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S1mpleme
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- Dec 27, 2019
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I doubt that happiness is the reason to CTB. Suffering, no perspectives for a better life, for someone even to be like in hell.
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I'm so sad and so mad at the way society has become, just reading your story altered my heart rate significantly. I wish that I could win the lottery and somehow create more affordable housing everywhere.
DV survivor shelters are so much better/safer/cleaner than a regular homeless shelter. Homelessness is terrifying, and so much more dangerous if you are a woman.
For now, please try to come up with a plan B
Maybe seeing a doctor would help you find out why all these things are happening. I'm sorry you are suffering, and I hope it gets better for you.For me, it's lonliness and sadness. I see no future ahead for me. I'm eighteen and I don't think I'll ever achieve what I've wanted to achieve since I was the age of thirteen. It's some of the experiences that I've been apart of and have witnessed. I haven't felt like myself in years, and I'm not sure why, but I'm shameful to tell people this. I'm not motivated, I'm always tired, and the first time that I started to feel less and less of myself, I went through this very VERY emotional stage. I have no idea why and it was at the very beginning. Not a day would go by that I didn't sob. I feel so unlike myself now at this point and can't deal with some of my experiences any more that I think impulsively and end up doing things I know I shouldn't be doing. I've screwed everything up, and I'm not the same person I once was. I never would've done any of the things that I would have a year ago. I'm ashamed of myself and that's where I'm conflicted.
Thank you so much for being human. <3 It means a lot. I don't hear sympathy anymore-just the fake non-sympathetic kind. It feels alone.
I've been to DV shelters before when I left him, and they always want to know if you're in any imminent danger at this very moment. As in, is he outside your bathroom with a gun sort of stuff.
If I'm alive, my section 8 doesn't transfer. I've been declared an able bodied adult so there's no more aid. No healthcare, no nothing. It didn't take Trump to do it, it was in our state before that.
I knew the minute the judge started yelling at me at the hearing that I was going to lose but now I have the letter. The lawyer hasn't answered any of my phone calls or emails since the denial, but he said immediately after the hearing that if we contest it #1 we go in front of the same judge and #2 it'll be 18 months before it'd be seen in court.
We can't even afford to move our stuff to storage (no friends no car/no one in the apt can drive), and the one of us who has current SSI will lose a lot of SSI.
Any DV shelter would split us up because they are adults.
I wish heavily curses worked, because I'm bitter enough at what was done to us to wish that, too. Forgiveness just isn't in me anymore.
I'm terrified of homelessness here. A violent city. We have no car, no shelters here take you if you cant work and don't yet have SSI and even the ones who do only take you for 3 months. There are already a lot of abused women who are homeless here. I'm terrified for the ones that aren't scary.
I've searched for every piece of help in the area but most of them are referrals to more referral places (it's a government aimed scam to get grants and not do anything) and the rest find loopholes so the don't have to help. They all give you the same printouts and don't actually do anything.
When things get this bad, you don't have friends left. I needed this so much. Thank you.
I feel like the people in charge of doling out help want us to die and I'm angry they won't help by just flat out admitting it and giving us a clean, fast, humane way to do it. They'd rather kill us slowly with homelessness. A lot of the homeless kill themselves, and they can't even have the internet to get here.
I think that there are more reasons than just suffering. Sometimes people can see the futility of life and that life has no (inherent) meaning or purpose thus wishing to end. The latter part (meaning and purpose) is why religions have their place in the world, to create a meaningful purpose and also to discourage people from taking their own lives through guilt, threats of force (via the state and/or community/society), shame, and fear (if you CTB, you go to hell/suffer some eternal punishment, etc.). I don't believe in a god, and I do believe that religion is something that man has created in the ancient days to instill meaning and purpose into one's life. Then as religion and society grew, the collective (society and state) does anything for the interest of itself rather than the individual.
I've mainly observed these issues (in no particular order) singularly and combined or mixed:
- Guilt
- Regret and/or Shame
- Physical illnesses/injury/disease/chronic pain
- Botched surgeries/intrusive medical procedures gone wrong
- Mental illnesses/depression, etc.
- Loss of loved one(s)
- Financial woes
- Dysphoria (gender and otherwise)
- Trauma(s)
- Addiction(s)
- Psych meds' ill effects
- Misdiagnosis
- Loneliness, despair
- Anhedonia
- Apathy
- An overriding feeling of not belonging.
I'm sorry if I forgot yours. It wasn't intentional. There are certainly other reasons.
I want to CTB because I am trapped in a situation without escape. It's a long story, but it to sum it all up, I have a chronic illness since 2010 which makes every day a struggle. I have been fighting tooth and nail, I have given it my all, I've gone all in with a "mind over matter" type of attitude. Now 10 years down the line, I feel I can't do it anymore. I am drained. I ... am ... so ... tired ... of ... all ... the ... suffering...
Physical pain/disability is extremely difficult for the majority of people. Let me guess... some told you years ago to "just think positive" or "look at the bright side" (where?) or "it could be worse"... ??
I sympathize. I know it's very difficult...
