Late Forties and Mental Heath
For the past 2 years I have felt like my mental health has taken over my life.
Are things getting better or worse? I feel like I’m becoming more aware of my challenges, which is good. But it still feels frustrating to have them. I personally can’t tell if things are better or worse in my life.
It has been getting worse. It dominates my days and interferes with my relationships with my kids. I’m so sad about it.
I hear ya. 43, and really struggling with keeping my kids on the right path while trying to figure out my own
I am 43 and this has been my experience for about the same period of time. I feel like I will never be mentally healthy and fit again. My wife doesn’t respond and I am a prisoner in my own head.
So feel for you mate. I feel exactly the same and I’m the same age as you.
It's likely that the pandemic has made existing problems within us come to the surface, or at the very least, made them harder to avoid, and harder to use entertainment or other ways to distract ourselves. Also, this age range (I'm 48, myself) means we are approaching mid-life and that can bring a sense of time running short. So, you're not alone.
Thank you for your words. It is good to feel like I have company. I just don’t know how to get it under control.
Sending you light and love. I feel sooo strongly the same. Like trying to defeat myself, and fix myself, and just get it together, and jusr be fixed. I dont want ro be dissapointed in myself anymore, shamed for beling selfishly self absorved. Imreally glad i dound this group, you all seem so caring and i appreciate the genuine tone. Hey, maybe oue purposes, at least for a few minutes, is to put our heads together, different perspectives, and try to get better ideas, solutions, or making a good safe place to vent ?
