People who use ironic detachment on the daily and make self-deprecation "jokes" and are aware of these two things about themselves makes me feel so uneasy and sad. Please know you're too valuable to be using your own self as a punching bag.

I speak from personal experience. I used to be that way 5-ish years ago. You don't feel alive at all when you have that mentality, you just hate yourself too much to see the love around you and within you.

I feel like I've grown too much as a person to tolerate this type of mentality of "if I make people pity me, then I'll somehow seem cool and emotionally intelligent." That's not attractive at all.

I really do hope people like this see that therapy isn't something to be afraid of; in fact, it helps you approach these feelings and internalized emotions/learning patterns and teaches you how to loosen the knot on them.

You are valuable. You are special. You are important. You are not less than anybody just because you feel like you are.

I end this thread with a resource TXST friends (which is like 70% of you who follow me) can seek out for help. https://www.counseling.txstate.edu/