[ SECRET POST #4779 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4779 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Give up? No.
Cut back a little? Maybe.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah they'll just tell you to limit it to x number of hours a day.

There, we saved you $200 a session.

[tabaqui]

I think no therapist worth their salt would tell you to give it up. It helps you, it fulfills you, it makes you happy.

I think they might encourage you to find 'real life' (non computer life) things that give you that same feeling, but yeah....no giving up.

[(Anonymous)]

I was once in a similar place, and no I didn't have to give it up. I still love fandom, it's still my happy place. My therapist just helped me improve the rest of my life so I had less of a need for a happy place. Because putting all your happiness on one aspect of your life is asking for trouble. If your life revolves around the next season of your show or the next movie in the franchise, what if it sucks? And it will eventually. Or what if fandom gets quiet or obnoxious. Basically, you need lots of different things in life to make you happy, and preferably stuff you have some control over.

[chamonix]

This is an excellent reply.

[(Anonymous)]

I relate to this a bit too much. For the last year, especially, I've just been doing pretty badly. Just not doing a lot of stuff I should do, and not going out much, and spending all my time online, mostly in fandom, doing basically nothing.

I don't feel able to pull myself out of it. I'm not worried about a therapist telling me to give up fandom, but I can't afford therapy, and the hoops I'd have to jump through to access vaguely affordable therapy are way too exhausting to contemplate - hell, just the thought of having to commit to therapy appointments is exhausting.

If I felt remotely able to do all the shit I'd need to do to pursue therapy, I'd already need therapy a lot less.

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve been in a place where my only joy was fandom, but luckily I’m not that bad off anymore. I’m sorry you’re having a bad time. But your last sentence is still true—if I had the time and energy and stability to make appointments and actually go, that’d be at least half my issues dealt with before I ever set foot in an office.