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This is the first birthday where I'm really feeling how objectively worse my life has gotten in the past year. How do I deal with that? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last year I was employed at a decent paying job with good benefits, doing work that mattered. Now I'm seven months unemployed, out of benefits and still getting ghosted by employers. Most everything else has remained the same (no friends, uncertainty with my gender and how I want to live my life, stuck living with my mom) except that I started seeing a therapist ~10 months ago who I really like.

It just feels really, really bad. I'm assuming other people have had this experience in their life already (I am both fairly young and a late bloomer in most respects), so I guess I'm asking how you dealt with it and how things got better, assuming they did :aware:

you can also commiserate with me if you like

thanks gamers

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I ate a lot of shit my entire life and my life only gotten better recently. Mostly through timing, luck and also a little bit of force of will. To my credit, none of the good things would have happened if I wasn't a broken desperate person in the first place.

My life got better in COVID doing the shittiest jobs I'll ever fucking have hopefully. I was lucky to be in a position where I could just talk to people about getting hired somewhere.

I also grinded to make myself hireable, I had two jobs during this period, I didn't want to do that forever so the grindset was valuable to me. I dont think it is past stability and grindset types who make it their personality are more than worthless people.