what does ur mental pain feel like?

[flkywch]

so it seems most people are stuck inside pain in their head. but what does it actually feel like for you? feel free to use metaphors
for me it feels like im trapped inside a 1cmx1cm box pushing on the sides and my head is getting compressed and theres nothing i can do to get out.
then like a spiral of negative emotions that keep tripping each other until its unbearable

 

[Seaghost]

Sometimes it feels like unbreakable glass which has centimetres of thickness between.my and the environment.
Sometimes the colors of the world has gone.
Sometimes I am in a cage and the walls gettin higher and higher.
Sometimes I am feeling so empty and nothing can fill it.
Sometimes I am standing in front of tasks and I am not able to start with it.

And more and more there's a cruel fatigue which stays longer and longer with every illness relapse.

And sometimes it's all of that together in combination with physical pain.

 

[Withered]

It feels like my lungs are crushed and like I'm always about to fall asleep.

 

[flkywch]

Sometimes it feels like unbreakable glass which has centimetres of thickness between.my and the environment.
Sometimes the colors of the world has gone.
Sometimes I am in a cage and the walls gettin higher and higher.
Sometimes I am feeling so empty and nothing can fill it.
Sometimes I am standing in front of tasks and I am not able to start with it.

And more and more there's a cruel fatigue which stays longer and longer with every illness relapse.

And sometimes it's all of that together in combination with physical pain.

the colors of the world being gone is a feeling i relate to all too well

 

[dddaaangxl]

for me i have a cycle of negative thoughts, then finding a spark of hope, only for it to be crushed- strengthening my negative thoughts. i think it's mostly external struggles combined with the fact that everything sets me off for some reason.

how it feels though is like being at the bottom of the ocean, exposed, drowning, and crushed under the pressure of it all- and when you start to accept your fate that things will never get better, you see the rays of light from the surface reminding you of what you could have if you just tried harder. so then you try to swim to the surface only to be knocked back down by the currents. then you're back where you started and wondering if it's still worth it to even try at all.

 

[loser4ever4life]

It's a whirlwind of emotions that overwhelm me. Mainly negative. It brings me to tears. I go from feeling nothing at all, being a husk of myself, to someone who utterly hates himself. The worst part is that it takes from me my memory and concentration, I used to be someone who prided themselves on their mind but it has been robbed of me, I can't focus or recall such simple information

Edit: To be clear, this sometime causes me to have physical pain, like a dull headache, if not outright symptoms such as dry heaving or anxiety driven shaking across my whole body

 

[flkywch]

for me i have a cycle of negative thoughts, then finding a spark of hope, only for it to be crushed- strengthening my negative thoughts. i think it's mostly external struggles combined with the fact that everything sets me off for some reason.

how it feels though is like being at the bottom of the ocean, exposed, drowning, and crushed under the pressure of it all- and when you start to accept your fate that things will never get better, you see the rays of light from the surface reminding you of what you could have if you just tried harder. so then you try to swim to the surface only to be knocked back down by the currents. then you're back where you started and wondering if it's still worth it to even try at all.

ye this is a rly good methaphor for what i feel, thanks for sharing. i hope u feel anything at all that makes u feel better

It's a whirlwind of emotions that overwhelm me. Mainly negative. It brings me to tears. I go from feeling nothing at all, being a husk of myself, to someone who utterly hates himself. The worst part is that it takes from me my memory and concentration, I used to be someone who prided themselves on their mind but it has been robbed of me, I can't focus or recall such simple information

i used to b rly smart as well , that suckjs. hugs for u