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[โ€“] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At the face of it he seems lazy but there's more likely some deeper emotion that he isn't facing or isnt talking about. This sounds to me like a deeply Avoidant person. Trying to fill life with distractions.

[โ€“] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 11 months ago

I had known him from when we were children, and it seemed like he just never grew up. It could have been a mental disorder or something along those lines. But he was basically a a 12 year old in a 35 year old body.

I long suspected he might have schizophrenia based on his paranoia and the fact that he was constantly making up nonsensical stories that he swore were true (could have just been a pathological liar). But he refused to help himself after I asked him many times to see a mental health doctor. He lived in a country with free healthcare, so money wasn't the issue.