u/Big_Leg10

This is honestly one of my biggest pet peeves in life. People who play music and watch videos loudly on MRTs and buses without headphones are especially frustrating, and the videos they watch are usually those with laughing sound effects on TikTok. I recently told a boomer to lower his volume while watching TikTok videos. Surprisingly, he lowered it and apologised. I think we should all just tell people in a polite way not to do it. Do you also think we should speak up and tell people directly?

I say, for myself, the root cause of my BPD is because of 50 percent genetics, and half of it is environment. Genetics wise, my mom and grandma have traits of BPD, and from what I heard, my grandma committed suicide, and my mom still, to this day, has untreated BPD. Growing up, she would split on me and my dad, cling to me one moment, then devalue me the next and she dosent work have no hobbies gets angry very easily and she threaten to kill herself every argument with my dad and was just full of rage and she have zero identity and she isolates herself and have no friends. Moving on to the environment, I was raised in a household where there was full neglect because of my mom with untreated bpd and also my father who enabled her saying that's just how she is. No emotions were allowed, and my father was an emotionally abusive and neglectful individual he would lash out his anger at me. He would often mock me for being sensitive and for expressing emotions. I remember he often teased me, jokingly, for being too sensitive. The true recovery was finally cutting contact with them and moving on to live on my own. I was wondering, what was the root cause of your BPD? Was it genetic, environment, or a mixture of both?

I’m 25 (2001) not even exaggerating when I say this. I was a completely different person back in 2019. I was so much more bubbly and excited and hopeful for the future, but ever since the pandemic, I turned into a completely different person. I’m no longer optimistic about the future, from late-stage capitalism, high cost of living, stagnant wages, world wars, to just how society is in general everyone is meaner in public theres no late night 24/7 things anymore the stores near my house pre covid used to have 7 to 8 stores that are open 24/7 and now many of them are gone and the remaining ones none of them are 24/7 anymore and also time feels so quickly now too and also festivals and celebrations dont hit the same anymore too even if its still the same people family friends like people you know even before the pandemic like something feels so off if it makes sense and also covid messed up my perception of time sometimes it scares me that im actually 25 and not 19 when the pandemic started and the entire trajectory of my early and mid 20s was ruined and currently as of writing this im already halfway through my 20s and less than 5 years till i hit 30 bizzare to think about it because of covid sometimes i look at the photos from pre covid and i actually can't believe im that same person in the photo from my current self. Regardless from which country or part of the world you come from not just the US does anyone here also feel the same, like you were a completely different person back before COVID, and your life would be better weren’t it for the pandemic?Sorry if I dont make sense

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