u/SaltIncident4932

i am so tired of people acting like exercise is a permanent solution to chronic major depression and anxiety or really to any form or depression and anxiety since multiple types exist for both or um it’s like a way to manage bpd as well

Do I feel physically better after loosing some weight, at least walking every day, and hell even reducing my binge eating sugary things by having at least a bit more balance to my eating habits? Yea, I do. I know the research exists that working out releases like dopamine and stuff and that’s like a very simplified explanation of why mental health professionals recommend it so much . I understand that part now and why my therapist in college kept talking about it now.

Sure, I can agree with that. However, I am sick and tired of people on social media and irl like my damn brother for example acting like you can out-exercise your trauma? Like it’s a one size fits all permanent solution?

I am 21 and still actively mentally living with the burdens of my trauma that made me develop depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder in the first place since I was a child. I couldn’t even get an official diagnosis until college because I come from a fucked up Indian family that doesn’t believe in mental health.

I am just so tired like I’m sorry the second I have a job again and I can afford to resume therapy and meds again is the only time I will probably learn how to permanently help myself mentally

Like my dark thoughts are always in my brain I may just not think about it during my 30 mins of sunlight in the morning or my one hour walk in the evening but they creep back to the forefront rather quickly when I’m done with either of those activities

I’m on season 3 episode 20…and you folks were right. Taylor is growing on me

Also her mom is a bitch and should die idk

Sorry I can’t take Marissa seriously at all
with like this new form of rebelling she has going on with Volcheck, specifically acting like she’s some middle class girl with said rebellious boyfriend.

Like honey your mom was right about one thing, that trailer was gonna be temporary. It’s just amusing to me how Marissa wants to act like she didn’t grow up filthy rich because they had to TEMPORARILY live in a trailer. like your mom is Julie cooper who grew up broke she wasn’t gonna let her daughters grow up broke like she did. That’s the one thing I’ll applaud Julie for, trying to give her daughters financially a better life.

Like Marissa you grew up wearing shit like Chanel and riding horses since you were probably 5 why we suddenly acting all cool and edgy just because we started wearing darker clothes and painted our nails black

I also think this rebellion phase kind of ruins her even more in season 3. Like I’ve said before the writers did not know how to write Marissa past season 1. Like her story should have only remained in season 1.

And yes I’m aware it’s supposed to be symbolism for how lost she feels in season 3 and how she’s still grieving Johnny but it’s just sloppy writing to me so

Watching the OC, some moments made me realize why by 2026, TV show writers adopted a “woke” writing style or an “overly and exaggerated” woke style. Sometimes the writing is just so outdated in some scenes in OC it takes me out of the fictional world, lmao.

I guess the unspoken rule of watching old t.v shows is that your’e not supposed to talk about the outdated writing moments but sometimes idk im kinda glad we got “more woke” with writing.

Do shows sometimes go a weird way about it and just have characters be like social topic stereotypes (like how sometimes modern feminist characters have their whole dialogue just be reciting sexism related statistics, that’s what I mean by social topic stereotypes,)…yes.

But idk maybe it’s a good thing that the next generation will have “slightly woke” more level of writing in their teen drama shows.

Just a general discussion I wanted to have.

One example I could actually give from The OC is how they handled that story with Julie and Luke. I’m sorry, just because Luke was 18 doesn’t mean Julie wasn’t a weirdo and dare I say predator for doing that. He is the victim here.

I mean sometimes modern shows don’t handle sexual assault storylines that well either but the way they just write Luke as some “cougar-obsessed” boy “in love” with a grown woman just made me a little sick, I’m sorry. Not to be that woke friend myself, lol.

That’s what I mean by 2000 shows having very outdated writing sometimes.

Even by season 2 I could tell the writers had no idea what to do with Marissa and decided to just traumatize her over and over again

Like she goes from someone who wants college to someone who can’t fill out an application due to trauma flashbacks and it just…makes me sad

I like Marissa but I also can’t help but be slightly annoyed how much she undermines Ryan a lot especially after she goes to public school

Idk like your’e talking about Ryan’s brother…too another guy? Idk I’m a little confused I guess

Sorry but I found it a little redundant that they made jimmy go through finance issues and money borrowing again, the only difference is he doesn’t have his old job as a financial advisor. What’s the point of his return?

I say this as a non-white person (I’m Indian) but like Ryan, Kirsten, Sandy, Marissa, and Summer are really the only white people I can stand

This show has reconfirmed to me how weird white people especially rich white people are both irl and on screen

Edit: white people don’t face racism btw don’t be coming into my replies with that

Another edit: wow I did not know I offended the white community so much omg so sorry you guys definitely faced the same micro aggressions and racism I did growing up Indian in America

You barely know Kirsten and your’e going to manipulate her to stay?? The way she immediately stopped crying and wiped her her fake tears off the second Kirsten left and took a sip of alcohol…

I’ve realized I like Summer and Marissa because they actually have personalities outside of being rich

I do not like the others

Someone tell me if I’m gonna like Taylor throughout the rest of the show because first impressions I do not like her

Edit: she’s a bitch I hate her. Imagine being so pathetic you hunt down that Dean of safety or whatever his name is because you want to humiliate Marissa in front of everyone

Edit: yup sorry I’m gonna remain hating her after this I hate petty teenagers main reason I can barely stand old teen dramas I’m only continuing because the OC has some decent writing left still

Edit: I’m sorry she’s still so stuck up after Ryan is allowed back I can’t take this guys I’m even flipping her off every time she’s on my screen

I was willing to applaud Julie for being a protective mother…until she pulled the Ryan shot me blackmailing bullshit to Trey

I’m actually very surprised right now because I truly was fooled into thinking Trey would improve himself…and he ends up being an assaulter and a horrible person overall.

