Posting this because I can’t really talk to my family or whatever. I have one main friend but I don’t think she cares on a deeper level so it always just feels like I’m alone. Who do you guys turn to for help? It’s always been a struggle for me, it’s like no one is really there. It feels like I’m living the same day over and over again and I’m not contempt with my own thoughts and it’s hard for me to get over it. I’m not sure if I’m just depressed and I’m so good at hiding it or I’m just so numb to everything. I forget so much of my past and it’s so hard for me to sit with myself and figure out what the fuck is wrong with me. I just lost something so good in my life because I made a big mistake and that’s also something I won’t get over. I can’t win things back and it’s sad to accept reality of things. Sorry for this depressing as post but I don’t have anyone to really talk to
I usually blast my grievances to the greater fediverse. Some passerby may read my woes and wipe a tear.
that’s also something I won’t get over.
Not when you keep repeating that to yourself. Shit sucks, shit will suck for a while, but shit won’t suck forever. It is okay to grief and be sad about good things. But life has to go on. Do things, meet people, force yourself to do it.
It will get better, period. Right now, it feels like it won’t. But you are already reaching out here, that is working on getting better. Keep doing it, and in the meantime, head up, chest out, carry on.
I don’t go anywhere and it’s probably killing me slowly thru vices. I don’t see a better option tho.
TV, Movies, distracting entertainment.
Writing poetry, worldbuilding and write stories in it.
My favorite Youtuber is Jacksepticeye. Vey wholesome, very funny, no weirdness like the other ones. Always have a progressive view on the world. Like you can feel it when he talks about stuff.
I re-watch his old videos to feel the nostalgia.
I don’t have anyone to talk to either, but when ever I hear or read about other’s struggles, on wikipedia, new stories, videos, forum posts, I feel as though I talking to a friend and sharing our struggles. It give you perspective, it make you feel less lonely, knowing that you are not alone, other share similar struggles.
I just lost something so good in my life because I made a big mistake
I saw your previous post and I just want to say, as an internet stranger that only knows what I’ve read, I think that you did nothing wrong and I hope that you reach the point where you can see that and believe it for yourself. I’ll be fair and say that at most, you both fucked up. But that’s just in the interest of fairness towards people I don’t actually know. I don’t believe it though. In fact, the way it went down, it just proves that you had good reason to not be 100% truthful at the start. And I don’t believe the results would’ve been any different anyway. The only thing that I agree with that person about is that you need to believe in your own self worth.
As for your question, let me know if you get a good answer lol. At least being able to get things off your chest on an anonymous platform and hopefully get helpful advice is the next best thing.
It’s so hard to believe my own self worth when I’m always in repeated pain from people. I try so hard man, I’m so tired of it. I’m tired of giving people so much of my energy. I won’t blame myself for everything because I know most of what I did isn’t wrong but I did involve myself I guess in situations where things can go wrong but I never wanted that.
I definitely hear you, in fact I ended up kinda shutting myself off for years just to avoid that pain. But maybe one has to come first. Maybe if your self worth was higher, it wouldn’t be so easy to be hurt by people. People that probably didn’t deserve your company in the first place.
I did involve myself I guess in situations where things can go wrong but I never wanted that.
We live and we learn. There’s no going back and doing things differently (although I fkn wish there was), the only direction is forward. And the best that we can do is learn and grow and maybe do things differently in the future.
Not to sound too much like a fortune cookie though lol. The truth is that I suck at life myself, so I’m not sure if I’m even qualified to be giving this kind of advice. But hopefully there’s something in here that helps.
One thing that I do know is that there’s no magic words that you’re going to hear that will make the current fresh pain that you’re feeling go away. That’ll only happen with time. So hang in there, and be kind to yourself. We’re all just making it up as we go along.
but it’s so hard cuz when I get hurt that makes me feel less worthy. It’s so hard like fuck. I know deep down I don’t deserve this stuff but it just happens to me. It’s like my brains used to this pain that it even mentally prepares me for the worst beforehand. I never believe I can have something good for a long time without me fucking ruining it or whatever
I understand. It is fucking hard. And it’s easy to dish out advice on the internet but you’re the one dealing with all of this. I’m pretty sure it’s not an equal playing field either because some people make it look easy, or have luck, or just start from more privileged positions where they don’t have to deal with the same trials and tribulations.
The way you described things in your previous post, the dating or just flirting scene honestly sounds like a nightmare these days. People offering to pay you for your company? Sounds like it’s almost a normalised thing at the moment but it’s actually creepy. And I’m making an assumption here based on knowing how the world works but I’m guessing that this has been your experience since you were a teenager.
What I’m trying to say is that the world failed you and your generation. You’ve been surrounded by predators and manipulative people and you’ve been led to believe that this is just normal and how life is. Stop me if I’m wrong. Maybe that is life now but it shouldn’t be. And you shouldn’t base your self worth on predators and pick up artists and people that evaluate you based on things like body count.
