| tonymarraffa said: The last few weeks I've been feeling hopeless and nothing really can take away the extreme feeling of emptiness that surrounds me. I have like this real feeling of dread. All I wanna do is sleep. I watch tv and I cry at the smallest things. Memories hurt. Days seem like an endless circle of disappointment. I think of death all the time. I'm lonely. No matter where I am I feel like I'm not comfortable in my skin. I read something here today that hurt my feelings and I don't know why it would. I miss the good times, years ago when I felt like I mattered, when the future was open when happiness was still possible. Oh well |
Whenever you start to feel that way, identify something in your life that could be better, and start working on it.
A good starting point would be health and fitness. Working out can give you more motivation, boost your endorphin levels, give you companionship from other people who are also working out, make you more "comfortable in your own skin", improve your self-confidence and more thick-skinned to others' comments, and potentially help you in the long run in attracting a partner. It can also give you short- and long-term goals and give you a sense of achievement.
But that's not the only option available. Depending on your life situation and your interests, you might be interested in going back to school, or taking up a sport, or an instrument, or trying to learn a language. You might put yourself out there in terms of dating. You might look at the armed forces if it's something you'd be into.
In short, use the sense of "emptiness", of incompleteness, to drive you to fulfill yourself, to improve yourself. And if none of that helps, go and see a doctor, let them know about the feeling and get them to check your hormone levels, your chemical balances, etc - it's possible that the feeling is due entirely to, for instance, a sodium-potassium imbalance, which is something that is easily treated with supplements.
