Ever feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders?

[ManaMinori 4,145]

Like you're just so sapped and stripped of energy and caring, and it literally makes you lethargic, and tension and ache in your muscles, like you're being constantly dragged down, and just not in the mood to fight it anymore? Has anyone ever felt this way?

What snapped you out of it?

[Dreambiscuit 10,034]

I feel that way often, and for me the best thing to alleviate it is a change of scenery. If I can alter my schedule and see something or someplace new, it always helps my perspective. If you can manage an all-out vacation, so much the better. Sometimes just doing the same things in a different order can help. Doing something ridiculously spontaneous that you'd never typically think of doing can also shake things up a bit. 

 

Give yourself a small goal to shoot for, with a fitting reward at the end of it. That can help you to focus your energies on something outward rather than inward, and give you an accomplishment to be proud of yourself for doing. 

 

These are my usual methods, and they've been reasonably successful. 

[GeekySonic 1,150]

Not often, I think. Sometimes, I guess I just feel a little worthless. Like it doesn't matter if I be a good person, because in the grand scheme of things, I don't matter. No one will remember me, I'll never change anything.

 

And I don't really want to be some historical figure that is praised in textbooks. What I mean is that, I won't even have any minor impact on anything. I don't matter.

 

I'm gonna die and life will go on, and I will have accomplished nothing. Maybe I'll be remembered as another schmuck on the Internet who always complained about how they were never happy.

 

You know, I watched the Nostalgia Critic video on the Big Lebowski recently. I remember he described the Dude as being complacent with the simplicity of his life. That he was a loser, and that he was fine with it, because he knew he didn't have goals, or a role to fill. I wish I could feel like that.

 

But I don't. I sit here and wonder what I'm gonna do with my life, and why I even bother. And I look around, and I see people who are actually making differnces.

 

People do whatever they can to help others, make others happy, make life a little better. I see those people, and I feel worse.

 

I can’t even put my selfishness aside to care about the person standing next to me. And that's why I really am worthless.

[Invincible 2,091]

I feel like this sometimes, usually when I'm stressed with work and studies. I've become stronger than i was, as a person, and so this doesn't happen as often, and i just go home when I'm burned out and forget all about it.

 

I try to push myself through sheer force of will; you'll be surprised how far it can get you. I'm not saying it's easy, just that with some practice and determination you can find you have deep and powerful reserves of energy you never knew of.

[Justin_Case001 4,903]

Like you're just so sapped and stripped of energy and caring, and it literally makes you lethargic, and tension and ache in your muscles, like you're being constantly dragged down, and just not in the mood to fight it anymore? Has anyone ever felt this way?

Like, all the time, every day.

 

What snapped you out of it?

When I find out, you'll be the first to know.

 

I've had months at a time when I barely get out of bed some days, and become so lethargic that I hardly have enough energy to get up and eat.  The lack of exercise makes my muscles easy to pull and injure.  Sometimes I get panic attacks, emotional breakdowns, or crippling freakouts.  I had an emotional breakdown because of Orlando, and I wasn't even connected to it in any way.  Often times I feel like I don't know if or how I can live in this world.  It's tough.  I'm sorry.

[Jeric 46,857]

I have to respond to this a certain way. 

 

 

Ever feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders?

 

Very much so, as in all the time. As in ... this is my constant state of being. 

 

 

 

Like you're just so sapped and stripped of energy and caring, and it literally makes you lethargic, and tension and ache in your muscles, like you're being constantly dragged down, and just not in the mood to fight it anymore? Has anyone ever felt this way?

 

That doesn't actually apply though. At least not together. I do not get lethargic, and while I may resign myself to an eventuality ... I do not give up.  Unfortunately ... snapping out of it isn't really in the cards for me at the moment. This isn't a feeling brought on my perception of stressors in my life, but I am actually carrying my own personal world ... the lives of multiple people ... at very critical times in each of their lives. I do not have the luxury of not feeling I have to carry that burden ... I work better that way. 

 

If you want to learn stress management techniques, that I can help you with ... how to feel unburdened I can't. 

[ManaMinori 4,145]

I have to respond to this a certain way. 

 

 

 

Very much so, as in all the time. As in ... this is my constant state of being. 

 

 

 

 

 

That doesn't actually apply though. At least not together. I do not get lethargic, and while I may resign myself to an eventuality ... I do not give up.  Unfortunately ... snapping out of it isn't really in the cards for me at the moment. This isn't a feeling brought on my perception of stressors in my life, but I am actually carrying my own personal world ... the lives of multiple people ... at very critical times in each of their lives. I do not have the luxury of not feeling I have to carry that burden ... I work better that way. 

 

If you want to learn stress management techniques, that I can help you with ... how to feel unburdened I can't.

 

personally, that's why I prefer to fly solo. I can barely manage to emotionally support myself. Kudos to you for being strong enough to bear the weight of others. Dunno how you do it.

Stress techniques? Sure. Fire away

[EpicEnergy 23,223]

No, I haven't felt that way before. I feel pretty worthless though.

[Coffee 4,323]

There are sometimes but not really

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[Cagey 4,248]

I think that’s an ordinary feeling. I try to surround myself with people and things that don’t exacerbate that feeling, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. In that case, I have to work past it. 

[Fluttershutter 2,508]

On 7/9/2016 at 11:31 PM, ManaMinori said:

What snapped you out of it?

If it happens I'll let you know.

[Lucky Bolt 35,073]

I haven't ever felt that, no. I get other feelings of overwhelming pressure sometimes, though. 

[Pandora 38,065]

i feel like that quite often and then I can’t take proper care of myself and pain is big, friends help you get back up though and muscles i relief with tiger balm 

[Splashee 28,566]

The world is too big of a place to fit on my shoulders. But I have heard about the expression.

[ExplosionMare 18,081]

Not usually but sometimes I grieve with the world, especially now since we’re all dealing with the same thing

[Splashee 28,566]

Why do I get this image in my head of Gabriel C. Brown (Black Gryph0n) singing "Ever feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders?" randomly when reading this thread?

[TBD 17,256]

Yeah, it's called anxiety.