I feel the need to keep quiet about my problems anymore. I don’t even feel like I got time for it let alone anyone else. I’m chronically ill, I have physical and mental problems every day, I’m exhausted and burnt out and hopeless, and I never feel like it’s worth talking about but suffering alone is making it ten times worse. I don’t know how to navigate it.
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you need hope…hope is key…look for little hope like a nice scented candle in a dark room or maybe tulips or flowers outside…in the winter that’s hard…sorry…you could buy yourself some flowers and stare at them…that’s what I do when I’m sad.
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Im in a similar boat. This will sound grim because no one likes to talk about the realities of someone with SI but for myself i have a few strategies.
I make commitments to activities or events that are far enough ahead to delay the possibility of the permanent solution.
I also help someone through there own troubles and make that more important. Like a purpose outside yourself.
I buy a lotto ticket weekly. Manufactured hope lol. Hey anything that can help is worth a shot.
And i distract myself with simple activity.
I call it buying myself time. The goal out of that is you get enough time to find your way through it.
I usually just tell fam/friends or whatever im doing okay otherwise they worry too much and there generally surprised after months that improvement was minimal.
Anyway i hope you feel better
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I think things are going to change drastically when it comes to how we treat SMI. Not overnight but soon enough that it’s something to hold on to. That’s what I try to think about when it seems like there’s nothing else to try or do.
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Have you spoken to your dr about it?
Maybe you can get good medicine and treatment.
Hope you feel better and stop suffering so.
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having to wait a month for each new issue of my favorite comic at the time (deadly class) probably kept me from losing everything. those months of suffering with fried receptors from benzo withdrawal + having sza already were hard but i needed to see where the story would go. now i just look forward to getting paid and eating
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With people I know irl I don’t tell them about my problems or what kind of 
I might be going through. I do that on here and with a couple long-distance text buddies. Normally, irl, I’m very private.
I agree with those who suggested finding little things to look forward to. That’s something I do, helps keep me going. For me it’s usually concerts, but for you it could be anything you enjoy, something you would look forward to.
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