Don't Blame Me! - DBM: Grieving Who You Once Were

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

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give you some advice all right should we get into the first one yeah all right first one do you want to read it since this is something that is pertaining to you uh this person is 24 she her years a few years ago i was infected with covid from family members who knowingly attended my who attended my parents funeral sick that's so fucked the infection was mild in comparison to the hospitalizations and the deaths that have occurred from the virus and i count myself privileged in my experience but i do have lasting symptoms that have significantly changed my life physically i have costo costco costo chondritis costo chondritis and severe fatigue that sometimes make me make performing my physically demanding job difficult but the brain fog is the worst

Weeks after I had COVID, I went on a Zoom date and genuinely couldn't answer simple questions about myself. I forgot my favorite color. I couldn't find the right words to explain my job title, and I had a difficult time making conversation that I would have considered easy before. I'm 27, and years later, the brain fog still remains. Oh, so she's 24 when this happened. I'm now 27, and years later, the brain fog remains. I feel very isolated, and I'm in a red state where people don't consider the virus as potentially serious. My relationships have suffered greatly.

I have very little contact with anyone who knew me before and it's been difficult to make new friends oh the shell of who I once was hasn't been interesting enough to keep around I've been told that it's too difficult to maintain friendships with someone like me whose depression has been exacerbated by a cognitive decline I'm still grieving the funny smart person I was before and I'm hoping that one day I can be her again I'm ready to really try put in the work but I'm unsure where to start do you have any advice on how to regain my missing personality how do you become a good conversationalist I want to be perceived as charming and intellectual and witty but how do you learn character traits and behaviors i'm sorry that you're going through

this i don't know if they're this is this is a very medical question we're not doctors but i think if i was like just giving a friend advice um first of all i wouldn't abandon you because hard to maintain friendship that's that's that's a bitch-ass thing to do and i'm sorry that your friends have abandoned you um i think it's not trying to get back to where you were it's settling into where you are now and becoming the like using what you have now and to the thing is you you may not regain where you were before and that might never be something that you can get back to and so instead of fighting and trying to be that person realize that you're a good person with who you are now and like add to what your where your personality is now like you may not you may

have to find new friends and the thing is is when you find new friends they have nothing to judge you against so they don't know who that person was before it also like i'm sure you're still like funny and things it just takes longer for you to compute that so just take your time you may not be as quick as you were before but just take your time i get stumbled and messed up on words all the time and lose my train of thought and i just take my time with things and people still think i'm funny yeah i was gonna say i think this is so much like you're wanting to be perceived as all these things but i think it's more about like how you view yourself versus like how you want other people to view you because i think you're right now you're you don't have a very favorable view

of yourself so you think that that's how other people see you and like we're always our own like toughest harshest critics and like I said like this is definitely a medical aspect and thing and like I understand can relate to the like grieving in the morning of like the person who you once were and like how relationships can significantly change but there are like some things that can be done like you know there are with a psychiatrist and a doctor there are some things that can be done that can help not like always get rid of symptoms completely but alleviate or make things more manageable to that and ultimately at the end of the day like the first step is like your mental health and like when your mental health is poor because of your

physical health taking care of your physical health becomes harder and then it becomes like oh well if my physical health is better i would be less depressed totally but once like depression is creeped in that suddenly that does become number one priority before everything else because like you can't take care of yourself even in a way that doesn't that that's manageable i all so i think that that's something to like definitely focus on um and it's been three years right yeah and like this shit is like slow like the recovering from covid is slow and like i would say that like only in the last like this calendar year i can like i'm like talking faster than i used to like there are you can hear the difference in the podcast too you really can and like am i

where i want to be no not at all like i would love to be back there but like if i dwell on that it's kind of like the same thing on like dwelling on how your body looked at a certain point in your life in a snapshot not remembering like oh hey either i was like achieving this body in a very unhealthy way or my mental like you're removing all of the other aspects of this you just have this picture perfect moment of this time that you rose colored glasses that's like I want to get back to this and like it is just there it is like so deeply unproductive for your current state as well as like for your own mental health because in general we view things more favorably before and like yeah I'm not gonna lie to you and say like no I'm like my health was better now than