So maybe, you should take a break from relationships with other people for a little while to work on your relationship with yourself. And maybe rethink and reassess what life has taught you about others and yourself.
I hate being in pain, everyone does haha. So I sound like a hypocrite. I feel ready for a relationship, or atleast thought I did but now that it’s over I’m just broken all over again. That was the first feeling of readiness I had in years. I always love more than I receive and I think that’s what fucks me up in the end
So I sound like a hypocrite
Nah don’t worry about that. Everyone is entitled to a bit of wallowing after heart break lol. Besides, we all get hurt but yours is fresh and real and not just a bad memory yet. And it’s not a competition either, your feelings are just as valid as anyone else’s. I just hope that being able to talk it out at least helped ease the pressure a little bit.
And so much for my suggestion about taking a break lol. I’m sorry that this happened to you. Life fucking sucks lol. I’m all out of fortune cookies now but I know that love fucking hurts, so I understand your pain.
Here to add that this is my problem too, and I have a therapist… that I talk to by phone once every 2-3 weeks (Here in the states psychotherapy openings are impacted so anyone who doesn’t have super-good insurance is on the wayside) and she’s more of a CBT coach.
I’m trying to figure out why anyone is alarmed that I want to head to the check-out lane, given our society elected the party that regards us all as expendable, and very much wants there to be fewer Americans and more elbow room for the MAGAs.
As I’m likely to be elevated on the list of priority persons to get the CECOT treatment, I still need to arrange for a rapid exit strategy for when ICE stormtroopers blast down my apartment door. Kennedy Jr. has some serious beef with us ASD folk, and as someone who is on a fixed income (though I’ve had jobs and even have written poetry) am exactly the sort that he wants to purge.
For the moment, I am currently living for a cat and a dog. I regard them as persons and can’t trust anyone else to. And so am very reluctant to re-home them until I cannot support them any longer. I might be living so as to not traumatize my wife (we’re separated) but lately I seem to be more of an obligation and a burden. It didn’t help she went to a family Easter event to which I was uninvited. I spent the day alone.
What I don’t understand is why elected officials claim that people like me are a burden to the state are distressed by the notion that we might want to self-dispose (This is, or rather was, my only country, my only society) Indeed, the US suicide rate has soared since the Trump era began in 2016. We’re higher than Japan now, and gaining on Russia.
I don’t think it’s that anyone actually cares about me, I’m an abomination, like The Outsider in HP Lovecraft’s story of the same name. They just don’t want to process the cadaver and meager legacy I would leave.
Anyway, I go off and on suicide watch, but in these times, we’re all expendable, and sooner or later going to be removed from the new MAGA society to be stuffed into a megaprison gulag. I’ve been told by 77 million American voters they don’t want me around. I don’t understand the drama if I immolate myself in front of a state building. Is this not what they want?
PS: Wife and family are considering giving me ECT, the same stuff that Hemmingway and David Foster Wallace tried before they decided it didn’t work.
This is the despair that your fellow countrymen are missing somehow. It breaks my heart. I can honestly say that in your position I’m not sure what I would do. I have been close to suicide many times. More than I can actually remember. For a while it was just a daily chore to make it to the next. Somehow I continued. I found a way to fight for myself. Eventually I found a new partner who didn’t treat me like an expendable bank card and crazy weirdo and along with them I built a good life. A hard life but a good one.
Hang in there. It can get better. I’m not sure what you do to turn it around but please know that other humans care about what is happening to you simply because you are also human. That it matters how you feel and what will make you happy. Don’t let them just take that from you. Go down screaming and kicking and biting the bastards.
I’m trying to figure out why anyone is alarmed that I want to head to the check-out lane
You already provided a whole list of people that should check out before you do. Why would anyone want you gone when the horrible fuckers aren’t going anywhere?
Nowhere? Sit with my own sadness. Go to the gym and work my frustration out on weights. Play games and forget? Unfortunately none of them healthy coping mechanisms, but talking to close ones leads to more issues because I’m very bad at putting my feelings into words without causing distress to others apparently. So inwards it goes.
Not as if the universe cares, so why should I?..
the second one (gym) is definitely healthy and the first one debatably is, depends on how you’re doing it.
it might be valuable to you to look into stoicism, that’s what the first one sounds like to me
Sorry for this depressing as post but I don’t have anyone to really talk to
Don’t feel sorry.
Have you considered writing in a journal? I started as a little boy myself (now well into my 50s) and it helped me tremendously all my life and still does to this day.
As a child, I could certainly not speak with my dad or my mom despite or because of the things that happened to me. Even ignoring my family, a lot of my thoughts I simply could not share them with my best friend as he would not have understood most of it. Writing in my journal, discussing with myself in my journal, was my way of dealing with that absolute loneliness (after I quickly learned to make said journal unreadable to my inquisitorial mother that would quickly find it and read it no matter how hard I tried to hide it)
I did for a bit and then stopped. I will try to continue with that. It did feel good
I come here.
You may notice I’m here a lot.
