Anyone else been stuck, unemployed, at home for a long period of time? How does it make you feel? I'm currently studying from home and my last job was 2 years ago. I left school 4ish years ago. I just feel like shit. I have a small service based business I've been trying to get going, but its difficult and covid ruined most of my bookings this year. It's horrible feeling useless when it feels the whole world is moving, and everyone is graduating, getting married or idk reaching some other milestone and I'm just lost in an abyss of dark confusion.

It has been over a year since I took off college to work on my OCD and I still am not really feeling ready to go back. I feel stuck

I think it’s going to be a while before I can get professional help. Does anyone have any advice for things I can read or listen to or whatever? I feel so defeated and numb. I feel just stuck. I don’t have a job or anything and don’t know how to drive yet. Life happened and covid didn’t help, we moved a couple times in the middle of covid, so I’ve just been behind on things. My mom was going to help me with therapy but I don’t think that can happen right now. And that’s ok, I’m lucky she even offered to help. I shouldn’t have put that burden on her to feel like she needed to help me. I want to get a job and eventually pay for help myself, it’s my own problems anyway I don’t want my mom doing that for me. But since I can’t do that right now I have too much time to just sit in my head all day. I just want to try to make some sort of effort until I’m able to get all of that figured out.

I have been facing the end of my relationship and the need for a job for a year now. Every moment of every day it’s there hanging over me. But instead of spending every moment working or finding work, I spend every moment frozen about it and feeling unable to do anything! I have OCD, of course, and a rare sleep disorder (KLS) that messes with my circadian rhythm, has no treatment (“just wait it out” for up to several years), and causes me to sleep 12+ hours and often 20-36 hours at a time. I wake up still feeling like I barely slept. It really sucks. I’ve tried so hard to establish a routine around a shifting sleep pattern, to reduce or manage stress, to listen to everything my doctors have asked me to do… My partner of almost 10 years moved out two weeks ago. She paid the rent for this past month but I’m on my own now. I just ordered pet food and am out of money. She had been covering about 80% of expenses this year til she moved. I had covered all of our bills and more for a few years before that, but she had to leave for her own sake, and I understand. 😞 I’ve never been this isolated and alone before. My family is going through a lot. My car’s been broken into and disabled twice recently (thanks Kia Boys) and I haven’t been able to afford to fix it this second time. This is a lot already so I’m going to post about my work search in the comments. I’m wondering if anyone can relate and, heck, if anyone knows somewhere hiring remotely right away.