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Bye To Everyone In Chat

A page in the diary "The Days Of My Life"
Written by lifesucks 7. Feb 2008 01:12 AM

For those who weren't in chat tonight I wanted to say goodbye to you all. No matter how hard I try I really feel that I do not fit in. So many times I try to either join in or start a conversation only to feel like I don't exist.

I am not blaming anyone on chat so please don't feel like I am. All my life I have felt like the black sheep and I really can't see anything changing. My doctor suggested that my husband arrange for us to see a marriage counsellor and he told the doc that he would. He had a couple of days off work and never bothered to do anything about it. I guess it shows he doesn't want me either.

As for my two beautiful boys, as long as they are getting what they want then they are happy too! They really don't need their mother now either.

My birthmother didn't care about how I felt about anything and everything always has to be about her life. My birth father promised to do things with me and then just left and I haven't heard from him since.

My Dad has always been really critical of everything I do and I have always felt that if I didn't achieve that I was not good enough.

My psychiatrist wouldn't listen to me last week when I told him how I was feeling. He changed my medication and has given me one that causes drowsiness in the hope to reduce some of the anxiety. The last time I was on something like this I fell asleep on the floor when my eldest was a toddler. I asked him what I should do next time I felt like there was no hope and he said that that the hospital that I should contact isn't worth the effort.

I saw my GP today and tried to explain to him how I was feeling also. He told me to go for a few walks and come back in three weeks.

What none of these doctor's seem to get is that I find it really hard to explain how I feel. Sometimes I can present as though things are going really well but then the second that something goes wrong I am left feeling so alone and with no hope. My psychologist has said that because of the adoption, death of my adoptive mother when I was five and the sexual abuse for a number of years plus the fact that my adoptive father never told me he loved me the whole time I was growing up or held me for that matter, I haven't learnt the necessary adult coping skills that most people have.

So this makes coping in the big world extremely difficult for me. Add to that paruresis and you have a reason to feel like there is no hope for me at all. I don't want to spend my life living with all this pain and feeling as though there is such a void in my heart.

I know that I have let everyone down because I can't cope with the hand I have been dealt in life and I am sorry. This place is truly better off without me.

I have a message for one special person from chat and they know who they are. I am really sorry for hurting you the way I did. Please know that I never meant to because you mean so much to me. Thankyou for the time you spent trying to help me through this crap but at the end of the day I feel I have failed you and more importantly I have failed myself. I should know that anything that seems too good to be true usually is. Please know that the last few weeks have been the happiest that I have had. I felt a love like I have never felt in my life before and it was truly magical. You reached out to me and gave me hope when I thought my life had no purpose and now all I have managed to do is destroy our friendship. I am truly sorry. I hope that one day maybe you can forgive me.

Take care everyone and I hope that things work out for each and everyone on of you. You are all good people and deserve to be happy.

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Comments from the community:

Lifesucks please don't go we care about u.

(((((((((((((((((lifsucks)))))))))))))))))))))

B1

p.s maybe take a break if u need to but don't delete urself

Written by bananas, 7. Feb 2008 03:20 AM

awww Jenny, don't go. I've enjoyed our chats. I know how you feel with the docs not getting you... its hard to put into words how we are feeling, especially when we're tired, emotional and having trouble cconcentrating. there are docs out there who are really great at listening and helping, they just take some finding.

Written by andrewau, 7. Feb 2008 06:01 AM

Lifesucks

Don't go. You need us to help you through your issues and we try our best. Hey I think we are all like you when it comes to the psychiatrist, psychologist, counsellor - have trouble opening up. That is why I walk in with a list of questions so I know what we will discuss/get my answers for. Perhaps you could try that with your psychiatrist and work on opening up with the psychologist. They should be working with the psychiatrist on a different matter but something related to your illness, ie goals, for me it's my phobias.

Don't delete yourself as you will delete all your dairies. Take a break if you think it is best but come back when you need to chat/write a diary. People in depnet care about their fellow deppies.

Go Lifesucks!!!

Studying1

Written by studying1, 7. Feb 2008 08:22 AM

PS Lifesucks

Sometimes it takes time to get used to the chat room and sitting on the side is a good way to see how it works. Also get hubby to do the marriage counselling session or you do it for him and tell him where he has to be.

Go Lifesucks!!!

Studying1

Written by studying1, 7. Feb 2008 08:29 AM

Hi Jen, jacko2 here, I am sorry I didn't get to know you, my computer has been playing up so I have missed a couple of days. This is very disturbing for me to read your entry I can understand you concerns with the so called experts, I do feel that as they have never had a problem they can disasociate them selves and give so called advise by means of things they have been taught, not from experience.
I have had a constant change in my medical help, but I have to say, they have at least listend to me, I think that is the problem with your doctors, they sound like they don't want to care and are too quick to put you on more meds which is like feeding a fire some times.
I don't believe you can't tell them how you feel, I think that they are just not listening to you!!
You can ask for a referral to another doctor and insist you be taken seriously, there are some who will listen, I would like to be one and I am sure the others would like to be there for you in any way they can.
Ian.

Written by Deleted_User, 7. Feb 2008 09:09 AM

Maybe it'll be easier to get support in the diaries rather than the chat room? Please talk to your docs again, you should not feel like you can't go to them when you feel so low... What about a local support group in your area? Your doc should know more about that.

Make sure you keep the crisis contacts close at hand. Some of these are:
Lifeline - 13 11 14
Suicide Help Victoria 1300 651 251
Ambulance/Police - 000
Salvo Crisis Line (suicide prevention) - 02 9331 2000
Salvo Care Line - (02) 9331 6000
Crisis Team (CATT) or your local hospital emergency department (see telephone directory)

Take care

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