I regret everything about my life ( long)
I’m not sure where to start… I come from an abusive background as a child and became homeless as a teen and and pregnant at 18/ single mother 19. I’ve always prided myself on being able to take care of myself and not needing anyone but I had to be on government assistance for years because of the circumstances I was in and had suffered a major stroke at 22.
Towards the end of 2016-2017 I had spent a long time building myself up to be the most confident and most motivated I’d ever been and was working with people to find a way to go to school to get my personal trainer’s certification as fitness had really helped me in my journey. In that time I had dated someone for a few months and then we broke up and just became best friends for years.
I was getting a lot of outside feedback from people all the time about how I was too picky, too shallow or I would get lonely eventually, my daughter needed a real family. I’ve never wanted to be a family woman, a house wife, a wife or even mother in general and was always pretty confident that I could be happy just me and my daughter. I worked really hard to get to the place I was… anyways… during 2017 my insecure brain kept listening to what people were saying and I’d convinced myself something was wrong with me and other people looked happy so I should want those things too.
This best friend and I started dating again and then things moved very quickly from there. At that point I had committed myself to the situation. I’m the midst of it I found out he’d be lying about his past for years and I took it really hard as honesty is #1 for me and I had always been fully myself with him.
Despite my lack of trust and my insecurities I kept telling myself I was being too harsh, I was being too picky and I made a commitment.
We moved in together and almost immediately I got into a car accident that would change every aspect of my life. Hit with PTSD and permanent injuries and chronic pain my dreams and hard work of being a trainer were dead. I was dead. As a person I died that day. I then got pregnant ( surprise) and then had a very drawn out king miscarriage within months of the accident and then I was diagnosed with C-PTSD. My anxiety and depression got so bad I couldn’t leave the house, couldn’t socialize, couldn’t exercise, could barely drive my car. I just stopped being a person and it only got worse form there. We ended up getting a dog that could hopefully help me and be a companion but ended up being anxious and connecting to my husband and giving me more anxiety and is just a burden on my life everyday.
Fast forward 6 years I’ve been living like this. I’ve been trying everything I can to “ fix”
Myself and nothing has worked… my body dysmorphia has gotten so bad because I just don’t recognize myself anymore. I keep making wrong decisions because it’s what I think you’re supposed to do. I am 7 months expecting now and I have spent the day 7 months feeling nothing but utter regret. It was another decision made for the sake of others/feeling pressured and I’m
More miserable than ever. I can’t look at myself, I feel disgusting and embarrassed by the way I look and can barely bathe or change.
I find myself waking up everyday depressed I woke up. Wishing every day that I could turn back time and just be myself again. I feel no connection to the people or animals around me or inside me and just Wish I could leave and live someone where in complete isolation. I can’t believe I made such wrong decisions. I knew within myself I wasn’t meant for this life and I feel like since I made the decision the universe has just reminded me of that everyday, but now I’m too fucked up to do anything for myself. I can’t work
Like this, I have almost no physical or financial stability and my mental function is hanging on by a thread . I don’t know why I’m writing this… everyone will just say go to therapy ( which I’ve tried) I guess I just feel so utterly alone and worthless and hopeless and regretful and am hoping someone can resonate or give helpful advice or just listen.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.