People ask for advice, but don’t take the advice.
I’ve given some of the greatest advice from a humanist approach, yet people don’t want to hear it. Truth be told, if you look at your life like it sucks, it’s going to suck. If you embrace the bad, and try looking at it as if there’s something beautiful to it, things get way easier. It’s basic psychology: mind over matter; fake it till you make it. This is all stuff I’ve learned from living with Bipolar I disorder for a decade now, and it’s brought me from a self-hating, suicidal drug addict to a sober, successful college student majoring in clinical psychology and English arts. I’ve been managing school with hallucinations, psychosis, severe depression, and extreme manic highs to the point of feeling intoxicated, and somehow I’ve been managing. I’m starting to feel like some people just want to feel bad for themselves.