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Everything in my life is going to crap- my relationship, my living situation, my finances. I'm depressed and having a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. When I do get up, I have a hard time being around people. I work in HR, so it's all people, all the time. I just want to be alone.

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Jul 28, 2014 at 11:47am

Have any savings and can afford some time off? Sounds like you need to travel to renew your view of the world.

Or go work and travel. Working holiday Visa.
I have never heard someone who has done it who hasn't come back a changed person with a renewed view in life and who has experienced life changing personal growth.

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JMT

Jul 28, 2014 at 3:39pm

Maybe take a couple weeks off to get yourself back on track. This sort of thing probably happens to a lot of people.

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well...

Jul 28, 2014 at 4:02pm

Think about all those unemployed people sending you cover letters and resumes at work that you have to review. Do you think their relationships, living situations, finances etc are any better of than yours. You work a job where you are in constant contact with people who are going through the same emotions you are right now. Maybe it's because their mood is rubbing off on you, maybe not. In any case perhaps you should turn your thinking around and see it as a constant reminder that you are not alone with these feelings and take some comfort in that.

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I Get It

Jul 28, 2014 at 5:52pm

I understand the low you are feeling. Push through it by eating healthy, force yourself to do something physically active EVERY day and channel your depressed emotions into something creative...write about it, paint, create a song, whatever! Make something from it and know that the feeling is temporary :)

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Been there

Jul 28, 2014 at 6:00pm

When everything in your life is horrible, you have two obvious choices: stay in the depths of hell or re-evaluate and make changes. That happened to me where everything was awful; I was exhausted from work, the people in my life drained me, I was angry and crying all the time and I hit rock bottom of really bad burnout. I stepped back, cleared out everything and everyone from my life, put up major boundaries at work and started fresh. It's taken a lot of work and some time in counselling to come out of it. Things certainly haven't happened overnight and I'm still working on stuff, but I am at an amazing place now where I'm pretty happy and positive about my life and the new people I have let in - first time in many, many years. You can do it, but it really sucks when you're going through it and everything seems hopeless. It is worth the work that it takes.

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C

Jul 28, 2014 at 6:29pm

Oh, buddy. I hear ya. Please understand that life is a giant cycle, within which are an infinite number of little cycles. Life will not be shit forever. In the meantime, take care of your physical body (rest, replenish, recover). Create short days for yourself. Don't beat yourself up. Get your butt home after work, bathe, eat, go lie down with your books/music/movies/whatever. Good luck!

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Yes

Jul 28, 2014 at 9:46pm

I think many of us --I know I have-- have been there in one way or another. For me recently it's been issues with my career. Not saying this will necessarily work for you, but for me what helped me get positive energy in my day, was getting back into moderate exercise a few times/week and getting outside as much as possible. And yes, I have hermit-like tendencies too, especially when stressed.

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