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News Post: I am Retiring.

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 No.703[Reply]

I have been training my body in preparation for the upcoming war, but taking into account the fact that there is drone warfare now, cyber warfare, psychological warfare, spiritual warfare, chemical warfare and biological warfare, i have found my feeble efforts to train my body a little bit lacking, yet i'm slowly getting used to every single one of these attacks, i'm now continuing to push on my current objective, all the while embracing my former self for allowing myself to waste so much time, also, it seems the rift between me and women is getting bigger as well.

 No.705

How have you been training anon? To me these new types of warfare make physical training seem worthless to protect myself with, I'm interested in how you've built resistance.

 No.706

>>703
Are you Ukranian or Iranian? Otherwise I don't think you're going to war anytime soon.

 No.707

>>706
I am neither of those



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 No.395[Reply]

Who else is in this situation? Or maybe you used to be, but you got out? I'd really like your story if you did. This is the recovery board so let's help each other and formulate escape plans. If you like you can use this thread to share lessons/tutorials our parents didn't teach us too.

I know what I should do, I should get on a train and disappear into the world. But I don't have the cruelty to do that to them and I'll never muster it just by sitting here thinking.

Let's you and me learn what it's like to ride a train alone.
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 No.429

>>396
You're right, this happened to me, my mother raised me to dependant and ineffectual, it's a terriblee thing to do to a child.

 No.498


 No.670

>>413

I wonder if you got away from your family…

 No.692

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late but i feel this too anon. i was online schooled as well and my parents refused to take me anywhere for socialization so i pretty much was forced to waste my teenage years and the latter half of my childhood on the internet (who knew being almost forcibly exposed 24/7 as someones only means of socializing to the internet could cause persecutory delusions and trouble with reality perception in a child). i'm turning 19 in a few months but i don't know if i can get out, i don't even have my id and am too scared to cross the street (i never go out anyway, too scared to at all). the thought of disappointing my family or making my parents mad by leaving/thinking about leaving scares me as well and i don't know how they'll hold up if i ever move out because we're living in squalor right now, they're both depressed and asocial and never want to do anything, basically hikkineets themselves. my aunt has plans to help me soon though so i have that going for me. i'd like to believe we will make it, you just have to press through even if it is hard and seems like there'll never be an end

 No.697

nooo you're so sexy please don't kill yourself



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 No.117[Reply]

Did anyone else escape NEET life and now just finds it even more lonely and isolating? I honestly haven't posted here or on any other chans in years. After nearly decade of being a NEET from 16 to 24, I did manage to get my life together. I have a job and am in a good university working towards my PHD, I'm what people would consider a "success" in that regards but its just lonely.

I can't relate to normal people, they don't have the same shared experience of growing up a NEET and being fucked in the head for so long. I can't make any connection with these people that has any meaning beyond the superficial. Meanwhile internet culture has completely left me behind and is weird and foreign to me, and honestly not interested in getting involved in most of whatever people are angry about.

I miss those days of feeling connected to others through the screen. At least I had others who understood back then.
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 No.682

>>584
reading this is like watching all of my suppressed inner thoughts ripping out of my brain and forming its own conscious body and then making its own post as its wants to without being held back by me who is ever passive

 No.684

>>584
I could have written this, except I don't have friends anymore.

 No.685

>>117
I see this was posted 5 years ago. I felt like this since around that time. The culture has been changing so much, and for the worst. It's been what, 5, 8 years since I last felt comfy on an imageboard? Maybe I just got too old for this.
Now with a job, I also lost the few "friends" I had due to schedule incompatibility, being tired all the time and growing into different people. Connecting with the normalfags that I'm forced to interact with on a daily basis is just impossible. I'm more isolated than ever before.

I have no idea what to do with the money I earn. I don't need a new car, I don't need new clothes, I barely need to buy anything. I'm living with my parents because buying a home, even paying a room is just impossible in this country, and honestly I see no reason to do so. I have my corner in here and don't bother anyone nor do they bother me. I don't care about women and forming a family of my own. All of this is confusing and threatening to the normalfag brain. They just want to punish me for being a weirdo yet "having it better than them". I'm threatened if I interact with them but also if I avoid them and they decide to come nearby. If I'm already mentally ill why make me feel even worse? If they have friends and families while I don't, how am I doing better? Do they regret it and hate that I didn't follow their path?

