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Cake day: August 28th, 2023

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  • As an aside, when I talked to my therapist this week about the volunteering, she was surprised I went so far outside my comfort zone, and she was proud of me for taking the initiative to reach out to someone I don’t really know.

    She also says that I seem to be handling everything much better than some of the other people she talks to, and that’s 100% because I used my energy to help. Had we talked 2 weeks ago, it would have been a vastly different story.

    Guess I owe seahorse a fee for his impromptu therapy session over signal :D


  • This is good advice, it legit helped me.

    I was in pretty bad shape Wednesday morning, so I dm’d seahorse (knowing that he and I share similar interests such as guillotines). We talked a bit and he directed me to someone he knows in https://linktr.ee/servethepeopleakron

    I contacted them, signed up to volunteer, bought a bunch of packaged food at Costco, and went to the Sunday serve to hand it out with the group.

    I will say that doing this was far beyond my comfort zone so I was pretty nervous due to social anxiety, but once I got there and it started rolling, it was nothing to worry about. Took about an hour, we handed out a bunch of food and supplies to the needy, and that was that.

    Afterward I kind of felt like crying, but not necessarily in a bad way; it was good to use my pent up angst to help people instead of just seething, and I’m not used to that kind of emotional outlet. And the members of STP all share the same basic attitude I have so it was awesome meeting them.

    What I WANT to do is burn cop cars and throw bricks, but realistically I am 44 and have a wife and kids. I can’t exactly act like I did when I was in my 20s with no responsibilities; so I will volunteer with STP when I can, and when I can’t volunteer I will support them monetarily and via food donations.