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14th year house bound

14th year house bound

Hi Everyone,

I am new hear, after being removed from other mental health forums for my depressive thoughts i thought i would give this forum a try, this is my story.

I am 33 live with my mother, i am almost compeatly housebound, i leave my house once in the morning for a walk at 6am and maybe once during the week, both times i leave the house fill me with great anxiety, i have no friends, (the last friend i had was in 2001), i have never had a job, never had a girlfriend and never been able to leave my parents side, my father died in 2001 and i have always suffered seperation anxiety the last time i had a night away from home was 1994 for one night (parents had to pick me up at midnight because i was so frantic).

I have spent most of the past 14 years in my room, or the shed, never much out of the yard, no one in my town knows me, people stare and ask each other behind my back if any one knows who i am.

I have only had an income for the past year and spend the previous 7 with no income at all, mum had to use all of her life savings to allow me to live with her and she now has nothing.

I only want to live long enough to care for her in her old age and then i plan to take my own life, i knew from an early age my life would turn out like this, but had no idea how horrible it would be, every day is the same, i often wonder why i keep going, i have very little contact with family (maybe once a year) and i am really struggling to keep going.

Please don't feel distressed about what i am saying, and i am so sorry if i have offended anyone, it is just how i feel.

Their is so much more, but i will leave it at that for the moment, i am shaking and the anxiety is kicking in so thankyou for reading and i will add more later.

Jacques

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it's over Karen, you have done well, i am going to the back door now to take some deep breaths, please do the same

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Hi Jacques and Karen,

Well.. I'm not sure what you both thought of tonight. I'm actually a little teary... in a good way. So nice to see how they are doing and just an overwhelming feeling of wanting them to continue to do well.

What did you both think?

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Well @NikNik, it was nice to see them temporarily well, but long term future for most of them will be in and out of MHU, i don't know what the answer is until their is more breakthrough's in the brain, and neuro science.

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ok Jacques it's time for you to look after yourself.

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Karen i am here if you want to talk, or i am just here if you want to sit with me. sending you a virtual hug, Hang in their Karen, you have me in your corner, we will fight on together.

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Nik I agree with Jacques, when I left the mhu after my first visit, they told me I would be back. I didn't believe them. It's just a revolving door.

I am glad there was some improvement for them.

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thanks for the hug Jacques I need it. Are you ok?

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I am a little shaky, low, and wondering what the future holds for me, thinking about another year of life wasted, generally feeling sorry for myself, how are you feeling?

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I feel that I'm one of those in the too hard basket they can't help me so I get put back in the mhu. I have never left the mhu feeling any better than when I went in.

Overwhelmed and hopeless.

I feel that the girls will be better off without me

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Karen you do so much with the girls, so much at the school, at home, on hollidays, they would be devistated without you Karen, i know you don't feel that way, but i can tell you, when i was a child i would have been devistated if my parents where not their, Karen you are a wonderful person and a loving, caring mum.

I know how you are feeling, i feel overwhelmed and disconnected, i have all day. I think this documentary is just hitting to close to home for the both of us. How are you going to distract tonight?

I am listening to music now, and talking to my best friend , and maybe watch a movie later, how about you?

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