What's book do you recc for a person who's expecting a change for the worst?

I feel like my life may change in a direction of anguish and futility very soon. What do you reccomend?

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Maybe i shouldn't have made a thread for this, but bump.

Why do you expect anguish and futility to come upon you, user?

I think I might be becoming worse psychologically due to ignoring my bpd like symptoms. For now it seems to be masking itself over oddities and strange patterns in my own life but i do not know what is true and what is not so i thought sinking myslef into some lit so i can at least feel like I am like someone else out there. I'm not a girl, so bpd just makes me worse off since this is usually tied so closely with women.

Why not go see a psychiatrist? Literature probably won't heal you all that well

Already doing that, its just that this issue doesn't seem to have a solution. At least that is what the therapist is trying to communicate to me. You just kind of let it run its course.

Srs tho. Not one book?

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. You seem non-anglo so if you speak German, read it in the original. Short read but powerful.

do you want to wallow in the sadness or find escape from it

Lord of the Rings. It's a marvelous and uplifting adventure, and particular to your case, it has a very clearly defined distinction between good and evil, true and false, and the main characters plunge headlong into chaos/the unknown/anguish to fulfill their destinies and emerge on the other side. I enjoy it a lot.

i feel u bro, my problem is i can't pass background checks, so i'm paranoid to apply for corporate or government jobs, and everybody as axin why i dont apply to this place or that place, and i'm always like nah man i'm content livin easy aiight, (i have an "ok" job but clearly far below my potential) but really i'd love to get some corporate ass job and go ham, but some foe will run my social and next thing security will be escorting me out

Grapes of Wrath

holy shit reddit has got to fucking go

ignore this post, honestly. all you're doing is pushing escapism.

What's wrong with Tolkien? What has happened to my Veeky Forums? Not everything you read has to be some esoteric psychobabble. A nice bit of fantasy is very pleasant every now and again, and I think OP would quite like it.

Thanks
The escape would help with one thing but it would cast me into a bigger whole. I've been having these intrusive thoughts that I am transgender for 5 years. So maybe if i transition, it may stop but everyone around me including family would treat me with complete scorn, which is totally warranted. This is not normal and id did anything to turn it off. Hopefully it's not schizo
Same, i don't want my medical record showing up. Bpd is like being a bitchy evil asshole. Worse than any other pd because they assume that their manipulation is totally ok, unlike others who more it is wrong.

How can you tell that I'm not Anglo?

I suggested Grapes of Wrath, which is actually relevant to OP's post. It's an entire book of people coming to grips with things turning for the worst. LotR is just poetry and world building with black and white morals and eagles. As in it has little relevancy to your personal life. Get out of the /sffg/ threads and go read pieces of literature that actually capture the complexity of life instead of pursuing "feelies" from fantasy books. I don't even have anything against reading fantasy books really, but don't treat it as more than what it is. Reddit is notorious for doing that with both Tolkien and Stephen King; they just suck their cocks.

Because while your post is grammatically correct, its construction just is not what a native would write. There's nothing wrong with it: it's simply uncommon for a native to write in this way. And read the book. Where are you from?

fuck. i'm american and i've been here since birth. english is my first langauge, but my college professors say my writing is atrocious. glad to see they weren't lying. i am non-anglo as well.

Are you latino? It's not bad, just different.

black.

Well, black lit man, I'll leave you with this quote: 'If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering.'

that's retarded

I like your writing, bro. The unnaturalness of it forces me to pay closer attention to what you say.

I guess that's a reason. Never really paid attention in english class and i'm public school educated too. I always thought I may not have picked up on something they taught and always thought I was lacking consistencey but maybe that might be due to me not putting in mileage on assignments. Who knows. Too old to figure out how to write now so enjoy it now user.

Read Ernest Hemingway.

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It's about finding hope in other people's victory, which is why I recommended Hemmingway. Those books are great, and some people need escape until they are strong enough to face what is wrong in their life.

Tolkien would be good to read. He used his writing to cope with his own shell shock. C.S. Lewis' non-fiction, or "theological" works are great too, specifically The Great Divorce.

Transgenderism or whatever you would like to call it, body dismorphia, is a mental illness, and if the thoughts are invasive, just continue to fight them.

Goodluck man. I was suicidally depressed ans halfway bipolar as well for a long time. I started working out and when I do it consistently I don't even have suicidal thoughts. I also started reading the New Testament. I don't know if you believe in Jesus, but you should look there a bit. Start exercising regularly if you don't and find the truth. Read the new testament.

hahaha same