Depression Support Group
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My mood, overall, has been ok, but I feel kinda off. Like, I can't focus. The schooling program that I was super excited to get into is just feeling blah and uninteresting. It's not even that hard, but I'm having a super hard time keeping up or finding motivation. I'm having such a hard time trying to sort through my career options and pick the best one that I'm almost ready to just give up and do whatever. Sometimes it feels like I'll die if I don't find the ultimate answer RIGHT NOW and other times it feels like it doesn't even matter anymore. I know I'm not in a good headspace to make a large descision like that right now, but I also feel like I'm running out of time and if I don't get started, it'll be too late to do anything with my life. Again, my overall mood has been better, so it's frusterating because I feel like everything else should be doing better as well, not worse. I'm not sure how to change it. The coping strategies that have worked for my mood don't seem to be working for interest or motivation. Any advice?
Be gentle with yourself. If you can wait, don’t make a decision right now.
It’s better if you can ask advice from your parents. When my son was deciding which school to go to in college, it was also hard for him. He applied in 13 schools and when it’s time to make a decision he was struggling which one to choose. We prayed for it and now he’s happy with his choice.
Please keep us posted. God bless you.
I've been working on my issues that my mother's and sister's abuse caused, and that has helped my overall mood. But I'm not sure which of my interests are genuinely mine, and which ones they pushed me into, if that makes sense. I know at least one of them (the one I'm in school for, Egyptology) was a coping mechanism, and I don't know if I'll still be interested once I'm more healed. Additionally, I really want more financial stability than that field is likely to provide. But my other interests are so varied, I really don't know which one would be best.
Adding onto that is the general frustration of being in my 30's with no real career, just menial retail jobs, and no real experience away from home besides my time in undergrad. Ultimately it just means I'm a late bloomer and there's nothing wrong with that, but my options are more limited than they would be if this had happened in my late teens/early 20's. And really, I know that I'm tying my self worth too closely to my work, but it's really hard to break that habit.