I’ve lost control of everything. I am failing the two college classes that I managed to stay in, I’ve lost my closest friends… I can’t manage to even go to my classes because I literally cannot get myself out of bed. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. I’ve attempted in the past. I’ve cut. I’ve turned to drinking. I’ve stayed in a hospital for a week. I don’t have anything planned and I don’t think I want to do anything but I just don’t know anymore. I don’t seem to know anything except that I can’t seem to do anything I need to do. Nothing seems real and I don’t know why. It feels like my life is fake, like nothing in existence is really real. I feel like I’m losing it and I don’t know what to do about that. So, I decided to post this here in hopes that someone will take the time to read it and maybe tell me that I’m not crazy? Or at least that I’m not alone in my feelings? I don’t even know. I don’t know.
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You’re not crazy. I feel like that a lot too. I’ve recently started anti psychotics, and they’re actually helping a bit. Maybe talk to a doctor about trying them? Low doses are apparently good for severe depression.
I honest to God was confused for a second because I thought this post was something I had written until I saw your username! This is me EXACTLY. I can relate to every single thing that you said. Especially the college classes! I’m only in one right now and I can’t even be bothered to pass that one either. When you say nothing seems real and you feel like you’re losing it…that sounds a lot like depersonalization/derealization which is something I experience a lot too, so I’m very familiar with that feeling. You most definitely are not crazy. I don’t want to post contact info other than my email because I don’t really care about giving out emails 😛 we can talk if you want! amalsu93@yahoo.com
Hey, don’t beat yourself up too much or feel to lost when people say i know where you’re coming from and you think to yourself “do they really” I know what its like to not know what to do with life.. My life has beena continuous downward spiral of crap pilled ontop of crap making a heaping pile of shit. And at the bottom of it you guessed right lies me.. Where can I begin for you when I just turned 1 my parents decided to divorce. I ended up living with my father, which sometimes I’d get to visit my mom and see her but not very often. My dad was always working to make ends meet for the first few years and he worked late so I ended up having to go to a daycare. From ages 7-8 The lady who looked after me had a son who was 14 in grade 8 that sexually assaulted me everyday for an entire year. My family never knew about this until a few years ago when i turned 16 but as a kid you could imagine how it scared me. It was my first downfall in life and my first path towards losing myself in depression. It made me socially awkward my entire life and i still am to this day. I dont know how to speak to someone without feeling afraid or as if im in the wrong because quiet frankly i just dont know? I dont know how to interact. To add to it around 10 years old is when my father pretty much (what i believe gave up himself) he stopped caring for me. He didnt care if i went to school, what i did, where my life was heading, and he only let me see my mom twice a year. I had to learn to feed myself and cook for myself because he stopped cooking for me. I never once raised my voice to my father as it would result in a beating. Again my life continued to fall downward. I became even more socially awkward..i became an outcast at school the kid who would always be alone everyday. I couldve lived with my mom but i was afraid as a child to speak up. So i continued through the hard times. As i got older i began to cut around 14.. My life was in shambles, and i finally met a friend oneday who opened up to me on highschool little did i know he thought i was an easy target and someone to use. Being the only kid in my class with a job in grade 9 because i was supporting myself. He showed me weed and i fell in love with a fake happiness.. Another i dont know.. All through highschool i fell into drugs, cocaine, oxies you name it. I’ve been used countless times. But in the end i can’t hate those people nor do i judge them. Life has taught me one thing “I dont know where i am or where im going, im not happy living and everyone I’ve ever met has been fake” but even with all my hardships in life. I have one goal. To be able to smile and laugh one day. To be able to be happy and know that even though i didnt know what to do i lived quiet the journey and experienced more than most people ever will whether good or bad. Keep your chin up, and try not to stress about it. The more you eat at yourself the harder it will be, thats how the human brain works. And if your stuck not getting out of bed, just change your daily routines if I’ve learned one thing its “the human brain makes a habit of something after constantly doing it for 1 week” so for 1 week do everything you can to get out of bed and slowly but surely better times are in the future.
Oh by the way im 21 dont stress over college too much most people dont know what to do with there studies and make mistakes up to there 30’s. Dont beat yourself up ?? Best of luck to ya
You’re not crazy. I feel like that everyday. Nothing seems real. You seem to be standing still while everything and everyone around you keeps changing. You don’t know if you want to die exactly, but you don’t want to keep existing in this weird dreamland. And the only peace you get is when you’re sleeping so you don’t want to get out of bed anymore. Anyway, maybe you should try to talk to someone about it or something. It might make you feel better. I don’t know
You’re not alone… It took me three years to get through a two year uni (college) course. I kept on failing subjects because it didn’t mean anything to me and I didn’t know why I was even doing it. I hardly showed up to any classes, I often just didn’t do assignments or turn up to exams, I just couldn’t force myself to…
now that I’ve finally finished uni I have a job, and the smallest things take so much effort. I’m always spaced out and can hardly function. I basically just try to do my best to pretend I’m a normal person and not fall apart completely, which often feels like it could happen at any moment. I can’t see a future but just take it day by day.
But yeah I don’t think you’re crazy 🙂
don’t worry about the friends situation, people come in and out of your life. having friends in my opinion at least is sort of overrated. it’s ok to be a loner. some of my favourite people are loners. Maybe you just feel like you can’t fake things. That’s how I feel, anyway.
I went through what you went through, the whole nothing is real thing. if you think about it though, ‘nothing is real’ is sort of a vague statement, I think that that mentality is just a way to deal with things. by disconnecting yourself rather than being too emotionally invested. But… I don’t even know what I’m talking about I guess.
I’ll stop ranting. I really liked your post, it made me want to write a lot..