Bad Faith
September 4, 2025 at 3:39:26 AM
Website:
badfaith.neocities.org
I'm so bad at these guestbook things, and I'm never usually jumping around pages on Nekoweb, but you seem really cool. You're talking about anxiety issues I also used to have at your age (holy [censored] im in my 30s now) and honestly still have some lingering struggles with. I wish I could say for sure either way on if meds will help, and if there's really a "one and done" cure out there. I just don't know. I know things got better but it's hard to hold onto hope sometimes. You have so many years left and so much of life can change in even just a week so there's that. I used to be late to work every day and call out every moment I could just because showing up (like, the idea of it) made me so anxious. It's been years now since I've been like that. I always think I'm doomed and can't start over and then somehow I do every time. I hope you get to experience this feeling of freedom and peace that I eventually got, and I hope you get to experience it soon. Also your site looks really cool and I love the buttons a lot. Anyway I know it's weird to get a message like this out of the blue! You don't have to respond, or respond at length. I'm just a yapper anyway lol. Even if it's not public, I do hope you stick to a journal of some sort also because journaling kinda rules! Okay bye for real, I'll take my longest guestbook comment award while I'm heading out the door!
Replied on: September 6, 2025 at 2:27:24 PM
thank you for your genuine message. imagining it getting better when i'm older is hard for me believe because i feel like things have always been this way for me, but surely, it's because i have such a depressed mindset? i feel so old but really i'm still in the first part of my life (probably influenced by the fact that i spend so much time by myself in my own thoughts), and i get proven wrong a lot even when i'm so sure about my own feelings, so i don't know. what i do know is that what i wrote in my entry really spooked me. i always knew i had issues with social anxiety, but i've never felt physically ill and weak because of it. i really felt (and still do) hopeless and ashamed, but, maybe the idea that i'll be like this forever is similar to my experiences before, and you're right and i'm wrong. after all, what you described feeling like when you were younger is very similar to how i feel now--like i'm doomed and can't do anything about it. and if you're better now, then maybe things will change for me too. it's a weird line i'm on right now, whether or not i should accept that this is how it'll be forever or push myself to change. i don't even know if i have the will power to do so. idk, but thank you again, your message has given me a bit to think about. i definitely will keep journaling.