I need to fix myself somehow. I have to be better. I'm trying, but I'm probably not trying hard enough.
Sometimes I just don't know how others can love me, I can't see the good in me for all the bad. When I take a step back and calm down, I know it's there, but the bad can be so overwhelming sometimes that it makes me hate myself so much. Yet, I know it's wrong to hate myself. It's wrong because it's unfair to those in my life who love me, and it's wrong because Jesus loved me so much that He died for me. So, what right do I have to hate myself? It's hard not to sometimes though. Especially when I'm going through bad mental health funks.
And part of it is that my problems aren't the kind of problems that can be made pretty or sugar-coated. They are debilitating anxiety that makes me almost non-functional and generally unpleasant to be around. They are depressive episodes that sap all the life and laughter out of me or put a weird, detached bitter edge to it that isn't me at all. They are anger issues, deep-seated and explosive, that make me lash out at those who love me and who never,
ever deserve that treatment.
I should probably have sought professional psychological help a long time ago, but... I get by most of the time just fine, and that shit's expensive, and I don't want to end up on meds if I don't have to. Venting like this helps. God helps a lot, and I've been praying. I have other self-help things that help, and I'm looking into more. There's hope, I know. It just... really sucks sometimes and really gets hard sometimes.