I have been on this site for about a month now. Â I have read a lot of posts and commented on some. Â Meanwhile I struggle more and more everyday. Â I feel like I am screaming please help me but all I hear is things like “you’ll feel better when the spring comes”, or “you’ll feel better when you get back to work”. Â A little background, I have been off work for 3 years because I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Â I have told my psychiatrist that I am feeling depressed, eating and sleeping too much but even he doesn’t understand how much I am struggling right now. Â I think of how worthless I am and how much strain I have put on everyone else in my life. Â Nobody wants to hire me, all I do now is lie in bed all day, I trace the veins and arteries in my arm and imagine cutting myself. Â I am a cutter anyway but I imagine deep slashes. Â I wish someone would hear me. Â I still go out sometimes, but when I do, I come home and cry, I can feel how people look at me, they know I am worthless too. Â They can see into my mind and see how bad a person I am, they can see the demons inside me so now I am spending more time alone. Â I hope someone reads this and maybe understands how I feel.
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Being unemployed makes me feel worthless too. I spend most of my days in isolation confined to my room. All I can say is be strong, fight, and hang in there buddy. Love yourself as best u can. I hear you screaming. Take Care
Sometimes I see my self falling backwards from roof top on spikes. And they pierce my chest. While other times just bleeding from Slash’s on my left hand.
For some really odd reason I can’t get employed as well…
That sucks…
Wow. It’s understandable that you are struggling and suffering so much. It is so invalidating to not feel understood by other people and to feel like other people are minimizing your issues and feelings. That exacerbates all the pain you are feeling. Don’t let other people make you feel worse about yourself. I know easier said than done. I’ve been struggling with that my entire life. But your struggles do not make you worthless. Other people are not going through your struggles. You are, and you are the one having to fight day after day. They have no right to decide that your feelings are not as serious as they are, and they have no right to tell you or make you feel worthless. You are you, and what you feel is real. You are not alone. I understand how you feel, and I am so sorry you are struggling so much
I also understood how frustrating it is when people say that all will be okay or it will get better. Its extremely invalidating to hear those types of things. First of all, no one knows your entire story and so it not honest or meaningful in any way for them to say that it will just get better, even if they have only the best intentions in mind. It can again make your struggle feel less than it is, and it feels like people, like your psychiatrist that you mention above, are muting your scream for help.
I was so glad to see these replies. I felt like someone, even if I have no idea who you guys are, heard me. I totally get the whole it’s me who has to fight day after day, and only I understand my struggles. What is hard for me, is not always difficult for other people. I just find it so difficult because I feel like I am alone in this battle. When you have been so mentally ill for 3 years I think people get sick of hearing me say how hard things for me, eventually you lose some of those people. I remember when I was first diagnosed, everyone was there all the time, now 3 years later, so many of those people are sick of me. I can’t reach out to them anymore. I wish it were just over, I think I have to find someone here that will hear me.