Well, how to put this...
🧘Mental/Physical Health 🏋🏼♂️
I'm struggling.
And to cope, I (ab)use substances, like alcohol, weed and other stuff.
I want to get out, but I'm not ready to accept Jesus as my saviour, because I... well... It's complicated.
I DO accept Jesus as what he is, and that he saves People, a lot.
But...
For the moment, I won't be able to respond to comments in this post, because I'm heading to bed, pretty wasted.
I don't know where this thread will take me, but here we go.
Please, I'd rather not be encouraged to put all my faith in Jesus etc.
I do believe in the Creator, though...
Btw, GAW community...
Thank you for being here the last couple of years.
Edit: Wow, thank you for all your support! I‘ll read all of it and will certainly get back to you all. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hey buddy
Most in this thread are focusing on the substance abuse for coping, but I think the main thing is you're struggling. This is a very hard and confusing time to be alive. Lots of mixed signals, the world is spinning out of control, the ship is pitching back and forth. I know the struggle, at least from here.
If there is one thing I can offer, it's detox your mind.
Beware your media diet and what you summon on the black mirror in your pocket. Sometimes you just need to log off for a few days and (soberly) reassess yourself. We can only take so much input input input from the world before fatigue and confusion sets in.
Unplug.
People find Jesus when they do this because when you turn off the funhouse Matrix of news, lols, porn, drugs, politics, disasters, memes, work, and other constant distractions... you rediscover your own soul. It's there all along but gets dizzy and drowned out by the daily spin of waking life.
Try to reconnect with your Source. From there, you can find safe harbor for the storm. We're all going through it together.
Hang on, Warrior of Virtue. We're in the shit now, and this is the time you were born for.
„Black Mirror in my pocket“ - this resonated very strongly with me.
Indeed, my mobile phone is a gateway for so much mind-poison…
Btw, just answering „randomly“ here and there to comments for the moment.
I‘ll follow up with a more thorough answer. It‘s much to digest atm, but in a good way, and I can feel how something stirred in me and my divine side/connection to God starting to wake up.
We forget that NONE of our forefathers had this tool in hand. It's completely unprecedented and requires a lot of personal discipline and self awareness to use it for good and not, as you say, self poisoning.