u/Due_Sock_215

▲ 85 r/CPTSD

How do people enjoy living ?

Honestly, I’m so tired of being here. I’m only in my early 20s and have been struggling since I was 14yo. No matter how hard I try and how many experiences I force myself to have - it never stops being hard.

Going to work everyday and trying to connect/act normal with people, trying to somehow be authentic and feel safe with them, always failing. I spend so much energy just trying to act and live like a normal human and at this point it just feels like prison.

There’s no joy to be had when u fundamentally feel empty and alone and unable to just feel normal. Leaving the house is never easy; I have to do so much just to act normal and just feel like I don’t even belong to myself most of the time as I’m living for managing the eyes of other.

The world is wicked and awful and I hate it here, I have no idea what to do anymore, I really don’t. How do people do it seriously ?

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u/Due_Sock_215 — 9 hours ago