I still feel the damage on (what I believe to be) my very soul from my Red Pill moment, since it was the same time that my closest friends from college all called me a "Nazi brownshirt" and said I was a "disgusting racist who they only hung out with because I tagged along with some of the other group members". I ended up leaving that group after they refused to apologize, and I've basically never spoken to any of them since. Because of that experience, I realized that there are some people who are too far gone, and that trying to FORCE someone to take the Red Pill can easily lead to an outright and total rejection of the Red Pill in its entirety, so it is sometimes better to stay silent or outright ignore/block people than try to wake them up.
The emotional wounds has lessened over time and as I've found other things to focus on post-college (like some high-paying jobs that allowed me to fully pay off my student loans and my first car within 4 years after graduating by living frugally), but I have a gut feeling that the mental scars will never completely fade away.
The key thing to remember with the Red Pill: The human mind is an incredibly resilient thing, able to bounce back from anything and able to literally change the way your body functions with enough practice/belief, but it still needs some kind of anchor or focus when it's reacting to severe shock/trauma (AKA "a Red Pill moment"), lest you lose yourself and fall into madness. You can't force anyone to undergo this process, THEY MUST CHOOSE TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP THEMSELVES. Only after that can we help them recover their balance and rediscover both themselves and the world at large.
I still feel the damage on (what I believe to be) my very soul from my Red Pill moment, since it was the same time that my closest friends from college all called me a "Nazi brownshirt" and said I was a "disgusting racist who they only hung out with because I tagged along with some of the other group members". I ended up leaving that group after they refused to apologize, and I've basically never spoken to any of them since. Because of that experience, I realized that there are some people who are too far gone, and that trying to FORCE someone to take the Red Pill can easily lead to an outright and total rejection of the Red Pill in its entirety, so it is sometimes better to stay silent or outright ignore/block people than try to wake them up.
The emotional wounds has lessened over time and as I've found other things to focus on post-college (like some high-paying jobs that allowed me to fully pay off my student loans and my first car within 4 years after graduating by living frugally), but I have a gut feeling that the mental scars will never completely fade away.