
dissociation
she/her
- Aug 31, 2025
- 100
Consider reporting that person anonymously, send letters. If that fails, be creative but legal.A decade of struggle reset because some rat faced cunt couldn't shut her fucking mouth and quit making issues about tame jokes that had nothing to do with her. What do I do? What do I do? I'm so lost and miserable.
This sounds remarkably like one of my days and I'm still here at an age I can no longer call "middle". The good news is things do get better. The bad news is they can also get worse. But so far I've found if you can hang in there long enough they can swing back around to better. I'm currently in a worse cycle waiting for a better. Venting here seems to help.Tired and sick and empty. I started today with a particularly bad start, as the first thing I did was open this forum and watching part of the Channel 4 documentary posted elsewhere on this site. It just made me so sick and realize that I'm so alone. I'm sure that's some form of self-sabotage, as I should have known it would have made me feel awful before even clicking on it. But I bring my own misery with me. I don't think I'll eat today. Nothing really worth eating in the house anyway, but I just can't deal with the process of getting up, standing in the kitchen, all those things that to anyone sane are just 'nothing' events but to me are insurmountable obstacles. I'll probably spend the morning aimlessly browsing the forum, throwing in my unwanted opinion as the mood strikes, then trying unsuccessfully to doze once my phone battery runs out in a few hours. I had almost convinced myself last night that I'd try to turn on my Switch today and do something with it, as talking about games with some other users in a different thread made me miss playing things I enjoy, for a brief moment. But then the day broke and any empty promises I made to myself crumbled away, as always.
Some days I tell myself I'll learn a new recipe. Or that I'll listen to a new album. I might unpack an old favourite board game and have a playthrough. Sometimes I get even more grandiose and delusional. I occasionally tell myself I'll actually set about learning one of the languages I never had the chance to study at my university. I never, ever follow through. I have only myself to blame for that, and for everything. Wallowing in self-pity is so comforting and so distressing, all at once. I hate being self-aware, knowing that I am the architect of the miserable existence that keeps coming back, day after day. If I could blame others, if I could blame external circumstances, I could just feel sorry for myself. But I know I'm the problem. And I don't change. So I'm cursed with the self-awareness, but not the fortitude to actually do anything about it. I know I'm the problem. I know the only solution is death. But even that I'm too weak to fight for. Hopefully soon.
Thank you for reaching out. It's very kind of you. Part of the problem, for me, is actually when things do get better, for a while. I then live in constant dread and fear, because I know it will turn back to hell and the fall is all the greater for it. So I don't even manage to enjoy what would be the 'good times' because I can only see the inevitable darkness that awaits afterwards. I'm sorry you're in one of the worse cycles at present. I sincerely hope it does get to a better one for you soon.This sounds remarkably like one of my days and I'm still here at an age I can no longer call "middle". The good news is things do get better. The bad news is they can also get worse. But so far I've found if you can hang in there long enough they can swing back around to better. I'm currently in a worse cycle waiting for a better. Venting here seems to help.
We all wallow to some extent and trust me having external circumstances doesn't make much difference, (you still feel invalid and blame yourself and beat yourself up). I used to think it did when I saw the rich and famous being miserable and ODing and what not, but depressed is depressed, it doesn't need an outside reason.
You say you're too weak to kill yourself but maybe it's more like you know suicide is an option and you're strong enough not to use it just yet.
If I've got you all wrong give me a rant. Gotta love a good rant to get things off your chest.
Word for word, that emptiness you describe is what I feel(or more like don't feel). I've had this feeling for a while too now after some major events occurred in my life. I don't really care much about anything anymore. Whatever happens, happens. I've thought about ending it, came close a few times, obviously didn't tho. My only reason to live rn is because i know my death causes pain, even if i don't always believe it, i know it.I feel empty. Like if you slice me open, you'll find nothing there. Just black emptiness. I go through life mechanically, and it's like every emotion I feel is fake. Like they're really just at the surface. Beneath, there's nothing. It's weird. I know what to feel but I don't feel it.
I'm hurting and because of that, I end up hurting others. I don't want to cause pain anymore. I don't want to feel pain anymore. I just want it all to end.