Hidden expectations behind "SUpportiveness"
The story
sorry if this would be boring or unwitty to read or post, but i just need to vent out frustrations built over time like an architectural ancient wall. Anyways.. so here is it. My kins are far from the type of being a emotionally regulated and healthily supportive thing. Yeah, support may be felt and seen but its obligatory and not something that's rooted from actual empathy or sensitivity or whatever the positivity term. Toxicity overpowers it by having these heavily implied and deeply rooted sense of expectations that just because youve raised a separate human being in the modern times from your own means they must be characteristically and ideally better because the living situations they're in is far better than what they''ve been through. That survival skills automatically equates with the extent of "modernity and advancement of the world"" and that you suffer LESS. Is it obvious if i'm gonna say nobody actually knows me in my family. All they know is what i try to imitate, and what they want to see. Because they hated seeing imperfections. Which, in an atomical sense, makes up 80% of me as a person. Even if i want to explain things they wouldn't get to my shoes and just start being a "role model", saying you must do this and that. But actually.... it is very hard. I didnt even signed up for this life lol. I tried but everytime i do i just feel more and more close to the fact that i am far from being an actual perfect person. YEs, i understand nobody is perfect. Yes i understand everybody makes mistakes. But, i dont understand why actual misundersttood people, if they ever gets exposed, gets extremely unsupported and treated like trash generally... those advocacies never work to change people's perspectives. Because people dont literally experience the shoes of another person's life in reality. There are a lot of things i want to explain but i cannot type all of it into a coherent and readable paragrpah. I judt feel like i was born to experience humiliation, shame, grief, repeatedly. Also, i do wanna get therapy so much but it costs a lot and im a frikin college burden still. I want to work but how can i even take the step if the road always has sinkholes i cannot avoid and nobody dares go to? i'm in a pit where i can only tell i'm fine. but who really caresif i'm not. Everyone else just cares about results... I can't make it.. i'm struggling. I want help. I need help. I can only hug myself in darkness. I can only see myself d34d. I do not want anymore negativity to cling to me but even when i'm in light its too dim to tell where i am. Where do i even see myself six months from now? I may have survived a lot of things but at what cost? More humiliation? MOre trials for me to fail? I hope not. I need change...I need ... I need to actually feel a sense of hope down to my bones... I feel so disgusted at myself.
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wow, your post really hits home. gotta say i felt a bit of the same when i was in college too. it seemed like everyone expected me to have it all figured out just cause times are supposed to be 'easier' now. but nobody really sees what's going on inside our heads, y'know? once, my folks were convinced i'd pick up some amazing career just because my uncle did well after college... never mind he had tons of help from them! you're totally right about therapy being expensive too; makes you feel stuck even when you know you need it. hope things turn around for you soon, bro. hang in there!
dude, it's like society's got this twisted perception that life should be a breeze now just because we've got smartphones and Wi-Fi. like, as if access to technology is somehow a magic wand for all our emotional struggles. my parents used to pull the same thing—acting all shocked when i showed any cracks in my armor, like "oh no, back in our day..." honestly, it drives me nuts how they expect you to just glide through life without stumbling, even though everyone’s been pretending forever that they’ve got it together. plus, let's not even get started on therapy costs... sometimes it feels like mental health is only for the privileged. maybe one tiny step could be trying those free online communities or apps for some support? but yeah, navigating through this is its own kind of trip. hope you find your way outta this tough spot soon and catch a break!