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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

World is an absolute shit show with no signs of improving, personal life just keeps turning upside down, everything makes me terminally tired. I am trying to remain positive and be a positive force for others. I do stuff to make me feel better, like art, take walks, talk to a therapist, grow plants, community work - and I do manage to squeeze a tiny happiness out of my activities but it doesn't seem to be worth the effort. I try to connect with people and quite a few people actually seem to like me but socializing makes me feel exhausted. I catch myself thinking "Let the fucking war arrive and burn it all down" and that's terrifying stuff to carry in one's own head. I just feel I'm part of the overpopulation and that there's no point of existing.

I have a kid and don't want them to be sad because their crazy parent offed themselves and that's all that keeps me going.

Those of you feeling like this: what keeps you going?

EDIT: Wow, this has been quite a day. Thanks for your answers and advice, it was so far the darkest day I found on my path and you really helped me through it! I'd like to send a virtual hug to all, especially those who seem to be struggling as much as I do and who stay around for the sake of their loved ones, or simply out of spite and anger. The heavy tension-inducing weather that was been brewing here all morning finally unloaded into an impressive thunderstorm with bucket loads of rain, and then a friend arrived telling me she was feeling quite the same way (the weather clearly didn't help today!), and she inspired me to host a meeting I wanted to do since a long time, so I finally set up a date for it and announced it. So here we go again, despite or with the rage, the spite, the heavy heart. See you tomorrow, hopefully with some sun to try that 'baking cookies in my car' thing I just found in the shitposting community. At least there will be cookies to go with the doom tomorrow!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Nice try fed agent, you are not getting my will to live

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I find suicide distasteful and seek glory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The idea that maybe in the future i will be in a better place than now, that i'll be financially stable and i'll work a job that i like and where i can keep a good balance between it and my personal life. (Im beyond delusional)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My kids and my partner, they’re amazing and they all think the world of me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That, also cat and dog. I am the feeder, brusher, vet-taker. Mr. Meowmeow and Ms. Fluffy would be very sad. That won't do at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The mitochondria.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a kid and don’t want them to be sad because their crazy parent offed themselves and that’s all that keeps me going.

For me it's the opposite, I'm someone's "kid" and I don't want to hurt them. It's literally the only reason I'm still here, I'm just waiting for my older relatives to pass and then I can go eat a shotgun or something.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Responsibility mostly, no kids thank God but animals would suffer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The desperate hope that a "good guy with a gun" will show up and rescue us like they promised.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hate. Hate for the world. Hate for myself. I've seen my reflection in the obsidian mirror. If Tezcatlipoca was real I would live for the laughter he must have at my expense for my misery. Tezcatlipoca isn't real and I hate that.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The prospect of leaving behind a man's corpse if I were to die now.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Mom would be sad" was basically the only thought that carried me through my most suicidal years. So I guess it'd be "kid would be sad" for you. In any case fake it 'til you make it if all else fails, that was what they taught us in dialectical behavior therapy by the way of willingness & half-smile (or at least that is how I internalized it). Another thought that has been keeping me going since those suicidal years is "this too shall pass" with or without the additional "away" in the end, by which I have come to understand the transient nature of everything; the only constant is change, and it is inevitable. This combined with some personal growth in understanding of global geopolitical and economical concepts (straight up communism bro) has lead me to believe that better times are indeed coming, and although it may not be us alive right now who will be here to see those better days, we should not lose hope for the future. Someone once said that "wise men plant trees under whose shade they will never rest" or something, so I'd maybe encourage you to pick up again your hobbies that you listed: art, walks, talking, plant growing and community work and try to focus on what's at hand, not what has been or could be or is somewhere else. You cannot affect any of those, so why worry about them?

I understand that the current global political and economical unrest is scary, but if it's not currently threatening your life (or say your kid's life) or stopping you from enjoying the things you are doing currently then it's not really worth worrying about those, is it? I myself found help through DBT, it's a long-form therapy used among others for emotional dysregulation disorders – like borderline personality disorder (that's me!) – but it has many concept I believe should be in standard school curriculum globally, and the resources are available online as well as in print.

In any case, I hope the best for you. Raising children in the current global situation is no doubt incredibly anxiety inducing, and though it is good to stay strong for your children, it isn't advisable to suffer because of your children so to say. It is good that you evidently know how to ask for help, and probably are capable to receive it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's never been a time where the world was conflict free, and people merrily skidoodled around.

Happyness is as much internal, as it is influenced by your environment. It takes both. And the relationship is bi-directional.

Blaming the latter for the first, is a dead end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hope that people will smash the chains that bind them... and undying hatred for the rich, the cops, the politicians, and the rest of the monsters when that hope disappears.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I do keep Eat The Rich and Smash Some Shit as my secret plan C. Seems better than just leaving this world quietly. But I sometimes wonder if I'm past that point already and will just keep fading away in hopelessness as a lot of others seem to do.

Suppressed hatred towards the powerful who don't give a shit is maybe the underlying feeling I carry, and maybe that's why my usual strategy of being a positive force seems to fail lately. There's too much anger about the state of things to even care about anything anymore. Then again, adding to the anger that is already in the world seems such a horrible thing. Shouldn't we be building a better world instead of destroying stuff?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Adderall and antidepressants

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I used to have tobacco and weed for that. Gave it up recently as I don't want to be alive only because my brain craves the next dose of [substance]. But it's a working solution and I have been considering going back to it.

Maybe my brain is just adjusting to raw reality and happiness will return, but just watching any random bit of news these days makes me doubt that very much.

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