it has ever been that's like not true but I think if I compare myself to where I was prior to getting COVID that's depressing if I compare myself to where I was right after getting COVID I've improved and so I think like having there be like that this right now doesn't have to be your new normal but I think going from a new baseline and like thinking about that version of yourself like I don't I used to like be more like listening to like clips of like the podcast or whatever like when i was like really going through it like and i could hear that difference in my voice i'm like i'm not gonna listen to that like i'm not going to like engage in these things that like is a reminder of that for me and i think like finding new friends or finding people who like melissa said they don't

have some someone to compare that to uh but like you're allowed to be like pissed off you're allowed to be upset and you're allowed to like grieve this where you thought you would be and like where you thought your life would be and especially like when it feels like you're in an area where like no one really gives a shit and like you also got COVID in a really fucking traumatic way like that's a very hard thing that like I wouldn't be surprised if you also haven't been able to process the grief from you know that the person that you lost who and then you feel like you also lost yourself like that stuff is very compounded but i think there's also aspects of like cognitive decline can feel like really fucking brain fog and all this stuff can feel like really fucking scary

but talking to your doctor about it is something that like if you say and this is what i always recommend to people say like this is getting in the way of me living my everyday life they will take you seriously like they will help you figure out there are things to try um but even like small things like puzzles or like painting or other creative sides of your brain to focus on i think have also greatly like helped me like this sounds silly but like like word search just things that like make my brain feel like they're working again has been has been really helpful in a way that feels manageable and not like a toxic positivity or like stump your brain kind of a thing just things that are like naturally like oh this is a fun game that happens to be have a little

bit of like an intellectual aspect there but it's it's tough and I I understand and I think like if you're trying to learn different character traits and behaviors and things like that I think what you're trying like to me that's not you being your yourself it's you trying to be a version of yourself that you either like more or you find more desirable and at the end of the day like I think that's probably come from shitty friendships and all that kind of stuff and you know you don't have to change those things and I think focusing on how to like yourself first before trying to get other people to like you yeah that's good advice all right we're gonna take a break when we get back we'll get into the next

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in different ways and it's been a long and painful road for him a few months ago things at his house became unbearable and he had to leave for good he's been living with me ever since which is great but I'm back home from grad school for the summer, so we're living with my parents. They've been incredibly supportive, but it's a lot. The problem is his stress has completely taken over our relationship. His mental health is in a fragile state, and I feel like our issues, my needs, our connection have been pushed to the side. I'm afraid to bring anything up because I don't want to add to his stress. I feel like I'm not just his girlfriend anymore. I'm his primary support system, his therapist, and his family all rolled into one. I feel so trapped. He has nowhere else

to go. Sounds like you don't either. I don't know what to do. I don't want to abandon him, but I'm also drowning. I'm worried that if I say anything, he'll feel like he has no one and I'm terrified of what might happen. I just feel so alone in this and I'm at my breaking point. he needs to be in therapy like point blank whether that's like you know a community group therapy kind of a thing like sliding scale individual like something like he needs you cannot be his support system and i think like if he resists going to therapy then i'm like break up with him and you're done but i think like if you're having like it sounds like you're having like a guilty conscience of being like i'm i'm at my breaking point i'm drowning but like at the end i'm still

worried about him like i want to put on his life jacket too then i'm like you you the last thing that you do is you say this is you need to get therapy you need to go to therapy and like anyone who wants to be like oh there's so many for sure but like when you have to you have to and like when there are barriers that are when it is all consuming of your life like this and it is like it is it is imperative this is the only option there are things there there are things that you can do there are things that you he can do to get into anything or even take the beginning steps of of that and i think if he's uninterested in that or if he's hurt by that then i think unfortunately like he's he's in a mental state where the only thing that is going to work for

