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I've been feeling numb for the past years (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by tired_n_bored@lemmy.world to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone,

I'm reaching out today because I'm feeling overwhelmed with anxiety as I reflect on the past eight years. I've struggled with mental health issues, including a mild depression as diagnosed by my therapist, and more recently, anxiety. While these issues haven't severely impacted my daily life, I feel that I've stagnated and not made the progress I had hoped for.

During these years, I've remained in the same low-qualified, low-paying job. I dropped out of university due to feelings of inadequacy and never moved out of my parents' house, despite my dream of living abroad. Now, I find myself just going through the motions, waiting for the weekend, which often doesn't bring the joy I expect.

I'm approaching 30 and feel like a failure, a loser, and too old to turn my life around. At the same time, I feel that my problems are trivial and that I shouldn't be posting here. I'm not sure if this is the right community for this kind of post, so I apologize if it isn't. I'm just looking for a bit of advice or resources that might help someone in a similar situation.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you, hope the weights you carry will go away asap ❤️

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah well I really shouldn't have signed up to be the guy who is paid to move all the weights around in the weight lifting gymn if I didn't want to carry weights around all the time but here we are. I live life by doing the thing wrong until the thing relents and decides I can do it that way hahahaha.