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Moving out caused my mental health to deteriorate. The meaninglessness of living alone and wasting my life working for Big Corp made me suicidal. I was hospital

by hgs3 5y ago

Moving out caused my mental health to deteriorate. The meaninglessness of living alone and wasting my life working for Big Corp made me suicidal. I was hospitalized in a psych ward for a week. I tried half a dozen antidepressants. Nothing helped. Now I've moved back with my parents and I'm trying to turn my own, meaningful (to me) projects into a business. I don't know if things will work out financially, but I already feel much better than I did. Regardless, I don't believe I'll ever feel the way I once did about this world.

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sjg007 5y ago
You are not alone and this is not unusual. I don't think the Western world has quite figured out how to transition people to a successful adulthood. Or if that is something we are supposed to do cold turkey. It takes a village right? My mental health deteriorated too. Looking back I should have built a support network and gone to therapy.. a lot of therapy. This all hit me at the end of college and in grad school. So I was broke too. I didn't really have family to fall back on either, I was lonely and felt alone. I'm still working on it, despite marriage/kids etc... I actually wish I had capitalized on my alone time in retrospect. Hence therapy! >Regardless, I don't believe I'll ever feel the way I once did about this world. Do you want to feel that way? What you have now is perspective and you know more about yourself.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  > I don't think the Western world has quite figured out how to transition people to a successful adulthood. That's what college is for.
  - sjg007 5y ago
    Yes and no. In my comment I said I went to college and grad school. Maybe we need to take classes on the psychology of being an adult or something.
  - yardie 5y ago
    If you mean giving teenagers loans on terms that fuck them over long into adulthood, yes that is closer to adulting than most would believe.

by hgs3 5y ago

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sjg007 5y ago

You are not alone and this is not unusual. I don't think the Western world has quite figured out how to transition people to a successful adulthood. Or if that is something we are supposed to do cold turkey. It takes a village right? My mental health deteriorated too. Looking back I should have built a support network and gone to therapy.. a lot of therapy. This all hit me at the end of college and in grad school. So I was broke too. I didn't really have family to fall back on either, I was lonely and felt alone. I'm still working on it, despite marriage/kids etc... I actually wish I had capitalized on my alone time in retrospect. Hence therapy! >Regardless, I don't believe I'll ever feel the way I once did about this world. Do you want to feel that way? What you have now is perspective and you know more about yourself.

chrisseaton 5y ago
> I don't think the Western world has quite figured out how to transition people to a successful adulthood. That's what college is for.
- sjg007 5y ago
  Yes and no. In my comment I said I went to college and grad school. Maybe we need to take classes on the psychology of being an adult or something.
- yardie 5y ago
  If you mean giving teenagers loans on terms that fuck them over long into adulthood, yes that is closer to adulting than most would believe.