Turning your life around?

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I was wondering if anyone managed this. Since the time I've stopped posting here, i really hit rock bottom, and i had to make a choice, either Try to live, or die. Obviously, I choose to live and confronted some very difficulty things about myself, like that its not being aspie thats made my life as it is, it was that i was being emotionally/verbally abused since childhood and was still being so. That I was afraid of being myself, of being out in the world and independent.

So now Im trying to live up to that choice i made to live, and try to turn my life around. I've called centers, i've got a line on a community house locally, that promotes a supportive and independent but family style living arrangement with the other residents and im in contact with job centers. It seems so daunting, all of this, has anyone else had to turn their life around as im trying?

I know this will seem simplistic but:

I'm glad you've decided to turn your life around.

I have. And it is possible, but obviously it's a very hard process.

I started at 18 and there were a few very rough years, but not as rough as the years before them, then a few moderately rough years. I'm now a decade on and have had 4-5 exceptionally good years.

You can't rely on a quick fix, but keep trying for improvement and you'll get there. Good luck!

Thanks for that, its been slow going so I've been getting discouraged. I was kind of hoping it will all go fast and everything will fall into place. I'll have to reign back my expectations, but Im going ahead. I keep having to make tons of phone calls, that too is discouraging, I was hoping I'd be asked to come in to places. So I can 'see' progress.

The very fact that you are trying bodes well for your future.

If you didn't try, the situation would truly be hopeless.

I'm having a similar experience right now, but in a more mental way than situational. I just feel like I've been sleepwalking through life and getting nowhere. Went a long time feeling helpless and making excuses and being afraid. I've decided to stop.

Yeah, your right. Im going to keep trying, because i really want change in my life.



I totally get that, I'm starting to see a Psych now as part of this process, and I've realized I was feeling helpless and making excuses and being afraid, but until now I never actually tried to change things, i'd just hope things would change magically on its own.

It really makes you feel better then your suddenly actively pursuing this, i know talking to all these people, in a way makes me feel better, Im actually doing something for once to change my life to something i want to love living.