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I've taken SSRIs for over 20 years ever since my mid-teens. They helped ease my depression from being severe to moderate and have helped me cope better with negative emotions and stress. However, I've usually had sexual side effects from taking moderate to high doses of them, especially with Paxil. It has significantly lessened the sensitivity of my penis and has caused significant delayed ejaculation issues for me. Sometimes, I can't stay hard for long enough. It really has contributed to my sexual frustration. Also, I feel that SSRIs that I have taken have never been nearly enough to fix my depression. I am still not a happy person overall. That's I want to either eventually reduce the dose that I am taking or switch to another anti-depressant or possibly try something else altogether.

I am not sure, but I think it would help me to get a better understanding of his psychology.

I am so sorry about that OP. Thank you for sharing this information. I really hope you one day find some treatment or cure for this.

I understand the survival agenda of Putin but what do you think a forensic psychiatrist or a doctor in psychology would diagnose him with?

I still don’t see how any mental health expert would not evaluate him as an extreme narcissist or narcissistic psychopath.

That would truly be something else and would be a kind of poetic justice for Ukraine. Though, if you believe Ukraine will inevitably fall to Russia then why doesn't Zelensky and the Ukraine government surrender right now in order to save many more lives from being destroyed and to prevent much more destruction within the entire country? The Ukraine resistance can fight back for their country another day.

Putin certainly has all of the traits of an extreme narcissist. He is incredibly grandiose, extremely arrogant and domineering with everyone he interacts with, is incomprehensibly pre-occupied with his own goals for success and power, unbelievably entitled, lacks much empathy for anyone else, truly believes that he is so unique that he must believe that he deserves to be revered in Russia as an anointed king or a son of God, is one of the most manipulative people in the world, totally envious of others and all of the western countries (especially America), and has no limits as to how far he is willing to exploits others for himself and all of the highest ranking officials within his government. He actually has gotten to be so paranoid to the point of having always genuinely believed that practically everyone else in the whole world has been out to get him. He never even truly trusted any of his loyal Russian oligarchs or any government official in Russia. His paranoia is therefore also another strong sign of malignant narcissism. Then again, I supposed Putin must believe that he has had no other choice but to always be such a dangerous egomaniac in order to survive and thrive as best as he can. Btw, you did say here on this forum about a year and a half ago that after learning a lot more about him that he deserves to be reassessed as someone who is more evolved than you thought before. You said that you originally considered him to be mostly stage Red/Blue, but then after listening to a number of Putin's interviews you then upgraded him in your mind to be someone who is mostly stage Blue/Orange. Do you now take that back? He has after all, turned out to be unbelievably violent and brutal (especially for a European leader these days), has surprisingly turned to be much more impulsive and short-sighted than we all thought before, has become totally addicted to the glory and conquest of Ukraine with this war, always been absolutely obsessed with gaining boundless power and wealth, and is totally worried about his own survival.

I think having a cult puts you at risk of being in prison.

You have a valid point. However, I am honestly terrible at managing such worries. I have generalized anxiety disorder and I always get scared of not being to do anything about it because it makes me feel like a powerless victim.

Much recent news out there has been warning that all of western countries including all of the EU countries, U.K., Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, etc, need to prepare to deal with the strong possibility of being hit by cyberattacks from Russia. According to this NYT article, the USA especially needs to brace themselves for this because of how far behind the curve America is with their protective measures against compared to all of the other western countries throughout the entire world. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/opinion/ive-dealt-with-foreign-cyberattacks-america-isnt-ready-for-whats-coming.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/smallbusiness/2022/03/04/small-business-ukraine-russia-ransomware-attack/9379667002/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/us-banks-prepare-cyber-attacks-after-latest-russia-sanctions-2022-02-27/ This is very concerning to me. How worried should Americans and even people in other first world countries and perhaps those in other second world countries besides Russia be about this?

So, would that be a good reason for Ukraine not to surrender yet?

