Do you ever feel you will never be free of mental illness and you will always be struggling?
I feel a bit pathetic and hopeless about ever being well.
I just wanna discharge myself from services and be left to die.
sorry unsure if this should be here or in serious.
The average,
well-adjusted adult
gets up at 7.30am feeling just plain terrible.
Call me Kate.
I have dyslexia so please excuse my poor spelling and sometimes poor understanding.
I don't have many words. Want you to know your not alone. I feel exactly the same as you
I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside. ~ Girl Interrupted
When you dont want to feel, death seems like a dream. ~ Girl Interrupted
Definitely not alone ♡ things WILL get better though. Keep fighting.
x x x
♥It's the ups and downs of living life this way. Promise me you'll never go away. Just stay with me through one more night because it's always darkest before the light and now I promise you I'll never turn away. I won't let you give us one less heart to break...♥
I know this is a thought many of us have.. It's unlikely we'll ever be rid of DID (and honestly us alters aren't planning to leave) but it's the rest of the problems we have are constantly worried about and few of us have the belief things will get better.
I hope we're all wrong and one day everyone on this site can feel some peace away from the struggles. Good luck to you all.
Yeah but most of the time I think I can manage it and achieve great things. People can do wonderful things even when they have mental illness. Keeping up your services will give you a best chance at that. I know it's hard though but please don't give up.
I feel like I'll never be able to manage my autism, and that my OCD won't get better either. I am sick of my challenging behaviour and I feel like I'm p*ssing people off by not being helped by their strategies.
However my support worker said she believes that things will improve for me, but it will take a long time and a lot of work.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
I've been told my illnesses both physical and mental/emotional are chronic and life long, so yeah, I can relate big time.
You're not alone. Don't give up.
A quality of life can still be found, and it may take time, but it can be achieved, try not to look at it as "I need to be illness-free", because for some, that's not possible, think of it as "I need to achieve a better quality of life" - much less pressure and anxiety and fears and hopelessness.
I'd echo Dash. It's only once I'd accepted that I had a MH condition that placed certain limitations on what I'm able to do, that I started to heal and make a life for myself. I don't wallow, far from it, but I am aware that I cannot do things in the way that a lot of the population can, and have to adjust accordingly. It means I can be happy most of the time. :)
“Our defeats are softened and our victories are sweetened because we did it together.” - Toby Ziegler.
I feel like I will never be free, although my management of my mental health is much better than it was. I might not end up ever being free of this but I think longer term I can certainly reduce the amount it impacts on me.
I agree that changing how I saw recovery changed my view on life.
I still struggle and probably always will at times but things are so much better than they were a few years ago.
When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ~Woody Allen
Is a chocolate muffin loving glitter ball
I used to feel like this a lot and it fed into my depression. Since going to college I have learnt to accept that, yes I have mental health problems, and yes they affect me so how I'm going to manage that within my life is to work WITH my illness to achieve the best I can considering circumstance.
I doubt I'll ever be mh problem free judging by my history and past but by changing my goal to work with what I have instead of fighting, ignoring or denying it I am making much more progress. Whereas when I try to fight it out of my life completely, ignore it, pretend it's not happening or being unrealistic about my capabilities then I just fuel a downward spiral.
Yes'm without my issues I could achieve and do a lot more, but my life isn't like that. I have to accept that and instead make the decision to yes, do stuff with my life, and manage what I can.
That's all I can expect of myself and for me that is a state of significant recovery.
