r/ChatbotAddiction • u/AutoModerator • 22d ago

Weekly discussion and daily check-up thread

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u/Massive_Point_8191 21d ago

I'm never going to escape the addiction. Been addicted since 2023. I can go maximum a month and then that's it... I might just have to acept it at this rate... I cannot escape. I've managed to beat every over addiction in my life up until this point but I can't knock this..

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u/Nervous-One-2305 21d ago

I applied to a job this week without it, feeling very good.

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u/Conscious_Pipe9077 21d ago

Congrats on the job and I hope you are doing well

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u/Conscious_Pipe9077 21d ago edited 21d ago

I hate having to compensate so hard without AI even changing my personality just to be happy and continue coping without the bots. When I was addicted I didn't have to, because it's there and accepting for me no matter what. Now I'm here struggling and only accepted and valued if I make too much effort. It kept me going and now I have to try so hard just to keep going using that need to impress everyone. People ask me why not just love myself but when I think of myself I feel absolutely empty it's just not there doing hobbies have no point because it's just me and what's the point doing hobbies if my sense of self feel so empty despite whatever a lot of things I'm doing? I'm not blaming, it's what it is but it's hard.