
Enfant terrible
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This is an issue I share with you but i didnt have shitty parents. I can accept my past . I dont care that much about it anymore but it impacts me in negative ways to this day.@Enfant terrible
youre right in the sense that you accurately assess my personal situation and problems tbh. But I think my overall statements of life in general are also true.
The reason why I am stuck obsessing over my looks is because effectively I am stuck in the past.
In the past when I was ugly, my looks were one of the biggest factors destroying my life quality, social interaction, etc. There was nothing I could've done to prevent this as it was for a big part caused by my failed parents.
I can not accept having had a shit childhood and am basically living in the present, trying to relive some of the experiences I missed out on in my childhood. Always living in the past. Which has brought me nothing but more pain and suffering in the present.
I remember when I was socialmaxxing before covid after looksmaxxing, I was getting some decent interactions, and it would just remind me of my failed past and never having had any of it and it would make me fucking sad and angry.
How can a human live like this? Even when he is winning in life, probably made a post about it on this forum, but I brutally mogged a guy in a wrestling competition and god mad respect from people around me. Girl was giving IoI, guys were being chill asf with me etc. I felt fucking shit afterwards. Lol, unwinnable life.
Time to accept the past and move on trying to be successful in the future. Dont let your bad memories ruin your positive expierences. All that can be said about this in my opinion.Looksmaxxing is part of trying to change the fact I was ugly in my childhood. No looksmaxxing will unfortunately change how I looked like in the past, its a failed strategy.
Its not set in stone. You can take control and can decide.It is true that having bad looks causes mental pain and anguish, and especially in your childhood this can have disastreous consequences for how your personality and life-view develops. But (unfortunately) having good experiences now coming from my improved looks, have had minimal influence on my life-view and personality. Abused dog personality they call it here I guess.
You can work against that. I know its very difficult but its possible. I achieved tremedous sucess over the past few years. Of course with set backs here and there but overall it got better.
TrueMental-maxxing truly is the single most important thing in my life rn and I guess of more people here. And I can't say I haven't tried. I have had therapy before, several times. I have tried meditation and even shit like spending 30 minutes a day writing positive stuff about yourself and what you've recently accomplished. Positive self-talk in my mind and out loud. Group therapy. SSRI's. And more.
It's fucking hard.
I understand that but i dont think obsessing over looks is a healthy way to cope.I've had yearlong breaks from the website too, socialmaxxing hard, trying new hobbies, etc. Getting over a shit childhood might be the hardest thing a person ever achieves. If my life went slightly different, I could've easily seen myself going even harder in STEM than I was already and becoming a workaholic as way to cope with my childhood. Or moneymaxxing as a way to cope.
Or I guess as I am doing now, obsessing over looks as a way to cope.
But it's not unreasonable that people try to cope, because this fucking shit in your brain is like a tumor.
I dunno how women view your appearance. I think you are above average. But atleast it seems good enough for some to get into a ltr with you.Blackpill is right but knowing about it doesnt change reality, therefore shouldnt alter your life-view, merely change the priorities of things you focus on and reconsider where certain failures/deficiencies in your life might come from.