This is another fairly personal one.
Anyone following anything I've posted on here in the past will likely have worked out by now that I'm in Australia - in a fairly left-wing part of it, no less.
You'll also probably have noticed that I'm fairly... Fucked up. Depression, anxiety, probably ADHD and OCD, plus abuse and a fairly horrific childhood and adolescence - these things have fucked me up no end, and, contrary to the "happy shit" you see in, say, Pedowood - I can assure you from experience that a lot of people like me DON'T fucking recover, and we never come back from the pits. Some do. Most don't. Which do you really think is the likely end result, for a fuck-up like me..?
Anyway, I think you all know by now that things in Australia are completely fucked. They're getting worse. Continuously. Every fucking day, we lose another "human right", and the totalitarian screws get tighter. I've just learned, today, that thanks to a pronouncement from our state "premier", the equivalent of a US Governor, if I LEAVE this state, say, to go back to my university, I won't be allowed back in, until I'm doubly vaccinated AND test negative to coof. This means that if my grandfather's health declines, which is... Likely, I may not even be able to get back to see him in time, because of the fucking government. I cannot TELL YOU how blackpilling that is, amongst everything else.
Shit here is fucked, and I am so fucking sick of it! Never mind the fact that, without going into too many details, my family pets keep dying, and I keep fucking having to bury them. I spent the last three days burying one. I only adopted him earlier this year. Last I saw, he was healthy and fine. This happens... Every couple of years. And then family members just up and die, too, or someone I know kills themselves. It's... I don't know why the fuck I'm so unlucky, but fuck, death just seems to follow me. If you haven't experienced this yourself, let me tell you - digging a grave for your animals on a regular basis is... Pretty devastating.
Moving on: For the last... While, anger has been what has sustained me. Anger, resentment and hatred. I'm a bitter, jaded person (you would be, too, if you had seen what I have, and experienced what I have), and I fucking detest what my society has become. Clearly, at least "anonymously", I'm very active online, in trying to fight back, and to use that anger... "Constructively". I also use it to motivate exercise, which... Works, but the exercise doesn't... Make the anger go away, at all.
After a while, though, you begin to realise this is a losing battle. Australia is completely fucked. I'm genuinely not sure there is any coming back from this, and I do not think, if I lived much longer, that I would want to do so in this country. It is becoming unrecognisable, and I genuinely fear for the future, here. My own future is gone. That does not matter. But for the country itself... The best outcome is probably Argentina or Chile at their lowest points. Or what, Portugal under Salazar? I seriously don't see an outcome under which Australia stays a democracy, with basic rights for citizens, which is... Scary. And while I have fought back and fought back, pretty hard... I've now realised how futile it is.
My efforts aren't really changing anything. Shit here is sliding, and nothing I do will really change that. But it's more than that. Anger can only sustain you for so long. While my rage can be pretty... Intimidating, I think sadness and loneliness are generally stronger, longer-lasting emotions than anger, and nothing I have done takes that away. So...
I dunno if this is it. I hope the rest of you are able to better "maintain the rage", and fight back in the culture wars in your respective countries. But even if the fight for Australia isn't over; even if there is some hope left for this place - I'm not sure I'll be around to keep on fighting.
I'm pretty done. I've tried. I've fought. I've failed. I just want... Peace, now, and I really... I'm not sure I know of many other ways to find it, unfortunately.
Cheers.
What's that?
I wouldn’t say I’m desperate, per se…
I’ve been on/off suicidal for a decade. This is not an impulsive thing. This is a “Fuck it, I’ve tried, and I’m tired of trying” thing…
Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts, and attempt to help. Would love a hug. Right now, though, I should probably just sleep, and try to feel better after a bit of rest…
My guess is that they're referring to the Australian youth mental health organization, Headspace. Their remit is under-25s, and I... Haven't had good experiences with them (they left me high and dry, before I turned 25), but... They have apps and a website and shit.
I'm not a fan, but hey, that's... A jaded person who they hurt, talking, so maybe I'm not so objective. I know they have apps for meditation and "mindfulness" and shit, so if that helps some people? Great.
I've tried that stuff. Just doesn't do it, for me. I'm too... Messed up, perhaps.
Oh I wasn’t critiquing you. I just don’t like Headspace, who I’m fairly confident developed that app…
But that’s ok. I’m sure they have some good… Ideas. I just… Haven’t had a good time with the organization itself, I suppose.
But if I was more proactive and less arrogant when I was younger, and went to them when I was stably based in the one state/at Uni the first time..? Eh, I would probably have a different opinion on them. I had friends who said they were good/useful… I was just busy imploding on my own, at the time. Because again, I was an arrogant, immature, selfish little shit, and I was scared to trust ANY counselling, including Headspace, because I’d had some terrible experiences with it when I was younger… But that’s a whole other story.
I’m too old for them to even speak to me now, though, which is… Amusing.
But yeah, can’t speak for the app and stuff itself.
its a heavy metal song from the edgy era of music dumbass ;)
I know you're probably calling me a dumbass, which is fair, but lacking the comma implies "dumbass" is a genre of music, which is also just as believable.