hoe do you get over a paranoid, irrational fear of other people?

Grow up having good experiences

>>16564661
I don't even HAVE bad experiences. I don't know where it comes from.

there's nothing irrational about a fear of other people

other people are the enemy

depending on
1. what you look like
2. what you can do for them

boycott everything

>>16564689
But how do other people do it?

I know so many girls who HAVE boyfriends. How do they do that?

I couldn't imagine just calmly strolling right in the middle of a pride of lions and just putting a collar on one and taking it home and sleeping soundly and safely right next to it.

>>16564701
>men are dangerous predatory animals

Fuck you.

>>16564701

Doesn't the lion come after you first, anyways?

>>16564740
Not unless I go out of my place to go where they are.

Men are safe for as long as they don't want to fuck me and aren't in a situation where they feel like they're allowed to.

>>16564750

I think I recognize you from another thread you made on your skewed views of men and sexuality. Back then I also suggested that if you want to remain heterosexual, you should probably see a therapist to maybe work through your anxieties and try to (re-)gain a normal relation to men.

>>16564701
>But how do other people do it?
There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

>>16564767
But why would a therapist care? I'm not a ferret, a complete lack of sex or relationships isn't going to kill me.

>>16564655
What precisely are you afraid of?

That they will harm you physically? Choose clearly harmless people and stay in public places.

>>16564772
>a complete lack of sex or relationships isn't going to kill me.
coulda fooled me

>>16564772

>Why would a therapist care?

That's like asking why a plumber would care that your toilet isn't working.

>>16564777
I'm scared I'll get raped if I say no. And I'm going to say no, 364 times out of 365. Sex is an awful and intolerable chore and there is a long list of things I'd rather do.

I don't understand why I dread it so bad. I'd just rather get hit by a car than go through with it.

Men unthreatening enough do not exist. Imagine being afraid of horses, except if you could find one small enough to fit on the palm of your hand.

>>16564788
I AM working. I haven't killed myself, I haven't killed anyone else, I took a shower yesterday, ate today and showed up to school this morning. I am functional.

>>16564797
I dont consider this a functional reply to that person.

>>16564808
The mental health professionals around here do.

At 15-16 I was cutting myself recreationally and deliberately OD'd on my medication as a protest for not getting real antidepressants. Being a teenager and a stupid fuck, I didn't realise that taking an entire box of antipsychotics won't kill me. I was, however, judged by the outcome and not the intentions of my actions, and they deemed that I was safe.

I am not dead. Therefore, I am functional.

>>16564819
>doubling down this hard

the point of contention was professionals caring about solving their clients problems and your functionality as a member of this board regarding the pertinence of your replies, not of your real life.

cost analysis

that is how every solution is logically determined.

>>16564833
Can you repeat that in simple english? I can recognise the words you use individually but I can't understand them as sentences.