I Shut Down When Life Becomes Overwhelming Stories of Experiences

And so I stood alone, did not cry for audience because there was no one that could take me home. I felt like I was dying on my own stage. Blissfully dancing to my secret harmonic emotion.
I just let myself go, swaying to the sound of...

My mom was a alcoholic and a pill head for 12 years of my 13 year old life, shes still a pill head though she wont admit it. But i shut everyone out even the people i love. I recently have started to starve myself to take the place of...

Suffering with depression and PTSD for eight years....the medication merry-go-round. When things start getting to be too much for me to deal with, when things start going wrong...spiraling out of control, when my anxiety is through the...

When life becomes to much I close everyone off, I've lost many people and a few relationships because of my problem I wish i wasn't like this, sometimes when this happens I need someone to push me through to the positives. Not leave me...

The plumber just fixed the pipes in my kitchen and charged me $375 for about an hour's work. It takes me 3 or 4 days to make that much money. I feel ripped off. How can screwing some tubes together merit such a high amount of money...

I need help. I am a disabled person living on Social Security. I suffer from depression and anxiety. My family will not talk to me because of some of my mistakes in my past. I feel worthless. Cant pay my bills. I don't know what...

I did not feel like I . Lock myself in the house do not want to talk to people. Sleep most of the time. Do not feel like I can't take much more of this.

Sometimes I sleep 14 or 15 hours a night. Get up, go to work and come home and sleep again.

I've always done it.
But I want to keep the shutting down this time.
I keep leading myself into this dark hole. I get hope that people are awesome, that I can make friends on here. That I can do better in life. But then I just get...

I lose myself in my mind and try to pull out and answer or idea to help the situation, often left just thinking about how bad things have gotten. I become a taxidermy figure sitting in a corner weeping while few to none notice. I don...

when things happen in my life I just shut down. I shut myself off from the world. I think if I just ignore the problems they will disappear. I know it won't but I've been doing this forever. The funny thing is I rather not be alone. I...

I'm overstressed and have no room to recover. It's like when I used to live in an high rise apartment building I called the nuthouse. This neighbor, a crazy pervert of a guy who used to live above me. He'd somehow would be watching me...

I thrive in high stress situations, but when complications come from every direction I can't deal with it.
Divorce. Teenagers. Health issues. Dealing with my ex. Money problems. Work issues. Family conflict. Love-life...

suffering from Borderline I always thought that it was all about having the heightened emotions and reacting to everything negative. But recently I have been thinking back on my life and have realised - in those REALLY hard times, in...

Yeah I shut down when things get too rough but no one knows it but me.I've faked being happy so many times in front of my family and friends I've become okay with it and dont really care.I cant afford to cry because It takes awhile to...

Hello, I am only a 13 year old girl that gets treated wrong. I have a alcolic mother and a angry father. (who is nicer now because he is in a relationship) {THEY ARE DIVORCED.}
Well, it all started when i told both sides of my family...

I feel so overwhelmed by everything

I keep taking on more than I can emotionally cope with, Mother of 2, full time student, a community volunteer, an ex husband, a new partner and bills coming out my ears. and I am over it.

some days...

I ride horses
And i just got a 4 yr old and sometimes i get so angry and break down and cry a little and my trainer just goes ur being rediculous. I shut out everyone and just think mean things and im a cutter so i bit the inside of
My...