SCOUSER

2y

Frank Breaks leg and get demonised by entitled fans

Legacy

2y

All my life my parents wanted me to be a doctor, and at age 2 I was already telling people I was going to be a doctor when I didn't even know what that meant. I promise I'm going somewhere related to Frank with this. They constantly guilted me saying they dropped everything in their lives to immigrate to Canada only so that I could become a doctor, and all of their sacrifice and selflessness was for that.

Any grades under 95 or calls from teachers about acting up (which I did a lot, because I was being f***ed up at home) were severely scolded, beaten, yelled at, toys and video games broken, drawing books torn up, and they would even give me the silent treatment for days. These were rare occasions though, because I was always the top of my class.

On the other hand, when I was performing well (most of the time) I was showered in praise and gifts and could have and do whatever I wanted, and all of my friends were jealous. They would literally take me anywhere, do anything, and buy anything that they could afford. I went to weekend and night schools to study material ahead of my age group, skipped a grade, was in gifted programs, etc.

This led to severe anxiety and perfectionist tendencies, and by the time I was in university I was an emotional wreck. I got into the top engineering school in my country, and was supposed to get an engineering undergrad while preparing for MCATS then apply for med school and become a doctor.

I had severe panic attacks, self isolation, deathly fear of failure, and was super depressed. On days I had exams, I would go to campus 30-45 minutes early, completely confident that I would ace them, and could not get myself to walk into the exam rooms.

I just couldn't make myself go in and write the exams, and I would just run and hide in the bathrooms and puke. I was prepared and had studied for hours. Same thing for any assignments, I would finish them but be too scared to hand them in. I ended up failing every class in my first year of university and I couldn't tell my parents, so I pretended I was still in school. I told them I got scholarships so they were not suspicious when we didnt need to pay tuition year after year.

I did this for 5 years straight, every day going to my schools campus, hiding in the bathroom or library, then coming home as if I had been attending school. My mental health spiraled out of control, I gained 90lbs of fat, got into a codependent toxic relationship and then got dumped, and eventually I just couldn't deal with the pressure and lying to everyone, and I realized I couldnt keep it up much longer, so I attempted suicide. Took sleeping pills, went into my garage, turned the car on and closed the garage doors, and just went to sleep. I didn't die, and was woken up in the morning by my mom, after which s*** hit the fan, but long story short I got therapy and treatment and I'm much better now.

My point is though, you can put so much effort into something but the pressure of doing amazingly can make you crumble in the last moments and make it impossible to actually perform. I only had pressure from my family and friends, and it completely ruined my life and almost killed me. Frank has pressure from millions of people, after being praised as amazing, after not dropping an album for 7 years, so the pressure thats built up must be insane, and he recently lost his brother on top of all of that. Not saying what he did was right, but if he has perfectionism issues like me, I can totally sympathize with him.

fiveprestos

2y

Dont even wanna know where this is from

SCOUSER

2y

Frank Breaks leg and get demonised by entitled fans

sizz

2y

Got a job i terview in 13 hours and I’m drunk asf after a night at the goth club f*** me man

sizz

2y

Wrong thread

KingWop

2y

Uhhh yeah sure lmfao

TTU

2y

"What genre does Michael Jackson make?"
At least 1 in 5 people are saying Pop...

RIP_Actavis

2y

Oh yeah, btw Blink 182 isn’t replacing him, Fred Again is … You heard it from me first!

RIP_Actavis

2y

Oh yeah, btw Blink 182 isn’t replacing him, Fred Again is … You heard it from me first!

RIP_Actavis

2y

Oh yeah, btw Blink 182 isn’t replacing him, Fred Again is … You heard it from me first!

atthepyramids

2y

hm

RIP_Actavis

2y

I’n correct

atthepyramids

2y

without skrillex and four tet? just by himself?

Vibe

2y

It's unconfirmed but it's gonna be all 3 of them

Fred is going crazy on his IG stories rn and they're looking for Skrillex lol

atthepyramids

2y

ok i much prefer that i fw fred again but him by himself is an odd choice of replacement