Came back today because it was a really stressful bad day and I'm so grateful for this site and people like you. Thanks for your reply.I cannot even begin to fathom those depths of unfairness; I wish some news agency or even talk show would take on your story. I'm hearing from you that such a predicament echoes similar stories out there.
I don't understand what else people are supposed to do, if the system and culture is so ruthless and heartless... people cannot just live for years or the rest of their lives on the dangerous, uncomfortable, miserable streets. I would kill myself faster, and frankly i don't blame anyone else for wanting that relief. The evil effects of other people's cruelty is absolutely unforgivable. It doesn't have to be like this but they choose to be heartless.
The only cities i know of that have fairly decent shelters are in small towns. If there is any way you can afford a greyhound bus to anything and ever want to consider trying it just PM me.
For now just know that the good people are scattered but we are still around, like many on this site.
If i had the power to change it all, i would.
Came back today because it was a really stressful bad day and I'm so grateful for this site and people like you. Thanks for your reply.
I know I'm not the only one who thinks so, but it still felt less alone to hear it's not just me who thinks it's reasonable to stop existing than go homeless.
I don't know if it would give away information too much (this site is google-able to the public if they're so inclined), but my section 8 only goes to the other 2 people in the apartment if I'm dead, but I can't hold it alive because I have no income and am considered an able bodied adult. They can't make it without the section 8.
Talk shows- most people will look at someone who is suffering and imagine they caused it or deserve it. They'll make it up if necessary, but will believe any rumor. Wouldn't be surprised if you've experienced it firsthand. Most everyone here is likely suffering from something big.
I can't see anything other than that.
People feel bad->people want to die.
People feel good->people love life.
Is it really this simple for everyone?
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I understand why people, including myself, would think of choosing catching the bus over becoming homeless, most especially as a woman, as women face multiple and more dangers than a homeless man word. I'm not a political person, but I remember earlier last year that Trump decided to Make it even harder for Americans to get the vital lifeline and some relief of affordable housing and disability benefits, food stamps, deliberately making it more difficult for American citizens who were severely struggling. I don't understand why. Why do that? I'm neither Republican nor Democrat, I don't choose any party, I just go by the integrity or the lack there of of the person in question. I would say that you would be likely one of millions of examples of people that are hit way too hard with these changes.
I am fairly certain that the majority of people who blame the victim, instead of the system or are those in power, are either in capable of facing the truth or they are just lazy/selfish as they don't want to bother processing the facts because then it would be a downer for their day or something, and maybe they power trip over critiquing people that are helpless as a boost to their own ego, a fleeting ego not based on character but on temporary opportunities of stepping on others' pain. Those types of people will never enter heaven, and will be amongst others just like them in the afterlife begging for the mercy they never gave to innocents.
I don't want you to suffer, whether you catch the bus or not... are you sure there's no way you could get a Greyhound bus ticket to a few small towns I could recommend for you? Small Towns that have much safer shelters? Obviously that's not a pleasant experience either, I just decide that you Have to face such circumstances. You can PM me if you would even possibly consider those small towns; it would be a whole heck of a lot safer than most. Totally up to you. I respect your choice whatever it is.
I understand it's difficult no matter what choice you make in the future. It's just a sad revelation that people that are lawmakers choose to do this to helpless Americans able-bodied or Not...Employers discriminate against so many people based on age, weight, ethnicity, etc. and it's very difficult to find a job these days more than ever, so what difference does it make if somebody is able bodied or not?), and then preach to us about how great this country is. How is it great exactly?
With violence all around us and our children? With skyrocketing rents that about half of the population can barely afford and have little quality of life? Or is it so great because we pay basically the same amount of tax that people in Western Europe pay but we get almost none of their benefits or safety nets? Is that why it's so great? Or all the the women and children that get attacked by the huge population of predators and they're traumatized for life? I'm just so sad and angry for you, for me, for everyone.
when I've been in western European countries, etc. while they have some crime that is similar, it's usually a much smaller percentage, whereas in America, it's like an exploding population out of control of predators, bullies, psychopaths, people are really crazy here more than anywhere else I've ever seen. Their craziness and cruelty then creates huge swaths of victims. I mean you have people shooting others because they didn't get enough mustard on their hamburger, or people that do other horrific things to each other over a parking space for example.
I don't see that in most places in the world, it's insane. People that I've never traveled outside of the United States understand as soon as they read it, they know this as well. Your something very wrong and United States, and just like you are I'm fed up with the exhaustion. Sure, there are some nice things about America, But is it really worth it if people can't even let their children playing in their own front yard because they'll be kidnapped by a rapist? Does it make it worth it to have such a great computer and entertainment industry if you have to be frightened every time you go outside your front door who is going to possibly rob you, possibly rape you, harass you, and make everything so unpleasant and often miserable, or you can hardly trust anyone. So do those good things about America make the bad things all worth it? I think not. And what is the point of having some of those good things if more and more Americans are either becoming homeless or they are very close to it? What does all of that matter anymore then at that point?!?
I hope you find some comfort in again knowing that you are also not alone in those feelings as well. Feel free to reach out. Either way, take care.
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