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What’s the most significant thing Reddit helped you through? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by memorythief@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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For me Reddit was always the place where you can find firsthand raw experience. A place where people are free to share and ask questions. A place where you can seek support and find a feeling that you’re not alone. I thought it would be nice to find something similar here.

So anyway some time ago I was struggling through the consequences of a bad drug trip. I was experiencing a bad case of depersonalisation and derealisation. I was almost at the verge of breakdown. At some point I wasn’t sure if reality was a stable thing or was about to shatter any moment.

It was r/drugs who helped me realise I wasn’t alone in that, nor was I having the worst. It helped me identify the substance and understand how it affected me. I browsed through the stories similar to mine, and it finally gave me a piece of mind and a sense of closure. it’s been over a decade since I had the last psychotic episode.

Bottom line, I though it would be cool if we shared some personal stories about how did Reddit community help you through tough times.

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[–] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Getting diagnosed with Crohn's disease. That's the one community I will likely go back and visit from time to time.

[–] MorganCS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi I created a Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis group here! I miss the reddit group too.

[–] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh sweet! Thanks for doing that. I wanted to do it, but don't really have the time to moderate.

[–] MorganCS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I honestly don't either, but hopefully as it gets bigger, I can recruit others to mod as well.

I love the fact that this feels like the beginning of reddit. :)

[–] cannoli69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mental health. Specifically men’s mental health and having essentially a peer support group online

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Encouraged me to abandon its platform.

[–] Thetrademarq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit turbocharged my startup business. I’m going to miss it for that. I didn’t need Reddit, and I could have survived without someone posting me to a particular city’s sub, but everything changed after it happened.

It’s still fun and hard to think about because I had truly convinced myself that I was an idiot and that I was going to fail at life. I lived with a lot of smart people in college, some of them are very accomplished. When everything happened I felt so vindicated.

Y’all. Forbes wrote about that business. The most significant thing Reddit helped me through was realizing that I wasn’t a failure but that my time hadn’t come yet.

[–] totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit has always been a toxic force in my life and if I am honest I have derived nothing of value from it

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy how quiet these are without even trying to do it well:

https://youtu.be/UWoXFdRhPKc?t=62

[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey dude - did you post this on the wrong post?

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 1 points 1 year ago

I updooted but didnt even click into this post yesterday! must be a sync thing

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