Haha yeah after I dropped the "when I came out..." bit I figured I should probably reveal myself.
Yeah its good to do something, anything to get your mind off stuff. Get obsessed with details, really perfect something. For me thats been music lately, just getting sounds/riffs/chords exactly the way I want them.
As for my problems... I'm not really sure. But I have a few ideas. When I came out I thought that would fix it, then I moved away for school and I thought that would fix it, then I moved into a place without roommates and I thought that might fix it, but those changes generally don't help. Except for a little while.
Maybe you've seen the cognitive dissonance thread in LM... I almost think its just a really intense case of that. I feel like being involved in ski culture and being friends with the people I've been friends with has been kind of detrimental to my mental health (if any of said friends see this I fucking love you, not blaming anyone). I've always held onto this image of myself as kind of a typical "straight guy" who happens to like men, but I'm starting to think I need to just give it all up and start something new. At this point I think I could sell my ski gear and give the whole thing up and never look back. When I go skiing I just feel like its a reminder that I don't fit in or something, and its not only a sexuality thing; I have a different mind than most people, Jungian psychology and experimental electronic music are genuinely important to me while for other people its urban skiing or the latest Wednesdays With Wallisch or whatever (this doesn't make me better than anyone, I really don't want to be elitist here)... Its gotten to the point where seeing my old friends and doing the things I used to do causes me so much pain and self-hate that I think its time to start over fresh.
I haven't watched a ski edit in weeks, I just don't want to. I got the new Sherpas Cinema movie for christmas and I refuse to watch it. If I watched it I wouldn't get stoked, I'd feel terrible. Its hard to explain but this thing that I used to love is just destroying me, I need to be around people that are like me or that can handle who I am. I'm kind of sick of feeling isolated or that there's some ugly part of me that I have to shove under the carpet at times so I can be around the people I consider my "friends". I just went through the text messages on my phone and the last time one of my usual friends actually texted ME asking what I was up to (and not me hitting them up) was the 1st of december. Its super depressing, I can't handle it any more. I don't even know who my friends are. The only reason I'm going skiing tomorrow is because I was stupid enough to pay for a pass. I don't even really want to go. I could have gone like 5 days ago but I'm scared that I'll lose it again if I do.
I could go see a psychologist but I don't know if thats going to help (but I'm going to give it a shot either way). I don't think there's anything wrong with me. I think that other people have problems with certain parts of me, and I think that by surrounding myself with those people I'm just hurting myself. Its like cutting yourself or something, but its entirely mental. Its also entirely possible that I'm wrong and that this won't solve the problem, but I've never been so objective about it and locked into what I think is the problem. And I've never been willing to make such an insane change in my life before.
Hooooooly fuck.
/monolithic-homo-emo-vent-post
Sorry about that one, hope that wasn't too depressing. I'm not good at articulating my thoughts through speech, I'm much better at writing them. Kind of therapeutic to have a big angry vent once in a while. I don't think I've ever told anyone most of the things in that post before. Not really any less revealing than any of my other posts in this thread. Fuck it.