There are many times in life we feel stuck. Physically, emotionally, mentally… It’s a feeling that we all have felt before. It drains us, makes us feel inadequate, helpless, hopeless. Not knowing where to go next, or what move to make.
Feeling stuck to me is one of the worst feelings I can have. Physically stuck? I find a way out, reach out for help, and continue moving forward. Emotionally stuck? I talk to my therapist, or my best friend, or as you’ve all witnessed here, I write through my emotions and continue on my happy way. Mentally? Well, again… I talk it out, write it out, or work through it in my own way.
Today though, is one of the worse ways I could ever feel stuck. I feel stuck inside myself.
I feel like I’m trapped inside my brain, inside my head, inside this body… but I’m not really stuck.. I mean I am.. my soul is in this body until I die, or whatever it is you believe. But it’s much more than that today. I feel like I’m trapped inside my own mind, stuck with the intrusive thoughts, the darkness. I am trapped deep into the unbearable caves of my mind just searching for a way out.
How does one get out of her own mind?
Well, that’s a fun one isn’t it? music, talking to friends, going out, painting, spending time in nature, working out, sex.
All of these things usually help me get out of my mind.
But, what do you do when nothing works? When you don’t know how to move on from the things haunting you in your own brain?
When everything you try, every moment of life around you just hurt more than help. When everything outside of your mind triggers the darkness inside?
I wish I knew how to help myself. I wish I knew how to continue on, without hurting this much.
But how do you come back from feeling so numb, yet so hurt. Even worse when you continue to just hurt yourself with every thought that passes through your mind. When even the good things, the things that you enjoy in the deepest part of your soul, the people you love more than anything in the world, just don’t bring you any kind of rest from the pain inside your own mind?
Right now.. more than any other time.. I wish I knew.
xoxo, Neuro