I can't sleep without a stuffed animal

I'm a 19 year old man. I don't look like the kind of person who would cry a lot, but at night I do. Every night. I was never the kind of person who was into stuffed animals before, not even when I was a kid, but I bought a stuffed snow leopard to cry into and it really helps with my sleep. It feels comforting to pretend that it's alive and that it cares about my inane bullshit. I don't spend as much of the night crying anymore. Am I dealing with my issues healthily or am I just pathetic?

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  • Cuntsiclestick

    Using a stuffed animal sounds fine. Theres also nothing wrong with a man that cries. Though perhaps you might want to seek therapy for your problems? You're calling your problems inane bullshit, but if you were sad about them every night they're probably not bullshit.

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    • SkullsNRoses

      Came to comment this basically.

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  • have_a_good_day

    My nigga, not to be rude or anything, but what da fuck is wrong witchu?
    Go get professional help to find da root cause of yo pain, fool.

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  • McSorley

    LOL. Sorry man, you're pathetic. Just beat your meat like the rest of us if you're depressed. Or you could do like furries do and fuck your stuffed leopard.

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  • bigbudchonga

    You've come to the right place for a pat on the back. You could say you wear nappies and cry when you drop milk and most people on this site would say "omg, dat's fine babe. It's gr8 when a man cries! U r stong and a real man!"

    This aint right, dude. You're using a coping mechanism that small children develop. The only time this is really acceptable is now, when people are the most pathetic they've ever been in the entirety of history, and even now most non-npcs would see this as a bad thing.

    Overcome this, dude. Grow as a person, become stronger, and don't use a coping mechanism that small children use. You're a man, dude. In the modern, Western world you can live as a simpering baby your whole life if you want, and no doubt some people will even applaud you for it, but they're the kind of people who would fail at the smallest hurdles in any other time in any other place. Don't listen to the NPCs dude, that's no life for a man.

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  • Mammal-lover

    these questions always amuse me. Its considered acceptable gor a woman to own stuffies cry etc. But If a nan does..yet last I checked we were both the same species with the same needs.

    I'm not gonna lie its gonna hurt your dating odds if your straight. Many women will find that weird. But rest assured if your date thinks that and rejects you they werent worth your time anyways. Unless you want to dare karen for some crazy reason

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  • You need antidepressants and mood stabilizers.

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  • account6759

    I think if it's not hurting anyone then it's fine. You should probably get some help because it sounds like you're very distressed, but this is a fine coping mechanism in my opinion.

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  • NoMalarkey

    This reminds me of object relations, or substituting objects for what “normal” people channel their emotions through human contact. While I disagree that it is normal if it isn’t hurting you or anyone else I don’t see a need to change. Perhaps it would be wise to evaluate your trust in relationships with others however.

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  • my_life_my_way

    ‘Man.’ If you were really a man, you would not cry yourself to sleep every night like a little bitch. I wouldn’t tolerate such emotional weakness from anyone in my life and I’d be surprised if others would.

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    • bigbudchonga

      https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wIQXFDtr5gE/maxresdefault.jpg

      Most people wouldn't see this as attractive tbh. Even most of the people who say this is fine, in reality would find it unattractive if they had to deal with it. You could say you sucked a dummy and slept in nappies and half the people on this site would call you brave.

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