I am in my late twenties and feel like I cannot cope with life. I honestly feel like I don't know how to live.
I've somehow managed to get into a competitive work industry - something which everyone is so proud of me for, and I'm told a lot 'isn't that amazing.' It's not. I dislike the job, I don't help people day to day and that bothers me. I gave up a lot of/all my twenties financially and otherwise to get here, and it's utter shit. I wish I had enjoyed my life more instead of thinking that the job was the be all and end all. Ironically I am in a worse situation financially than other 'less successful' friends, who got a more basic job while I was in uni still.
My relationship ended a few months ago, and I play over and over in my head that this was my fault. I have never learnt to just let life go and I hate that fact, I don't know how I got to this point. I don't see the point in life anymore - it's just a struggle everyday. I don't know how to be properly happy. I felt safe in a relationship because making the other person happy kept me going... I don't know how to have a shred of happiness on my own - making myself happy doesn't make me happy, if that makes any sense.
I feel lonely, and trapped and scared. I have no sparkle for life anymore, and I feel like I am not making the most of out life and that makes me feel guilty. I am literally just existing. I went from a happy, resliant woman to a complete mess. I cry every day and feel frustrated and trapped with my life.
I often wonder if I took myself off somehwere in France or Italy, even on my own, if a few weeks of some distance would help shake me back into who I was. I have family in Boston and sometimes wonder if I should go there for a bit. But then I don't. I don't even know what I am typing, I just know I am a mess.
I keep waking up in the night and feeling like I am about to die and then wondering about all the things I have and havent done. I hate life and find it fruitless and unfulfilling in every sense.
I have been to the doctors and been told I have stress, depression, all sorts. But the fact is that I am ok - I'm just very unhappy and don't know how to live anymore.
Has anyone felt like this and got their life back? If so, how?
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In my twenties and life seems pointless, I can't cope
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whatevertheweather1 · 27/05/2015 10:53
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