NEET and robot /recovery/ thread

Two years of neetdom caused it to get worse tenfold

I made a discord for us all https://discord.gg/4aJqcEE

Heading out now but maybe we can make something out of it

>>35000822
I've started to try to force social interaction again. I had previously given up and gone with the "well, if they don't want to call or message me then I'm not going to message them anymore" strategy and it has basically lead to me being a shut-in who never goes anywhere or does anything.

So now I have been sitting on facebook trying to chat with the people on my friends list who pop up from time to time who have moved away or I haven't seen in a while. I have been doing this a month and I have had two offers to go out socially in the time doing it. And I am being asked to attend an event next month.

>>35001533
I have a feeling that I've become too detached from the real world to be relateable to normies at this point. I've done nothing with my life that I could talk about so all we do is just talk about them. Good luck, anon.

>>35001615
Get over yourself. Your situation is not unique and there are others like you out there to socialize with.

>>35001629
>there are others like you out there to socialize with
You're missing the point. Of course there are many like this, but when they're all people I meet from this board. Is part of NEET recovery not making yourself part of the real world again?

bumperino
origamo

>>35000822
i've been neet for 5 years with depression, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, bdd and psychosis
i was trying to get a job 200 times but failed
nobody's there to help me
nobody even care

i just want to disappear desu
i hate being around people and i hate when people notice me

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>tfw lately having the urge to leave my home to go hitchhike across the country

What is this feel? Wanderlust?

>>35001995

Wanderlust is a word for it, but I think it's just part of growing up. Eventually, most people realize that they're their own person, and they have to go do things themselves.

I started getting that same feeling around 22. I'm not much of a hiker, but a strong desire for independence, even if acted in a dramatic way, is natural.

>>35001471
slow time of the day but stick around

>>35000822

How do I increase my chances to get a job if I've only had one job?

That shit was over two years ago, btw. :(

>>35002184
Lie about it.

>>35002184
Just try your luck, honestly

Today me and my mother moved to a new appointment and she had a boy my age from her job come to help us. It was very awkward and I ended up just making lame jokes the entire time, but he seemed to like them. It may have bolstered my faith a bit

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who else /lostcause/ here?

>>35002465
no such thing until you prove it to me, anon

I have an interview at this pizza place in the mall this Tuesday. Have any of you guys worked in a mall? What's it like? A-atleast I'll be able to have the food court and play in the arcade on lunch.

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My addiction to drinking myself stupid every single night is keeping me from being a normie. I haven't been out in several years that wasn't just to the store or to work. And every night I knock back a bottle until I'm completely numb. I want to stop and sometimes do for a day or two and start to feel better ohysically but I never stick to it.

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2 years ago
>Skinnyfat, extremely self-conscious NEET in mom's house. Debating an hero daily; addicted to porn, bad sleep schedule.

Yesterday
>had another day off work; lifted, hung out w/ friends in apt, and met w/ gf @ a show near her school. Pretended to beat her up during one song; college sjws glared angrily at me when she laughed and kissed me

>>35002865
You are this thread's inspiration. Tell us more about your recovery.

Lads, I want to be a neet.

But one with enough money for a comfy environment, food, vidya, PC, and booze.

Monday mornings would be the best. Get up, have coffee's, shit post, east, and then hit the beer about midday and play counter strike

Would be comfy desu

>>35002959
It's nowhere near as luxurious as you think. You get so comfy that it starts to feel normal and you start getting real bored and feel like shit. There really is such thing as having too much free time.

>>35003051
But that's where the alchahol comes in. Drink when it gets that way to give everything that added edge. Everything becomes more interesting when drunk

>>35002864
one step at a time, anon
og

>>35002309
>get the job
>get asked about it later
>something doesn't check out
>fuck

>>35001691
The real world isn't just normies. There are many robots in disguise among society. Go and find them.

>NEET for years
>My sister kinda used to sexually dominate me
>starting to think my mother was overbearing and didn't let me be free enough to be independant

I honestly have no hope anymore

>>35003728
>be in a class full of chads and autists
>no cyborgs or anyone inbetween
>too much of a beta to speak to the chads
>try to speak to an autist
>he keeps one word responding and gave no eye contact at all
>talk to another autist
>he can't keep the conversation going
>also no eye contact
>talk to a semi-normie
>it's mostly me asking about him because I don't do anything interesting with my life
>tfw the normies second best, after cyborgs

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>>35000822
It came down to two choices:
1) Join a well-known/popular fraternity with a mansion full of turbo normies and chads because I'd be a legacy there (grandpa was an alum before he died)
2) Join a smaller fraternity with a relatively smaller house full of people I feel comfortable around that's currently rebuilding after almost all of their members were kicked out by nationals a few years back

I took the latter option. I really wanted to go with the first one, but I knew I wouldn't be happy in the long run because I wouldn't fit in with ultra normies and chads, would lack the sense of brotherhood that's supposed to come with being Greek, and overall just wouldn't be comfortable due to not feeling that welcome, even though being able to wear their letters and say I'm part of them would be a confidence booster. Sure, the parties at the fraternity I went with may not be that great, but I feel a sense of belonging with the guys here, and that's what matters in the end.

