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Truly An "and What Then?" Game...

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I posted a post a while ago, mentioning how I felt often like my life just turns into a what then game, having no real point, just going from one objective to the other, wasting energy. For the last few weeks I can't get strength for anything...

I had a goal, to pass to the country competition, and last year, I felt completely like crap for not managing to do it, but there was still some will to go on left, and as I think of myself at this moment, I realize that I turned into one of those geezers, who are rarely ever really happy. For me true happiness seems to always be somewhere in the future, but never really... Here. Never really reached, and once I pass a thing that was supposed to be that happiness, once I achieve something, I feel nothing, I lose all will to do anything. I just feel like crap.

People say I should be happy for passing the competitions, but all I feelnis fatigue, sadness, zombie feeling... I feel useless, empty. I fulfilled my purpose, but there was nothing there, I achieved something that took great amounts of work and dedication, and yet, there is nothing there, no feeling of acomplishment, no happiness, just sadness, just constant fatigue, that feeling of lacking purpose, lacking anything to keep me moving forwards. Why can't I be happy? Why!? Can someone here tell me, is anyone here capable of figuring what the f*cking hell is wrong with me, I am numb, constantly numb, constantly fatigued, constantly sad, depressed, empty, tired, dizzy. Why is there no feeling of acomplishemnt, why is there no PROMISED happyiness in the PROMISED land of success. Didn't someone say that there would be something, don't people say that it's a good feeling to accomplish something. Why do I not get it?

I have had a headache for a week, from the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep. Not a strong one, but a background one, like a constant buzz from an old computer, annoying, tiring... I am lost, without a purpose, I need to be 'reprogrammed'. Another arely reachable goal has to be embedded into my mind, to force me to have all those feeling, anxiety, fear, but at least feelings, at least something I'm trying. I hate this state. Lacking anything, just an empty shell.

I wish I had a purpose, I wish I could feel anything. I tried everything, I'm tired. I am tired, but there us no reason, like a bunch of wiped infomation, I am in this state, but I can't connect up why? Nothing helps, I drank, I sang, I self harmed, cut, screamed, exercised, slept, cried, hid, hugged my sister when she noticed my arms, but nothing helped. I'm in this state. It feels like an eternity. There is no comfortable, there is just that ugly numb, on edge.

I am lost, lost in place. If someone can finds me, tell me where I am. I wish I had a time machine, so I could go to the past, and hug my past self. I damn well needed it back then :cry: Now, I see nothing, in any direction.
 
I fulfilled my purpose
This is a really good post. Thanks @otakujome . I have to say that I am learning now that my version of happiness used to be wrapped into everyone else's idea of who I should be. If I made others happy, then of course, I was happy. So it was my mission was to make people happy. I was, however, a shell inside. A shell of, I don't know what.

So I have a question to ask you. Who exactly are you making happy when you do well in these competitions? Is this for you?
 
Sorry you're feeling that way.

Just FYI, my therapist says he thinks "happiness" is over rated. Something to think about.

Why is there no feeling of acomplishemnt, why is there no PROMISED happyiness in the PROMISED land of success. Didn't someone say that there would be something, don't people say that it's a good feeling to accomplish something. Why do I not get it?
Someone told you THAT? :hilarious:

Seriously, there's a lot that goes in to those feelings. You have to accomplish something, true. And you did that. From there, it has to be something that YOU really feel was worth doing and maybe challenging. You have to allow yourself to feel the accomplishment. The thing is, we each are supposed to decide for ourselves what makes us happy, where we find fulfillment, purpose, all that. YOU happen to be in the stage of life where young humans are supposed to be looking for this stuff. (At least us old people HOPE that's on your radar screens.) Wondering this stuff is actually "normal". At least to a point. You might be a bit harder on yourself than most and a bit less inclined to let yourself feel good about your accomplishments.

So, out of curiosity, what DOES "make you happy"? If you could pick a suitable purpose for life, what would it be?
 
@shimmerz

No, I don't even want them really, I just wanted a proof that I was the better one, that I wasn't the bad example, as often used. I was always compared with my sister, so I have always been trying to surpass her. But really, I don't do anything truly out of my own wish, I am still that little 9 year old kid that believes that if he does well enough someone wilk say 'good boy' and save him from hell... That never happened. :cry: My life isn't for me, it's just a big load of stupid shite thats stuck with me. Just me trying to proove someone wrong, just me trying to say I'm not what THEY said, all of them. There is nothing else I really do.
 
