Is it bad to wish for people to care about you?

[cracklingroses]

Just seeing how completely worthless I am to everyone in my life. I had a suicide attempt that put me in the ICU on a ventilator for a few days back in August, and going through that really outlined how completely worthless I am. Is it so wrong to want someone to care?

 

[Innereye]

What does the care you seek look like to you?

 

[cracklingroses]

What does the care you seek look like to you?

Just someone to sit down and actually talk to me, and really listen to me. I am killing myself with my drug addiction and I don't know how to get help at this point. I watch intervention and just imagine people giving me an intervention and a way to get into residential treatment. This addiction is a nightmare because I am addicted to over the counter cough suppressant, DXM.

 

[willow115]

No, it's not bad. It's a true need. Addictions and mental disorders can happen when that true and honest need is empty.

 

[Regen]

Absolutely normal to want that!!
I can really understand why you so desperately want help with your addiction and the pain behind it. I'm very sorry to read this and I always have the spontaneous impulse to help, but sadly that does not work :-/

As a teenager I was offered a lot of help, but when you're an adult hardly anyone is interested. It would be so nice if you had someone to help you like you would want from a mother...

Are there free drug counseling centers in your country? Or self-help groups? Narcotics anonymous for example. It's so incredibly sad to read how difficult it is for some people to get help.

I send you love and hope! And if you want the courage to try something again.

Regen

 

[CatLove56]

Just seeing how completely worthless I am to everyone in my life. I had a suicide attempt that put me in the ICU on a ventilator for a few days back in August, and going through that really outlined how completely worthless I am. Is it so wrong to want someone to care?

Yeah I've been trying to look for someone to care about me for a while now. Probably just massively entitled

 

[cracklingroses]

Yeah I've been trying to look for someone to care about me for a while now. Probably just massively entitled

I don't think you're entitled. It's completely human to want someone to care. I hate that we can be made to feel like that's so bad, to want love and compassion.