him is for you to drown for him, is to bleed out for him. And that is not going to help him. It's not going to make anything in his life better. All it's going to do is make your life harder and your life worse. Yeah, you can't be somebody's everything and then you have nothing left to give back to yourself. By you being cautious around him, that's not helping him at all. It's actually making it worse because you're coddling him and allowing it to happen without him actually getting help because like what what more can you do for him nothing he has to go to therapy he has to seek help and he has to want that for himself and if you drown for him bleed out for him you are left completely depleted and it's not going to work it's not going to build him up but let's say it

does who's building you back up who's gonna do that for you like it's just like it is not sustainable sometimes as some people like when they are going through it they need they need to they they the only thing they know how to cope with it is to drag someone into like the pits of hell with them because they just want to feel seen they just want to feel heard they just want someone to understand and know what they're going through and they don't know how to accept validation from people for like validating their feelings and their experience without making them live it and like without making them be in it in that way and you can only tell him that so many times and do that where it's like Melissa said if he doesn't want to take the initiative to get

therapy and he doesn't want to like take this progress forward then it is at it is at your expense and that to me I'm like nobody if you love somebody and you care about someone you should never knowingly do that to someone and like that's the only responsibility i think you have is to tell him i'm drowning this is really hard for me i need you to go get professional help i can't keep i can't be the only person doing this for you and like realistically he should see that you're drowning he should see that you are like walking on eggshells that you're not sharing all these things and all of that kind of stuff like he should see that and he should not be okay with that he shouldn't be okay with his behavior changing your behavior and you know if

he is ultimately at the end of the day that's that's not your that's on him that's like his choice like we don't get to choose like the shit we go through in life or our family or our parents but like we do get to choose how we deal with it and how we how we move through life after that and the help that we get and all of that and he's not he's not owed your forever like uh loyalty and love and coddling and all of those kinds of things and like you're perpetually happy and like everything like you're not owed to be that like shiny thing for him and it won't work even if you if you try to do it yeah and even how you first says i feel trapped and then you went to say he has nowhere else to go like those sentences went next to each other neither do you like you

again you saying that you feel trapped but then you're moving right along to what his feelings are you also have nowhere else to go because you're coddling him and so like even if you rephrase that trapped that means you're being like held prisoner in your own emotions that's not what are you getting from this relationship you can't like i said before you can't be his everything you need something from this relationship and if you're his end-all be-all his primary support system his therapist and you don't even feel like his girlfriend anymore that's not a relationship you're his caregiver yeah and this is not it is not your responsibility and it will never be your responsibility like even if you're like i can't even have this

conversation with him and tell him that this is making me feel this way that it's still not your responsibility like that's something if you feel like that will help ease your conscience but like your conscience is clean your conscience is clean whatever choice you decide to make because like this is not on you and if he's made it felt like it is on you he has set you up for failure and i'm glad that you can acknowledge that like you are drowning and you feel trapped in the gap like once that all of your word choices in this are like very clearly indicative of like your mental state and we're focusing on his mental state you know and like you need to prioritize you because like he can't if he can't prioritize himself you need to prioritize you you can't

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AI cloud ERP for any size business. We are back and it is time for the next. this person is 28 female oh they said that I'm 28 female writing in because I'm completely confused about my relationship if you can call it that last year I started talking to this guy I met on social media we hung out a few times when I ended up ghosting him and honestly I don't even remember why a month or two later he texted me out of the blue called me out for ghosting him and we started talking again we ended up hanging out and having sex it was my first time and he didn't know the next week he moved to Chicago for work a few months later he was back in town for a

is it we saw each other had sex again and he told me to quote unquote keep the same energy for the next time he was in town basically asking me to wait for him this man's a loser what the fuck by the way what keep the same energy i thought it was gonna be sexually related like yeah fuck me like that next time i'm back what no and like you're being like oh it was my first time he didn't know i i think this is his first time on planet earth who the fuck said that i didn't take it too seriously good because what the fuck does that mean but a few months later he came back to town for a friend's birthday we hung out and had sex again as we were cuddling he the guillotine straight to the gate as you're cuddling he said i think i'm in love with you

