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Old Oct 12, 2014, 08:02 AM
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all the dark thoughts that I'd been fighting are coming back. I can watch myself judging everything more and more negatively. what if it stays like this for the rest of my life? what if for me the only way to have company is to get drunk with some strangers? I don't even like to get drunk that much. I feel really bad about it. but I don't know how to meet people without. why is it that I am not with friends? I don't have anyone who I meet regularly. I wonder why.
what if I will never have any real friends? those that I made before didn't seem to last. what if I cannot meet a partner, ever? I went out with a small group yesterday and all of them were in relationships. all of them!
what if I tried all my possibilities and I am just too old and ****ed up. I think I just missed all my chances. I wasted my life. I wasted my potential on some insane unlikely dream. I could have done anything, I could have studied something else and be in a good job now and have some academic achievements and be recognized. but instead I am getting drunk and hope that something stupid happens to me on my way so I never get home.
What if, what if, what if. It is called catastrophizing. A way of thinking we get into. Not rational. Trust me I know the thinking and it causes me extreme anxiety. The truth is nothing is permanent. Things are always changing. The only constant is change. Just keep trying and things will get better or they won't but they will change. Either way you will learn to cope.

Try focusing only on what is in front of you. Staying in the moment. One day at a time. Mindfulness. Screw the future. None of us knows what it holds.
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Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.

Male, 50

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Thanks for this!
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