I want to start my life over so people don't recognize me

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I used to be normal, social, relatively popular. In late high school, I went through some stuff and had a serious period of depression and anxiety (which is still ongoing a few years later). I completely disconnected from my friends and became a loner

I am scared to have a presence on social media anymore because of all the people who used to know me, I'm not the same as when I was their friend and I don't want them to know I'm even alive

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  • nopurpose
    3 years ago

    I thought about it myself when I was your age I guess (early twenties) then realised.. You can't hide from yourself, you can't run away from what you are carrying within. You can change your name but it itself would not change anything.

    That said, it can still help to break the trace ot gossip. Like if you are from a not that big city (mine is about 300,000, metro included), have a rare name that makes you easy to identify; you start a new job and some ppl there ask what iniversity or high school did you go to and then start asking about you and hear all sort of ugly, exagerrated smear 'That guy is so crazy, he did this, he did that'
    If you can, you could move to another city. Mayne even another country. Will this help? Maybe but not much. I'm sure about myself, even if there wasn't the gossip following me, my situation at work would not be better. But about dating.. if I was at a new place I might give it a try. Here I'm scared she might have heard about me. Sure, I could present a fake name. But what if she's seen me somwwhere and some of her friends poin5ed at me 'Look at him, that guy is a total psycho. I know someone from his school, can you believe what they told me about him'
    So if you can do it, go for it, why not?

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  • LloydAsher
    3 years ago

    Legal route is to change your name. It's an obvious bitch to get all your other paperwork transferred to your new name.

    Illegal route is to get passports in another name and fake your death via suicide note on a bridge or something.

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  • litelander8
    3 years ago

    I don’t have social media and the few people I am in contact with I ask them to not tell people about me.

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