Several times throughout my daily routine I have thoughts of wanting to die. Life is nothing to me anymore.
Let me begin with a little bio. I’m a 57 yr. old male. I have several health issues, I have anger issues. Directed to any one certain person? Well maybe god, if there is such a thing.
I was brought up believing in god, going to church, living the godly lifestyle, accepting that the so called god is in control of everything and everybody. So who else do I blame for my crappy life, yes I’m using “nice” words. I curse god daily, telling him what a piece of sh*t he is, and not just once or twice a day, constantly.
My screwed up life, where to start? Health issues. December 2013, day after Xmas, open heart triple bypass surgery, and also found out I was a diabetic when I went into the hospital. High blood pressure, high cholesterol. I smoke cigarettes daily, yes even after the heart surgery, 2 packs a day smoker. I tried to quit, but I’m addicted, and nicotine is not my only addiction, sex, but that comes later. I can’t seem to get my diabetes under control. I was doing OK for the first year after my heart surgery. I was taking Victoza, a pen injection which kept my sugar level at a range of 130 to 160 constantly. So in May of 2014, I have to go back into the hospital for gall bladder surgery. So through the year of 2014, all my meds were free to me, in a sense, being my deductible and max out of pocket expenses were met for the year. I renewed my prescription to my meds in early December of 2014, so I’m set til March 2015. So when I go to renew in March I’m slapped in the face with a $1475 bill for just the Victoza, and yes that’s with insurance. So at this point I’m working with a diabetic specialist with other drugs. I have a lot of my sugar bottoming out which has a negative effect on me. It seems it does this mostly in the mornings and the way it affects me I have to leave my job for the day, which of course means I lose money.
OK, so let’s talk money. I only make just under $30,000 a year. With the cost of insurance and doctor bills along with living expenses alone, it takes a lot of what I earn. Yes, I’m still making minimal payments to hospitals and doctors with the deductible and out of pocket expenses that I couldn’t pay upfront.
Oh and then, how the hell could I forget? I owe back taxes to both the state and IRS somewhere in the neighborhood of $300,000 so my paychecks are garnished. The only thing that helps here is the fact that I’m living in my parent’s house. They both have passed and the house was left to me and 3 other siblings equally. Yes, there is still a mortgage, and I’m paying the minimum on that along with property taxes all by myself. Two of the siblings have threatened to kick me out, so really don’t know how long this living here can continue. So to go back to the taxes I owe, well they will never be paid in full.
Did I mention I’m not married? OK, well I’m not, but have been 5 times, and yes 5 times divorced. Oh I’d love to have someone in my life but who wants to be in a relationship with someone like me? And really, I can’t afford to go out places to meet anyone nor can I afford to take anyone out after I meet them. So even if I did meet someone by chance, do you really think they’re just going to come over to my house right off the bat?
And then of course there is the sex addiction. I crave it a lot, but at this point all it winds up being is masturbation, almost daily. I look at porn daily. I like either women or men, doesn’t matter, sex is sex. Yes I’ve been bisexual since I was 14. Again that’s something I tried to steer away from in earlier years but to no avail. I tried to suppress the feelings but they don’t stay down long before I get the urge to perform oral sex on a man. OK, this is only the half of it. I cross dress. I like doing it, it makes me feel sexy, even though I know I’m not. So I’ve taken it further, I wear a wig, heels and everything in between. I even shave my entire body trying to lure men into having sex with me.
So yes I think of how I could die several times throughout my day. Why don’t I? I have tried several times. Just like everything else in my life I’ve failed at this as well.
I remember when I was around 18, in my first marriage and things weren’t going well, I took an overdose of some bee allergy medicine. Wound up getting stomach pumped and slept for a couple of days.
Then not again til in my 40’s did I try suicide again. After the 4th wife left me and I was on the verge of losing everything I owned, and I did eventually lose it all I slept for 8 hours in the garage with the car running. A few weeks later I thought I didn’t do it right, wasn’t close enough to the exhaust pipe, so I got the air mattress out slept again in the floor under the exhaust pipe, and again I woke up.
Then another time I stole a pistol from a friend and was going to blow my brains out, let’s face it, I’m a coward! But this attempt did land in a mental hospital for a few days.
The last time I tried was about 5 years ago, I took an overdose of some type of prescribed pain medication. I stopped taking it just after I had it refilled, waited 30 days went back and refilled again, so I took about 50 pills all at once. It would have worked but I was found after I had passed out. So far along that I had pissed my pants while I was out of it. Again, another mental hospital for a few days. These things are really a joke. All they do is talk to you, pump you full of anti depressants and send you on your way.
Do I care to try and change things? No I really don’t. Maybe this is just another method of suicide. Being unhealthy, smoking, not eating right. Let nature take it’s course. At least this way, my one brother that cares somewhat will get my insurance money, verses taking my life where he would get none.
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Thank you for sharing. I truly hope you find some inner peace.
I’m sorry to hear your life is in such a poor state. I hope things start to get better for you soon. I wish I had some profound good advise for you, but I don’t. Maybe just focusing on trying to fix one little thing at a time. Like with the smoking. Have you tried switching to e-cigarettes instead? I’ve heard lot of people these worked for, and they feel better getting their nicotine from the vapor instead of smoke. I’d honestly buy you one too if you wanted. I know it’s not a big thing, but I don’t have the answers for the bigger problems in life.
