Honestly mfm, based on your posts about friends and relationships in this thread, you need professional help as well.
So I’m told. I don’t trust them though; they’ll probably just try to medicate me. Which I don’t need.
I hate to say it because I genuinely like you, but your advice and your perception and solutions to your own problems kinda stink in many cases. I hate to be rude, but you really seem to put yourself into a self-inflicted prison where you’ve hung the key up easily within reach, but refuse to grab it. Your advice often is of the sort that will also imprison others as well.
I feel that your thinking is based on very quick decisions and assumptions. “I know lots of Mormons and they’re all this way.” “Making friends is not worth it so I isolate, and now I’m depressed because I’m lonely.” “I don’t want to seek help because they’ll just force me to do something I don’t want to do.” Well, it sounds like you know the answer, and the answer is that there is no good answer. I’ve seen it in the politics thread too, and this is coming from a fellow conservative. You draw conclusions based on too little information and are inflexible in your thinking from then on. It hurts you, and I’m afraid your advice might hurt others as well.