Chronic migraines and depression are a fun combination
Feeling miserably lonely and losing the will to live has to be more common in people with chronic pain than it seems like or I’ll just go insane. I wish I could brush it off but I just get, more miserable and frustrated at myself and the world the more it hurts. I don’t have it in me to be strong and excel at anything, or try for brief moments of fun just to be miserable and in varying levels of pain most of the time and feel like passing away every week when my migraines decides to destroy me all night and crush any hope.
Life is exhausting and soul *** enough even when I’m not in pain. I want to try to see the good in things, be grateful, have fun with friends and enjoy life and want to do things like maybe I used to. But I don’t know. I’m tired. Nothing seems to be helping much but uhhh if anyone has advice for how to get through it anyways when you feel like this,,, not even necessarily the pain just, the lack of caring and exhaustion with life maybe.
Dark humor is also the only thing a little entertaining these days. But I can’t share the worst of it out loud or whoever hears it might get awkward and I don’t have the heart to lie and say it’s just a joke. Whether jokes or stories no matter how bad or cheesy, dark humor that won’t make anyone call an intervention on me will help me as much as advice I think if anyone has any, a game that had the option to wish for stable mental health cracked me up
@Tangerine467 Honestly what I've learned is to just focus on reducing as much pain as possible and try to just survive the painful moments. I wish I had a miracle cure, but I never learned what that was myself as someone who has both the same issues.
But the migraines in particular are not helping the depression. I understand that. It makes it all the more difficult to get up and make any changes. So... it might be helpful in the meantime to just take one little step at a time. You do what feels good to you and you try not to feel guilty for prioritizing yourself.
That's what I've been trying to do, and I think it does help.
Again, I'm sorry I can't have the perfect solution for you. Just remember you are not alone in this experience, and you will find some days won't be so bad later.
