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Recent content by Wheelered

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    Comment by 'Wheelered' in media 'Fresh restoration'

    You have breathed fresh life into this bench vise. Man, that is such a great job. I have my wife's grandfather's bench vise and I wished I had the expertise/tools to restore his this way!
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    Comment by 'Wheelered' in media 'Fresh restoration'

    I love this sooooo much! I love watching tool restoration videos on YouTube and this looks just like those. Amazing.
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Oh man, your wife and I sound very similar in many ways as you said in an earlier post. I'm gonna find something to worry about. It sounds like you have found some peace, and have a positive outlook. I was in a good place right before all of this happened, meditating daily, and generally felt...
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    What an unbelievably kind post with many kind words. You are a valuable soul that must touch every life you meet. Thank you!
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you so much for your response again. I know that you are right, I am notorious for being too hard on myself. I don't know how to explain it, it's almost as if I have manic highs and lows. Sometimes I am very confident and feel like I am super special (even though deep down I kind of know...
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you again for your response! I've been to several doctors, psychiatrists, and counselors in my life and really only found one I liked -- a psychiatrist in Nashville. Prior to him I had been told I was depressed, and he said he believed it was GAD and depression was an offshoot of that...
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you!! One thing I have been doing is Vipassana meditation, and it seems to help
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Any recommendations on self-help texts? Any other good books you recommend? BTW, I love your avatar. I have two cats that I love dearly.
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    I really relate to this, especially the last two paragraphs. If you find the answer, please share it with me, haha! We seem to have a lot in common in that I became quietly similarly to you because of fear of messing up
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you so much for your response. I need skepticism, I need questions, I need things that challenge me to think deeply on this. I take this very seriously and I want to make sure I'm respectful of everyone -- and I have so many issues I worry that I've conjured this up. I want this to be the...
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you for your reply! Do you find "eye contact" difficult with a camera too? I struggle to even stare into a camera because I know that people are on the other end watching. I don't talk people to death about my interests (that I know of -- except for my wife, she hears it all the time). I...
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Ed, thank you so much for your response. I appreciate your insight about being literal. That's me. And I was a clown that acted up in school. I always did it because I liked the attention, and now I'm wondering if that was me masking and not even realizing it? Also, most of the YouTuber's and...
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you for your very kind reply. My anxiety (or brain, or whatever) will not allow me to accept clarity I don't think. Am I really seeing clearly? Am I just worrying? Am I imagining things? Am I making connections that aren't really there because I so desperately want an answer?
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you for your response. Any advice on how to stop trying to be normal? I feel like the way I've crafted myself is so ingrained in me that I could never break it. I feel like I could never be myself, except to my wife, and even then I'm trying to be "better" in a sense.
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    Hello! Desperately Seeking Advice...

    Thank you so much for your reply. I enjoy finding on this forum that I'm not alone. I agree that a formal diagnosis would be good for me. But, as I said in the initial post, I'm always concerned something is wrong with me and I fear this may be just another thing on the list of things I've been...
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