[Mountaindewed]

Does anyone else feel like this? I was at Target today and I was checking out and I saw all these people and some were looking at me and I thought to myself “they are all better than me. They most likely have better paying jobs and are not on SSI or have mental illness. Their kids all seem so perfect.” I basically felt like I was at the bottom of society today. It’s weird because I never feel like this. I know I’ve accomplished a lot in my life. I don’t know why I felt like this. I just feel like other people deserve things more than I do. For many reasons. I just feel like a scary individual. Like I look and act scary/weird.

[TishaBuv]

There was a time when I looked around at the seemingly happy, successful people and felt I wasn’t as good as them and would never have that. I was at an unsure point in my life and didn’t have clear goals or direction. Plus, they all seemed so extreme, but I think it was all a phoney illusion on their part...lots of phonies out there. When I got married, I stopped feeling like that. I now had my own life and didn’t look at others with envy...good, bad, or ugly...it was mine.

[SorryShaped]

I feel less than human all the time, for some of the same reasons

[baobaozi]

me all the time. I feel like I am doing nothing special all my life, wasting oxygen supply of this earth. Everytime someone interacts with me I don’t even think I deserve their attention. I don’t have any specific goals to achieve in life, I feel like I’m so ready to just die and that’s it. Strangely I don’t feel suicidal, I just don’t fear death. This world would be better off without me anyways.

[healingme4me]

'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'- Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina"

That quote came to mind reading your OP. Oh how, I relate in my own way. I'm certainly in a period of grieving, ergo some situational depression ergo a strong desire to remove myself from those not in my inner circle(pc in its way is an inner circle as I write and write and write it out most days, eh)...but there's this a deep sense of disconnect from society in a way. There's a certain unpleasantness, that in times like this I have such distaste for. It's when I prefer the solace of my home, books to withdraw myself.

It's not in a way of worrying/comparison. Think what they want, they'll think that anyways, I say, in regards to your OP. They'll carry on in their own worlds, own troubles, own woes, own dysfunctions-believe me, there's a lot more of that in this world than you'd be led to believe. What's that saying? Those that mind, don't matter and those that matter, don't mind?

[LadyShadow]

I have been feeling like that a lot lately. I understand what you're going through. Hang in there.

You are more than worthy. The people who dont quite fit the mould are the ones who change the universe. The dreamers, scientists, artistists, musicians and innovators. Even if the rest of the world sees black and white, you seeing in color just makes you that much more amazing.