I hate my life

[Chado2423]

I'm not getting enough sleep, because of Night Terrors. (My Night Terrors are about the day I went to try to apologize to my ex but she called the police on me.) I have extreme anxiety and irritibility. I hate my job. I'm so frustrated right now with my life I don't which way to go. I try affirmations but if my life stays the same what's the point?

[bellemeadows]

IMHO, you are too anxious for affirmations to work. When the night terrors are effecting you badly, and you can't sleep or you wake up after an hour in a sweat and don't go back to sleep, you need a little short-term relief from the stress.

Do you have someone you care about and who cares about you that you could stay with, or who would like to stay with you? This is a time when you need a support system.

You also need to swear off your ex, and do not call or write or have any contact whatsoever. That relationship is over for her, and you need to honor that.

Finally, you need to make yourself the number one priority in your life, if you can. I recommend you work out, hard, an hour each day. Get the valium to help relax you, and only take one each night for sleeping -- hopefully you won't need it in a couple of months. Do things that make you feel better -- see movies, work out, cook and eat great nutritious food, play soccer or football or tennis, or swim, or walk, keep a journel; do those things that make you feel even the tiniest bit better. Do not drink to excess; be careful to take care of your self, even if you don't feel like it.

Get some books on help with abandonment, and love obsession; books that might help you be compassionate towards yourself in this painful time.

There is nothing wrong with you, and your feelings are not that unusual. You are hurting badly; and you need to take care of yourself through this, love yourself and support yourself through this.

I'll keep you in my prayers -- Many blessings from Belle

[zeroone]

What else have you tried to do about it? (Besides complaining. I kid, I kid).

For anxiety and irritibility: Have you tried meditation? Start by stretching, then sit down and focus on your breathing, don't hold on to any thoughts, just let them go. Just feel your natural breathing. (Start of somewhere quite, or outdoors like a nature-y place).

About your job: look for a new one, or if you believe you can, make your own business.

Don't just try affirmations; take action!

[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by zeroone

Don't just try affirmations; take action!

I've been looking for a new job, but nothing has come up. But I also hatye living with my parents. I hate not being with my ex. I just completely hate everything about my life right now, and I have no idea what to do! You say to take action... the only unfortunate thing is, I took action, but apparently even the actions I take now end up making matters worse for me, instead of better? Take action? Yeah, but what actions are the right actions to take? How do you know what are the right actions to take? (e.g. one would think that apologizing to someone you've hurt would be a good thing, and bring out a favorable result. Unfortunately it was the opposite reaction from what I had thought was going to happen.) (Moving in with my parents, not helping me either, but I thought it would have helped; because I thought they'd be more understanding than they were.)

[Terumoto]

There's no reason for you to go on living. If you hate your life, it's always within your power to end it. You're free to do so as you wish.

Life doesn't get better automatically. If you hate everything around you, you're gonna hate your life, and you're gonna keep hating it until you don't hate it.

So you can die, you can bear with it until you die, or you can enjoy life while you're alive. It's all fine.

[Revolution]

Chad,
You need to be more calculating in your endeavors.
Why for instance did you decide to JUST pay your girlfriend with a visit?
What were you thinking?
Shouldn't you have softend the ice a bit with a text message/email/letter/phone call etc first before running over to visit unannounced?
It's as if you were subconsciously wanting things to hit the fan.

Sometimes it all just gets too much and things start to get on top of you.
Like a vicious cycle - things don't go well - then you think/feel badly or negatively - which causes events to go even worse - and then you *choose* to feel/think even more negatively - which causes things to get worse again - and then what do you chose? See the negative cycle here?

Remember, the law of attraction basically states that if you keep thinking "oh this sucks", "my life is crap", "why?", where did I go wrong etc etc. then life will grant you those wishes my friend.

As for affirmations, - they take time and persistence. So when you start with affirmation like "I am loved" or "I am happy" then everything that keeps you from being happy or loved just seems to fly in your face (or does it?)

You see, what is actually happening is that your current life is not vibrating at that level and so when you do your affirmations you change your vibration in your mind - but things in your life are still not in accordance this new vibration - so there seems like a massive contrast and you REALLY notice it.
Well, that is actually good, because it shows you where you are going wrong.

So, to clarify my point, if you notice that with affirmations things only seem to stay the same or get worse - don't give up - just change the things that are not "right" in you life.
Affirmations are (at first at least) very much like a filter that shows the contrasting elements in your life - more clearly than before.

I'm sure you (or others) are not at the point of contemplating suicide but I have seen a lot of that talk on this site - so here is my advice - don't do it because challenges don't go away that easily. You are here to create the God that you are - that is the point and the purpose of life - get it?

Also, don't have too much coffee or sugar or salt - just trust me on that!
Thats not to say that you need to deny yourself of everything either - just use judgement.

The above advice for you (while good!!!) is admittadely more on the esoteric side of things - for more practical advice I don't need to repeat what Belle said.

