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Why am I so angry lately about everything?

Asked by yankeetooter (9651points) February 28th, 2016

I feel like I’m slowly losing my identity, like everything that makes me me is being taken away from me.

Because of my diabetes I’ve been having issues with my eyes for the past 4 months or so. And everything that I enjoy doing in my free time has either become inaccessible or at the very least or such a large struggle that I can’t really enjoy it anymore.

I can still read but I’m forced to use my Kindle which if you know me, and how much I like to collect books and read from real books, has taken away from that joy. Cross stitch, another way I lose myself at the end of the day and forget my stress, is totally undoable right now. I go to church and sing in the church choir but my church is 30 minutes away and because driving is such an issue I haven’t been able to go lately. Even if I could go I have so much trouble reading the music now that singing in the choir is nearly impossible. I’ve been taking evening classes in programming which is kind of my newfound passion, but there’s no way I can take classes right now or work on the computer because of my eyes. Even simple things like going to the movies become problematic because driving after dark is really hard, and besides which, watching a movie in the theater seems to create a problem after the fact when my eyes have to adjust back to the real world as it were.

And now I am having all these changes at my job, which is the one place that I still have been able to keep my identity. One of the things I enjoy most at work and also not at work, is helping people. And now in the role I’m being forced into I am NOT able to do that. And I just feel like I’m losing everything about myself that I was before I started having all these problems. I find myself getting more and more angry about even little issues lately and I think it’s because I am so frustrated with my life the way it is at this moment

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