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when the is no good in life?
I have spent the past 24 hours really fighting against my suicidal thoughts & plans & in particular not executing them. I have spoken to the acute care mental health team I am associated with several times in that period. I posted a question on here last night about it.
So many people keep telling me to just think of the good in life. There is no good in life though. My ankle is stuffed, my daughter was stillborn, my partner died unexpectedly & now I have been told that my son who is battling brain tumours is terminally ill. Where is there any good in that? I am all alone trying to deal with it, my usual psychologist is on holiday for a month & I am totally over everything. To make matters even more fun I was so much not thinking today that my car ran out of petrol in the middle of nowhere & I can't even afford $5 petrol to put in my car to get it home, let alone being able to get to my new job on Monday, so who knows if I'll even get to keep the job, I have no food to eat, only water to drink when I am really really craving coke or something sweet. How the heck are you meant to find anything good in all that.
I don't need to be told that there are others worse off in the world than me. Quite frankly, I would take anything that any other person in the world is going through if I didn't have to watch my 6yo die. As anyone who has been through losing a child. nothing compares to the grief that comes with that.
Brigette - thanks - I actually have borderline personality disorder & already get assistance from Anglicare (I have a case manager) & other charities but unfortunately they only offer help every few months due to demand as well as a lot of support from the mental health unit. Unfortunately, due to my son's treatments & my own treatments, I just don't have any time whatsoever to be part of any other groups at this point in time.
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- ?Lv 61 decade agoFavourite answer
I am wondering if you are are affected by bipolar disorder, I worked with mental health and I know life is hard, I am a single mother because the father to my daughter is deceased and she is 4, I struggle and I work and I study and I am a mother. I believe attending a support group there is so many of them. Have you been to women's health care house, where are you in australia. They have support groups for people with mental illnesses, and they also attend social activities with them like going to kings park, this is in perth. I suggest a support group long term will help you better cope, and call linc or angeli care they can help you with food. There is services out there to help you better cope and to help with your son. They just don't advertise them. You should be able to get more support if you have to care for your son. Don't give up, your son needs you, and with more support you will feel better. I believe lack of support, makes us all depressed and we all need help sometimes.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Your better off than Christipher Reeves or Steven Hawkins, look at them they are both in wheel chairs and can move having their bottoms cleaned 5 times a day, can't feed themselves, go out anywhere, so yes you life may seem crap right now but compare it to a lone surviving person from a Nazi Consentration Camp, they made it through it all and went on to live a full life. No saying its easy pal, but you can see where I'm going with what other people go through and carry on. Point of reference, I have lost most of my family and have cancer that is slowly getting me, but I fight on because there beers to drink and woman out there that need some attention on a night. You will pull through it, it might not seem so right now, but you will make it through to see brighter days.
- InconsipcuousLv 41 decade ago
Whenever I think about suicide,I think "Don't lose, or give up without a fight".
I am sorry for all what is happening to you.Some bad stuff happen for no apparent fault from our sides.Hang on there.
I'm sorry about your son.I wish you find the strength to deal with it.
Since you get yourself a job, I can see little hope in that.Who knows your life may improve in no time.
