tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281415506871751523.post2573274749426484431..comments2023-10-28T01:37:40.656-07:00Comments on Ben Pobjie's Wonderful World Of Objects: Just a DiseaseBen Pobjiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07320337293942659210noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281415506871751523.post-16475065525118968032014-11-16T00:42:59.700-08:002014-11-16T00:42:59.700-08:00Love this post and your honesty Ben :)Love this post and your honesty Ben :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281415506871751523.post-57283664168905011662014-11-10T05:15:43.519-08:002014-11-10T05:15:43.519-08:00Like the other Anon I've stayed up reading you...Like the other Anon I've stayed up reading your posts on those nights. You know the ones. Not some shit circle jerk post like you get on some sites about embracing your dark times and learning to ~love yourself~. Yours about the times where it's like, I just need to find a way to make someone care. I've never read something that put things into such perfect, terribly simple truth. i love your blog and i wish you well. Would want to give you a hug too if, like, we'd ever met (bit conservative in that way, what can I say)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281415506871751523.post-55413352301098166092014-10-29T15:45:32.917-07:002014-10-29T15:45:32.917-07:00I hope it doesn't kill you.I hope it doesn't kill you.Jo H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13489890415848995136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281415506871751523.post-16457286064698337592014-10-28T07:18:01.272-07:002014-10-28T07:18:01.272-07:00This might be meaningless drivel, but if it is, it...This might be meaningless drivel, but if it is, it's at least honest meaningless drivel.<br /><br />I say this as someone who cut myself; who has crouched weeping in the back of a dibby van; who stayed up refreshing Twitter, trembling, on nights you said you wanted to end your life and who found solace in your writing on nights I wanted to end my own and didn't tell anyone.<br /><br />It's not really a disease. That's just a metaphor that's helpful sometimes.<br /><br />But it's definitely not what it says it is. Just because it speaks in one's voice doesn't mean the things it says is true. Objectively examined, and that means without the pain, all the pernicious slurs and malevolent judgements are complete and utter bullshit. They're false and unhelpful cognitive beliefs that can be logically debunked. We all have them, the decibels just vary from person to person from moment to moment, and all of that is okay.<br /><br />I can't know what you are experiencing, but for me, one of the most insidious lies is that there's some underlying truth beneath all of that self-abuse, because it seems impossible that so much suffering could not be somehow legitimate.<br /><br />The pain is real, but it's not true.<br /><br />Ben, you are not destined to die by your hand. The idea that you are is false. That door can and does close, I've seen people deeper in despair than I could ever comprehend resolutely lock it forever.<br /><br />I deeply admire you and you have had a significant impact on my life. My thoughts and feelings are with you, and whatever depression may be, its vastly less than you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281415506871751523.post-81088545756759880502014-10-28T06:37:05.012-07:002014-10-28T06:37:05.012-07:00Great article Ben. Made me think about my illness ...Great article Ben. Made me think about my illness differently. I suppose there's still a stigma attached to depression that hasn't gone away despite all the airtime depression gets, so to speak. Anyway I know that there a lot of people who love your writings and like you as a person. Those people would want to help you if you needed it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521558307335064266noreply@blogger.com