Mental illness, unemployment, debt, etc. I feel worthless for having all of these and more, and I feel like there is no way to escape.
Cannot drive, have no friends in my area, no degree (due to stress from college destroying my mind), no future.
I do not know why I am posting this.
Edit: I keep feeling like I am abandoned by everyone I try to get close to.
Yo. Listen up. I am unemployed and have been for so long I no longer get unemployment insurance. I have mental illnesses that are highly treatment resistant. I have debt that I will not be able to pay off.
And I am not worthless. I am worth every bit as much as every single person you met today. I am worth as much as any other being on this planet. You are not to take my worth away with your assessment.
You are worth just as much as me and as much as the millionaire over there and pipe fitter over this way and the union organizer over that way and the union busting dickhead down that street over there. We are valuable because we are people, because we are beings, not because of whatever else you’re measuring against.
You matter to me. I better sure as hell matter to you.
Now, more than anything, prove to yourself that you matter, and get some rest. You deserve rest, because you are suffering. Find some peace in yourself. It’s waiting for you. Don’t keep it waiting forever.
I have mental illnesses that are highly treatment resistant.
Your contributions on Lemmy don’t show it, unless being extremely based is a mental illness 😉
Thank you, comrade
I was not trying to measure your worth.
Not sure if I agree that the millionaire is valuable.
I want to sleep a lot but I have to find something, and if I do not by a certain deadline, it would ruin my life.
By measuring your worth, you are doing everyone a disservice. You are not worthless. You are valuable. The millionaire may have plenty of things we can critique, but their value is not one of them.
You can sleep. You will meet your deadline better with sleep. You deserve sleep.
You are right about that sleep part: I need some sleep (even if I just took a nap). Not getting sleep makes me angry and easily irritated.
Might chill for the rest of the night.
Me too
Mental illness, unemployment, debt, etc. I feel worthless for having all of these and more, and I feel like there is no way to escape.
well…i’ve faced many or maybe all those things. sometimes it feels like ending everything is the best way, but i’ve learned something:
1-try to get some medical help. some people here hate psychiatry, but depression usually is a mix of chemical unbalances in your body and the lack of direction, so you have to be holistic and find some chemicals to stabilize your body, and a prescription will help (you don’t need to tell all your issues to the doctor, you just need to describe the pain, the asfixiating sensation in your chest or your specific physical ailment, and that person will give you something according)
2-after repairing the chemical issue, is time to work in your mindset, remember your teachings, focus your hate against something different like yourself (like the bourgueoisie) to recover your path in life
after solving the physical issue, you can focus in work in your mind, getting good content, reading theory, repairing your mind avoiding for a while toxic places and stuff.
i hope this will help
I hope you are doing ok right now :<
i feel better now, thanks. my chemical balance was fixed with some sertraline for a while a good time ago, and now i don’t use anything of that. you never are totally free of an eventual relapse, but that old friend that was the darkness feels distant and now i know how to kicking out if it returns
I am glad to hear that you are feeling better (I can relate to not being able to be free from something debilitating).
i came back on lemmy mainly because i missed my friends especially u
I wonder why you consider me a friend :0
honestly we re in the same boat
Could you explain how?
I’m finding some of the posts in this thread very relatable.
That is a bit sad (I hope you can improve your situation in the future).
I’m sorry you’re going through this. The system we live in makes us feel worthless if we are struggling to achieve the standard of life that’s held up as an example: university degree or qualification, good job, spouse, kids, friends, house, being happy etc. And yet at the same time this system makes it more and more difficult for people to achieve any of these things. The fact that the majority of people are now falling into debt, mental illness, friendlessness, etc shows it’s a system failure rather than a personal failure.
It is definitely hard to deal with living in a society that makes you feel like a failure when you are a victim of a horribly chaotic system. Thank you for the support.
This system has git to collapse at some point. Too many people are being impoverished and traumatised by it now.
It will take a while before capitalism will collapse (especially in Western countries) because neoimperialism has established itself so strongly that it would take a lot of work and some time for movements against the system to become strong enough to overthrow it.
