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Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Hi all.

I have made a new thread here. I need to do this to make it feel real and important or else it'll just be another comment I make on an already existing thread. There are many areas in my life where I feel like giving up. I don't really care how irrational it may sound. I don't care if it's silly. It's just how it is for me at the moment.

I've never been as good as what I am now (on paper) and I put that down to the supportive environment here on the forums.


But I am struggling again.

There are many things on my mind and in my life that are causing me to rethink a lot of what I thought I knew about family and friends. I need to review some things again.

I am also getting lazy around my physical health and diet. I eat a lot more rubbish and I've put on some weight (in the bad way). I used to be quite skinny but then I went to the gym and sorted that out. But lately I have had 0 motivation for exercise because I find it so boring. It's just really boring. I have no enjoyment in it anymore. I think I never really did, but I did it just to be healthy. Now I just don't care. I don't see any utility in doing it anymore.

I feel like giving up on dating. There are just too many fake people in the world and I am exhausted by it. I am also thinking that my lack of relationship in early 20s and late teens is a turn off for many girls my age. I'm trying to see the benefits in my situation but I don't believe there are any.

My sister's health is progressively getting worse. So is her social health. She is having fights with her friends. Mum babies her about a lot. It's not helping. Dad has given up I think. And he is also likely doing "things" behind my mum's back and she is turning a blind eye to it. I have no input on any of that so I simply have to sit by and watch it go down.

I hate my job but getting money is important. I had this conversation with my parents the other day. They seem to have the belief that I can get into something I want to do. I don't. I am trying to find the light and the way forward with that but I don't know how they can see it. I have a desire to go into journalism/writing. But that environment is so political and I don't think I'm able to "pick a side". My internship taught me how I can do it. But it's just such an effort. I don't know if I have the stamina to get there.

I think that's all I can think of for now. I am sitting here on my pc playing a videogame and waiting for food to arrive. I am worried I will just get worse if nothing is done. But that urgency seems small compared to anything else I can do.

In a nutshell - I am not well.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Very tempted to fake a sick day today
On way to work though.
Feel so stuck

Sorry

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Well done for going @MDT

Give it your best. 😄

Emelia 🌷

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Take it easy/get help hams @MDT

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I'll see how we go @TAB @Emelia8

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Good on you for going to work, even though you were tempted not to @MDT

You never know, it might turn out to be a good day?!? Fingers crossed 🤞🤞

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It is what it is @WIP

There was some level of re assurance as my colleague whom I thought complained about me mustn't have done so. She is here today working near us. I actually thought she'd requested to be moved elsewhere after a bad move on my part. Well not bad. But just a slip up by tagging someone in an email who shouldn't have been in it.

But alas there are more pressing concerns on my mind and heart these days - namely whether or not I take a month off

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

@MDT That is reassuring regarding your colleague - that she didn't complain. Sounds like there wasn't anything for her to complain about in the first place.

If you take a month off work, what are your plans for that month?


I hope your day continues to go along ok.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Morning tea
Coffee time
Or ham's hour

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Lunch
Hams Hour 2.0

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@MDT

Hi Ham -

It sounds soul-destroying - being in a job you hate during a pandemic - and the people you work with seem to be just as lost - maybe they cope with it differently - it seems like the pits to me

And it seems you have depression - I don't really know enough of your story - I know a lot happens in your thread that I don't get to read - it moves very fast - but having something like depression and anxiety adds to our interpretation of life - and in a really dry, unsatisfying environment you must feel lost - and maybe some time out and maybe looking for another job would be an alternative

When do you take that step? That's a hard question - or maybe the question is easy and the answer is hard - I don't know enough about your financial situation to know if it would be better to just resign and look for a better position

I'm thinking of you - it sure ain't easy being green - you are very honest with us here - and it does look bleak - I have just the pic here somewhere - you seem to have the bleakies - and I am sorry about that - having had the bleakies from time to time

Dec

I like this better than the Bleakies - this is the Frustration at the Situation - I think.

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