>>370
>being super passionate about something normies don't get or understand is like crack for normies.
Around here having different interests and understanding things others don't is just going to get you ostracised. It's deemed as "trying to be better than us".

 No.687

nothing has changed. i still feel bitterness in every part of my life. i have nowhere to go on the internet. i've never made a single friend in my life, aside from my "colleagues" who seem to like me, but never enough to talk with for an extended period of time. anyway, i've taken up drinking. it helps.

 No.689

>>584
I feel like I wrote this, although I quite honestly don't remember if I did or not. In either case, I don't feel much different if any different at all. I don't really have anything of substance to add. I just don't have anyone or anywhere else to put this.



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 No.675[Reply]

I think it's deeply ironic that the kind of person who overanalyses things and is less likely to take SSRIs because of reported inefficacy and withdrawal symptoms is the exact kind of person who should be taking SSRIs

They are very effective in people with ruminating anxiety and neurotic fixations, not people with anhedonia from losing their job or partner or whatever. The success rate vs. placebo is like 20% in this population compared to like 3% for everyone else, what works for the majority is something that stimulates glutamate receptors a la ketamine

The reason they're the first line treatment for everyone is because rich people are neurotic and they were most likely to get them when they came out


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 No.668[Reply]


Why does everyone want a job and social life in the city you live? Is your home not a trap for the greater world or a greater prison??
I enjoy aspects of the city but as someone who has had many jobs, relationships, and social groups, successfully and then bored of them, or sabotaged for some sense of freedom that I time and time again find blocked in…. I want to be free of the very world I logically hide from in the only domain of autonomy available to me…

Are YOU seeking respite from a world you know is hostile to you, or are you just learning what it is to live?? I know many here are reentering the world rather than just starting but I am curious about this….


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 No.662[Reply]

happy new year /rec/, ive been a depressed neet for almost a year and its finally caught up with me. not only am i out of savings but my dad lost his job so now i have to cut my bed rotting time short and "lock in". im looking for advice on how to do interviews and pretty much how to conduct myself like a human being. tips on how to get over phone anxiety would be greatly appriciated as well considering im likely working as a receptionist

 No.663

im so sorry about your situation. I dont know how to advise you about your depression and actual situation, but I can advise you about your phone usage. An app that really helped me to get trough my phone addiction is "Digital Detox" Its available on google play. Basically all it does it blocks your phone for a determined hour of time, so you can try to focus in other things. The app offers you some emergency buttons while blocked in case of an emergency (like calling someone or something) If you want to give up and unlock the phone before the determined amount of time, you will have to pay two dollars, or even more if you change the amount in the settings. Hope this helps, wish you the best.



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 No.642[Reply]

>you're the only one here
it's 2024 already

 No.643

no you're not

 No.644

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Boo.

 No.645

I'm an ex-NEET but I use the other board because there's more to talk about



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 No.634[Reply]

and if I do there's nightmares, and i try blocking them out..but it's also making it hard to find work. I have lost interest in a lot of things in life lately too.

Never went to college; always wanted to go for animation or illustration.
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>>636
Made in Abyss is one of my favorite series, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. Best of luck with everything dog.

 No.638

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Made in Abyss is one of my favorite series, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. Best of luck with everything dog.

> It was one of the most tragically gorgeous things I've ever seen…even when I get deeply depressed I know it could always be worse…I think it's just recovering from the past few years; not to get too personal on here but I was hospitalized and immobile for a good part of last year and early this year and living in an abandoned house with a few friends..we all made it on to another place and everyone I know from that time is doing relatively okay. The world at large is just a lot of suffering…daily I see my friends and strangers going through it as Im sure you've experienced yourself. We can't give up, can we? or we SHOULDN'T i'll say…

 No.639

>>634
>>638
interesting thread and pardon my autism but can you please be mindful of the way you use arrows for any anon passing by's sake? and you're doing it backwards too
>arrows like this >>>
are normally just for quoting other people, this thread's been hard to follow the conversation in because you're switching the perspectives like crazy
also you don't have to include your email in the email field, just letting you know as well. good luck in your travels and lack of!

