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Originally Posted by ChrizBolez
Interests are what bring like-minded individuals together. It's what drew me to this forum, populated with others that are just as interested in mental health. However, while forums are great for mass communication they lack the personal connection one might make face to face. This means you will need to follow the process that brought you here, but change the setting in which it takes place.
I did this with martial arts when I was younger and pushed myself to attend classes. Through this I gained a fantastic mentor and a new confidence. Conversation comes easier as the ice has already been broken upon arrival. They knew I was interested in martial arts by my appearance at class and I knew this about them as well.
I feel this is what you need to escape the toxicity around you as I did when I was younger. It really helped my confidence and perspective on valuable human interaction.
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Your response was so uncanny to what I had literally just done. I looked up local martial arts programs in my area and just reached out to the one I decided meant the most to me since I have been a HUUUGE martial arts fan ever since I can remember. I used to be obsessed with it in grade school, but my parents were extremely Emotionally Neglectful so I never got the chance to live those experiences. Hopefully they reach back out to me and I will be able to start pretty soon. I feel like my biggest issues are a lack of sense of self and a lack of discipline, and I really feel that taking martial arts lessons would help me tremendously in that aspect. The ones I reached out to were Kung Fu and Tai Chi. I saw that their rates were a little higher than I felt comfortable with, but its not unmanageable. The most difficult part for me will be to not talk myself out of it (as I tend to do when I become extremely nervous/anxious about something I've never done before)