I have never been able to work out why I cannot find happiness. I come from a very wealthy family in NY, and yes I could easily be reffered to as spoilt but no matter what I get given and no matter where I go I am always severly depressed. There is no doubt that I am unlucky…my father had an affair which led to the end of my parents marriage and I havent seen him for two years now. I have never really been deeply affected by the exit my father made as I was always a ‘mummys girl’ its just when I come into contact with families that appear so normal and happy the feelings start to kick in. I have been slitting my wrists for the past year and I cannot figure out why we all do it, we just have to sometimes.
Everyday there is a dispute between my mother and I feel that I am the cause for her unhappiness. I go to the best schools, have the best cars and live in the nicest houses etc…but money has never brought me happiness. Two weeks ago my boyfriend to whom I lost my virginity with and was deeply in love with broke up with me…he knew of my sucidal thoughts and yet he did not end the relationship lightly. I havent been able to leave the house and everyday I find myself just wanting to escape the world.
To many I know, it may seem that I am over-reacting and making a big deal out of nothing, but you never know how ones life really is until you have to live it.
I have been seeing a counsellor for the past two years and I still cannot confess all the things that have happened to me in my lifetime to her..I am scared that she will put me into a mental hosipital. I was relieved to read everyones stories on here and know that there are others.
I have been surronded my false people my whole life, being treated differently because of my familys wealth. Within all the fake smiles and airbrushed lifestyles I found one person I could trust with my view on the world around me, one person who understood me, cared for me and taught me how to fall in love. Now that person has betrayed me like anyone else I ever knew. All I want is him back, maybe for him to tell me he loves me one last time. The pain I feel right now in unbearable…without him I am nothing.
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Firstly, I am so sorry that this guy left you, it is clearly his loss. If he was able to break your heart so easily despite your fragile state, then he was not right for u in the first place. you’re probably feeling low because the men in your life seem to let you down so much..
it’s important to know that not everyone is like that. give yourself some time to detach yourself emotionally from your ex, and get back out there. stop punishing yourself for something you didnt do, this will mean they’ve gotten the better of you. show them how strong you are, and i’d like the see the look on ur ex’s face when he sees that he hasnt succeeded in breaking your spirit!!
for now though, take it one day at a time, do something to keep yourself occupied, and start looking ahead in your lifed. i realize it must be hard since he was ur first love, but it takes much more than that to break a strong woman’s spirit..good luck with everything, i hope you feel better.
What makes you feel so depressed?
I’m not sure if you read any of my posts, but I feel similar to you. I have plenty of money but I’m not “wealthy” by any means but my life is extremely low-stress and I have no typical worries to speak of, except I’ve never been happy and find it hard to create meaningful relationships.
I feel like my life (and yours as well) could be amazing but likewise I definitely have realized money does not bring happiness. I’m sure if any of my friends knew how I felt they’d tell me to quit bitching and listen to their “real” problems..
Really though I’m curious what makes you feel so depressed? I have a feeling you’re young, but at some point you will be able to get away from it all and live life on your own terms. I think of it as suicide of your current lifestyle. People wouldn’t even need to know of your/family’s wealth and they can accept you for you. Likewise though I have a hard time finding someone who understands me 🙁
Well, I have thoroughly read your story and have a full understanding that you are experiencing it with deep stress. However, I feel positive about your chances to overturn 180 degrees your current situation. Not straight away if you want to take your time, but, being clear that you are intelligent, it would just take that you decide to get out of your current life, from which all your misfortunes come, and awake yourself to other realities.
I know your picture very well, if you think you are wealthy, you would be begging for bread compared to my family in America, yet, just as you, their daughter has the same kind of problems.
At the age of 18 she already has a 5 million dollar apartment in London, a row of boys she bonks with whenever she wants, but she is mentally not very well I would say.
An American psychologist is the worst ever creature you should come close to. Someone (the American psychologist) who has been brougth up in a worthless society, lacking in the most fundamental values, there is no way they can counsel anybody. There is nothing abnormal in you, you dont have any sort of psychological disturbance whatsoever. You are perfectly capable of discerning facts and assessing them, except when it comes to see yourself amidst a milieu of lack of everything, aside from money.
If you had been born in Russia, or in any place where you had had to wrestle with life, you would not have those millionaires occupations of the mind. Basically you have the luxury (and the curse) of the rich. The only thing that would be missing to complete the picture is that you say you suffer from migraigne. Depression and headaches is always what millionaire women complain about.
So, because of the great potential you have inside you as you are intelligent, sensitive to feel the pain, make a plan in your life, fix yourself for this summer to go to some Non Govermental Organization Mission to some miserable country in the world, and get involved in there. Go to Russia, go to Beslan, visit the children who were taken hostages by the muslim terrorists and go into their homes. Live with them. Or go to South America, Bolivia, go to the salt mines, and see people making 5 dollars a day working 16 hours a day.
I guarantee, when you return, you will not recognize yourself, you will have become 10 years older, you will be more mature, and you can tell your psychologist that it is over with the psycho game. Now, this is not a thing to do once and that is it. You will be committed for life to helping other people.
What is happening to you does not come from you. It comes from your family, from that family of wealthy people who buy you expensive cars, (wtf do you need an expesive car for?) can you not see it? do you think it is an intelligent move from the parents to buy the teenager daughter an expensive car? That very much tells me the kind of values that they have passed on to you, and that is, as I say, where your disconfort comes from.
The family I told you about, mine in America. The mother was probably the second or third richest family in America, back in the years 1980. The mother never told her daugther about their fortune. She put her in a common school, she made her work to buy her first (second hand car) at the age of 18. 1000 dollars.
When the mother died, she was 39. She still didnt have a clue about what was coming. When she was called to the Notary to learn about the will of her mother, she was told she was receiving 1000 million dollars in notes alone, plus properties, skyscrapers etc.
Guess what she did? booze up and engage in sex with men? No. She went to work the day after, and since that day, she has not stopped helping people around the world, and she is the healthiest most stable woman and best woman I have ever known.
“What Happy People Know” By Dan Baker. Please read ASAP.
i’m sorry that you’re going through this. the world smiles at us all as it sucks our life away. i’m glad that you realized this.
i don’t think you’re overreacting at all. it is very smart of you to care about these problems.
you can survive, please don’t let yourself be dependent upon someone else. your own two legs can support your body, just like you can support yourself. you’re alright.
please talk to me if you would like to. i’d like to talk to you. my contact info is at skull09.net
don’t let yourself think that among all the problems in the world, there’s no solution. there is a solution.
take care please
You sound beautiful.
I think you should travel. Use your families wealth to fund a trip around the world. Start with something simple – like Spanish lessons in south america for a month … It will be a new environment with new problems and merits. And you’ll be busy and you’ll have a routine. Then you can find a volunteer project. That will make you feel good about yourself and keep you busy.
I’m also depressed. In a month I plan to go to Equador to take Spanish lessons. I hate NY and I hate my family. I feel bored and ostracized here.
Grushenka: the way you feel (hate NY/bored/ostracized) sounds a lot like me and I’m trying a similar cure. I live in another city that I’ve hated forever.. I’m tired of hating everything all the time.. taking a 2 month vacation, then moving somewhere I think I love.