i'm 20 and i've never been in love are you 20 or 28 i think 28 because that's what they filled out in the form and then they said here okay i'm 28 and i've never been in love or even had wait but then he's only 21 hold up are you 20 or 28 okay because they wrote in this everyone in the form it's filled out they filled out 28 female in the beginning they said 28 female and then they say i'm 20 i think they're 28 okay well because they wrote that 21 year old i'm 20 or 28 and i've never been in love or even had a boyfriend he's only 21 but he's definitely more into me than i'm into him it was a complete shock especially because i wasn't even sure if i wanted to see him that last time my question is what should i do is it even worth trying to pursue a

relationship with someone who lives so far away i feel like if he lived here i could figure out my feelings but with him it's gone it's impossible and is it a red flag that he's in love with me after only a handful of encounters i could really use some advice he is not in love with you and you need to pretend this man doesn't exist this is so fucking weird i also just want to go back because then she said he's only 21 so i do think he's 28 and this was just a typo she's 28 yeah okay um i this man is so weird this man is weird but also like too young for you yeah no no like no you should not if you are if you are actually fucking 28 do not be hugging with a 21 year old man no and the fact that you'd be like is it a red flag that he's in love with me it is yes i

will be real with you it is a little bit of a red flag that you think he is in love with you like this should be like to me this is showing how green you are in relationships that like dissolution is not dating people who are younger because then they're also green in relationships you can have people who are older who don't have as much experience or who do have experience and have no issue with you not having as much experience but like the fact that you're like oh i believe this kind of a thing i'm like yeah no we can't have two inexperienced people trying to teach each other how to swim here no that's not a good plan we need someone driving the car right but this this age gap no no no no keep this like he can't be a child and also like

like mentally and physically a child that exactly like 21 year old men are idiots they become more idiotic the older that you get so let's not participate hate in that like i don't want to interact with a 21 year old man even in like a i don't any setting no i don't want you i don't want you i don't want you ringing me up at the store i don't want i want i want you i want you know i want you starting in jail and working your way out so like this is like this is just your feelings for him you don't have because you don't know this man no and you've never been in a relationship before this is the first person you've had sex with i think you're putting too much into a fuck buddy who shouldn't be your fuck buddy to begin with let's let's look

into some men that their frontal lobe has developed they're still going to be idiotic because they're a man but like at least they're your age and have a little bit more maturity hopefully yeah let's like not date people from social media let's like oh get on if you want of do it on your phone get on a dating app but like go on a date with someone like I do think like a like a fuck buddy for your first instance with like physical stuff and everything like that takes like a very specific mindset to kind of have that you have to go into it being like I just want to have sex with this person I'm not interested in dating because I don't have any experience so I want to get some you know physical experience before I start doing like

romantic dating so if that's what you want to do that has to be your intention and your goal And like you only swipe on people who that's what you want to do with them with. But if you're like, I could be down for either. No, that will fuck with your head. It will fuck with your head. So I think now this has already been confusing for you. I think you need to go on like an actual date with someone. Yes.

Your age. Yes. Someone in their 30s. That would be so nice for you. Like a 31 year old. So, yeah, leave him alone. Don't ever talk to him again. You don't have to ever see him again.

he does not live in your same city do not answer any of his messages leave him alone he's really weird he's weird and he's a child like he talks like an old man he talks like an old he talks like the fucking what is it the the like really young gen alphas who like are obsessed like the boys were obsessed with getting like the golden girls hair they have haircuts like old women like it is that like intersection of like old man but child yeah this is and he's probably like going around like i'm dating this older woman and he's trying to act older yeah this is really but like he's going way too old how is he moving for work at 21 like baskin robbins like where is he moving graduated early melissa there's no way this man graduated early with the