[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by Revolution

Chad,
You need to be more calculating in your endeavors.
Why for instance did you decide to JUST pay your girlfriend with a visit?
What were you thinking?
Shouldn't you have softend the ice a bit with a text message/email/letter/phone call etc first before running over to visit unannounced?
It's as if you were subconsciously wanting things to hit the fan.

The only reason I didn't call or write, is because I had no other way.

[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by Terumoto

There's no reason for you to go on living. If you hate your life, it's always within your power to end it. You're free to do so as you wish.

Life doesn't get better automatically. If you hate everything around you, you're gonna hate your life, and you're gonna keep hating it until you don't hate it.

So you can die, you can bear with it until you die, or you can enjoy life while you're alive. It's all fine.

I don't want to end my life, I want to change my life, but I just don't know how.

[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by bellemeadows

You also need to swear off your ex, and do not call or write or have any contact whatsoever. That relationship is over for her, and you need to honor that.

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But this is the thing that is bothering me the most. All I ever wanted to do is be a better friend to her.

[Joely]

Originally Posted by Chado2423

But this is the thing that is bothering me the most. All I ever wanted to do is be a better friend to her.

Right now, the best way to do that is to leave her alone.

The answer to how you change your life is simple, Chad: you make a choice. You decide, once and for all, that you're going to let all this stuff go. Give it up. Abandon it. Realise that it doesn't matter what you do, she doesn't want you back, she doesn't want you in her life. Let go of that relationship because there's nothing you can do about it. Take responsibility for your life. Own it. Stop going over what happened again and again and fixating on it. Honestly, it is a choice. I spent two decades with depression, being miserable and unhappy. In the end it doesn't matter what happened. What matters is how you live your life now.

[Terumoto]

Originally Posted by Chado2423

I don't want to end my life, I want to change my life, but I just don't know how.

Well listen to Joely. If you give up, nothing seems to weigh you down much anymore. You can just chill out and move on.

Stop categorizing yourself, saying things like "I suffer from anxiety and irritability." Nobody's forcing you to be those things, or to behave in certain ways except yourself. I think you need to re-evaluate your life and not take everything so seriously.

[SonoranBob]

Originally Posted by Chado2423

But this is the thing that is bothering me the most. All I ever wanted to do is be a better friend to her.

It really doesn't matter what you wanted. It's an illusion that life gives you a free pass because you meant well or earnestly desired something (even something "good"). "All I ever wanted" is just a nice way of saying, "I want what I want when I want it and when I don't get it I am going to pitch one hell of a fit, because my desires are all pure as the driven snow, ennobled and ennobling, and anything or anyone that thwarts them is unjust."

When your ex rejected your apology, that was information to guide you in your thinking. Your ex is not a puppet in your personal Hollywood drama. She isn't going to react according to your script. Now -- maybe the primary thing is that she's immature, troubled, or just plain crazy. That is one possibility. Another, more likely primary take-away from this is that however you approached the relationship didn't work -- so you need to do the work to figure out what went wrong so you can do much better on the next relationship.

You're hung up on the idea that your ex is the one and only person you can ever have a relationship with and the world has to come to an end because this one didn't work. Isn't it smarter to do a post-mortem on an obviously dead relationship so you can figure out how not to kill the next one??

Life is messy and difficult. This is one of the great truths. Whining that it's not supposed to be that way doesn't help. Life is what it is. Improving your life skills, developing your character and dealing in reality is what helps.

--Bob

[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by SonoranBob

It really doesn't matter what you wanted. It's an illusion that life gives you a free pass because you meant well or earnestly desired something (even something "good"). "All I ever wanted" is just a nice way of saying, "I want what I want when I want it and when I don't get it I am going to pitch one hell of a fit, because my desires are all pure as the driven snow, ennobled and ennobling, and anything or anyone that thwarts them is unjust."

That's not it. I just wanted to make sure that I was doing the right thing, but I'm not even sure what the right thing is anymore. Did I do the right thing to apologize? If so, then why do I feel so terrible?

[Honeywith4bees]

I was thinking about what Aspiring to Clarity said in one of her posts when her boyfriend broke up with her. She said something like, she loved him enough to respect his desire to be on his own. Chad, do you love your ex enough to give her the respect of leaving her alone? Now, how about starting to love yourself enough to focus on recreating a life for yourself that works for you. I think you need to let go of the thoughts about your ex. I think you are spending too much of your energy thinking about how you can get her back, how you can be her friend, and not enough time thinking about you and how you can befriend yourself. Let her go.
Then follow some of Belles advice. Life will be good again.

[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by SonoranBob

You're hung up on the idea that your ex is the one and only person you can ever have a relationship with and the world has to come to an end because this one didn't work.

--Bob

She's the person I love and cherish more than anything in the world; which is why I wanted to make things up to her.

