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Old Mar 22, 2017, 06:14 PM
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I've been having unstable states of mind for some time.
I can assume it comes from loneliness (although I work with people and still communicate here and there at home and some friends I know) and lack of direction in life, as I'm heading to university in the upcoming year.

My mental states are switching, and consist of the following:
1. Happy and settled
2. Furious and hating the system
3. Feeling like a loser
4. Outbursting with great vitality

My previous therapist would never dig into this - one reason I left him.
I should note those states of mind are only internal feelings. They mostly don't turn into actions.

Unfortunately I feel I'm only existing - doing work and just sitting in front of the computer. This has pretty much always been my life, except with school at first.
I had a problem of lacking touch with reality since childhood. I can be curious about nothing, not finding any use in learning something new. Although I sometimes put hard effort into trying, like I did with fishkeeping for example.

Generally, I'm stuck, always been that way. Sometimes I feel it's something at home (still live with parents) that keeps things this way and I just feel like leaving to live a life for a change.
I mean, why bother finding love just to marry and have a family when you're feeling like this...?
I'm planning on studying Math + a professional major (either Statistics+Operations Research, or Computer Science. Since Computer Science requires a high grade in the admission test, it may seem unlikely...).
I don't know how to put this, but there have been voices that being settled in life is wrong, and that I should always seek to improve myself and get the best out of life. In short, get out of the mainstream rail (such as the rail of career+marriage+family) and do something meaningful for yourself and reality.

I need help on this. It's getting hard to express what I'm going through, but I hope someone can understand and help on this.

Thanks

EDIT: Just watched the following video: "Why Is Work So Boring?" by The School of Life (highly-recommended channel for many topics)
When we specialize in one area in life overtime and can't do many other things. Kinda relates to this.

Last edited by Anonymous50987; Mar 22, 2017 at 07:05 PM. Reason: Specifying and adding info
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Old Mar 22, 2017, 07:52 PM
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Hello Obsidian: Well... I would say the mental states you list are pretty-much common to everyone. I certainly recognize them. I don't know as I can really be of any help with this. But the one thing I will suggest to you is that the time to figure it out is now. Once you get onto that rail of career+marriage+family it becomes exceedingly difficult to break free. That's okay if that's what one wants. But if it's not it can be a nightmare...
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Old Mar 22, 2017, 09:12 PM
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My initial thought is that you're being way too hard on yourself, and expecting a lot from yourself...maybe too much. You're only human, my friend.
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Old Mar 28, 2017, 01:52 AM
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I would say the feelings are very normal, in my opinion. The key is that you are not acting on the feelings.

As a human, you are full of emotions. They pop up on their own and what you feel depends on the situation. If you are concerned, I would definitely talk to your counselor about them.

I know that I have gone from wanting to hug someone, to wanting to smack them upside the head. I didn't smack them, so I considered that I have pretty good self control.
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