feeling out. far away. it cant be the whole world thats upside down, it must be me. i cant live like normal people. im beautiful outside and ugly inside; i feel it when i get in contact with people, im ugly inside. i dont like letting people in my life but then i wonder whats the point of living if i cant let people in my life. And with those already in my life i cant be genuine because i know how they want me to be; they want me to smile, they want me to come back on earth but im floating in the air, i cant get a grip on reality and i feel contradiction between my cheeks and my state of mind when i smile. i wonder, what can i do? because it must be something inside of me, the world is not that bad, is it? it must be that there's a filter that changes my perceptions of things when i set my eyes on them. my best friend knows that i have this problem, but i dont even tell her how i feel anymore. i want to get out of the country, stay away so i wont hurt her anymore, because she tried to help me and its my fault if it doesnt work, its my fault if i still dont have the will to live. but if i get out of their (my friends) life, they will think its selfish, even if i am feeling like this is a sacrifice to take out a dark spot in their life. i wasnt like that before. im 17 now, and its been 2~3 years that i feel disconnected from the world from time to time, but this year its getting even harder, though nothing especially bad happened in my life this year that would make a normal person depressed. im having suicidal thoughts. and its not for fun :( i dont know how to deal with it anymore. i feel like everything i do to get a grip is a short-term solution. i think that if i disappear that would be a relief for my friends. i think that if i disappear by killing myself, my friends will be tangled with guilty thoughts (i dont wish that for them). how can i be?
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Im sorry about that feeling. i know how it feels. your describing my life seven years ago in grim detail. Its a bit creepy really. espcially the disapearing bit. How i wish i was never there at all, then no one would ever miss me and they would all be happier for it. I also wished that if i did disapear that i could still watch there lifes unfold, because i care deeply for them.
Sound like what your going through?
thank you for the comment. well i guess all depressed people sound the same…
not sure if i want to stay and “watch there life unfold” but yes, i care for them and thats the big issue.
i feel disconnected, its not good for them to hang out with disconnected people, you know what i mean?
i really dont know how to get back to life. its like im living in the past.
i tried to act normal, but i always end up somewhere else, i cant concentrate, i cant react to whats happening around.
its very frustrating, because theres no one to blame, there seems to be no “trigger” that changes my mood this drastically.
if you went through the same thing… would you say theres a way to save me from myself?
Wow you didnt mention mood changes in your post! how often do they change. To what extreames. You could be developing a chemical imbalance in the brain.
I see alot of that in my line of work.
well, it depends… sometimes it changes after a week or two, sometimes during a single day. i can wake up thinking: “life is short i should fully enjoy the day”. when that happens i feel like saying hi to everyone i see and i like looking for new music. then when i come back home i could be thinking: “life passes by like a flash, its sad because it will never have a meaning” then i dont want to see anyone because i feel like crying for no reason.
and then theres the worst feeling, the one i described in this post. its not sad, its an empty kind of feeling. then i CANT see anyone.
those 3 moods are pretty much the conditions of my existence recently. as you can see i am conscious of these feelings and that makes it worst because i know that i cant control myself and well my self-esteem goes lower every time that happens 🙁
if theres a name for this and you know it please tell me, because if it had a neck i’d so be squeezing it