[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by Honeywith4bees

I was thinking about what Aspiring to Clarity said in one of her posts when her boyfriend broke up with her. She said something like, she loved him enough to respect his desire to be on his own. Chad, do you love your ex enough to give her the respect of leaving her alone? Now, how about starting to love yourself enough to focus on recreating a life for yourself that works for you. I think you need to let go of the thoughts about your ex. I think you are spending too much of your energy thinking about how you can get her back, how you can be her friend, and not enough time thinking about you and how you can befriend yourself. Let her go.
Then follow some of Belles advice. Life will be good again.

How can I be a good friend to myself, knowing I've left a damaged relationship in my past? Knowing I shattered the heart of a person I care very deeply for? I feel so terrible... I feel so worthless. I've ruined the best relationship I've ever had... and I'm just supposed to let it go, without doing anything to make it better? That doesn't seem to make sense. I hate myself so much right now.

[Honeywith4bees]

Originally Posted by Chado2423

How can I be a good friend to myself, knowing I've left a damaged relationship in my past? I feel so terrible... I feel so worthless. I've ruined the best relationship I've ever had... and I'm just supposed to let it go, without doing anything to make it better?

You've "ruined" the best relationship you've had so far . And yes, sometimes the best way to make reparations is to make them on your own. It sounds to me that your ex wants (at least for now), to be left alone by you. Can't you honor that wish from her?

I will not tell you what I think you "should" do, but possibly you could do some amazing growing from this experience. You could turn the feelings of worthlessness and failure around and use them as tools to point you in the direction that you want to go. Figure out how it was that you acted in the past that caused you problems, and learn to behave in a way that gets you the desired reaction from other people (not your ex). Shine your light onto your parents, your co workers, etc. Make that the way that you get your forgiveness, (internally) by learning and growing from the problem.

[SonoranBob]

Originally Posted by Chado2423

How can I be a good friend to myself, knowing I've left a damaged relationship in my past? Knowing I shattered the heart of a person I care very deeply for? I feel so terrible... I feel so worthless. I've ruined the best relationship I've ever had... and I'm just supposed to let it go, without doing anything to make it better? I hate myself so much right now.

How can you not be a good friend to yourself? You need you more than ever now. Yes, you're supposed to just let it go.

You don't have to fall on your sword. Don't excuse yourself, but don't hate yourself. To hate people solves nothing, and you are people, too.

You are not the first person to make mistakes. You won't be the last. Make an honest assessment of what went wrong and why. But -- don't condemn yourself. What would condemning yourself accomplish? Who gave you the idea that it's your job to punish yourself? Isn't what has happened punishment enough? Natural consequences do a very efficient job of motivating us with pain. You don't need to add to it.

You screwed up. It's not unique. Your ex screwed up too. I've screwed up. Everybody here has screwed up. You're responsible only to figure out YOUR part in the great screw-up called life and do what is necessary and possible to do better next time.

--Bob

[Angela]

Chado, my darling, you have been singing the same Chicken Opera for months! When are you going to be willing to take 100% responsibility for your own life, and let go of your belief that this one woman's thoughts, words, and actions are the Creator of how you feel? You can keep asking the same "how do I feel better?" questions forever, and keep getting the same answers, and continue to rebuff them all with, "but all I ever wanted was to be her friend!"

You sound so much like me. I can hear in my head my own plaintive moans about why HE didn't want to marry me. Every time one of my pals would offer very good advice, all I could say was, "But I LOOOOOVE him!!!" and they would just roll their eyes at me and eventually stopped coming around so often.

Like I said, you can do this forever if you want to, but it's costing you big time, and it has a big impact on the people around you. Are you willing to do that forever? No? How long, then?

Lots of love to you, Chado. I know it's hard. And it's all up to you.

[jonarmis]

I'm not getting enough sleep, because of Night Terrors. (My Night Terrors are about the day I went to try to apologize to my ex but she called the police on me.) I have extreme anxiety and irritibility. I hate my job. I'm so frustrated right now with my life I don't which way to go. I try affirmations but if my life stays the same what's the point?

You sounded like your really hopeless! Come on, there's more to life than that. At least you are fully functional, your not blind, deaf, mute or handicapped. There's great reason to celebrate life. You tend to wallow into your miseries. The reason why you feel down is because you let that feeling to take hold of you and control you. Break free from that bond and look at the brighter side of life!

[Chado2423]

How can I forgive myself. Yes, I know Angela that I've been singing the same old song. And frankly I'm sick of hearing it too. Its just that I don't know what to do. Anytime I take any action with my friends or family, I end up making things worse. I just don't know how to; or even if I can forgive and love myself when my whole life is a mess like this. When the friendships that are most dear to me are thwarted. I hurt my ex-girlfrend very deeply apparently... I just don't know if I can love myself for that. Something happened between her and I that cuts too deeply... I can't let it go - I can't get it out of my head. I've got these painful memories and I can't stop thinking about them. I just want the pain to go away and leave me alone."

[SunnKali]

Chado -- this website has some free online tools that may be helpful with your situation. Sending you love & light.

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