Hey, i wish you all the luck in the world and hope your financial and health situation will improve. But think about it you already managed everything until 57 and i bet there were also good moments in your life. I dont even think i will last until 25, so what im trying to say is hang in there maybe theres hope that things change.
What kind of joke is this shit? I’m sitting here pouring my heart out, saying I’m ready to go and all I get is “here let me help you quit smoking”?
Nah, I’m good, nature, take your course!
People are offering the best support they can manage. You have to consider that the majority of people that come here are very young men and women aged 14 to 24. The depth and complexity of your life is a bit more than most young people can fathom.
After I read your post I thought of offering up the usual platitudes about how things can get better. But that struck me as pretty weak tea. You need something much more substantial. Something like an emotional intervention, perhaps? I don’t know. Even though I am 55, I am at a loss for words.
I hope you can find the clarity to accept yourself, forgive yourself, and forgive the perceived transgressions of others. You are not wrong for being who you are; none of us are. While your problems may be intractable, the way you cope with them is not. There is still time to do good things for yourself and others, and through that process find peace.
Let’s face it, there is no god dam hope for me. I’m too god dam old. I’m ready! If there is a god, come get me *****!
fuck it!
‘m so god damn tired of this life! Wait, this ain’t living god damn it, it’s existing, and why? I have no idea. But I do know I’m so god dam tired of it.
You’ve got a lot going on and I understand your situation, I’ve actually known a few people with similar problems. As far as the god thing you speak of, well I’m proud Atheist so I can’t help you there. However I can say that first like all of us, we need to establish what in life will make us happy, we all want to be happy but what will truly make YOU happy? Once that’s established the necessary steps must be taken which will lead toward achieving that individual happiness, no matter how challenging.
Second, it sounds like you could use a reinvention of yourself. I’d recommend you finding a “partner” that shares the same cross dressing interests and go for it.
There’s a famous line from the “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” which is appropriate for this situation and that is… “Don’t Dream It, Be It”.
If you’d like to talk more, post your address in a new post then delete once I’ve got it.
All the best.
I’m new here and just catching up on all the heartfelt posts here. I don’t have any easy answers much like the previous poster and wont throw platitude at you either. I can say that finding like interest with people in the real world can make all the difference. Cross dressing can be extremely satisfying, why not embrace it? The world seems to be on your shoulders and I would agree that it may seem completely insurmountable right now. Why not continue to vent with the community? The things that you build up to today aren’t pointless, although they may seem so today or yesterday. I find you extremely courageous by posting all this and reaching out to humanity.
DEPRESSION: It’s plagued me all week, but very strongly today. As I sit here all day long doing the things I needed to get done today, cleaning house, laundry, watching TV (NASCAR race) the over whelming feeling of bursting in tears. Even as I sit here now writing this, my eyes are whelping up.
I have no idea why, it’s just happening. Nothing particular in my thought process. Not dwelling on what a fucked up life I have, or any more than usual.
I want to die.
Why can’t the end come? Simply want out of this. I’m so tired of feeling this way!
Today I had to be at work at 5:30am. I went in as usual but as time went by my depression or whatever this is plagued me more and more. I couldn’t make it but an hour, bursting into tears for no apparent reason. I’m home now, and would really like somebody just to talk to.
i’m not much of a conversationalist, but hey..
I’m sorry it’s hitting you bad.
Well it has set in. Depression, something I can’t deal with. But does anyone really care? It doesn’t seem like it. I attempted yesterday to get some help. My employer has an EAP, they offer 6 free sessions with a therapist. Then I have insurance after that. Two different companies, two different opinions of who they pick or choose when it comes to helping someone. So I try and do what I think is best, I get a list of therapists in my area from EAP, then from insurance and compare trying to find one that’s on both lists. I find tow, so i call both to set up an appointment, whoever returns my call first. Waited all morning, nothing, so I call back around noon, again both. I finally get a call from one, “sorry, I’m not accepting new patients.” About an hour later I get a call from the second therapist with the same message. So I made a call to EAP again to get and extended list of therapists, the first list had only six people on it. “Oh, well that can take up to 24 hours!” they say. Oh I did forget to mention that I took the online diagnosis and it says I’m SEVERE depression.
So I’m having a hard time understanding this. I’m reaching out but I can’t seem to get help. But if I called and said “hey guys, I’m suicidal, I want to kill myself” they’d be here with police, ambulances and the whole nine yards! Ready to cuff me like before and haul me off to the mental hospital to pump me full of shit pills, or as I like to call them, zombie pills, group therapy, where you can’t really open up, not in front of everybody. Then OK, you’re healed, out you go! What the fuck! This system we have DOES NOT work!!!
So here I sit, waiting on another list of therapists. Once I get it, and I take the time to sift through it to find one, call to make an appointment then it’s the weekend. “HEY, I’m drowning over here people!” And all this time I’m not able to work, I’m fearful of going to work just like I did Tuesday and it hitting me and start bursting out crying, which to my co workers would seem like no apparent reason, then I really would be labeled as crazy!
Hell, i guess I’m just venting, I don’t know. If I make it through, I make it through, if I don’t then oh well, just another statistic.