Does anyone else hate life

endacl · 11-02-2016 09:19AM

The Raptor wrote: »

Sorry I was drinking a cup of tea in bed, I thought I would have a whinge while drinking it.

A whinge? Normal people would have a biscuit.

Sort yerself out!

jimgoose · 11-02-2016 09:20AM

No. I like life, it's the only thing I know. Occasionally it sucks eggs but it's mostly pretty good. I'm one of those high-and-tight-at-0600 types who likes Mondays and can be amazingly productive and terrifyingly lazy depending on the phase of the moon, and they're both fun. Get busy livin', or get busy dyin', boy.

Ally Dick · 11-02-2016 09:42AM

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f@cking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of f@cking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f@ck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that coach watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f@cking junk in your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f@cked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.

Choose your future.
Choose life.

AndyBoBandy · 11-02-2016 09:45AM

no, but I hate all these fcuking storms we've been having!!!

pricks!

Speedwell · 11-02-2016 09:46AM

Raptor, love, if you were living with someone who forces you to get as little sleep as you give yourself, it would be domestic abuse. If you were a crying toddler, upset and depressed because you were tired, someone would take pity on your little head and put you down for a nap. Treat yourself with more kindness and you'll feel better. (I, too, had to learn to get enough sleep as an adult!)

Ally Dick · 11-02-2016 09:50AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'

I've always loved that expression, and that film of course !

Ally Dick · 11-02-2016 09:52AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it.
So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.

Jaysus. You're a bundle of laughs. Change your job maybe

galljga1 · 11-02-2016 09:58AM

Coincidentally, when I spotted this thread, the one beneath it was titled "Violin Player Wanted".

11-02-2016 10:17AM

Ally Dick wrote: »

Jaysus. You're a bundle of laughs.

You should see me naked.

11-02-2016 10:29AM

The Raptor wrote: »

There's so much involved in living. I would give anything for a nice long sleep.

I think I hated life at one point alright. Not consistently at the level of suicide or anything like that - where I consistently thought of actively ending my life - but I remember many many nights where I went to sleep hoping never to wake up.

You read in fiction about people who just "give up" and lie down and just die. And I remember many nights where I tried to will that to happen. I lay down to sleep and just tried to give up. To will myself to just not wake up again - ever.

One day I just woke up and decided to turn it all around. And I did.

The Raptor wrote: »

I had great plans all week but no I'm not getting anything done. I had one hour sleep on Monday night, four hours sleep last night, spent all day in work today followed by five hours in a&e today. No catching up on sleep. Back up at the crack of dawn again tomorrow.

Any details just out of curiosity? What were the plans? What stopped them? Why did you not sleep much on those other nights? Why A+E?

take everything · 11-02-2016 11:31AM

Ally Dick wrote: »

Jaysus. You're a bundle of laughs. Change your job maybe

Don't worry. That man's a gangsta.
Upper management written all over him.

RobertKK · 11-02-2016 11:44AM

Life will be over before you know it and death is for a long time. So do things in life that makes you happy, but while doing the things you love make sure they don't cause others to be unhappy.
You need to look for opportunities in life, and then be not afraid to take those opportunities.
Hating life simply means what you are doing at present is not what you should be doing, as it is making you unhappy.

cowboyBuilder · 11-02-2016 12:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Hey OP,
Sounds like you had a rough day yesterday. Were you the one needing A&E attention or someone else? Hope you're alright.

It's alright to hate life sometimes, lots of people do at some point. it's always exasperated by tiredness. Everything always seems 100 times worse to me if I haven't had enough sleep.

Hopefully today is better

Get out of here with that positive talk !!

kfallon · 11-02-2016 12:09PM

As bad as life is OP, I'd imagine death isn't a step up tbh!

Hope you get a more positive outlook soon

Lady is a tramp · 11-02-2016 12:23PM

I've been diagnosed with just about every mental health illness going.

And I'm currently in the process of being diagnosed with a few personality disorders, to go with that.

My life couldn't be much ****ter - I've lost my career, some of my family, some of my friends, most things that are important. My self-respect, my dignity. And lets not talk about my financial situation.

And yet I can't bring myself to hate life.

Life could get worse, of course it could. But there's always the potential for it to get better.

If my life wasn't there, the potential for ME getting better and LIFE getting better wouldn't be there any more. There'd just be nothingness.

Crapness can always improve. Nothingness can't. I don't even hate my current life, because there is hope there. There is always hope, and that's what always keeps me going.

I think my counsellors and psychiastrists and doctors are often surprised I'm not suicidal. But I'm not. What would be the point? Maybe it's because I'm atheist. I don't believe anything exists after I die. I'll just be gone. For now, my life might (on paper) be crap, but there is no reason it can't improve and get better. The only way to remove that potential is to end my life. So I'm not going to do that.

cowboyBuilder · 11-02-2016 01:56PM

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

I've been diagnosed with just about every mental health illness going.

And I'm currently in the process of being diagnosed with a few personality disorders, to go with that.

