Discussion Poll: What’s Currently Making You Miserable?

[Darkover]

What would actually help you feel better?

 

[SomeoneHelpMe]

Bruh. Almost all of these apply to me currently.

 

[VoidButterfly]

Feeling like life is meaningless has always been the big background cause that has had me passively suicidal, the active change comes from probably a bit of my bipolar but also a lot of just anger at the world, where it's going, especially here in the UK. I want off this ride, I don't want to see where this is going. I don't think there's anything that could happen that would make my life feel better, I feel utterly hopeless.

 

[Redacted24]

Five of these plus other: not having anyone that listens to me or takes my concerns seriously. It would be nice for me to lay out the various issues to and my rationale underpinning my actions and for them to help me see where my logic is flawed.

 

[Namelesa]

I chosen:

Anxiety, depression, or mental health struggles - Me having depression, anxiety, low stress and emotional pain tolerance, fear of abandonment, wide mood swings.

Loneliness / No real connection - I won't say I feel much loneliness but feeling emptiness from not having the connection and closeness to people that I desire. Everything else doesn't feel like it compares to being close with someone. Tho this has been better recently tho who knows if it gets worse later for me cus of things can get suddenly worse.

Rejection / Failure / Low self-worth - From all the times people have left me, mostly cus I do something wrong leading me to feel really guilty and worthless. This also worsens my fear of abandonment and have to feel more guilty and shameful about myself more consistently.

Other - Can't access any good methods so kinda stuck with whatever my life is no mater what making me feel trapped.

 

[oxydd]

I feel an insane roadblock in front of me
I don't have anywhere to go it just feels this was the way it supposed to be I did what I could, but it wasn't enough.

 

[monetpompo]

i chose financial stress, loneliness, low self worth, and anxiety/depression. financial stress effects me the most because it feels like my fault i'm/my family's poor because i've always been too anxious to pick up a job. my parents look down on me and think i'm stupid because i've never had a responsibility in my life. i think that i'm stupid and that no one likes me so that makes me scared to trust or talk to people. financial stress feels like this anxiety of not having a future because you can't afford it. it's like, are poor people not good enough to be happy? it makes me so resentful, but i have no one to hate but the system. everyone else is just living their lives, regardless of how i feel. i don't even matter. i just want money and i want to believe in myself.

 

[SoulWhisperer]

A little mix of almost hall, trauma, emotional stress, self-worth, being on my fucking own and feeling like my existence is quite meaningless

 

[opro111]

For me, chronic pain/illness as well. Although, the more I think about it, the more I realize that even if that was "cured", I would still ultimately prefer to die.

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

Just tired. Nothing would "make me feel better". I don't enjoy anything and have nothing to look forward to except dying of natural causes so no one gets upset. I'm around 60 and my past is slowly fading away into irrelevance. I am just. plain. tired.

 

[myriapoda]

- financial stress
- academic failure
basically a college student going through it and it sucks. i keep thinking it'll end at some point and that'll it'll be over and worth it if i just keep trying to push myself. i'm lazy, i'm tired, i work a job that i appreciate very much but it can only be stretched so much to cover the expenses of two people (me and my mother) and the slightest fuck up spills disaster for covering next month. it's concerning that i am getting paid a lot, but the bills, rents, utilities, car insurance, other basic things plus; + the car breaking down, +needing to pay off a student loan (because i fucked up my GPA that i needed to take summer classes), +wanting to save/ hide money to dreams of moving out away from my mother,,,, it feels like i don't do enough. to extent i'm not, i don't know what to do outside of work, trying to study, trying to draw to hopefully do art comms on the side as a second ((unsteady)) income, and trying to help my parent with anything feels agonizing. how should i help when every time i do put it efforts i'm constantly getting told and reminded that it's not enough + that i'm adding onto the stress by being an financial burden and horrible student <— i'm taking summer classes, i'm not doom scrolling myself to death, i think this is the first summer in forever where i actually talked to people (online), focused on my hobbies and studies.
it felt miserable trying to beg her to drive me to campus by "talking", to admit that i was horrible, lazy, filthy, disgusting, rude. i just wanted to go to school.

 

[SilentSadness]

I hate people so much. They have caused an unspeakable amount of suffering for no reason. They continue to be the worst thing in my life. I will be against others until I'm finally dead.

 

[DeadSouls]

Omg, I just checked almost all of those. Not really a surprise, though. I'm basically isolated and inside all day due to those things and my current unemployment. It's not helping. Also, my just-received fibroid 'diagnosis' and need for surgery. I have no one.

 

[WhatCouldHaveBeen32]

People make me mad .There used to be something toxic my parents used to say to me : "It's not that you can't, you don't want to" and I kind of disagree on an individual level (given to what they demanded at the time, which violated a lot of my autonomy) but when it comes to a collective I think that saying is actually correct and if you really think about it, couldn't we really solve most of the problems in the world? from poverty to world hunger? disease? we already KIND of did that , but it has lots of strings attached, we could very well do all this with no strings, we have the numerical and logistical advantage from an objective point of view (comparing to other animals who don't have our level of intelligence). I say that we could at least make the world a better place than it is today, but we don't do that, do we now?

 

[beandigger404]

Suffering from undiagnosed mental illness and neurodivergence while being repeatedly denied help and ignored. Everyone who promises to help me literally just ends up ghosting me somehow This has been going on since I was like 10. No wonder I feel like I'm not deserving of help after all these years of being told to suck it up and try harder.

 

[Final-push123]

This goddamn hyper competitive capitalist hell world we live in.

Every moment of every day is a grind always endless self improvement, endless learning all for false promises. The Chinese have a word for I think it call neijuan. It's sinking into everything from work, love, down to freaking hobbies. Every an pissing contest or a wrestle for social supremacy.

If you not the best of the best, pre-stablished, or born into money. your life is basically endlessly
Suffering, isolation and work. Worse of all no one seems to give a shit and just keep plugging away instead of coming together

I am tired of this whack ass world

 

[turbomightbegone]

very extreme artblock and burnout. makes me feel truly worthless
also,,. my friend's mental state getting worse. I fear im the one influencing it

 

[Tired_birth_1967]

Tired. Almost 60 years old. I marked Financial stress/Poverty and Anxiety, depression. On a scale Axiety/Depression (genetic inheritance) is what is most relevant because from it a whole series of other problems follow. The money issue was just a consequence of a life poorly lived due to constant depression. But I believe that if I had money I would alleviate much of my suffering simply by being able to choose not to work, for example. Anxious and depressed, there is no way to enjoy being with people and in a place where I have no pleasure whatsoever. Existentially, I have never wanted to be here. Ever since I was a teenager. I have never seen any sense in being alive to reach death after years of trying to survive by instinct, as any living thing does. And death is another stupid thing. A game where we wait to see if we will die slowly, disabled, unable to clean our own feces, or if we will be lucky enough to die quickly. I have my wife, whom I truly love, and even that love is painful. Knowing that suddenly I may no longer have the only person I truly love. Living is absurd anyway.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

I checked more boxes than a customs officer.

 

[Paizen]

Bruh. Almost all of these apply to me currently.

Same.

I think this is a dud poll just because if you're in poverty, you'll almost certainly experience all those other effects.

 

[outrider567]

Trauma of watching my girlfriend die in the hospital, someone who loved life