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Hi everyone,

My name is Sarah and I'm a 20 year old student from South Carolina, currently attending a University where I'm studying fine art, and getting a degree in Sculpture and Painting. I'm a fairly average girl with a good family and good friends. Single, and not thrilled to be so but with an 80% female student population it's sort of to be expected.

I currently feel like curling into a ball, going to sleep, and never getting up again - which is what leads me here. There's no necessary trigger to these feelings, but they've been steadily building up over the past year. Some days are better than others and I feel motivated and wonderful about my life (which is really fairly ideal), and then the days come, like today, which I can't force myself to get out of bed.

I'm honestly too scared to talk to my friends about this is any detail, and my parents are a bit too simple to understand. I sucked it up and scheduled a counseling appointment with student health services the other day, but they're booked until early March.

I'm hoping here to find some sort of support and motivation to get up in the mornings, and perhaps an understanding that I'm not weird or just completely lazy or worthless - that these feelings exist for a reason, and get the help and motivation I need to live not an average, but a successful and beautiful life.

Nice to meet you all.

Hi owlcansing,

Welcome to the forums. Here we do our best to give support and we do understand how you are feeling. Just so you know, there is a chat room connected with this site, lots of chatters. Sharing how you feel with people that share the same is helpful.

Hope to see you posting more.

Warmsoul

Hey, you're not alone in being a "bed potato". I know it's nothing to be proud of but just want to let you know it's not all that weird.

Well, I've lost my job 2 months ago. I've been putting off finding a new one because I told myself I'll be schooling in a few months time. A full-time job just can't cater to my school's timetable.

So for the past 2 months, I've been lazing at home. From what seemed like an occasional lie-in, now it had became a full-time commitment to my bed. I've spent more time lying down on my bed than standing upright.

I guess what we all need is a motivation to get up and do something. For me, I loved to read. So instead of looking it up online, I'd make a point to go down to the library. Then I'd walk around, trying to spend as much time outside as possible.

Maybe you might like to take up some hobbies? Something to make yourself look forward to everyday.

Take care!