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I live in the middle east (files.catbox.moe)
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"I almost wanted to post my thoughts and concerns over lemmy, until I realized that it was way too fucking long, so I got really angry and crushed a bottle of water that was near me, I wanted to punch a wall, but the bottle came in clutch. I am so fucking angry right now, I am fucking, RAGE."

There's no hope left for me. My health is in rapid decline, I have fibromyalgia, my limbs hurt every time I try to move them, my neck and shoulders hurt all the time too. I can't open my mouth all the way to the end, because my jaw would get stuck. I cannot speak for more than 20 minutes or so, because my throat will start to ache for hours. My eyesight is in decline, my glasses are so strong that I am starting to see edges being blurred or light behaving in strange ways. And that's only my physical health. If I was to start to talk about my mental health, paragraphs upon paragraphs would not even begin to describe my experience. In every waking second, I am in extreme pain.

For context, I live in the middle east, seeking help is not an option, making friends is not an option, I have tried many times, and decided not to. It would take about 5 or 6 years for me to even begin to see a chance of escaping this, this sickness, this place, this wasteland. So why hope? Hope for what? Everyday, my health is playing dice with me, one day I will snap, and I have snapped many times. I do not know what I will do. I have tried many ways to alleviate my "problems". I have tried meditation, and it works for a certain degree, I have tried music, and it works for a certain degree, I have tried journaling, and it is possibly the reason why I still haven't killed myself. If not for my journal and my music, I would be dead. But tonight, tonight, I have the overwhelming urge to end it. I joke many times by saying that the only reason why I haven't killed myself is because I do not have the means to do. There aren't high buildings around me, using a knife would be dumb as I would just bleed and cry, because oh no survival instincts. Pills are dumb too, as I might just throw up. I can't tie a noose, plus there's a chance of failure that I don't want to deal with.

So here I am, stuck in a limbo of suffering, as I am writing this my arms are begging me to stop typing, so I could stare at the ceiling and focus on their pain.

Here are some random copy and pastes from today's journal entry:

"Each day is more hopeless than the next. My health seems to take its toll more and more. I can't speak, move my limbs, or do anything really. My mouth starts to ache when I speak for more than 20 minutes, my limbs have been discussed extensively in many, many previous entries, my eyes are in decline, even my hearing is starting to show signs of decay. That leaves me with my brain, which is also fogged and clouded."

"I am in a very bad shape, I don't know what the future has for me. My only task right now is to survive one year of high school, I have to, I am not trying to agitate your anxiety, but the more you fail school the more years you will be stuck here. I am sick, like literally, physically, sick of this place. This place shall only bring suffering and ruin upon me.

"This place is like a void, the more I stay in it, the more it sucks out of me. I am certain that if I stay here any longer, I will kill myself."

"Chances are astronomically high, that the more I stay here, the more likely I am to kill myself."

"This place is a sickness, a plague, a fucking wasteland of carrion and decay."

"I am destroyed, I am spent, I have no energy left, no energy to think, no energy to listen, no energy to speak, no energy to plan my suicide. I wish, I wish... That all of this somehow goes away. It won't, I have to endure, decrease the pain, and cope in a healthy manner. And I am trying, trying really hard, with what little energy I have."

PS: You know what's funny? Compiling this was actually a very nice distraction, but that's what it is, a distraction, a very short one.

Art is by azaza0727

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

PS: You know what's funny? Compiling this was actually a very nice distraction, but that's what it is, a distraction, a very short one.

Isn't it though? You may be onto something.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

That’s a real tough spot you’re in. I can only say I hope a miracle happens and lifts you up out of it.

My situation is quite different from yours but I find myself at times thinking dark thoughts about the direction my life is headed and its bleakness. I’m in no way advocating for one thing or another when I say this, but I think if I had off myself, I would use a poison, but preferably one that does not inflict pain and is more like a barbiturate.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It truly does seem like only a miracle could lift me outta here, when my head is fogged and when I have little to no energy, I really can't imagine a roadmap or a plan to get me out of here.

While I appreciate the poison sentiment, for me at least, there are so many variables that could go wrong. What if I throw up? What if someone rushes me to the hospital? Etc, etc. A failed suicide attempt here, is worse than a death sentence.

Hey for what its worth, I really hope you get better, sometimes random things do happen in life, for better, or for worse... Then they happen again, so you can re-roll quite a lot of times.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for that. Yeah it’s not something that should be taken as a suggestion of a solution. I gravitated towards that because it would be like going to sleep but not waking up again.

If I had copious amounts of disposable income I would make plans to help get you out and (more) medical care (even if it were simply palliative).

Not sure if this crossed your mind before but is crowdfunding for monies not possible?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

If I had copious amounts of disposable income

I'd have to wait until I finish college. Which is why I said, that the only hope of my situation to change is to finish the next 4-6 years, somehow...

Not sure if this crossed your mind before but is crowdfunding for monies not possible?

It had never crossed my mind, plus I'm not the kind that likes to ask for help. Just posting this took a huge amount of courage, I had the whole post set up, then I posted it when I was sleep deprived, if I wasn't, I would never, ever, ever post anything anywhere. For some fucking reason I am both shy in real life and the internet, so that's why I tend to post when I am "sleep shitfaced."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Ahh I see. Well, more power to you ✊

Me personally, I don’t think I would be able to hold out for that long, given everything you got going against you. For what it’s worth, I hope you make it out okay and can enjoy some semblance of some of life’s joys.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

After thinking hard about a title, this one seems perfect, at a glance you can almost tell what my problems are.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Hey, first of all, reading your story makes me feel deeply concerned for you. I don't have any idea of the ordeal you have to go through every day. Neither of living in the middle east with the limited available psychic health support nor what it is like to live with fibromyalgia.

Sometimes days are bad and you know there's no better days ahead for quite a while. But on each of those days, if it feels like there's nothing worth looking forward to, there's always one thing left; you won't have to relive this day. Time moves on, whether we want it or not and there's no chance you need to go through today's particular brand of agony ever again once night falls.

Sometimes that's all we can do, make it through to the next day.

I don't know you, have never met you, have only read those few lines you wrote here. But reading it you sound like one of the toughest people I've ever heard of. And you can be proud of yourself for it. Nobody except you can feel your pain, but nobody on this Earth except for you managed to live with your pain so long already. You're unique and wonderful. Take heart in looking back and seeing how many miles you've already behind you. Be proud of yourself for making it all the way to today. Don't give up!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

you won’t have to relive this day

Said so beautifully. This might just resonate with me.

But reading it you sound like one of the toughest people I’ve ever heard of Take heart in looking back and seeing how many miles you’ve already behind you.

This may sound like me tooting my horn, but many times I have felt like I was this cube of absolute steel that has somehow managed to endure through it all, but even steel can break yk? There's also the fear that all of this will cause irreversible damage on my overall physical and mental health (which it already did, imagine feeling so nervous that it fucks up your nervous system?). I have always coiled and hissed when hearing things like "Look how far you have come", but to put in the context that I don't have to relive today's serving of suffering is what I needed to hear.

Thank you! I wish you the best of things in, like, everything!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Wow - reading your comment I first felt my stomach drop until I reached the last paragraph. It's so difficult to find the right words when all one has is writing.

I wish you all the endurance in the world. Hang on. There are those moments in between that are worth it. It's fine to not keep it together sometimes. Only heartless statues can be hard are the time. And reading your story your anything but heartless ❤️

Wishing you all the best and that today is over soon.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I first felt my stomach drop

I might just have that effect on people ;-)

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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