Poll: Are you a failure?

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  • Yes
  • No
  • I don’t know

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I’m a happy failure. But I’m working on it. :relieved:

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Those results are depressing. We’re mentally ill.

I’m an effing survivor. Don’t hold me to normal standards.

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I voted for failure. But the shows not over yet.

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In terms of achievement - yes. I do try and help when I can though.

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I am sad to see that a lot of people think they are failures :frowning:

I see a lot of survivors - a whole lot.

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I voted I don’t know. I feel like a failure. But it’s not yet over.

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absolutely not! but I did feel that way for sometime when I first got diagnosed.

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I can’t vote in this one right now. Everything in me says yes, yes, yes, but the people around me are saying no, no, no. For my own sake I need to believe them, but I don’t yet.

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I’ve done a lot of shirking responsibility during my life, but I have also done some very constructive things. I think the jury is still out as to whether or not I’m a failure. I sometimes wonder where I would be if I had done a few things differently. One possibility is that I would have been a lawyer at some high pressure firm, and I would have been totally miserable. Another possibility is that I would have been a college professor with a large body of publications, and justifiably proud of myself.

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if i compare what ive achieved so far vs the time it took to do it, then yes

but ive been told not to compare myself to others etc, i get that point, but i feel i should have done things or achieved things sooner so im not satisfied with myself.

i put idk…but more yes and no lol

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A failure compared to what? On what criteria? In life nobody’s a failure

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I will add that I am most likely a failure. I’ve got this crazy idea that I can get off meds.

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Mostly, yes. I consider myself a failure on several fronts. Not having a family or the ability to fulfill my sexual desires, not having a career yet, being overweight, depending on my parents for food and bills which is unfair to them (although they were the ones to have me institutionalized when I was feeling at my best and on my way to becoming someone).

Overall it’s been a pretty shitty last couple of years, lost my best friend, became increasingly uncomfortable in my living space, failed at many projects.

On the plus side I’m done with drugs, I still believe in myself, but it’ll be a rocky road!

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There you go buddy. You’re a winner.

Some of us just have to go down the wrong paths first.

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I like to fantasize about what my life would have been had I not taken “the wrong path”. Used to be the leader of my crew man, all these guys have abandoned me now.I don’t trust people very easily, especially men. I’m more comfortable with the female kind, most of the time, although being fat takes away a lot of confidence with the opposite sex.

I was on my way to playing soccer professionally or graduating from college. I hate to repeat myself but I have to find a catalyst for all my failures and the only culprit I can think of is weed. Mary Jane was my mistress for so long, I gave up everything for her.

Thanks for the boost of motivation @SoitGoes, we’ll be okay, I feel there is hope, I feel God’s presence, even if you’re atheist. In the end we have to take some responsibility for what happened to us, blame it on being young, it will make future decisions based on a more rational approach!

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Focus on moving forward. You can’t change the past.

“Things could be different, but they’re not”

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To the people like me who voted for failure, what would you liked to have achieved to change it to ‘success’ ?

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Just to not end up on meds for me. My life has changed so much for the worse.

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Managing to cope with employment. Having a small but genuine social circle apart from family/step family.

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For me it would be having a degree.