PartiallyCat

Being unable to post to r/neolib during the 2024 election has been the best gift I could've asked for. Given the outcome of said election I'd kindly like to request that you ban my account for the duration of the 119th U.S. Congress term. Many thanks and see you on the flip side!

I'm very lucky to have a handful of great friends whom I love dearly, and who dearly love me back. I'm often told I'm one of their favorite people. But they also have partners and best friends. Romantic relationships don't happen often for me and haven't lasted so far. I find falling in love with someone enough to genuinely want them around rarely happens, and when it does, it's usually unrequited. I've also never had a "best" friend.

And so I'm nobody's favorite person. And that's a special kind of loneliness that somehow feels invisible and yet very real and very painful.

After 7 years of avoiding of going to the dentist, I’ve finally had a conversation with a friend who told me: “I’ve never had a dental procedure hurt. They give you an anaesthetic. It’s painless.”

My past experiences have never been painless. I’ve had my teeth pulled, and root canals done and they’ve been the most agonizing pain I’ve ever felt. When I shared this with my dentists, they usually said something “yes, it’s supposed to hurt a little bit” or in worse cases “it’s all in your head, you can’t really feel anything”. My mouth would go numb only after I’ve left the doctor’s office. I always thought that was a side effect of having endured the procedure.

It’s only now that I’ve learned

Due to an extremely unfortunate series of unrelated events happening all at once, my past month has been extremely bad. My relationship has ended, and my social circle has disappeared and now I'm here all alone having a major life crisis with no friendly shoulder to cry on.

I'm extremely lonely, depressed and barely functioning. I realized I'm in dire need of professional help. I do have a psychiatrist, but I'm not seeing him for another month. While I'll certainly ask for his advice, I'd love some help from here as well, to start my search early.

I speak decent German, but would prefer to have my sessions in English as my Billa and office lingo skills don't exactly contain the vocabulary

The Doom ping has been purportedly introduced to facilitate discussions on the videogame series Doom. However, most of the time it's abused for discussion of the US election, in particular to point to outlier polls, or to unverified news sources, to exaggerate the likelihood of poor outcomes for Democrats, to make baseless claims about knowing the outcomes ahead of time, and other exclusively negative stories, opinions, and claims. In short, it's being abused for doomposting, which is a DT variant of doomscrolling / doomsurfing.

While using a ping for something else than its original