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Old Mar 29, 2010, 05:36 PM
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Hi again, Sophia! If there's one thread I see running through your last few posts, it's that you're trying to apply someone else's standards to yourself, not feeling much like meeting those standards, and cracking down on yourself for it, apparently to little avail:
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Is this called laziness? Some might call it apathy.
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I looked deep within myself to see if I have what it takes to just like...have a decent amount of motivation in life and I just dont have it. I wish I did.

Because without it I'm pretty much worthless as a human being. I'm a net-drain on those around me. I hurt those around me by being Lazy. In fact, it'd probably be better if I never was born at all if this is my inherent nature.
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I just dont want to do work I think. Ergo, Laziness.
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I'm very good at like...instant gratification sort of things like not doing homework or studying. But horrible, absolutely horrible at long term things.
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Yeah I probably do have to treat myself like a child since I'm pretty much acting like one. No self-control or discipline, or just...very little of these.
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... I keep getting this sneaking suspicion that i'm just not mature enough for college. That, I need to grow the **** up somehow.
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I wish everything would just change. like, POOF, be magically fixed and cured and I could just live life like a happy, normally motivated, person with a few friends she could confide in and if i am lucky find a nice boyfriend to love her.

A person who wasnt labled as being emotionally unstable, or lazy, or weird because she doesnt have any friends and her grades are poor and she exhibits weird behaviors like gesturing to herself, picking her forehead or drooling. (the last one I cant help)

That is my dream. That is my ideal. I dont need to get my Phd. I just...I need to learn to be an adult and live a normal happy life emotionally, intellectually and socially without going through periods where I just want to not exist and have to resist hurting myself by curling up into a little ball and trying not to cry.
By any chance, could some of the above be an indirect statement to, oh, your mom for instance? I was wondering where you could be getting those standards you're beating yourself up with, and I couldn't help noticing this part:
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I dont know. Maybe working the 12 steps will help me, though I know my mother would never ever approve of me being around alcoholics.
------- Entering Fool Zero's fantasy -------
Please watch your step.

If your mom had some kind of problem with you being yourself (or, worse, being who she feared you might turn out to be -- everything she didn't like about herself, perhaps), one thing she might do about that would be to push you to keep meeting her standards: do your homework on time, have lots of friends, and stay away from alcoholics. Then, if you went along with the program, she could breathe a sigh of relief that she'd saved you from being like her. She'd take credit, of course, and you might be left wondering why, although you'd apparently done everything right, you weren't getting much satisfaction from it and didn't quite feel like yourself. Right now it might look to you as if the only way to be even remotely yourself, might be to be more or less the opposite of who your mother wants you to be.
------- Leaving Fool Zero's fantasy -------
Please watch your step.

Therapy sounds like the place to start sorting this out for yourself.