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MDTSenior Contributor
I'm really worried about my future...
There's so much effort required to get anywhere in life and I don't think I can do it.
I'm always worried that I won't 'get there'
For someone my age I'm very worried and very stressed as well as not being very optimistic about the future..
I'm just afraid and concerned and I hate it..
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MDTSenior Contributor
hey @outlander
It's just so isolating going through this depression and anxiety....
Do you ever find that hearing or seeing just ONE person who is happy can actually be enough to shatter your own sense of self?
Because I feel like lately I have just been kidding myself around
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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outlanderSenior Contributor
its hard to make choices when we just want life to get better isnt it @MDT its either our options are so many its overwhelming or we dont have options at all. id rather too many options tbh.
i hope things start to work out for you soon too
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MDTSenior Contributor
i have to be honest
i hate friday and saturday nights
i also feel like the attempts at being positive are fake... just that i shouldn't be happy or proud of myself because i am in a bad position... i know i set high standards but i can't help but wonder if wanting to be independent is a 'high standard'... I'm sick of being alone and I know how stupid that sounds. I just want to know what to do with my life and I'm worried about my safety (in the sense that I might end up homeless or something because I ruin my life's chances). I'm sick of seeing people around me find happiness and love and I'm still where I was 5 years ago. All I will get is a degree at the end of the year.
I don't even know what I want in life. All this time I've been idly going by and I hate myself for it. I thought I was doing okay, and I know I have made attempts at things in life but I still can't see any light.
I know my family loves me but I just can't see hope. When I can't see hope I don't try. I don't try then I fail at my life.
I can't handle weekends anymore. I can't handle TV. I can't handle social media. I can't handle radio. I can't handle music. I can't handle people's mundane crap. I just want people to love and respect me. I want to be able to whisper sweet nothings in the ear of a girl who feels the same about me... why can everyone else do it and I can't? What's so wrong about me? Am I ugly? Am I weird? Am I too tall like people say?
I feel like a panzy at times too. I just want to man up and stop being pushed by the world. I want to do my own thing in my life and sort it out but I can't because of this bloody mental health crap. It's been so long that I've gone on a date. The amount of good looking girls I've seen and I just get upset at myself for not being able to approach them. I might as well give up and face the music. I'm going to be stuck at home for the rest of my life. There is no point contacting the helplines/call services because they don't take me seriously. No one on those things does. They always think I must be okay because I am studying at uni and 'work'. I have no money. I have no career prospects. I am sick of being this loser, asshole who can't sort his life out. I'm the laughing stock of everyone. It's why people have abandoned me...
@outlander@Faith-and-Hope@TAB@soul@Sans911@Former-Member@Queenie@Former-Member
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QueenieSenior Contributor
I know it is a small consolation, but you needn't feel like the world has abandoned you here on the boards @MDT. I too hate social media. My 'peers', people I went to high school with are all posting about their successful careers, their plans, their kids, their mortgages, their successes and failures. I feel like I am far detracted from that, that I am in total awe of them. They are out living life (whatever that is), while I languish away in the world of psychiatrists, medications and therapy. It's a world a few around me in reality know about or want to know about. I can't help but feel like I'm missing out. I often feel like the world has chewed me up and spat me out again, used and broken.
I hear you @MDT, I really do. But do not lose faith, I am confident your time will happen. As will mine. We can't be in the dark forever. Like you said, at the end of the year you will have your degree. At the beginning of next year I am starting my return to education. I guess it's a small consolation too, having our smarts, but it is something we have to grasp with both hands and use what we do have I guess.
Sitting with you. You're definitely not alone.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Not alone @MDT @Queenie ...., 💕
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MDTSenior Contributor
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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