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Old Sep 23, 2017, 04:31 AM
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Originally Posted by DarknessIsMyFriend View Post
I am struggling right now. I can't cope with my emotions much longer. I am feeling a lot of anger, fear, and loneliness.

To start with, my step father, the only family member that I had left which I felt close to, passed away last week. I have a thread about this in the grief forum. I am also moving out to a new apartment that I am fully paying for on my own for the first time soon. The current apartment that I am staying in was being payed for by grant that I was on for youths ages 16-25 with mental health issues that made under $16,000 per year. The grant wears off next month, which means that I will be fully responsible for my own living expenses for the first time in my life. I am also a full time college student and an employee now, when I couldn't even find and hold down a job 6 months ago.

Everything is so new to me and I am terrified. I am scared of screwing up because I know that I have nobody to help me anymore if I lose everything. My step father is gone and I have no family left aside from a homeless uncle and a cousin that's in prison. I have nobody else left to bail me out of my screw ups and I have nobody to talk to aside from people on this forum when I'm lonely or hurting. I am also afraid of doing bad in school and losing my work study job and grant disbursements that I am dependent on to pay my living expenses. I know that it would be extremely difficult for me to find another job if I lost this one because I still struggle with job interviewing and what not and I know that if my survival became threatened, I would become emotionally unstable like what always happens to me when I am put under a lot of stress and become reckless (having the warrior gene can be a curse sometimes).

I don't know how much longer I can hold out. I am scared of losing everything that I've worked so hard for up to this point. I have already started falling behind in my studies and had to drop a class. Right now, I can't even do a basic HTML and CSS class right, despite normally being adept with technology related stuff because I am so emotionally overwhelmed. I haven't been studying enough at home because I am so desperate to escape from how much that I'm hurting that I have been binge watching anime and gaming when I'm at home and not sleeping instead of studying and taking care of myself. I have been living off of Monster energy drinks all week and drinking coffee by the pot because caffeine helps me escape from feeling sad and hopeless for a time.

I can't take the pain anymore. I am sick of hurting. If I will hurt like this for a long time, than I want out of life. I have this grand idea of having myself cyropreserved so that maybe I can be revived one day when life isn't so painful. I have had thoughts of scamming some big corporations to pay the hefty cyropreservation bill and then killing myself so that I can hopefully be revived one day when humanity evolves somehow and life is less painful and overwhelming. I have all of these grand ideas of future science and technology fixing humanities problems and enhancing people's quality of life which have been the only reason why I have cared enough about life to keep fighting. I am at the point now though to where I'm ready to accept that I'm not good enough to make an impact on the world because I am so emotionally fragile due to the hell I've been through and by the time I can improve my emotional state (if such a thing is possible), I will be too old and people won't care about me anymore. Plus, if reviving cyropreserved people isn't possible in the future, than I recon that being dead would be better than hurting the way I am.

And no, I am not going to do anything crazy yet. This post is more of a pathetic cry for help than anything. Still though, I do entertain such thoughts.
You really have a lot going on. The commute time, school, work, moving. Don't be hard on yourself. There really aren't a lot of people who could do what you're doing under the best of circumstances.

When do you move into your new apartment? It should be pretty soon. I'm hoping that will make things easier for you. That would also be a good time to try to set up a schedule for yourself where you commit to studying a certain amount of time each day. For me, when I was in college, I got up very early in the morning, put coffee on and would study and work on assignments 2 to 3 hours. It worked well for me. I also spent a lot of my time between classes in the library.

It's good that you are reaching out on here. You know we are all routing for you!
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