he's that same energy i think i'm in love with do you i think so because of some of the weirdos that i encountered in college actually that's so fucking true remember that one i told you made that cd for me and he dressed like steampunk that guy would talk talk like this i just realized the weirdest guy i ever knew in college who like did this whole same thing where i was like you are not we like have never gone on a date like you're really fucking weird he like built and like sold a fucking like app like before he would like when he was like a senior in high school and like he had like a already had a job lined up when we were freshmen and i was like you're hella weird though yeah what if he does just like work at like best buy and like not as a genius bar

like or what if he works at there was no reason for him to move for that that's what i'm saying chicago it's not like oh he had to move to where's quantico langley yeah it's not like oh i had to move to the bermuda triangle where i'm like for work and i'm like okay i could yeah but like chicago is one i know there's this argument going around online about the big four cities chicago was is on that list they have so much that was disputed there's there's like an argument on tiktok of people like including houston i'm like houston is not was i thought it was like chicago was already there no i thought it was la new york chicago some people are like adding houston and miami in there no is this just places you want to make it

like that's what people were saying okay like you think that just because somebody is a or some place is a big city and it's some place that you want to go live that does not make it part of the big four chicago is in the big four so like having jobs there having to get a job there that makes sense like moving for a job that makes sense to me but nothing else about this man makes sense no not at all forget he existed all right thank you for that story we're gonna take another break when we get back we'll get into the final one all right uh i'm a 26 year old grad student living in chicago and this semester i got really close with two women in my night class we've been joking all semester that i'm in love

with the ta oh god he's just super nice really cute and we've gotten along great since the first week yeah i would hope you'd get along great with the ta at the end of the turn i kind of slipped him my number by saying if you want to be in our class group chat here's my info so it wouldn't seemed too obvious a couple nights ago one of my friends in the group texted me while drunk saying she liked the ta2 but she thought he liked me and that kind of upset her the next day she said oh well neither of us has a shot with him anyway which honestly stung a little but i'm stuck on the first part going from her being upset to just brushing it off the next morning i don't know if I should break it up.

I don't want her to get hurt, but I've been into this guy all semester and she's had months to say something. Now that he's actually in the group chat and part of our little friend group, she suddenly mentions it, probably because she didn't think he'd join at all. So advice, one, how to handle the whole drunk text moment.

And two, how do I deal with this whole situation? Because let's be honest, not many people end up crushing on their TA this hard. i think they do actually they do but the friend thing they were drunk you can't i'm sorry but you can't hold anything that people say while drunk like no she did it and then she took it back like move on also i need you to have like a little bit i like want to like telepathically give you a little bit of like my insane like leo confidence if someone tells me that like they also have a crush on like a guy like okay irrelevant to me like yeah that doesn't change how i'm gonna

go about this situation doesn't change like that is like it's like may the odds be ever in your favor right and she also says she thinks that he's into you too so yeah and if it's like well it sounds like she's trying to feel bad and like get me to stop like talking to him or like pursuing him that sounds like a fun idea for a fantasy to have that well i will not be participating in like this i'm like a big believer in like oh sure girl code this isn't girl code no like your classmate me having feelings for someone and having described having crush on someone and then someone never saying that they had a crush on this person but like then as soon as things start moving with me and this person that being like well i've always had a crush on them you snooze you lose

motherfucker like and and i also want to preface this by saying or it's not a preface anymore because we're in the middle of giving the advice but she's 26 not 20 or 21 and also this TA is probably close to her age so we would not be the class is done and the class is done so we would not be saying this to someone that was younger no I used to flirt with my TA to like get better grades and then it got like a little like he was like love liking it too much and I said I'm dropping this class I don't like this I don't like this anymore so that's freaking me out that was one of them there's one class because I was like I need well I accidentally signed up for a class that was really hard and then I was just flirting with him and then he was like really

