Rayvin

Fucks sake, that's a grim stat...

You not been tempted to explore it with a professional?

True but maybe they'd be different once they actually start to see it?

This is a good point actually. I noticed even on strikes that people just race through the things as if they've got something to prove. It quite puts me off playing with randoms. I'm certainly not complaining that the raid is taking so long, but I do wonder a bit about some of the people involved. The clan leader, tbf to him, hasn't had a consistent team for it at any point - which means there's always a mix of newbies and experienced players - but they must have spent about 20 hours on this now

Exactly. We just need the rest of the world to look a lot more scary than the EU to turn the Brexiters around Donald Trump could save the nation.

The EU has said we can back out of Brexit at any time, and I genuinely believe they mean that. The Tories want to extend the deadline for leaving to 2021... I think there's a chance yet. 2021 gives us the full term of Donald Trump. We may well have had a nuclear war by that point, who knows what the lay of the land will be.

Perversely, we need Trump to do more of this. It could well be that he saves us from this whole charade by demonstrating that we can't rely on the US, and that the world is becoming a less open place.

Incidentally, they still haven't managed to complete the fucking thing Think this is week 3 now?

I agree. CT perhaps had the right of this earlier - people don't care unless it affects them.

Well put.

Sounds good, yeah. I didn't get to try it - my clan were back at the raid last night and I missed the chance to be involved so I went and played something else. I'll be pushing it more next week I think, quite busy for this one.

I don't know if it's a central problem or many smaller peripheral things, I'm just determined to stop holding myself back. I know who I can be, I'm just incapable of being it at the present time. Does anyone else ever feel like this?

At the end of the day she wants me to be happy. There's no lack of caring for each other, it's not like we have conventional relationship problems, the issue is very much me and the fact that I'm just not happy. It's not her fault, there's nothing I'd change about her, or our lives, it's 100% me. I may come out of this and realise that I've been thrashing around at the wrong things, it may have nothing to do with our relationship. I really don't know. It's incredibly confusing. EDIT - it's not centred on the relationship anyway, that's come under fire because of the general attitude of wanting to tear my life up and start over.

Aye but maybe Labour can use Trump as part of the justification for being in. We need something to come along that makes it very clear that we need to stay, and it can't be seen to come from any of the political parties - it needs to be external.

I saw one of them claiming that official club tallies for attendances (not the season ticket boosted publicised ones) for the past two homes games have been 17k and 15k respectively. I'm starting to think they're in serious trouble actually. You have to ask yourself mind, at what point will it stop being funny?

Thanks, and I'll definitely give it thought. I'm not content being an inferior version of the person I believe I could be, and am determined to address this. Thanks for all responses from everyone, in fact.

Paying to see one. I've gone down the NHS route before but I think they're more about combatting depression and such. Pragmatic but not what I need right now. Sounds like you're in the wars a bit as well mind. I've been mulling over when I would do something about this for some time - it's not cheap, and I have generally believed that I already knew what I needed to know about why I am the way I am - but my partner convinced me that each day I don't address it, is another day of potentially being more fulfilled that I've lost from my life. The logic held, and so here I am. The thing that is starting to confuse me though is that I'm now two sessions in, and no longer believe what I thought my issue was, is actually deep enough into my psyche to actually be the root cause. Whatever it turns out to be, I'll be aware of it already, I'm sure - I just won't have considered that this was the issue. Or it'll be some weird combination of things. It's pretty unsettling anyway.

Possibly true. I gather the psychologist is supposed to help you work on improving your learned behaviours and stuff but honestly I'm looking for practical results here. I'm sure it won't come as a surprise to anyone here that I have an aversion to confrontation and even letting people down. It has started to become clear that this may be why I'm still in the job I'm in, and possibly still with my partner. The more I try to be honest with myself about everything, the more most of my life unravels. It's been a harrowing few days tbh. But I'm convinced that this is a problem and that I'm going to lead a frustrated life otherwise.

Now that this thread has become a Wolfy free zone, I just want to bump it to throw something out there. Has anyone ever spoken to a psychologist? I've just started seeing one and am a bit uncertain about the whole thing. I feel like I have a good handle on which issues hold me back and what I need to address, I just lack the emotional fortitude and I guess courage to tackle them. Are they likely to get me to a point where I can confront these things? Has anyone had any successful experiences? As a curious side effect of starting this process, I now feel like I want to throw my entire life in the bin and start over. Is this normal?

I googled it

Heh, it's the primary reason I wanted us to stay. I'm a big supporter of the United States of Europe in principle.

RIP.

That's probably the most fucked up TWSS I've seen

I agree. Have considered the alien invasion angle before as well. You'd think Climate Change would be sufficient but I guess it's not dramatic enough!

They have to understand that's where it'll end up though. And the more freedom of movement occurs, the more cultures and people are blended, the more likely it is that this will happen unopposed, IMO. EDIT - having said that, it needs to be done successfully, and slowly, and without Rupert Murdoch.