.

Things like:

"When will black people stop acting ghetto?"

"Why are so many people brainwashed by the media?"

"Why does the media stereotype x group of people?"

"Why is America's youth so superficial/materialistic?"

Why, why, why... I'm constantly asking questions especially on here.. I'm always wondering more and more and more.. and the more I find out, and spend time thinking about this stuff, the more depressed, isolated, anti-social, self-conscious, over analytical, and PESSIMISTIC I become..

I miss the days where I wasn't always curious.. I would just hang out with friends AWAY from a computer and that would be that...

Does/has this happened to anyone else? How do I break the habit of IMMEDIATELY jumping on Yahoo Answers to ask a question that suddenly pops in my head (usually controversial issues regarding race, society, psychology, equality, culture, media, etc.?

Please, I need help

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I'm the same, I also have random questions pop into my head hundreds of times a day not all controversial but they all lead me to ponder the mysteries of the universe or human nature. The more I know, the more I want to know. Today I started thinking about humans throughout history have always tried to build bigger and bigger empires, and how this is still happening today. They use propaganda in the media to manipulate society into taking sides in this big game of chess we call life.It depressed me as I started to doubt everybodys motives and noticed all the greed in the world and how the working class are only fuelling the power of a small number of people higher up in the hierarchy of society. Anyway enough about that haha. what cheers me up is good films, music going out with my freinds and realising that most people just want to be liked and wen u show that you like them they like you back and it starts a wave of positivity. Oh, and excersise helps.On a separate note the black people who do happen to act ghetto,(not the majority) it just gives them a sense of identity so i just leave em to it. With others its because they are from the ghetto and thats the way they really are.)

  • 5 years ago

    Yes it does sound as even though yo are "addicted" to reducing your self. Addictions have a tendency to take first precedence in an addicts lifestyles. It is meddling along with your every day lifestyles and friendships. You quite must uncover out what it's that's inflicting you such a lot interior, emotional ache that the bodily ache of reducing relieves your signs briefly. Cutting, while it turns into a constant conduct, releases endorphins into your frame which make you consider well for a at the same time, very similar to an unlawful drug. The feeling does now not final lengthy, and later on you'll be excited to your subsequent (top). You must ge aid, up to you're resistant to inform an grownup, it's the proper factor to do. You would come to be getting a nasty contamination, unintentionally reduce too deeply and want scientific concentration, and you're marking up your possess frame. Those marks don't leave, they develop into hideous watching scars. Someone goes to uncover out, you can't disguise the ones marks eternally. Get aid now! The longer you toy with this dependancy, the extra it turns into ingrained into your lifestyles. There is high-quality admire for people who ask for aid once they quite want it. And you quite want it. You must be speakme with a therapist that may aid you to gain knowledge of and make use of larger coping advantage. Also to reap perception as to why you're being self damaging and reducing. Good Luck to you.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

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    Are you kidding? Not ALL black people "act ghetto", not ALL people are "brainwashed by the media", and not ALL of America's youth is "superficial/materialistic"

    You son of a gun!! You seriously have a problem, LABELING people!! Why don't you just delete your Y!A account?!!? Hmm.. that wasn't so hard to figure out, was it?!

    Nope, don't think so!

    Get a life, and stop trolling your stupid questions on this site!

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