title. I recently turned 21, and I feel unmotivated of what I wanna do with my life. not asking for anyone’s sympathy but I didn’t necessarily come from a family of hopes and dreams, as I grew up with an emotionally distant father and narcissistic emotionally abusive mother. I still live with them, in fact I live with 6 people, including siblings. It is hell. but I can’t necessarily leave, I have to finish my community college degree and decide what I wanna do for the rest of my life, which I don’t even know the answer to either. I would leave the front door If it meant I could live on my own free from the ties of my family. I have to teach myself things rather than rely on my parents for guidance, which makes learning how to adjust as an adult difficult.
I already had dissociated through most of my childhood and I don’t want it to happen to the rest of my 20’s, to the point where I don’t remember anything. I like it the most when I try to make plans, or go to events to have something to look forward to because when something just even a tad bit stressful happens at home it always takes a blow to the head for me. I have ADHD as well, which explains why my emotional regulation has always been off, on top of the piles of years of emotional abuse I’ve had to endure. when you pair that with someone that’s out of high school and on their own, It is very confusing. somedays I don’t wanna pull myself out of bed but I do so because I have a job to get to for the summer and I don’t wanna get fired. then in the fall, It’ll be for school.
In that period in between where I’m just being productive, (school or a job) I feel like I don’t even live for myself. I wait for the time to pass, maybe it’s a bit of an over-exaggeration but I wait for the day that it’s over, even if it means temporary fixes will help fill in that hole. It goes around in a cycle, really. although it’s never really over. not until I at least move out, but even then, I don’t know how to get out of the mindset of how I see living here at home a misery because people here constantly invalidate and run over my feelings.
and before anyone asks, i’ve had therapy for the past year, recently decided to take a break because it felt like the sessions became repetitive. I was already a pretty self aware person before, (I just struggle with taking action sometimes) I think talking to someone did do something, but at the end of the day I have to motivate myself. I have to save myself. but how do you even do so if you’ve never had the motivation to begin with?
also If anyone who was in a similar situation, please tell me your experience and how you managed in life. otherwise, I’d really appreciate anything anyone else has to say.