Venting Does anybody else feel like they’re a completely damaged person who can’t be helped

[guestguest360]

I don't even know how to explain what I'm feeling right now. All that comes to mind are the words broken and damaged. I've been reflecting a lot over the past 2 years and I've really started to realise how much my childhood has impacted me. I blocked a lot of things out but I'm starting to remember. When I was young I think I was in survival mode. I had to deal with so much pain on my own but I got by somehow. I felt older than years due to the trauma I endured but now I just feel like a broken child that can't be helped by anyone. I've been massively misunderstood by mental health services and I don't trust them anymore or anyone for that matter. I'd rather suffer alone than ask for help again. The constant let downs and invalidation are so painful.

I don't know where to go from here. There was a tiny part of me that wanted to give life another go and I felt a little hopeful. But that part of me is just engulfed by depression. I'm so tired of fighting my brain everyday and dealing with the consequences of how others treated me growing up. I don't feel like there's a professional in the world that can help me get through this. Ending it all just feels like the only thing to do at this point. I feel like the depression has truly won after 12 years. I just wish I wasn't so afraid of dying because that keeps me stuck here. It's tortuous. I don't know where I was going with this. I just wanted to get some thoughts off my mind. Writing in diaries no longer feels safe for me.

 

[Hollowman]

Yeah, I'm beyond screwed. I gave up on trying to get help many years ago.

 

[Dark Moon]

Same, I had some traumatic events in my childhood that still playback on my mind to this day and I was thinking of giving life another go but the help/support is almost non existent. They insist on giving me anti deppresants and nothing else, I don't think they can help me anyway. I'm just over this life now at this point.

 

[martyrdom]

I cannot fully relate to you because my trauma does not come from childhood, but I can understand. I was broken a few months ago. I was perfectly happy before then, I had everything most people would want, but what happened is irreparable. People don't understand that there's no coming back from some events.

 

[WornOutLife]

Yeah, what happens to me is something similar to those memes that say "I wish I didn't know so much"

It's like you can't change me. I won't enjoy the silly things I used to anymore. Ignorance is really bliss. I see people eating a sandwich in a park and they look genuinely happy. That's just nonsense for my way of viewing the world LOL.

 

[BeyondSurvival]

I feel like some parts of me are permanently damaged, but I still have hope that I can get better in some ways.

 

[TwistedNightmares]

Yeah I am completely broken as a person. My entire family screwed me over as I was growing up with a lot of emotional neglect and abuse (physically and mentally) and the outside world wasn't kind at all to me either.