Same, I like this group of people on Lemmy, I’ve had interactions on here that have made me feel good about myself and quite often the reason I’m smiling.
I don’t know y’all, but I’m glad y’all are here.
You too, dumbass. You too ❤️
You are 200% ok in my books!
Find a therapist. Online therapy can be affordable and accessible.
But please DO NOT USE “BETTER HELP” its a fucking scam.
It might be a scam, but I talked to someone through better help for a few weeks. She helped me get rid of my overall negativity really fast. She didn’t teach me anything revolutionary, but she made me face the issue face on. 2y later and I haven’t fallen back into my old ways. So for me personally, it was an absolute success story.
I have other issues like every human being, but I am not a Debby downer anymore around others
that’s also something I won’t get over
This is a tell tale sign of depression; the feeling that there is no “better” ahead. I could tell you there is but it might be hard to believe.
In my situation, I have a person by my side always who I trust completely. So I have somebody to help keep my head and memory clear… and I still get depressed sometimes. Hang in there.
I am an old man. I have often felt like this a lot in my life. I also have had problems with PTSD and depression from my history. Within the past few years my kids have been diagnosed with various neuro divergencies and this has taught me much about myself and this way if thinking.
I have learned fairly recently that a lot of my feelings like this are related to the differences in my brain and a so called “normal” brain and learning about why I had this thought process really has helped me understand why this happens to me. It all was because I cared about my kids and saw the same things happening to them. I just wanted them to avoid all the mental anguish I experienced in life.
It has been so enlightening and mostly came from sitting with them during their diagnosis and treatments and learning about how these things are genetic (possibly why it’s so difficult to talk to your family about it as well) and passed from parents to kids.
Go to a doctor. You are Canadian I assume by your user name. Tell them how you feel. Ask for a referral to a mental health professional. Depending on where you live there may also be a mental health help line to do all that stuff so you don’t actually have to go anywhere.
Please take care of yourself. Should you find that I am someone you could perhaps talk to about your problems feel free to reach out. If not I encourage you to find someone. Keeping all that inside leads to more problems than fewer and can easily destroy your life and those you love when unchecked and unchallenged. You can do this! One step at a time and one day at time.
I’m sorry for what you’ve been through. You know, I never blame my parents for anything that they caused me to be or experience. I know it’s their first time living life, they won’t be perfect and we all live once. We all make mistakes and I forgive my father for everything he’s done to me. I grew up to disappoint him I guess so we would get into plenty of arguments (physical, verbal, etc) and it never was good. We wouldn’t talk for months and close to a year at one point and that is what really destroyed me inside. Feeling abandoned in a way. Feeling abandoned but living in the same house? Maybe I’m crazy but that’s how it felt. We are good now, we did have a fight not long ago where some rude things were said but I brushed it off and we talked not long after. But I think what haunts me is that I don’t think I can talk to him normally / look at him in the eyes for a long time without feeling fear. It saddens me. I did sign up for psychotherapy and I believe my first meeting (I think a call) is in may. I’m worried I won’t know where to begin or what to say. I tend to forget so much about my past.
Forgetfulness can be tied to both PTSD and neuro divergency. The brain is a complicated thing. It certainly sounds like the trauma you experienced from your arguments and treatment from your father could be a possibility for why you are feeling this way. I am no mental health expert for sure but I have worked in emergency medicine extensively and experienced these things in my own life.
It’s a tough world and the chaos that surrounds us now will weigh heavily in those with any form of mental illness or distress. Please just know you aren’t alone. There are many of us out here experiencing the same things and some of us have even managed these feelings and thrived within our own lives.
Yea I’m assuming that’s what it is to be honest. I forget so much but I know I went through much u know. It sucks so much. I’m not sure about neuro divergence but I’m going to look more into it. I’m scared I won’t be able to get over it. I don’t want to live in fear from the ones who are suppose to love me and vice versa. I can’t even maintain eye contact properly with people anymore and I feel like I’m always sorry or saying sorry to people and it’s so draining to me. I just want a break. Like I wanna be gone but not in that way. Just like gone from everything
Please don’t wait for the appointment. Push it. See doctors until someone takes you seriously. It’s a problem in our medical system across the nation that people with mental health problems often get ignored or forced to wait because it’s not seen as on par with physical medical distress. The feelings you are having and the fact you are reaching out is important. It’s a sign that it’s not ok for you no matter how much you try to normalize it in your own mind.
It’s ok to ask for help. It’s ok to be demanding for your own health benefit. No one will advocate for you except you when it comes to your health and mental well being. You can do this and it can get better. It doesn’t have to be like this for you.
I daydream. I’ll “go” somewhere else. I know it’s no more than me talking to myself, but I’ll daydream someone who really likes me or cares for me, and I’ll “talk” to them. Not really to fix it, but to kind of resolve it.
I was extremely unpopular in school and I’m an only child of a single mother. I spent a lot of time by myself, and still do. I’ve had a lot of practice.
No where. There’s only so many times I can be ignored and be okay with it, or have my hand slapped when I reach out.