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acidtrippinpanda t1_ivoogvm wrote

Reply to comment by fvcknvgget5 in The Couch Man by middleoflidl

Damn I said in an earlier comment that this story exactly touches on my worst fear without knowing what it is. You’ve said it so simply though. It’s sloth. Obviously very extreme sloth in this case and I’ve read newspaper stories of horrific neglect leading to real “couch men”.

Maybe the reason it’s such a strong fear for me is that I am a bit lazy and I did suffer from depression in the past. It’s what could happen if I really mentally broke and lost it. It’s so extreme but it is that 0.000000001% perfect storm situation of what if. It’s also the trying to picture the situation and circumstances that could lead to someone becoming like this and the fact that you both can and can’t comprehend it at the same time

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fvcknvgget5 t1_iw3aldt wrote

if you’ve never seen the movie “se7en”, i really recommend it. It’s based on murders of the seven deadly sins, and sloth is obviously one of them. it’s got brad pitt and morgan freeman in the 90s. one of my favorites.

but yeah, I have ADHD, so sloth is a massive part of my life, and it scares the fuck out of me too

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acidtrippinpanda t1_iw3uc9j wrote

I actually think I might have undiagnosed ADHD myself. I’ll defo give that movie a watch, thanks for the recommendation

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