This may sound cowardly, but given that it's very likely that Russia will end up taking over all of Ukraine, maybe the Ukrainians should surrender to Russia in order to prevent anymore unnecessary bloodshed and destruction within the country and to prevent any further disruption for the entire global economy. I am thinking that if they surrendered soon, then the Ukrainian resistance could then work on making a deliberate and elaborate plan for overthrowing the Russian government in the future in a way that would greatly reduce the cost of so many innocent lives and invaluable property in their country being ruined and taken by Russia. Would this be wiser for the people of Ukraine or would this actually be a mistake for them?

Yeah, like everyone else on this thread has already said, no matter how genetically blessed you are or how young you are or how healthy you are or if you are man in your prime or whatever performance enhancement drugs, or what have you, you are still always going to have to continue doing some kind of moderate level resistance training at a minimum of 1 to 3 times a week in order to maintain all of your muscle mass and gains. If you have been doing a resistance training regimen regularly for at least 6 months and you feel the need to give your body and mind more of a break and time to recuperate from the consistent weight training regimen, then you can actually take a de-load week once every 1-2 months. There are different ways to de-load and it generally depends on which training program you are on or what your exercise routine has been. Check out Starting Strength, 5x5 Stronglifts, Wendler's 5/3/1 or any other programs that involved deloading to see how they have you de load properly according to their programs. The idea of de-loading is basically that you only lift more or less half of the weight you usually use in each of the exercises you do and for less sets and reps than you usually do for each of the exercises.

Are you worried that Putin may end up getting so desperate and frustrated that he will end up nuking Ukraine?

I've been approaching a number of girls at various places lately, and one thing that I've been trying out is insulting each girl I meet. Now, I know this sounds very stupid and of course mean, but the reason why I've been doing this is because I thought that when you're trying to attract girls, you want to come off as arrogant. That way she will be influenced to look up to you as someone that's better than her, which would make her perceive you as being of higher value or higher status than her. I also thought that girls were more sexually turned on by assholes who don't give a shit about what others think than by nice guys who come off as weak and too agreeable. Leo even said that making sexist statements is not a problem and in fact helps to increase a girl's attraction to you. So, I've tried making insulting statements to girls like telling some of them that "you are so dumb that you must have a bean brain" or saying sexist statements such as women shouldn't be out of the kitchen and need to be very submissive and cooperative to their man." I've also tried telling other women I've approached that their clothing style sucks or "I love how casual you look. I hate girls that always try to look their best." However, every time I've said anyone of these kind of statements to them, they either get pissed off at me and walk away or tell me to leave or fuck off.

Leo said in a previous thread entitled "Pickup feels fake and low conscious," that: He also said in another previous entitled "Pickup id good-crap" that: So does that really mean that a stage Blue guy is able to get easier than another guy either stage orange or stage green or maybe stage Yellow or maybe stage Turquoise? I thought guys who is at stage Orange or above would get laid easier than someone at Stage Blue because of how sexually repressed you are when you are at stage Blue, whereas guys who are at stage Orange or above are more sexually liberated and open-minded.

If Russia takes over the Ukraine, how long do you think that Ukraine will become an autocratic nation?

That’s why the Russian oligarchs need to be heavily sanctioned.

Maybe.... Then again, even if NATO did agree to not allow Ukraine or any other nearby European nations to join NATO, how do we know that Putin wouldn't break that agreement?

I wonder what Leo and the mods on this forum think about the possibility of Putin starting a nuclear war.

I am truly sorry about this. I can't even begin to imagine what you and your family are going through. You all are extremely brave.

According to wikipedia, approximately 3.1% of people in Ukraine speak Hebrew. So, I am guessing that that is also the percent of Ukranian citizens who are Jewish. Btw, I myself actually have a lot of Ukranian Jewish blood and Russian Jewish blood.

How are you and your family holding up?

Unfortunately, when it comes to works of true high intellectual creative art most people don't care about it until many years later because it's always too advanced for its time.

Sometimes, I wish I could trade my good looks for eliminating my own Asperger’s issues.