103 "You're a good person."

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1. Grackle says

   December 28, 2013 at 11:04 pm

   Boy do I ever relate to this one. 🙁

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2. Devon says

   January 3, 2015 at 3:08 am

   I volunteer and am studying to work in social work… and this is spot-on. I don’t know if I even have depression, but I relate to this thought process exactly – this feeling that I’m just “pretending” to be a good person, or that I’m doing it for selfish reasons. Sometimes I think the “high” I get from helping others offsets depressing feelings. When I overthink it I just feel worse, not better.

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3. Larion says

   April 24, 2016 at 8:30 pm

   I have this one Bad. It’s a constant mental battle not only to Be a good person, but to assess my reasoning and thought processes on it. If it gets brought up at all, or if I think about it even immediately after doing it, I start questioning my own motives and hitting that downward spiral.

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4. macksting says

   April 4, 2018 at 4:25 pm

   I try to get around this one by saying “acting good is being good.” Intention means nothing.

   But when somebody who I can’t help but trust points out something that indicates I might actually be a better person than I believe, or when I’m confronted with incontrovertible evidence, I get a headache and start to cry.

   Could be worse, I guess. When the pain comes on, I more or less just press my face against the boulder and keep pushing. “There is no destiny that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

   I will not be beaten by self-loathing. I may take the occasional break from my struggle, but every time I weather that pain, I call it a win.

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5. jackmarten says

   April 10, 2018 at 6:38 am

   you wish to do something honestly but you still feel like you are doing it for the “likes” and not from your honest heart ….

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