Is it normal i feel so overwhelmed i just give up?

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I lie on my bed all day because I am too overwhelmed by the knowledge of all the duties I haven't done and urgently need to do and that threaten to take over my life, that my will to get up at all just vanishes and I lie there and think 'I'm f*cked - there's no point trying to get out of this mess' and numb myself on nihilistic podcasts and Youtube videos about dead bodies. Is it normal and how do I stop this?

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SwickDinging

4 years ago

I think it's normal but it is very unhealthy. The best thing you could do would be to get off the internet for a while until you've sorted your shit out. Easier said than done, I know. I sure as hell haven't managed it yet...

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palehorse

4 years ago

Full-time nihilist here. Life is pointless, but that ain't stopping anyone from having fun. I abandoned stress a long time ago - worrying is just suffering twice. I get up and do my best; if I succeed, great, if I fail, who cares? There's other things to get done, other opportunities to be had.

"There's no point in trying to get myself out of this mess" - well, there's no point not to, hm? Time will pass anyways. You might as well do something.

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merluca

4 years ago

You sound EXACTLY like me. I have to turn in 5 assignments by tomorrow, and yet here I am.. I have frequent panic attacks because I'm so overwhelmed with life. It's not a healthy behavior, so it's probably not normal.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  4 years ago
  
  Take heart: you're still at school. You're young enough that you've got time to find help and heal before adult-like coping skills are truly expected of you and the pressures of survival in the cold, harsh working world outside take their toll in addition to everything else. I finished my studies more than 5 years ago. I feel like 10 years of my life have gone by and I still don't fill the grown-up shoes I've found myself in. I know school kids who'd make better adults than I do.
  
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  - NoLifer
    
    4 years ago
    
    Sounds like axiety and depression.
    
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  - RoseIsabella
    
    4 years ago
    
    I will be 50 in November, and I still don't feel like a real grownup inside
    
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    - leggs91200
      
      4 years ago
      
      I will be 45 and yeah, it is weird cause I think inside of us is still that kid wondering what the hell happened.
      
      I am convinced that "feeling like a grown-up" never happens.
      
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      - RoseIsabella
        
        4 years ago
        
        I'm 49, and I don't feel like a grown up yet.
        
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BlackCandle

4 years ago

I feel you.

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- RoseIsabella
  
  4 years ago
  
  I do too, but I think OP needs to switch the morbid crap on YouTube to cat videos for starters.
  
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  - FromTheSouthWeirdGuy
    
    4 years ago
    
    Or this too
    https://youtu.be/iZOUBMsnQRE
    
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    - RoseIsabella
      
      4 years ago
      
      Gotta love how subdued the reactions from people on the street are!
      
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      - FromTheSouthWeirdGuy
        
        4 years ago
        
        Its New York they see this all the time
        
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litelander8

4 years ago

Unplug

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TerriAngel

4 years ago

You need to just unplug.
Period.
You won't lay around for long before your boredom and curiosity
MAKE YOU GET UP, AND MOVE.
Your t.v., netflix, etc.
That's all just a control fixture.
Your therapist is another useless habit.
If you look at all you need to do, it's overwhelming.
So focus on one thing.
Do that one thing, then move on to the next thing.
A 20 mile hike sounds hard.
But one step is easy.

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GreyMeatSauce2

4 years ago

I'm like this, but I'll get to the point where I'm basically paralyzed and can't even comprehend the idea to even grab the phone and pull up YouTube.

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Doesnormalmatter

4 years ago

Get some purpose going in your life. And lower your stress also, possibly see a therapist for that.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  4 years ago
  
  I'm seeing one. She tells me to comfort my inner child and parent it so that I can grow up properly... however I'm supposed to do that.
  When I get into these paralysed blockages of terror at my own inertia, soul-searching is the last thing I want to do. I just want to cease to exist so that it will all go away. Hence nihilism and dead bodies. Sometimes when I do this I feel like I am committing a long, slow suicide. I am checking out of life until the storm passes... and the storm will never fully pass...
  
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  - palehorse
    
    4 years ago
    
    "She tells me to comfort my inner child and parent it so that I can grow up properly."
    
    Dafuq?
    
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    - RoseIsabella
      
      4 years ago
      
      I somewhat understand that suggestion, but therapist ought to give OP some guidance on how to actually parent his inner child.
      
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      - palehorse
        
        4 years ago
        
        Same - it just sounds super strange out of context.
        
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    - leggs91200
      
      4 years ago
      
      Dafuq? Isn't that the black kid walking around the 'hood with his pants pulled down, or am I thinking of DeShawn.
      
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  - drdnk957
    
    4 years ago
    
    Your therapist sounds like some hipster tard. Get a new one.
    
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  - RoseIsabella
    
    4 years ago
    
    What was your childhood like?
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      4 years ago
      
      In a word - passive. Life, school, my parents' will just sort of carried me along. I kept to myself and waited for my mom to tell me to do something.
      
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      - RoseIsabella
        
        4 years ago
        
        Were you depressed as a child?
        
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        Anonymous Post Author
        
        4 years ago
        
        I don't know. I was told that I was happy and wasn't allowed to think that I was anything else.
        
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leggs91200

4 years ago

This might motivate you.

Caution - sometimes when we see or hear something corny or just plain wrong, part of us dies. Some people have COMPLETELY died immediately after watching this bullshit. Please make sure and "tie up any loose ends" before viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIoZHGupZA8

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- RoseIsabella
  
  4 years ago
  
  I used to work at Target. That's a lot of ginger right there.
  
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