If you’re a man, read this

r/selfimprovementforman · u/stellbargu · source

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The post body is an image carousel (text baked into the frames), so there is no text body to capture. The gist, from the comments: nobody is coming to save you — stop waiting for permission from others and take responsibility for your own life. One commenter notes “Frame 5 is missing.”

Discussion highlights

• The most substantive reply (u/Neither-Volume3596): after a decade abroad he kept cycling through motivation → amnesia → spiral every 2–3 years. His old journals all said the same thing — “You need to wake the f@ck up and do what you have to do.” The realisation: he kept asking other people for permission on who to be, waiting for a psychologist / book / person / even psychedelics to save him. Now he relies on a daily planning + journaling system instead.
• Agreement from older readers: u/No_Nebula_6813 (51) and u/Mindless_Clock1856 (turning 40) both said it resonated.
• Pushback: several accused the post of being AI-generated slop (u/Dear_Trip_5651 traced it to an AskReddit answer; u/immenselyhigh, u/NBlue_Dev agreed).
• Counterpoint: u/Cheets1985 — “Nobody anywhere has gotten to where they are alone. Asking for help isn’t a weakness.”