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Seasonal Affective Disorder and bad job

stydia May 23rd, 2019

I can't catch a break from depression and the second I think I'm free and things are gonna get better, it gets worse. California hasn't seen a warm day in almost a year now, it's stormy, raining, thundering, hailing and it won't let up. Records say it hasn't been this cold in May since the early 1960s and I'm tired of having to hide under blankets, shivering in sweats and not being able to get warm. I live with controlling parents who don't let me run the heat, so I'm always miserable. The house is in shade so there's no sunlight, scarce windows so it's like living in a cold, damp cave. I recently got a part time job that doesn't comply with the labor laws and employees are refused breaks, they close at 2 a.m. and I can't do that. They've been scheduling me to work later and later, 7 pm and 9:30 pm and the anxiety is paralyzing because I don't like being out late at night (I don't feel safe, my anxiety skyrockets and it's hard for me to sleep later because of panic attacks and insomnia) and I can't work until midnight or 2 a.m., I need my sleep because I get up at 4 a.m. to get ready for college. Getting up in the morning is gloomy and miserable, I dread the day, I have nothing to look forward to and I'm just doing miserable. I want to run from my job screaming and never go back, I applied at several different places because I can do better and I need something with hours more appropriate for my needs and I have a feeling this place is going to take advantage of me and run me into the ground just so they don't have to do the hard stuff. I find myself bullied and abused at every job I'm at if they're not corrupt by forbidding breaks or forcing off-the-clock work and I'm just saddened and feel dead inside. This weather shouldn't be happening to SoCal in the spring, it's unheard of and I want to leave the country just so I'll be warm somewhere (of course I can't, LOL). Things are looking bad, I'm too depressed to clean my room, I'm lonely but at the same time clinging to solitude because it's the only way I feel calm and safe, I feel like I have no control or agency over my life and I don't even mind a few more weeks of unemployment as long as I'm not in a toxic environment that poses a threat to my emotional/mental health. Every day, it's like December/January weather and I feel like my skin's turned to ice, I can't wear my nice clothes, acne's flaring up with stress and lack of sunlight. Last time I was working in an unhealthy place, I lost my period for 5 months due to extreme stress and my IBS was at its worst in my life. I'm getting nightmares, crying and screaming in my dreams and that never happens so I'm just dreading this situation, dragging myself out of bed knowing the rest of my day is going to be hell and the hard part isn't going to start until a long evening. I'm just so sick of everything and there's no escape. I feel trapped.

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Jem7Cups April 8th, 2020

@stydia

I realise this post was written a while ago. How are you getting on now? ❤

Jem 💜