What do you do when you feel hopeless about life?

[Androm]

What would you do if your career and relationship suddenly went into despair?

#Androm

[DoctorSex]

Go and read more books, autobiographys of people who have gone through worse shit and found happiness. Get out of your head and enter another.

One great book is "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. That book changed my life when I was in my teens. I stopped complaining and realised that happiness and optimism is the choice of the brave, the strong and the intelligence. Forging your own happiness in life is what's difficult/challenging and the most rewarding. Feeling hopeless is what's easy to do and it's lazy.

Kind regards,

DoctorSex

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I go back to doing what I was doing when I was doing well and it usually reminds me about the things I don't think of anymore. It recalibrates you, resets your mind a little bit. You revisit ideas that you can reflect on now with more perspective.

In the mean time, it's important to take inventory and prioritize your issues. Focus on them one at a time, get your bearings again.

[Guy13]

With career and love loss, my first inclination would be to step back, focus on resume etc, process career issues, interview preparation, and stay super busy picking up the pieces. Within this process, the relationship gets move to secondary position.

[Anonymous]

I've had

- Betrayal

- Kidnapping + language barriers, that the girls in that country cannot tolerate

- Toxic family and abuse

- Poverty. Total poverty

- Loss of a high paying job where i worked for only 3 months due to new sanctions introduced shortly after the Russian invasion on Ukraine.

- clinical depression and other diseases.

It took me 12 years of concentrated effort, having little to no social life, having no girlfriend or sex, not celebrating holidays or birthdays (i had no money), ignoring what's going on in the world to get over most of these things and to relocate back to Europe and to regain my basic human rights and my Autonomy.

Life got me down? I fight back. I give up when I'm dead.

[Minxxie]

I'm at this point right now and I really don't know. I'm trying to work out more to force my body to produce more dopamine but I'm a caretaker from my obese aunt who has delusions and refuses to see the doctor and I do not see a way out right now.

Sounds bad but I am letting rich guys take me out on interesting dates and hoping that I mutually fall in love with someone. That would distract me! lol I even feel too guilty to date someone else who's broke because I'd just become a burden on them after my ex financially abused me.

[Puppystarfish23]

Start again, life has many opportunities to it if something isn't working look into why and delete that issue from your life and start over again.

[aaron210419]

Keep on going, no matter how hard life gets just keep moving forward. Even if it's small steps as long as it's forward you'll end up alright. Also, happiness shouldn't be your goal. Work on finding something meaningful to you, that will ensure a much more satisfying life. Happiness comes and goes just like every other emotion.

[Amy10223]

I'd do something to fix it immediately for the career, and do something after grieving if it was a realtionship. Life is about choices. You can choose to sink or swim.

[MCheetah]

Sleep. Which is how I feel every single night before I do so.

[exitseven]

Just go about my regular routine. I know it will pass.

[FilmGuy93]

I just find something small to enjoy, and hold onto that.

[jamesgoldman]

I pour myself a large drink and light a cigar then I think in isolation

[Wicked_Witch]

I’d probably be sad for a while and then start planning out how to get back on track.

[Curiosity2006]

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[LavLavLuv]

Same

[Curiosity2006]

@LavLavLuv XDDD 🤪🤪🤪

[Poliker]

I would bask in sorrow for a little while, like a day or two, then get sick and tired of feeling useless and make plans for a change.

[D_Bone_Steak]

Hit the weights and get buff. I don't know why, but after getting buff all the problems go away and fix themselves.

[TroyDT2]

Relationship, wouldn't care because there are lots of women out there.

Career, not sure. Worst case I can sell my house, move to the Midwest, and retire.

[pizzalovershouse]

Lean on my good friends and good music an eat foods that help mood be good

[dustybiker]

There are countless people out there that have it worse.

[alance99]

I take a break for sometime to rejuvenate myself or i work more hard and it works for me

[Agape93]

If it got really bad and I wasn't stopped, I'd likely try and swallow a bullet.

[tfan1]

Take a break from reality - Literally masturbate and let yourself go. You will feel better for a while. 👍🙂