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Belongs to: Therapist gets Down in a Hole with Alice In Chains
@heartsupport I feel this song tells my story. I was in an accident at work that took me to a dark place. Since 2016 I have isolated with no light to see. It cost my marriage and livelihood.
I’m very sorry to hear that. Going through big changes in life (accidents, work, relationships, etc.) can feel devastating. Your feelings are valid and I’m sorry you’ve had to suffer through all this.
It’s important when we feel down never to give up hope. Though our life may look different now than it did before, there are still lots of ways we can step out, help ourselves and others, and enjoy life to the fullest. Take time to do things you enjoy. Invest in the people and relationships you have in your life. Allow yourself time to mourn, and then allow yourself to step out and try something new. Never underestimate your own strength. God has made you capable to do many great things, even though your life may look different now. I’ll be praying for you, hang in there!
Hi Friend,
Thank you for sharing a bit of your story with us. First I’d like to say, I’m sorry to hear about the accident that you had. Sometimes life can really just blindside us with things that we never in a million years expected would happen to us personally. And I can tell the accident had repercussions that took a lot from you and that you lost things important to you as a result. I can understand where you a coming from because life events like that force us to adjust to such drastically new ways of living that we are not used to. And that really emphasizes and strengthens the pain we feel in missing the things that once were that we lost. It gets so hard to move forward until you just get buried deeper and deeper inside this dark hole of despair living in the past seething in the the emotions of a new reality that you never wanted or asked for, which feels so unfair and undeserving. How do we get ourselves back out from that hole? How do we see a light when we are down so deep, hurting so badly? It adds an additional layer of pain, and loss when having to adjust ends up costing other things that are dear to you like your loved ones and your livelihood. I can empathize with how difficult it is to have navigate your emotions and feelings about all three of these things/events and how they must add on to each other piling on the dirt, burying you deeper in this emotional hole.
I want to commend you for still hanging on. Despite not knowing how to move forward, you are still here, you are still trying and you are strong for doing that, for reaching out for support. I hope to try and encourage you little bit to know that your feelings are valid, and it is okay to take a while to get back on your feet when dealing with some many things at once. Making big life adjustments is never easy, it takes time, and every one is allowed to do this at their own pace. Taking longer does not mean that you won’t ever find your way again, though I can understand how and why it might feel that way and look that way. But little by little, step by step, day by day, I hope that you can find the pieces to rebuild yourself anew that you can find peace and joy in the new way of things, and increased strength in knowing that you held on and overcame. 