I’ve felt occasionally suicidal for about 6 years now (I’m 19) and it’s been getting bad again. I’m just always anxious and stressed from school even when I am on top of things and am getting stuff done. I don’t like taking the time to indulge or relax because I am afraid that if I stop working, I’ll just stop functioning like I am now. I literally can’t enjoy things because if I do, it disrupts my life. I just can’t look forward to any sort of future where I’m continuously stressed. It doesn’t help that I don’t enjoy my major and can’t think of any profession where I would be happy. I also feel extremely guilty for feeling this way since I don’t have any traumatic background or recent events that have caused my unhappiness. I’m usually very self motivated but this past week I just can’t bring myself to do anything and instead I spend my time trying to build myself up and just get it all over with. Any time I don’t spend being productive just escalates my anxiety and my desire to die. I just can’t figure out what I’m going to do because I’m afraid of pain but I want to die, I could check myself in somewhere but that would destroy my being and disrupt any hope of achieving a normal life, I could seek out counseling and medication but from past experience counseling hasn’t helped, and I don’t want to go through the pain and humiliation of anyone finding out.
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I feel almost incapable of self-motivation. I feel like I only do stuff when I am around others who motivate me through their physical proximity and expectations.
I would actually like to involve myself in more things, to keep myself busy, in a sense. Situations where it’s easier to just do the work (or you’re doing it as a team) than to procrastinate.
I think it’s legit to feel like you do, even if you have not had an obviously traumatic childhood. Who knows? The brain is a complex organ. Our environment is insanely complex compared to the (evolutionarily speaking) recent past.
A cave(wo)man didn’t have to think consider whether they had chosen the right major.
Are you Danish?
No, it was just the first word that popped into my mind.
Oh, all right 🙂