All I wanna do is lie in bed and pray

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I'm 28 and still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I have a bachelors in English, but I don't feel I'd be suited to teaching- maybe too sensitive? Lots of things I'm concerned about and don't feel I have any power over, so I ask the universe for guidance and help. Oh, and I know at least one athiest jerk is gonna say "stop asking God and get off your duff, blah blah." but I don't know what to do- I get depressed so easily. Maybe I should try and get medicated?

Well I'm not an atheist, but you do have to get off your... well you can't lay in bed whole day. But I know it can be difficult. If it is possible to see a doctor or shrink then I would recommend it. Sometimes medication can help, and sometimes just being able to talk to someone can make a difference. Maybe you could give tuition for English which might be less stressful than being a teacher and standing in front of a class. If there is someone with whom you can discuss this with, then do it. Often there are many people who can give us guidance and advice if we just ask.

See a psychologist. You don't know everything, and they can help.

Awww...well I'm agnostic. Seriously though, I know how very difficult it is to do *anything* when you feel even a little helpless and hopeless. When you feel this way it's as if you have a physical and mental block.....it's very difficult to figure out where to go or what to do next.

Medication might be a good starting point. You might want to consider counseling also. This person may help you get some perspective on your life and bring to light some of the options you might have.

As far as your degree in English, I'm not sure what options are available. You might want to see if there are career counseling services available to you or your university may even offer those services (if you are close to your university). My university will still provide me with career services since I'm an alumna.

Best of luck and take care.

Thanks so much, guys. And thanks for the wishes of luck- something tells me I'll need it. Because of my personality, I need a line of work that doesn't deal so much with people. I was thinking of mass communication (you can do editing!).

In no way do i mean to offend you or anyone but whe whole praying thing how exactly does it work?

You lay in your bed and pray and do you imagine someone is listening? as if all this will change by an invisible force or an act of "god"?

Im not a religeous person but everytime i hear about people praying for something i think is god really going to answer? is god even there? a man in the clouds who watches all of us? or is faith just another sign of fear of abandonment in the universe? like people are afraid to accept the fact that we are alone and jesus was no different to that crazy preacher shouting random stuff about hell and damnation exept he says he died for our sins and how mankind is now saved for example if i went out and killed a person that would be sinning? so i have bought myself a ticket to hell ( and prison :S ) but when i die i go to a fiery hell of demons and satan? im really just wondering how some people will beleive stuff because of just plain fear of the feeling of no one is there im alone no one cares about them and they need to beleive this stuff to truely feel secure in the world.

This is just my opinion if it sounds harsh then well i ment nothing by it just my poor choice of words

I understand what you are saying about needing a line of work that doesn't deal so much with people. I have my BA in psychology and I'm becoming increasingly depressed because I realized that I cannot deal with people for even four hours a day....let alone eight hours a day.

It's interesting that you mentioned editing. I was going to suggest it, but then thought you might think it was a silly suggestion. If I wasn't so grammatically challenged, I think it would be interesting to do editing.

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Did you mean that as a joke, because I agree with you. I think nature, life, matter itself has a conscience that's beyond us.

Right now, Iwork 10 hours a week at minimum wage with a company that does a 1-year work program for people with disabilities. Right now, I do a lot of office assistant-type work a center whose main focus is people with Autism/Asperger's. My duties are pretty much confined to following things:

Maintaining a database of clients, etc. (computers! Excel!)
Entering data into the compy in regards to programs we are doing
Sending out packets to people who want to have their children evaluated (envelope-stuffing. I suck at this >.<)
Editing the website (Computers! Proofing! Yay! )
Answering the phone (people, but still, if the person gives me a hard time/I don't really have answers to them, my supervisor is right next to me half the time, so I can have her take the phone from me)

Basically, it's routine, and predictable

I wonder if this would be suitable for what you're looking for? Obviously, the company itself doesn't pay a lot, but I can't tell you the number of times my supervisor has told others on the phone what a "pleasure" I am to have as an employee there. It's quite rewarding

The universe being alive?? all of the facts and possibilities of maybe the univers is trillions and trillions of years old and our solar system is like a new born child like you hear of all the sightings of aliens and other worldly beings so that could actually be put forward to the fact that our civilisation is very young indeed and our technology seems massive now but compared to older civilisations all of our technology could just be like the stoneage to another world!

It hurts my brain to think about it really how space was made i mean how did it get their what is it? how did it get here is it always been here? just always? never created just existing without ever being made? Ouch! my brain!

I need to soothe my mind with mindless videos over the internet!

I get like that from time to time.

I'm 22 and finally decided what I wanted to do... by accident. Part of the reason I ended up in the psych ward was due to depression and anxiety over this. Then I met psych techs and realized I would love to do their job, helping people like me. So now I plan to go back to school and become a psych tech.

try to toughen up and not be depresed you al such fatalists

There’s another section on this forum for discussions about religion. The heaven is for people that are seeking advice or to express things they are having problems with. It seems that was what the OP was requesting... Not what people thought if his/her beliefs.

Stop asking God and get off your duff