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Posted by Dona on January 21, 2001, at 16:45:59
It is almost one year since my mom died. I just started a new job. I am a RN and have always worked in pediatrics. This new job has great benefits but it is evaluating nursing homes. I got a real shock seeing so many old people together. I am 54 and dread the thought of being old. My husband just lost his job so I have to make this job work. But I am feeling really depressed again (I take prozac 60mgm per day) Today I took 600 mg of trazadone that I had for sleep and just wanted to "konk out" for awhile. It did nothing and I am just in a state of wondering what the sense of life is. I don't think I am suicidal, but I would not mind just dieing and getting all this stress over.
I want to be positive again, but I don't know how to get out of this mood. I am trying my cognitive thinking but it is not working. And I don't see my psych until Feb. 7. How do I get my cheerful self back. All I want to do is sleep and just now wake up.
I have a wonderful husband (but he just lost his job after 23 years) and I feel so much pressure not to make this job a success. But life seems so futile right now. Anyway I can get out of this mood????
Posted by Gracie2 on January 22, 2001, at 0:53:52
In reply to Help--I am feeling like life has no meaning, posted by Dona on January 21, 2001, at 16:45:59
This may not help, but it's food for thought:If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like the following:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the western hemisphere, north and south
8 Africans52 would be female
48 would be male70 would be nonwhite
30 would be white70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes apparent.
More thoughts to ponder:
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the 1 million people who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced war, imprisonment, torture or starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend church without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes to wear, a roof overhead and a clean place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, money in your wallet, and spare change in a jar someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If you can hold someone's hand or hug them, you are blessed because you can offer a healing touch.
If you can read this message, you just recieved a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and that unlike over 2 billion people in the world today, you are able to read.
Hope you feel better soon-
Gracie
Posted by Rzip on January 22, 2001, at 1:04:21
In reply to Re: Help--I am feeling like life has no meaning, posted by Gracie2 on January 22, 2001, at 0:53:52
Gracie2,
Your response is excellent. It is both sensitive and perspective. I actually saw Dona's post yesterday afternoon, but I couldn't think of anything useful of offer. At the same time, I was feeling saddened that no one responded to the thread. Thank you for doing so in such a thoughtful way.
I hope that Dona will feel better after reading your post. If nothing else, she/he will know that someone took the time to care and respond in the appropriate way.
- Rzip
Posted by shellie on January 22, 2001, at 9:35:49
In reply to Help--I am feeling like life has no meaning, posted by Dona on January 21, 2001, at 16:45:59
>Donna. First of all you are at a sad anniversary date. For lots of people, the anniversary dates are particularly depressing. And something you counted on (your husband working) you can't count on any more. Most important, it seems like geriatrics is not your field. I think it is very very important to like your job. Perhaps you can see this job as temporary until you can get back to a job that fufills you, like pediatrics. I think seeing real stresses in life as necessary but not permanent allows us to pass through them easier.
shellie
Posted by Gracie2 on January 23, 2001, at 16:36:12
In reply to Re: Help--I am feeling like life has no meaning » Gracie2, posted by Rzip on January 22, 2001, at 1:04:21
I also could not think of anything to say to Dona the first time I read her post. Then I got that excellent e-mail from a friend and it made me think of Dona's letter. It was very good timing.
-Gracie
Posted by Rzip on January 23, 2001, at 20:01:45
In reply to Thank YOU RZip, posted by Gracie2 on January 23, 2001, at 16:36:12
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> I also could not think of anything to say to Dona the first time I read her post. Then I got that excellent e-mail from a friend and it made me think of Dona's letter. It was very good timing.
> -Gracie
Posted by ms. b. on January 29, 2001, at 13:44:38
In reply to Help--I am feeling like life has no meaning, posted by Dona on January 21, 2001, at 16:45:59
Dona,
Please update us on how you're doing... I'm worried about you and just want to let you know we care very much, and hope it was a simply a bad day you were having.
Take care,
B.
Posted by Dona on February 5, 2001, at 19:32:55
In reply to Re: Help--I am feeling like life has no meaning » Dona, posted by ms. b. on January 29, 2001, at 13:44:38
Thank you so much for caring. I guess I am hanging on. I am exhausted from working 10 hour days and commuting an hour each way. But I see little other choices since by husband is out of work. I wish I knew what to do to bring me joy in life. I have stopped going to church, which bothers me, but I am just so tired and achy ALL THE TIME. But I am hanging on
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