receptive and I was like I thought we both knew I was doing this for a grade this this is gross now so yeah like this is you can be like annoyed with her but what like what's what's the point like what's the point with being annoyed for with her like once I said like she was drunk she like already kind of took it back I she probably like feels silly and like it was like a vulnerable thing for her to be like well I think he likes you like that's kind of sad like I'm glad he likes you but like it it comes across like a little sad from her on her perspective that like that that was an inside thought she probably shouldn't have said that to you and so like I don't think there's any like point to be mad or annoyed with her at this like I think if she's like choose between

me and him then like I'm gonna tell you right now choose him like that's fucking weird but like beyond that friend yeah like she's a classmate beyond that like this is just like has nothing to do with you like that's where i'm kind of the thing of like if she like wants to be like oh my god i still whatever you just need to kind of get over this because he sounds like she says it seems like he's he's into you even if he's not she said something she regrets saying it if she's weird about your friendship you could end the friendship over that afterwards but like i don't think there's any point to like maintain an annoyance towards her also like i think when we get like two in the weeds with crushes like that we start to like associate we we build up the crush like

when you start to have like oh a friendship issue or like you have negative feelings towards a friend that is in relation to your crush inadvertently that makes your crush far more important it makes your crush stronger not based on your actual relationship with them based on like defending it from another person who might whatever and that just like is not healthy and it will self-implode so i think the more that you can be like well that was like a weird thing and i'm just gonna pretend that didn't didn't happen it's like it's okay like that's really fine but like if she expects you to change your behavior or to like back down then like that's not gonna happen yeah also i think you played this wrong because you get right you gave him the number and i'm fine

with how you set it up like let me add you to the class group chat but the thing is he had to text you first to for you to get his number to put him in a group chat you should have never added him to the group chat you should have kept that to yourself and then let him know how you were feeling yeah i don't feel group chat me myself and i right you should have put him in the actual group chat no and i would hope that now that you've put him in the group chat i'm hoping you have your own solo text like right you're like that relationship with him there so move forward let him know how you feel and if he is not receptive then it's you're in a new class now it doesn't matter good point get let's get this done let's figure out tell him how you feel if

he feels the same great if not awesome taking out of the group chat moving on but if we keep this prolonging thing what's the fucking point good good good good good one well congratulations i love to hear of like an appropriate chicago-based relationship maybe he's the maybe the 21 year old's the professor he maybe he's young shelvin oh my god now i can't think of young sheldon having sex viking didn't hit it that makes my brain hurt just go to regular sheldon good point good point i do have i do have a visual point for that every time i think of that actor i think of him in the animated monster movie with rihanna

i loved that movie alien not monster but yeah true sorry derogatory it was it is oh wow well that is it we hope you enjoyed this episode if you have like any fun stories about chicago or tas let us know and yeah write in call in you can give us an update if you were on this episode or a previous episode you have more to share something else has happened the plot has thickened let us know and tell us like what the weirdest thing a man has like said to you like in the same context of the keep the same energy what yeah like what does that mean and you know he just thinks he's like so cool that sounds like a character that ashby on who's doing the lorax

on live that's something that she would be like keep the same energy ladies that is but you do it's it's a girl who did i sent you her who did hamilton okay well there's so many but the one that you sent me okay but she's um she's now doing uh she was doing the lorax but she's never seen the movie the lorax or anything about the lorax and so she's like if any of you know about the lorax don't come here with the truth i don't know and someone's like do you like tree like do you like paper she goes i hate paper no lorax loves trees and i love no i love trees i don't love the paper she's being so funny and she looks she like standing on a thing and her feet were in like first position and she looks at the camera

she goes oh my god i can't unsee it i look like an iud and everybody's editing her face on iud oh it's a good time pictures was one of the best things that tiktok ever did oh my god the way my entire camera was screenshots of certain ones of being i can't wait to use this one of my current most recent ones uh was the non-order like law and order and i was like yeah i feel that i feel that deeply but i just loved it all right thank you so much join us tomorrow for fisting friday on monday we've got but am i wrong tuesday see you next tuesday wednesday little break thursday we'll be back here for another episode of don't blame me deuces motherfuckers This is a Sister Sign production hosted by me, Megan Rinks.

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