 No.640

yeah i dont care about grammar im sorry its bugging you but if its confusing you idk, scroll elsewhere? im talking about how i nearly died and was hospitalized my spelling / punctuation / perspective is fragmented have a nice day

 No.641

>>638
I'm interested in hearing more about your stay in the abandoned building. I have been close to entering that kind of life to escape a bad family. Any survival tips would be good. Also you should read / watch the anime of shoujo shuumatsu ryokou if you haven't.

>>640
Almost everyone here has a tragic story. Anon was politely trying to help you intergrate into board culture. If there's some reason you can't format things properly that's fine, but don't be rude about it.



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 No.625[Reply]

i am an ex-hikki. i am still unemployed but i am looking for a job. i have recovered immensely after years of reclusion. now i finally go out often, socialize, i even go to parties.
but in this whole time i still very rarely was able to leave the house by myself. i always need someone of trust with me. i don't even go to the supermarket. i don't go to the bakery in front of my house if i'm alone.

but despite getting better, i'm falling back into hikkikomori lately. now i refuse to go out even if there's someone with me. even if i use uber. even though i have means of self defense. i won't even stand on the gate. i can't. i don't leave the house and barely leave my room. psychosis is coming back.

how do i actually recover? i feel like i was just forcing myself and pretending to be better and that has backfired now. this has started ten years ago, and i'm young. ten years is a considerable portion of my lifetime

 No.626

Its difficult, but you can get used to going to the super duper mart and bakery by yourself. You just have to push yourself and have some sanity maintainance tactics. Its like taking a bath, you test the waters first and slowly get used to it through gradual exposure. Actually, going to the super duper mart is pretty easy because those places are faceless and transitory. The hard part is when you get a job or go to college and end up meeting people who know you on a day to day basis and trying not to mess that up, falling back into being a hiki or becoming paranoid schizo.

 No.627

thank youu… i feel better with that. i think you're right. i should definitely find something to regulate my emotions… i'm scared of freaking out when i find a job, too. i need to stay focused on the reason i HAVE to work… thanks!

 No.633

the social anxiety melts away when you're sleep deprived/intoxicated



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 No.628[Reply]

I got a job working at McDonald's about 2 months ago, it was the first place to accept me. Majority of the people I work with are highschoolers and the few that aren't seem to have their own clique/ingroup at work, it also doesn't help that I'm autistic. I'm pretty sure my roster manager hates me, I barely work any hours and I don't get paid that much. I'd like to be able to afford to move and save up for some luxuries that I don't have (PC namely) but I get paid breadcrumbs. Why is everything so hard? I just escaped being a neet fulltime to be a neet mostly fulltime and get reminded how autistic and lonely I am at work.

 No.629

>>628
just go on autismbux lol, neet out again. see if your parents will pay you to do jobs around the house for them. or maybe do onlyfans lol. if you're lonely at work anyhoo you're much better off neeting out. if you want some sense of companionship play some ttrpgs or tcgs. or use autismbux to hire some supportfags to hang out with you.

one day chris kempczinski will be in a gas chamber.

 No.630

>>629
Is it so easy to "just" get some?

 No.631

>>630
in oceania regions it is, the government is basically handing out retard diplomas. might be harder in america but if so i still think you should find a different job. as a kid i remember my sister working at mcdonalds and it seemed fucking awful. i genuinely do think you need a hobby and a job is really the only way into that. pokemon cards are expensive

 No.632

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Save up for your move & whatever education or certs you want to do as a career, otherwise you'll just get stuck in this Mcdonalds-esque situation over n over again and never have money or real experience. Now that u left ur n33tshit you need to figure out what you want to do, this is what u should be figuring out Right Now

obv dont quit your job unless you have another lined up. Also stop calling yourself autistic and you might stop acting autistic. Idc if you got diagnosed



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