>>35003755
what's stopping you now?
og

>>35003880
Because I have no clue how to interact with people, don't have a job, don't have friends, don't have qualifications, don't have normie morality. Instead I have 4chan morality.

I'm so fucked up

>>35003957
I'm literally in the same situation as you right now. A year and a half of NEETdom caused me to completely lose touch with reality, even if I was able to pass as a normie before. tfw 4chan is the only social media I browse.

We only need wear a mask to endure college and work, this is quite easy when you do few simple things: take care of your body hitting the gym or just run, do push ups, pull ups and abs thrice a week, have a good hygiene and try know at least one thing that normalfags, chads and stacies enjoy only to have something in common with then. I don't like chads and stacies, I really hate then and love when they die and are in despair, but I need work with then because this is how life is.

>be NEET for 18 months after graduating uni
>last 6 months have terrible depression over being unemployed

>get (good) job two weeks ago in field
>now want to be NEET again

grass is always greener

>>35004150
which was was less sad

>>35004313
definitely working

I have a little bit of anxiety at the moment and am often bored at work, but when I was unemployed I had full blown depression. There is no comparison.

The money is irrelevant. I don't even spend it, just invest it in shares. It's more just the social status of having a good job with good prospects.

The only person I have ever idolised is my grandfather. He is the strongest and toughest person I have ever met. He took me out to dinner when I told him I got the job and said that he had been praying for me to get a job and was so happy for me. That was one of the happiest days of my life. For that alone I'd never go back to being a NEET.

>>35004354
>The only person I have ever idolised is my grandfather. He is the strongest and toughest person I have ever met. He took me out to dinner when I told him I got the job and said that he had been praying for me to get a job and was so happy for me. That was one of the happiest days of my life. For that alone I'd never go back to being a NEET.

right in the feels, im with you on the money though - I just invest it to, at least oyu might be able to retire early one day anon - it's not just all for nothing

>>35004378
>I just invest it to, at least oyu might be able to retire early one day anon
thats the idea. One of my primary motivations for working is the idea that one day I can be a self-sufficient NEET

That I think would be the ideal lifestyle

Who /severe depression and avoidant but still able to blend in with normies/?

>>35001471
it's getting active now, get in here!

>>35004480
I can when I don't look like shit from the depression

I have really bad anxiety and agoraphobia. Today I am going to start something called the linden method. I have had it for years but always put off doing it. Basically it is about giving your life structure, planning out your days and filling them with creative things to do. The idea is these creative things will engage your mind and distract you from your anxious thinking patterns and restore your brain to normal fear levels. Then once my anxiety is gone I can lead a normal life and try all the things I want to try. Wish me luck and I hope you guys find out what works for you.

>used to be socially awkward in high school, but had a few nerd friends
>been /fit for three years
>highschool ends, completely isolated in university
>drop out
>stop being /fit/
>neet for three years
>best friend gets involved with drugs, I get dragged in
>decide I have a problem, have to cut him off
>can't relate to other two friends anymore, just awkward silences
>get back into uni, seemingly perfect course full of other autists
>nose and face looks bad
>people avoid me
>being full blown socially retarded and visually repelling, no one to even small talk with
>drink myself numb every weekend, mild cold sweats every monday
>started semi frequently drinking in the middle of the week
>probably wont even get a job if I graduate

How much of this do I have to deal with before I build up courage to lay down infront of a train?

>>35005446
This is me pretty soon

TRY A BIT HARDER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYzMYcUty6s

Any strategies for devloping some form of routine?

What advice would you give to a NEET wants to start leaving the house? How should I spend this time?

>>35004354
Pretty inspiring to hear when it goes right for other robots, glad you were able to salvage things

>>35001471
Can confirm this discord is comfy

Who no /sleep/ schedule

>>35006581
I started by going grocery shopping regularly instead of ordering, then going to the driving range, then eating at diner bar areas and talking to patrons.
If passing as normie is important to you, you can (probably, apologies if you're too severe for my advice to be applicable) do it no matter how hard it seems, baby steps.

Make /recovery/ great again