I really sympathise
I really do. I don't doubt for a minute that you have a problem. However, I do consider that an attitude change comes from within and I think you need to work on that. I've seen lots of strangers offering you advice, and you have dismissed them all as impossible. Be positive!

I'm not sure your psychiatrist is very helpful either, telling you you are a candidate for incapacity benefits etc. It's hardly motivating, is it?

What do you really enjoy? There must be something you like doing and you can try to fit that somehow into your life and career.

Somebody else said to start small, and i think that's the best. Why don't you start doing some volunteer work first, as a temporary thing? You can learn to function and work without feeling the pressure of a job. Voluntary is precisely that: you making the effort to get up and do something and you'll feel proud of yourself.
Oh, and please try to get help with your addiction.

I'm sure your parents would love to see you on the up and up, and that they didn't mean anything by their comments. They wouldn't let you live with them and live off them if they didn't love you. Sometimes people act stupid when they don't know what to do, and maybe they were going for the "tough love" approach. Forgive them.
Love,
A worried Apeface
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 16:02, Reply)