Hello everyone. Long story short, been on all kinds of meds for most of my life now; none of them seem to have helped much with my depression. Psychotherapy has had very limited effects as well.
As of late, one thing has been bothering me in particular. I’m not going to go into details...But let’s just say that I’m tired of seeing people constantly mock and ridicule and get angry at me for the various views that I hold. Best case scenario: They don’t take them seriously and they don’t address them in an honest manner.
It doesn’t make much difference how much time I’ve spent researching a topic, how sound my logic is, how well I’ve understood and addressed possible objections. It’s as if it’s all for nothing. I’m lucky if whoever I’m talking to even addresses what I’m saying directly instead of making some snarky comment or some point-missing, question-begging, circular assertion.
Even when it comes to the specific issue where I have a PhD in, it’s not much different.
Am I the problem here? What am I missing? I always try to go out of my way to understand and address the other person’s viewpoint, but for some reason, they tend not to return the favor.
Am I fixating too much on this? Should I just try to enjoy life and not think about such things? Seems like a hard thing to do because I’ve always been drawn to the intellectual side of things, trying to get to the truth of everything.