Monday, January 29, 2018

I need help for a loved one

Hello good people of /r/Mentalhealth, I need your help. This is going to be a longer text but I hope that at least some will read it and I am utmost grateful for any piece of advice.

I am currently in a long distance relationship with a girl with severe anxiety problems. The distance makes it really hard to support her. She cannot get any support in her country, mental health awareness is almost 0 and her family basically does not want to talk to her other than blaming her for shit. I am the only one to support her at this point, and I am 10,000+km away.

Our current situation:

We set up a plan for her to start a new life at my country after she dropped out of university due to her mental problems. Tickets are already bought and all she needs is some money to get a health insurance. Otherwise she wont get a visa. She works part-time and was on a good track to earn enough money until April when her flight is. She does not really like her job but it pays really well and she is flexible.

Tthings got really worse after Christmas. Meeting her parents kinda destroyed her a bit and she could not go to work in 3 weeks. She lives alone far away from her parents, but since she came back she can barely leave her room. Working is out of question 6 out of 7 days per week. Her texts are mostly stuff like: "I am garbage, I can't do anything, I can't move" and so on. I feel really helpless and I am also partly to blame for the current situation.

I am also not very strong mentally and tend to vent my anger at random people. I am aware that this is devastating for her current situation so I try my absolute best to not let any anger come out when I talk to her. It is just really hard as this whole situation makes me really angry, mostly directed at myself. I know that she cannot do anything about it. I was in her situation, I lost 3 school years to a severe depression where I could not leave my room during daytime for weeks. I took me 3 years to pull myself out of it and get my life together. She has only 3 months left and she needs my support.

Her life would get 100x better after she comes here. We have the mental health facilities to help her, my family would welcome her, she could find work fairly easily and she would be on my side. Her family always rejected her from a young age, telling her that she was unwanted at age 6, making her feel like human garbage. She has the lowest self-esteem you could imagine.

But I truely love her and I will not abandon her. I want to help her so please help me. I am happy to receive any advice, anything I can tell her that will make her day better.

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