Your first post came off as bragging.
I re-read my post and without context this might be the part that seems like bragging.
*"Where I've probably on my time of being on this sub MET IRL over 150 people alone... Inbox I'm lucky if I wake up to only 5 messages. So I'd say it really depends on your interests and just putting yourself out there. But also always staying genuine and true to YOURSELF. Never compromise your own moral compass and values, that will hurt you in the long run.
Like for me I just keep it real and I've made friends even with higher up tenured professors who go out of their way to help me just because I've shared so much and helped so many people."*
But here is where you obviously don't know me.
I primarily get dragged back into this subreddit because I help so many students with their mental health, to be a shoulder to cry on and to point them to mental health resources when the MHC on campus fails. Or when one of them goes through penetrative sexual assault, as a victim of that myself I have tremendous amounts of empathy and compassion and most critically EXPERIENCE WITH IT that makes me one of the first people that even non-reddit users go to when they have an experience.
This has resulted in my inbox getting hammered, my DMs getting hammered and me meeting a plethora of people on campus to help them.
Because at the end of the day I need to live with myself and choices I've made in the past haunt me. But in b4 "oversharing" but tl;dr is my own rapist went on to propagate the event over and over again and my ass needs to live with that knowledge. That I failed to prevent other people from being victimized and so I do everything in my very VERY limited power to help.
So yeah I've prolly traveled to campus a trillion times by this point to help people.
Definitely oversharing.
Also about "Oversharing", this is a term used to shame people for actually coming forward and talking about their own life experiences struggles and how they handled them.
This is a silencing tactic. If you don't like what I have to say then I encourage you to use the block feature-- I won't be offended.
I didn't need a life story of all your woes, and sharing that with a complete stranger? Definitely oversharing.
See, this is the thing about serious topics. They warrant serious replies. If someone is clearly struggling and I've had pretty bad experiences I will bring them to the table in order to try helping them. Likewise many many many people appreciate the effort and help which leads to a more human connection that people seem to really gravitate towards.
That btw might be why my post seems like "bragging" because I actually have people relate to me and appreciate that I put myself out there to try and help others. I am not sure if you can relate to that.
And you weren't labelled a braggart as you claim. You were told you were bragging.
Are you really trying to say that you can say someone is bragging without strongly implying that they are a braggart? :|
It just baffles me that you felt the need to 'defend yourself from such a nasty accusation'(exaggeration? I feel like I just insulted your family) when you could've made a joke back in response or took it on the chin.
I tend to not make jokes on serious topics, especially ones where I am concerned for the OP's mental health and wellbeing. A significant reason why I even went into the details I did was for the OPs sake in case they take the time to read it. And why would I take it on the chin? Why should I defer to you?
Manic was just the first word that came to mind, we can change it to a 'detailed response' to ease your mind.
To ease my mind or make yourself look like less of a jerk for using a mental health term on reddit for someone who will call you out on it? Your phrasing leads me to believe you think you're clever.
nor was I trying to diagnose you
Then don't use mental health terms. You aren't a psychologist and if you even took the introductory course to clinical psychology you would know to make a diagnosis you need far more intimate detail of a person before you can even approach one. Tossing out mental health buzzwords to add some edgelord to your posts isn't cute on a university subreddit. Especially not when mental health of the student body is in utter tatters where I wake up FAR too often to 5+ messages all dealing with students having major crisis.
I know you are extremely sensitive though
So am I extremely sensitive or oversharing? Which one is it because that's a pretty hard juxtaposition.
exaggeration? I feel like I just insulted your family
Implying someone is a braggart is kind of offensive. I'd literally rather be called a multitude of different things rather than a braggart.