My life couldn't be much ****ter - I've lost my career, some of my family, some of my friends, most things that are important. My self-respect, my dignity. And lets not talk about my financial situation.

And yet I can't bring myself to hate life.

Life could get worse, of course it could. But there's always the potential for it to get better.

If my life wasn't there, the potential for ME getting better and LIFE getting better wouldn't be there any more. There'd just be nothingness.

Crapness can always improve. Nothingness can't. I don't even hate my current life, because there is hope there. There is always hope, and that's what always keeps me going.

I think my counsellors and psychiastrists and doctors are often surprised I'm not suicidal. But I'm not. What would be the point? Maybe it's because I'm atheist. I don't believe anything exists after I die. I'll just be gone. For now, my life might (on paper) be crap, but there is no reason it can't improve and get better. The only way to remove that potential is to end my life. So I'm not going to do that.

The fact that you seem to have such an understanding and positive outlook tells me you are not as bad off as you think - or maybe others telling you this ?

Anyway, great attitude and outlook.

DanielODonnell · 11-02-2016 01:56PM

I would be happy enough to die tomorrow, a true Christian embraces death.

Lady is a tramp, your point about you not being suicidal because you are an atheist doesn't make sense to me as it would be a Christian who would not be suicidal as it is against the religion.

Richard Hillman · 11-02-2016 02:05PM

It's a load of balls and the days seen to be getting shorter the old you get.

I wouldn't mind living in Downton Abbey. Those folk seemed to have all the time in the world. Breakfast served, pheasant shooting in the mid-morning, lunch and tea, a stroll in the country for the after noon, a good read before dinner and then Brandy and Cigars in the study before bed.

Nowadays it's commuting, breakfast on the go, 1 hour for lunch and then feeling sorry for yourself before you commute home for a microwaved dinner. By that time you have to be in bed.

Hercule Poirot · 11-02-2016 03:26PM

A little pouch of lavender in your pillow case is a great way to ease sleeping problems

Failing that, light a lavender candle in your room about 20/30 minutes before you go to sleep

cowboyBuilder · 11-02-2016 04:25PM

DanielODonnell wrote: »

I would be happy enough to die tomorrow, a true Christian embraces death.

Such utter drivel ..

Ally Dick · 11-02-2016 04:33PM

Some people are blessed with a sunny outlook on life. I'm one of those. I always feel like there are good times ahead, no matter how sh1t things currently are. I think it's a gift given to us to feel like that. I am so sorry for anyone feeling miserable or suicidal. I've lost a few friends to suicide. I pray for them every single day

pgj2015 · 11-02-2016 05:08PM

I think a spell in Africa doing voluntary work is what is needed for you, when you see how bad those poor starving people have it, you might realize how lucky you really are.

11-02-2016 05:09PM

pgj2015 wrote: »

I think a spell in Africa doing voluntary work is what is needed for you op, when you see how bad those poor starving people have it, you might realize how lucky you really are.

Would you say that to someone with cancer?

recylingbin · 11-02-2016 05:26PM

Listen to some Radiohead, that'll pick ye up.

smurgen · 11-02-2016 05:30PM

pgj2015 wrote: »

I think a spell in Africa doing voluntary work is what is needed for you op, when you see how bad those poor starving people have it, you might realize how lucky you really are.

You don't need to venture as far as Africa to see hardship

topper75 · 11-02-2016 05:52PM

"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness." Schopenhauer

I love that one. Great man to sum things up was Schopenhauer.

DanielODonnell · 11-02-2016 05:53PM

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Such utter drivel ..

Yes I know you spout drivel

jackwigan · 11-02-2016 06:08PM

If life seems jolly rotten

There's something you've forgotten

And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing

11-02-2016 06:14PM

OSI wrote: »

There must be some equivalent of Godwin's Law that covers this kind of response.

This is a pretty powerful ad. And the reason I posted the question.

I understand that it's difficult for someone who has never suffered from depression, to comprehend how it feels. I understand that you can never truly know the unhappiness, the emptiness and the sheer nothingness that it brings. I do understand that for most people who have bad days or are feeling a bit sh*t, then a quick reality check will be enough to snap you out of it so for anyone who doesn't understand depression they feel it's the same. I also understand though, that when you're told to snap out of it, or when you're trying hard to convince yourself that you're being pathetic and that you have it so good and have nothing to complain about, you add to your own anxiety and can fling yourself further into the depths of darkness.

The reality is some of us are losing friends to depression and in fact, I personally have seen more families torn apart from depression, and lost more loved ones to suicide than to cancer. We need to wake up and understand that this is a legitimate illness. And it's time to stop ignoring it.

The bottom line is that mental health is as important as physical health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJzPBjK67w

PC Lackey · 11-02-2016 06:25PM

pgj2015 wrote: »

I think a spell in Africa doing voluntary work is what is needed for you, when you see how bad those poor starving people have it, you might realize how lucky you really are.

Youre right, nothing lifts the spirits like seeing innocent people dying horribly because the roulette wheel of life popped them out into the wrong situation.

Does anyone else hate life

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