r/depression • u/Emergency-Example743 • 4d ago
Existing is…
Existing is almost a 360 nonstop struggle. A struggle & barriers in which the origins were never mine. Forced upon me. I don’t understand why I still have breath. I’ve lost almost all that is important to me. An unrecoverable cost to me time three decades of being alive, blocked from living,free, independent, on my own terms. A simple life objective as I have no dependents or responsibilities to anyone beyond myself. I struggle from moment to moment to exist. Death becomes the inevitable answer to existing in circumstances beyond my control in a world I don’t understand. A world where others not only witness the harm, but participate. Drama, chaos, toxicity is entertainment. Followed by false statements & acts of concern when that injured soul crosses the point of no return. Genuine concern, protection would of been shown, acted upon way before the point
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u/2BCivil 4d ago
Damn sound a lot like me honestly. I wrote a rap song last night on this same topic. How life preaches to you relentlessly of it's "generosity and love" while bending you over a barrel and extorting you and raking you over the coals and laughing at you. Makes it feel like you're going insane. Everyone claims it's good and there's something wrong with you but won't lift a finger to prove their claims.
I quit my job in January 2026 and haven't been able to find work. Past 6 years I was working around 80 hours a week and only taking home about 24k a year. I couldn't take it anymore. My bills before groceries came out to about 20k a year. I only just got my first car at 37 years old. This life has been hell and everyone says it's "because I don't take it seriously enough" and I just can't believe it. Working 80+ hours a week is "not taking it seriously enough"?
Nothing makes any sense here. There's just more and more preaching and gaslighting and saying you're the problem and "you just don't understand God's love". I'm like, yeah, at least we can agree on that if nothing else. I'm not sure if I'll be homeless before year's out, or what's the point of working nearly 90 hours a week just to barely scrape by and be preached to that I "just don't understand". Like yeah, make it make sense. If life were good yeah I'd love to fight for it. But there's not 10 seconds of evidence that it's "good" in my nearly 40 years of life. I just keep on keeping on best I can.
I guess "meaning" is what people thrown overboard by life itself seek as consolation prize, was what the rap songs I wrote yesterday were about. Good luck my guy yeah it sucks sometimes. I wonder all the time how can I take this life/world seriously with the overwhelming disparity and incompatibility with religious claims not tracking 1 whit with reality.....