Sounds good. Just stop. Take stock tell people what you told us and let them take care of themselves for a while.
You need some tlc.

u mean take a break?

cant do that
too much going on
just so tired and drained
have tried saying all this, but makes no difference, im at a loss right now

I have been there....whats going on and are you in treatment?

with u every step, now n always

Sweetheart just remember NOBODY is perfect

{{Hugs}} we are here

i'm sorry that you are feeling so used up. we can give and give and give and never get back what we need.

sometimes, we just have to give ourselves what we need when others can't or won't.

be your best friend. we here on this board want for you what you want and need. you are only human like everyone else. you don't have to be perfect anymore. :)

hugs hun. That is what is so great about DS - no masks needed here. Come as you are! I don't expect you to be any more perfect than I am and I am far from it! Sorry you are hurting and that you feel these pressures. If you do fall I hope you find a soft landing spot!

Sounds like you are a major giver. That is a very good thing. They (givers) often forget to give to themselves. Giving takes a lot of fuel. You need to fuel yourself. Can you tell anyone who is involved some or all of what you posted? If they think you are OK with it all, they will just let it continue. If they realize you are "give out", they will probably help you. It can be worked out. Keep talking to us,.. we want to help, and this can be fixed.

If you ask me broken, you never should have been wearing a mask in the first place. You are perfect the way that you are without trying to be everyone else's defintion of perfect. It is okay to be yourself- its more desirable that you are you, not less. If people cannot love you for who you are, forget them.

Every day I spend at least 4 hours talking to one specfic person, on weekends I talk with this person for up to 12 hours at a time, and it's intense conversation.

I can be talking with 5/6 people at one time, it may not sound a lot but when you do it every day for weeks on end it gets draining.

We forget about ourselves on the hope it'll go away but now we are at the point where we sit at the computer in floods of tears trying to pretend we're ok.

We're exhausted and our body is shutting down. We just dont care anymore

You need to take care of you now cos if you dont you will end up in a hole like me and struggling to find a way out hun

Please Take hold of someones hand

Please look after you and let us all help you sweetie
*monkey hugs*
You know where I am
xxxx

It's been said and it's true....you can't give something if you have nothing to give.....you have to take care of yourself first and foremost or as you are feeling now, will just keep getting worse and worse. no-one in the world, contrary to what a few people think :), is perfect and ever will be. We allow ourselves to get some conditioned by people around us, as to what and who we should be...it is unfair, because no-one can ever live up to those expectations. Try growing up in the era when "Leave It To Beaver" or "Father Knows Best" were the examples for perfect. Damn, there are people still killing themselves out there trying to be the perfect mother, grandmother,wife, whatever because of it. You can do what you can do and right now what you can do is take care of you!!!! TC

"Every day I spend at least 4 hours talking to one specfic person, on weekends I talk with this person for up to 12 hours at a time, and it's intense conversation.
I can be talking with 5/6 people at one time, it may not sound a lot but when you do it every day for weeks on end it gets draining.
We forget about ourselves on the hope it'll go away but now we are at the point where we sit at the computer in floods of tears trying to pretend we're ok.
We're exhausted and our body is shutting down. We just dont care anymore"

Sorry for the long quote. I don't think what you are doing is good for you. That is a LONG time spent on whatever you focus on. It would cause you to spend a lot on that particular focus. Our minds operate on input and we need an array of input to allow our minds to operate. You MIGHT have an addiction to what you do on DS. Actually, I might also. There is more to life than what goes on here. Maybe you need to take some time off from DS and see what else is going on in your life,.. discover the good things you can have. Just a thought.