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  • permalinkBurned out. Goodbye and/or just fade...

    exsnowskier56

    Posted on: Sat, Jun 27 2009 1:43 PM

    Hello,

    Def Leppard (mispelled?) and Neil Young both had songs that stated, "it's better to burn out than fade away". I may have not shown it, but at times and may it has been constant lurky around me of being burned out emotionally for certainly the last 6 years and perhaps to a lesser degree for the last 29 years. Now this crap if I can call it that I written called "Asking for Advice" about what to (I think I inserted that in my posts there, another sign having memory trouble) do, say, and act towards my daughter. In actually all three of us are all STRESSED OUT. But is just that thing called LIFE. Personally I have gotten to point of being burned out to not only closed down my business here with Disaboom but close down my e-mail accounts (I have two). I walk up to this library and this past Wednesday I was sweatly from walking that 1 1/4 miles one way here to this library. It takes 30 minutes to do this for me. The winter time about 5 minutes more because not getting traction walking over snow and/or ice. Most of you folks and maybe all of you have a personal computer like a laptop or desk kind that you can get to say this Disaboom in even 30 seconds and a slow internet even 5 minutes. I get to this library when it is busy I may have to wait up to additional 20 minutes before I can get a computer. You have sign on a separate computer that you list your name and library card number. It's first come, first served. I get back home to my apartment I take a shower unless there's other pressing matters to do.

    Anyway, the walking up here and back with the conceivable amount of time including the bonus 30 minutes (if there is other available computers to use), that's a grand total of 2 1/2 hours. If I didn't do this today, I be back at that place of domain doing something like working on getting laundry done. I'am down only the one last CLEAN underwear. So things like this and general cleaning in our apartment is not now and some things has never been done. Like cleaning the window blinds of the dust on them. I may or may not come across like I'am complaining, but then again I just don't know anymore of if I'am motivated to do this. Maybe I need a break.

    That brings this to this matter of goodbye or fade away. Maybe I should say goodbye and close down e-mails. I think the best of everyone here. Everyone who responded to my writings from what I read are MORE VAUABLE than I ever was, now, or ever will be. I don't have a disability now. I see and read Debbie who lost her legs in that motorcycle accident is so cheerful and this in itself is anti-depressing to me. But there is sense of unworthyness that still comes in my thinking for days. All those times over the years that I've been told that, "your're a failure", "your're a loser", "you never amount to anything", "your're lazy and don't want to work". The first and third one I know is the case. In turn I feel at times I'am junk (as I stated before on another website), trash, etc. Again I see people who are worthy, vauable but for myself just the opposite.

    Goodbye and fade away could mean the same thing. Then again be different. Probility in the hundreds of times I've thought, "I wish this medical stuff/junk gets WORST, then I could get disability income. Then find a divorce attorney, find a apartment for myself, move out my personal things before those other two persons at my apartment find out, get this divorce over, move out west somewhere, and then never contact my so called family again whatsoever". Fade away in that aspect, or there is that other fade away with sleeping pills and rum, etc. I have not bought those pills. But that thought persists for the last 6 years.

    gary

     

    Gary J. Woolard
  • permalinkRe: Burned out. Goodbye and/or just...

    TriDog

    Posted on: Sat, Jun 27 2009 2:20 PM

    Gary,

     

    Have you told your doctor how you feel?  Maybe a close friend, priest, bartender?  Push comes to shove..  stop in at your local ER and tell them exactly what you just told us.

     

    Good Luck brother.

    "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but you must keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr
  • permalinkRe: Burned out. Goodbye and/or just...

    Christie

    Posted on: Sat, Jun 27 2009 3:44 PM

    I agree with what Tri Dog said . Since your feeling like this go talk to someone soon. Just find someone even you don't know them. Like Tri Dog said going to the ER and talking to someone there could help you. But you do need to talk to someone and soon.

  • permalinkRe: Burned out. Goodbye and/or just...

    Tony

    Posted on: Sat, Jun 27 2009 4:57 PM

    Gary,

    Please call your Dr, Crisis Center......... or go to the ER. We are all worthy and none of us live up to our expectations. How do you know you are not an inspiration to someone? Few of us see our own true worth. Please give this more thought, in a different direction. One small change is sometimes all it takes to change the entire course of your life. Many people are told they are an inspiration by family, friends and Dr's but many times feel the way you do. You are not alone in this.......now make that call, now please.....

    Tony

  • permalinkRe: Burned out. Goodbye and/or just...

    pambe

    Posted on: Sat, Jun 27 2009 5:40 PM

    Gary, I wrote to you on your thread where you asked for advice. It's all there... Now, no fading away, no goodbyes and NO PILLS! You get help for you! Listen to what we are telling you. If you don't get help for yourself, you will be useless to your daughter and she needs you! It will take time for her to deal with her feelings, she's not ready yet, but you are! You need to listen to Tony! Go to a crisis center, a counselor, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist. Go to the ER, or your County Mental Health Department (they can provide help). Go to your doctor and tell them you have been planning to take pills. Do it ASAP.

    Don't go Def Leopard on us! Let us know what happens...

    pambe

    Connectedness defines the collective unconscious of a body of people working together for the greater good of the individual.

    Consider this; On a planet of over 6.5 billion people there are only 6 Degrees of Separation between you and anyone else on the planet.
  • permalinkRe: Burned out. Goodbye and/or just...

    afo49guy

    Posted on: Sat, Jun 27 2009 6:50 PM

    Gary

    I lost several family members to depression/suicide.No lectures from me.Just want to reinforce what others have already said :   PLEASE GET YOUSELF SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP.                                                                           ollie

    I came, I saw, I didn`t get out of there unscathed.
  • permalinkRe: Burned out. Goodbye and/or just...

    Nanal

    Posted on: Sun, Jun 28 2009 5:20 PM

    Gary.....please listen to Tony....Pam...Tri... Ollie...get professional help.....NOW ! Please don't wait......you're in a serious depression for which you need immediate help. Yes.....we're friends......but......you need more than that. Please get the help..........peace and love......Norma
  • permalinkRe: Burned out. Goodbye and/or just...

    Beverly60

    Posted on: Sun, Jun 28 2009 7:00 PM

    Gary, when we become parent, we become parents for the long haul.  Your daughter needs you more now, then she ever has.  Please hang in there for her, if not for you.  Take a deep breath and keep on keepin' on.