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Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

#11
Is it okay if someone broke into your house and harmed your kids really bad. Did this thought get to you? Do you want to beat me up for bringing this? I hope so.

Please seek professional help. You might see no point in living, maybe someone can help you see differently.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

#12

You're depressed. Clinically depressed. Those things you are feeling are as real to you as your own right hand, but they are lies your "broken" sensors are feeding you. I know perfectly well that it doesn't seem like there is anything that can help right now, but listen to the advice the good people of this place are about to pour out in here and try it anyway. It does get better. It really does. I can say it with ce…

It never gets better, one just becomes used to it and good at managing it.

I don’t know if this is what you mean: I have learned to pretend like I care. To put on a smile on my kids’ birthdays, when deep inside I feel sorry for them. They are so happy now, not suspecting what awaits them when they grow up.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

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Nothing is wrong with you. You just need some help: 1-800-273-8255 You are worth it. Please talk to someone. I do every week and it helps. Email in profile if you want to chat but please call the number.

Thank you for taking the time to comment. I am not in the US to call. I am sure we have a number for a similar purpose. I’m reluctant to call - I do not know how it will help. I can imagine all the arguments; why I should be happy. Why I am worthy. I’d been telling them to myself for a long time. I’ve just stopped believing in them.

I suggest you to try CBT. The therapist won't try to tell you why you should be happy or why are you worthy, the treatment is different. You can try CBT, or ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy), or perhaps also a rogerian therapy can be of help.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

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Nothing is wrong with you. You just need some help: 1-800-273-8255 You are worth it. Please talk to someone. I do every week and it helps. Email in profile if you want to chat but please call the number.

Thank you for taking the time to comment. I am not in the US to call. I am sure we have a number for a similar purpose. I’m reluctant to call - I do not know how it will help. I can imagine all the arguments; why I should be happy. Why I am worthy. I’d been telling them to myself for a long time. I’ve just stopped believing in them.

I would recommend finding a therapist. I was in a similar position as you and therapy helped me a lot. Hope you get better.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

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Thank you kind soul. I don’t think I am suicidal. My father did that to us when I was 17. I will not do that to my kids. I am just so tired.

Suicide IS hereditary, please get some help! Wishing you the best!

It's actually even contagious.. when those you know commit suicide or even celebrities - it makes it seem easier to those around you. I've been struggling for the past year, myself with major depression, and I know when Chester Benngington (Linkin Park) died, for awhile it seemed like it wouldn't be such a bad idea, myself.

I had a brand new baby though, and every time I felt full of despair, I'd go and hold him for a bit. It helped bring me out, or at least give me a reason to live a bit longer till, my mood swung in the other direction.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

#17
Do you have someone to talk to? Call a friend/relative/coworker you feel comfortable with and get it out of you. Then please get some professional help. Keep in mind that nowadays many of us feel shit and depressed like you do, try keeping your mind occupied with something else if it helps. All the best.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

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It never gets better, one just becomes used to it and good at managing it.

I don’t know if this is what you mean: I have learned to pretend like I care. To put on a smile on my kids’ birthdays, when deep inside I feel sorry for them. They are so happy now, not suspecting what awaits them when they grow up.

It doesn’t have to happen to them, they can grow up as happy as they are now. One good reason to seek help for yourself, and recover from your depression, is to give your children an example of how to respond if/when it happens to them.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

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Hey aragorn2, I read trough all the comments you made here as well.

Based on that I want to recommend to you the material of Stefan Molyneux in regards to two of his keywords: self-knowledge and peaceful parenting. He talks about other things too, but I don't mean those in regards to you.

I also do want to qualify my statement thus: I am not referring so much on his main points in regards to those two topics, but more the subtler points he is making.

For example, in peaceful parenting he has an eye on how things are hereditary. It is this detail, how he observes this, that I think is helpful to you. Not so much the parenting topic in itself.

Re: Ask HN: What’s wrong with me

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Is it okay if someone broke into your house and harmed your kids really bad. Did this thought get to you? Do you want to beat me up for bringing this? I hope so. Please seek professional help. You might see no point in living, maybe someone can help you see differently.

Someone breaking in and harming them is a real posibillity, I know. I’ve been through the war in Balkans.

Just another example of the senseless world we live in.

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