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I Am Depressed And Hate My Life

I am a shadow of my former self. No longer do I even remember what the girl in the mirror looked like, but I hate the image I see now. I have spent the last few years distancing myself from human love and empathy in a sick perverted way of protecting myself, but still something fell through the cracks. My biggest mistake was to let myself feel again. Foolish choice. The sooner you leave a hole in your defenses, the quicker you find the knife in your back. And it hurts. I can deal with the pain, but not the emotional damage. Not enough whiskey and stitches to fix that festering wound. Might have to burn it out. Cauterize the infection before it kills me. It will probably hurt. Hell. I expect it will be agonizing. Performing open heart surgery is hard enough. But trying to gather the glass shards of what remains of your fragile aspect of love, pull them out of your tender flesh, and renove it entirely? It will be agony. But they say, as soon as its gone, it won't hurt anymore. What's left will be a phantom limb. A beating heart? Sure. It will function as well as it always has. But no need for the soul. Its only ever cost you. Toss it aside, with all of your passions and joys. No need for it in this world. It sells for little on the market as it stands. Better in the trash. But I am stalling. Just rambling with shaking hands, unready to tear out my soul. But it hurts to bad to keep it. And I don't see a use for it in the future. After this, I will get a door mat. Better for people to wipe their feet off that after feelings are gone. Well. Here I go. Doctor. I need 3 shots of whiskey stat.
Pseudonym · 26-30, M
It's hard to love or trust people when you've been betrayed. Harder still, is to love yourself when all your joy has melted into the inky black void, sticky streams drowning you along with it. Personally, I still find it difficult to love myself. To accept the evil in my heart. And it manifests itself through my desire for isolation, and my discomfort in receiving affection from even those who should be close to me. I've experienced years of numbness, depression and self-loathing. I've dragged my body and mind through the mud - through the dark, stinking bog pits of life feeling like I deserved every second of the pain. And even so, I hated myself even more for it. For being so weak. So utterly pathetic and contemptible. I dreamed of holding a gun under my chin, wondering if I'd find a second of courage - among the thousands passing - to pull the trigger.

Yet here I am. Stable. Climbing my way back out of the hell that I crawled into. And for the first time in years I don't hate myself. It is no exaggeration to say that if I hadn't been very fortunate, for the events that changed the course of my life back onto an upward spiral, I'd have ended up at best in prison, or more likely dead.

Do not give up on yourself. Even if you hate yourself so fully that you cannot see any way out. Even when the world is caving in, and the mountains of pressure are crushing the breath out of you, keep breathing. Forget poetic licence for a moment. Fuck talking in metaphors. You will be harder and stronger than every other fucker out there who had it easy. Every silver spoon that they were given will mean shit all, when the iron you tasted made you iron. Nothing will stop you if you just keep going. Trust me. By scraping the bottom of the barrel, you're readying yourself for heights you can't yet imagine. Love can heal anything.

I wish I could tell you about what I've been through, but even if I wanted to I couldn't. Make a self for you to love, and you'll love you for it.
SW-User
I can relate to your first line but it sounds like you've been really hurt in some way, way worse than i have or can imagine. I hope things can get better for you but i know from experience it's hard to turn things around when they've changed so drastically. I think you have more hope though because of your age. Lots more options and good things can happen. I am wishing the best for you.
SoFine · 46-50, F
These 2 life tools are for you to establish for you.
A. Your worth of self.
B. Your self love.
To establish these 2 tools, are for you to figure out, they are your life job. They will anchor you in you. They will be your stable table, so when hurts happen then you have an anchor in you.

The gold in life is to meditate. With meditation we become more attune to our mind chatter. Those thoughts you have with you, about you, about life. If we don't challenge these thoughts, as we believe them to be the truth of us.

Begin with healing music meditation, then give this gift to you, mind silence, deep peace, inner peace. If you value you, then daily meditate, in time, your inner peace will come. On YouTube are many to listen to.

You are your own happiness in life, use meditation to get there.

To be
To be at peace

 
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