Ryan was always destined to be a Cohen and live in Newport he was just born to the wrong fucking pair of parents because the universe decided to make him live through shit before that

Honestly guys maybe being 21 is the reason why i just can’t take the very angsty teenager core part of this show seriously sometimes but like imo Summer should have supported Seth for his dreams like I don’t think your problem was him actually doing the graphic novel but with him

But also I’m sorry I’m almost done with season 2 and I still really don’t like Seth

Don’t spoil it in detail but can someone tell me which season this man becomes more likeable or tolerable at least

Like I said I know I’m only 21 and yea I was teenager only 3 years ago but I swear to god I feel way different of a person now than I was at 18, so I’m literally just rolling my eyes when Seth is…being Seth

I’m only still watching the show because the actual drama between not only the teenagers or young adults is good but also between the adults as well but other than that…

Oh I also am watching because Ryan is the least toxic main character ever compared to other shows I’ve seen so

My problem is when friends ask me what my specific type in men are I don’t know how to really tell them it would be genuinely someone similar to Elijah Mikaelson…without the homicidal darkness of the red door, of course, lol

Like his other qualities with his charm and personality is something I crave for

I don’t know how much of a hot take this is because I’m also very weary of people on Reddit attacking me so if this is a hot take, sorry…

But I think Eric managed to be the one character they didn’t fuck up…until towards the end.

By the end the writers really fucked up everyone. Idk if that’s common knowledge or not but yea

But I do think Eric managed to escape it until it eventually caught up to him as well

I’m not really sure how to word my posts anymore because people seem to have issues either way with me

I wanted to list two different opinions in the same post because I didn’t feel like making two separate posts because they are honestly short worded opinions:

My first opinion is I don’t understand Langdon glazers and santos glazers because both have plenty of flaws. And based off of what I’ve seen I don’t understand why some groups baby each individual?

My second opinion is that Langdon’s addiction recovery should have been about Langdon alone. I honestly did not understand the story choice of making it more about how Robby reacts to him coming back. I have not been in that situation before but I don’t think your recovery would be about another person?-

As someone who likes Santos and Langdon I do not understand just Langdon glazers but I also don’t understand just Santos glazers. I also don’t care if this was discussed before because I am not scrolling through this sub to look for old threads, I still wanna discuss it under my post

Anyway, I find Santos way more likeable in season 2. Because she’s not pushing at boundaries as much and sure she’s stressed about charting but overall she seems more grounded

Take season 1. Here’s my problem. Some of you wanna act like she wasn’t trying to push against boundaries, and wasn’t trying to act like she could do anything she wanted without checking with a senior resident. She didn’t even bother checking with Samira that one time she gave orders about a patient and did everything herself. I do think Langdon had a right to be mad about that.

Do I think that he should have berated her in later episodes over that female patient in the ice bath? No. He definitely over reacted-and we now know that he wasn’t acting like himself anyway due to the addiction. His real self is more like the man we see in season 2. But I do agree that he still should have not berated her like that in front of everyone, that was so toxic that we even see Robby in disbelief for how toxic it was.

But I truly can not stand some of you babying Santos. In all honesty, in season 2, I find Santos’s anger a bit childish. Btw I’m not saying she can’t be mad at him for berating her and making her feel insecure, but where I find her anger childish is that even she can’t see she was stepping out of line as an intern, and can’t even realize she’s not supposed to let her beef get in the way of her work.

She steps out of line as a R2 by having an attitude in front of the patient so bad that Garcia has to call her out on it. I still find her a bit more likeable and tolerable in season 2, but I also don’t like her character writing where she sees nothing wrong with acting that way in front of a patient. As patient is not supposed to see your personal beef. And I also don’t understand why some of you irl want to act like she did nothing wrong with behaving that way. That’s why I find her anger childish sometimes. Because she can’t keep her anger not showing and it does come across as whiny and childish.

And for Langdon glazers-that man still probably has a whole season of redeeming himself. What he did left a lasting impact emotionally. However, I don’t like the way they made his addiction recovery about Robby. His recovery is not about Robby, it should have been about him trying to start the baby steps in redeeming himself.

I went into that theater thinking people on twitter and here were joking when they said they felt emotional over Rocky…

Well. You guys were right.

I did not think I would have the urge to cry over a space being and his mate.

And my brother was next to me so I had to play it cool cause he’s not the type to really cry over movies

I stopped liking the villain of season 2. I don’t even remember her name, was it Maryann?

Idk her powers were cool for like an episode and the set up to her first presence is good too but like at some point I was just like can we wrap this up like stfu Maryann

I’m not expecting this to be a popular opinion. In all honesty I think True Blood had some mini cracks forming since season 2. It just didn’t get very bad until later. In the earlier seasons you can kind of ignore those cracks you know but later on you couldn’t.