@scout86
All that makes me happy I see as a distant thing, because I can't see happiness as reachable. I don't know what makes me happy, I haven't been really happy, there was always something else lurking behind, saying there will be something bad after the happiness. I don't know what happiness really is. Except that it is a distant thing that I will maybe ever reach. And then... I don't know. I can't see myself as someone who will achieve happiness. THEY always said I'm stupid, that I will be a failure and so on, THEY said enough stuff that my whole life could easily become just a f*cking gigantic list of things I have to accomplish to prove THEM wrong, to prove I'm not all that, but in the end, I'll still die alone. How are all those people happy? :( I guess I simply wasn't meant to be anything but a slave of my past.
 
Once you find that 'you' that is in there and recognize him as valuable, your search for happiness, I am certain, will unfold naturally. Be gentle with yourself @otakujome , you are doing the best that you can right now. Just be mindful, and don't you give up on you. It will be okay, because right now you are making the man that you will one day be. And that man will be great and strong and proud because of your tenacity. :hug: :hug: :hug:
 
My life isn't for me, it's just a big load of stupid shite thats stuck with me. Just me trying to proove someone wrong, just me trying to say I'm not what THEY said, all of them. There is nothing else I can really do
Let's start with that. THAT is a choice. THEY can want your life to be about what ever they want. YOU are the person who REALLY gets to decide. As a minor, it's true that the adults in your life have a lot of influence. But, inside, where the real you lives? YOU get to pick your values. That alone might make you happy.

In my own, admittedly warped, way of looking at things, "the future" doesn't mean much. I've never assumed that there was one. "Happiness" such as it exists, for me exists in the moment. There's a pretty sunset. Noticing it make me happy. Watching a cute puppy makes me happy. Saying something to the checkout person in the grocery store that makes them smile makes me happy. Opening a door for someone makes me happy. Thanking someone who doesn't expect it makes me happy. Many, many apparently little things make me happy. At night, when I go to bed, knowing I'm in a house, where I don't have to apologize for being, makes me happy. I'm happy I'm not living in my truck. I'm happy I can work. I could go on, but you get the point, don't you? "Happiness" doesn't have to be a big thing and there's no point in looking to the future for it. Think small.

So, where do you find happiness, if only in what seems like a small, insignificant way? Nothing is too small to count.
 
@otakujome Is there anything that you have ever done that made you feel better than you feel now? If so, go back to doing that. If not, maybe ask others what it is that they can do that brings them happiness. You might be surprised at their answers. Someone's answer might inspire you to try doing something you have never done before. Don't just ask folks online (although you can do this, I am just suggesting that you aslo ask folks where you live or work or in school, etc). Ask people this question who you meet up with in person. Ask folks to show you what makes them happy, don't just take their word for it.
 
@scout86

THEY are all of those who had influence on me i the past, all those bullies, leaders, bystanders, watchers... I am stuck there, back there... It's been years and I haven't really moved past that.

@SheilaKathy

If I had not achieved my goals, there would be no 'end of program'. I would not realize that the thing I believed would bring me happiness, will bring none at all. I was a normal kid before all that happened to me. Then there was normak stuff that made me hapoy. Unfortunately, my memory is a bit...problematic.
 
@otakujome , I get who "they" are. What I'm saying is THEY can't control the real you, unless you allow it. They can do lots of things. They can damage your body but not your soul. Not if you don't let them. (Forgive me if that sounds like blaming the victim. It's not.)

YOU have choices. YOUR values matter. Those values can matter to YOU anyway. The first step is that you have to DECIDE that you have control over some things. Right now, "they" can tell you when to get up. "They" can tell you when to go to bed. "They" can tell you what they think. "They" can even tell you what they think YOU should think. But they can't MAKE you think it. You're mature enough and smart enough to see that "they" can be wrong.

What's one thing that makes you smile?
 
My apologies if anyone's mentioned this already (haven't had a chance to read all the posts yet)...But here goes...what is "happiness" and who decides? Does is even exist somewhere out there...as some abstract unreachable "it"...or is it what you make of it? Or something else entirely? Then you can take "success" and do the same thing...Sure there are certain things society says means you've made it...finishing school, getting a good job, getting married yada yada yada...but the question is...is that what you want?

On another note, some of your troubles with this might be because, well, you're quite a bit smarter than average. I don't mean to minimize but I'll leave you with this little quote... "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men [and women] must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” (Dostoyevsky)
 
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