How can I "hang in there"?

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I hate this society, it is so scary and cruel. The 20th century may have dealt with some horrible things, but at least it was easier for people to function in the world.

I hate the current establishment and norms, I sometimes wish we can go back, but people will say I'm a bad person and stuff. I don't know how my future will get any better. Here I am, watching society decay and nothing I can do about it. I don't understand how people think we are any more open or free, society's ill and double standards aren't any different than slavery in the 1800s.

What am I going to do to "hang in there"? I just wish God will end it all now if he doesn't want to "help" revive us.

I can agree with you on the fact that society is cruel and can be scary sometimes. I remember when I lost my fiance, David, to diabetic ketoacidosis. I secluded myself within my bedroom every chance I got for months. I lost all connection with friends, family, the world at large.

If I may be so blunt, it appears that you are suffering from depression. I suffer from A-typical depression(I suppose it's only fit as my brain is a-typical as well). Every so often I enter an episode of depression and have to fight my way out of it.

I would say, however, that to "just hang in there" is quite possibly the worst advice ever given to someone suffering from any type of depression. The whole idea is to drag yourself out of it, not to hang right there in it.

I guess what I am trying to say with this response is that, you need to talk to someone. Weather a therapist, or simply someone who has been there that is willing to lend an open ear and is willing to help. Believe me, words do amount to change.

My parents are tired of hearing me talk and repeat this stuff. Otherwise, this is about stuff that is outside of my control.

If you take an objective view of history, you will realize that times are MUCH better than they were in the 19th century. Or the Depression of the 1930s.

Things suck....yes they do.

But at least you don't have cops constantly going around asking for your ID, or trying to solicit bribes. Like they have in a place like Nigeria.

Well, selective bias I guess.

I wish you could go back to the 19th century-----under Oliver Twist conditions.

Or take a plane to Nigeria.

Well....just hang in there

Man, you just gotta do it...you can hang in there, its hard but you can do it. I feel like that a lot to, but I have to get a grip sometimes and realize I can't fix everything. I mean in order to help fix some-things there are goals I need to complete...like getting some employment aside from just being on disability income. But my end goal for that is so I can help the planet. You can even do small things, like I am going to get some reusable grocery bags to fight plastic waste, and perhaps when I go out to eat I will request 'no straw' because straws are a major source of plastic waste.

But I mean s**t its a combination of forcing yourself not to lose hope, finding ways to distract yourself and keep from dwelling on the worst things....like I said it is hard but you can do it. Just gotta keep on keeping on and as I say its freaking hard. like sometimes I wake up thinking how much easier it would have been if I had succeeded in killing myself when I was 15. But that is not useful thinking.

I don't know how I can handle things any longer without feeling discouraged. I also read stuff about our society being gradually taken over and civilization/culture rotting away, but everyone just mocks them as paranoid conspiracy theorists or are stubborn that they don't want to accept any possible truth to it at all. I also seen other members even on here being attacked as being sexist or essentially a bad person because they believe the system is unfair. It's not just topics about dating, but that is the one that gets so much attention lately. Just because I may sympathize or agree with them it doesn't make me a fringe fundie ultra-conservative crazy.

I think I have gone off too far with my ranting there, but for at least my individual situation, modern society is too disruptive from technology and change, and in a lot of ways things are still pretty sh*tty, even compared to the past like until the 80s. Even the 90s can fit in here too, but I was still a young kid in that decade.

You sound very depressed. Are you getting any treatment for that, Hollywood Guy?

I've been reading crap like that since the 1960s. All what these people say have not come into fruition.