What's Bothering You?

I’m not feeling good. I wish there was a huge undo button.

Edit: I had a talk with a friend and it helped a little 🙂. Still feeling bad about a lot, but will try to hang in there and do better.

Please no dms or discord messages or anything.
 
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A member of one of the Discord communities I'm in passed away unexpectedly at the age of 30. I never really directly interacted with him, but he was a well known and beloved member amongst the community at large. I feel bad for him, as well as his family and friends who have to reckon with this unexpected and tragic event. A lot of people are really shaken up about this.

Tangentially related, with the steep increase in cancer rates for people under 50 in recent years, dying so young doesn't strike me as all that unheard of these days, unfortunately, which is frankly terrifying. This person didn't have cancer, but the reason I mention it is that you never know what's going to happen. Tomorrow is never promised for anyone. It's a reminder to cherish your loved ones and let them know how much they mean to you.
 
I've been feeling sick all weekend and I have a horrible headache right now, which is probably because I haven't slept properly in 2 weeks. Why haven't I slept properly in 2 weeks? Because school is kicking my butt. I have 2 projects due tomorrow, one of which is a drawing project, and if you know me you know that I can't draw to save my life.

My relationships with my friends and boyfriend are slowly but surely going downhill. I don't live near any of my friends, so we didn't see each other all summer. Well, clearly we all changed a lot over that summer because now I feel like everyone's second choice. I'm not the first person the guy who's basically my third brother goes to. I'm always hearing everything from others and never firsthand. I wasn't even part of the original friend group, but I'm a part of it so long as I'm dating my boyfriend. If we broke up I'd lose them all.

Please don't respond to this, I just needed to get everything out.
 
Had my sister on the phone, feeling extremely hurt about us not coming to see them at Christmas.
And then also dumped a whole lot of family trauma I had no idea about and have to go to work with these feelings swirling around inside of me and I just wanna scream, cry and wanna hurt all the people who have done so many awful things.
What a monday
 
Part of me feels like trying to learn new things, but I'm also afraid of failing at said things. Having anxiety and being a perfectionist just makes me feel even less motivated to accomplish anything in life. The only "real" accomplishments I've done so far are graduating high school early and getting my first job. Compared to all the other adults my age, I'm pretty much a bum. Maybe I'm just not cut out to be an independent adult in the real world.

My senior year of high school took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. At first, I was taking online classes and failed miserably. I even considered dropping out of high school because I felt like I was "too stupid for school." Luckily, I managed to stop taking online classes and started going to school in person. During college, I would feel really anxious and worried about failing my assignments in my classes. Needless to say, after taking 2 semesters in college, I decided to take a break from college. Honestly, I don't know when or if I'll ever have the guts to go back to college or if I should just drop out. I felt like I started college too soon, and I only wanted to start going to college right out of high school for the sake of being the first sibling (on my mom's side) to go to college.

I would randomly start to feel worried about my future. I honestly don't know what my life would be like 5 or so years from now, and I'm also afraid about my past regrets negatively affecting my future. As silly as this may sound, I feel like it's too late for me to try and accomplish anything, whether it be something I suck at or something I've never done before. I'm probably gonna wind up wasting my 20s, and by the time I reach 30, I wouldn't have anything to show for it.
 
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I'm not in college, but I understand feeling like you're not ready to become an independent adult yet. 🫂 I'm 16 years old and my parents keep throwing a billion responsibilities at me because of my age. I feel ashamed of myself sometimes because there are still things I can't do on my own without their help (they expect me to know what I'm doing by now) and I still don't have a driver's license.

If it helps, I'm trying to get myself to take life one step at a time. As in, taking your time with things, because you'll only get more stressed of you rush yourself. But it's not easy when you're my age and/or you still live with your parents.

I also want to add there's lots of things in your post that reminded me of my relationship with perfectionism and my sister's experience with online school. I feel you on that first part. T^T
 
Tired from not much sleep because of bad dreams. Also we are starting to get crazy busy at work because of people being worried about the possible hurricane that could hit on Thursday. Just announced a state of emergency because of the storm.
 
I have a pretty good memory, but as of late, I've been more forgetful than usual. Menial tasks such as entering a room and forgetting why I came in come to mind. It doesn't affect me a great deal but it does bother me and I think it's tied to long covid.
 
this is sad. and not the first time.

Although, I'm thinking maybe topics for gaming aren't in my element.

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To be honest I wanted to make a post in that thread, but I gave it some thought and realized that I don't really play games that are too complicated, or rather if something is way too challenging I usually drop it. It definitely depends on the level of difficulty for said games, but yeah. I completely agree with you about XC2 though, the battle system for that is crazy and I'm still not used to it despite being halfway through the game (speaking of which I really need to finish it at some point).

I don't think your thread ideas are bad to be honest. I just think some threads gain more traction than others based on people's interests. Or maybe people wanted to reply, but wanted to think about it more and give a more thoughtful response rather than a throwaway post before hitting reply.

Anyway, I'm sorry you're feeling this way and I can definitely relate. I've had a good number of threads made in the past that have just fizzled out. It's nothing against you though. I just feel like a lot of it is trial and error.

(I hope I'm not breaking any rules by saying this, just wanted to offer my input 🙏 )
 
I keep doomscrolling articles about the future of technology and it’s affecting my mental health. I feel like everything is going to change heavily in the next several years and the signs of it are already showing. Things like AI assistants sound really useful as someone with organization issues, but some of the other potential changes sound really creepy.
 
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