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Does anyone feel old and useless with age?
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jul 7 12:25pm | Replies (410)Comment receiving replies
I was forced to retire and walk away from my job 10 years ago and go on permanent disability at the age of 56. Between the osteoarthritis in my knees and hips, and the neuropathy that was beginning in my feet, I couldn't do my job any more.
Now, 10 years later, I can hardly walk for more than a few minutes without help, I have balance issues, absolutely no physical endurance, and am in constant chronic pain 24/7. My wife is still working to support us, and all I can do is basically sit at the house all day. I'm a shell of what I was physically when I was still working.
We had to sell our home and move in with our son and his family for 2 years when I retired before we could afford to rent a place. We'll never own a home again.
I don't think I'm useless, I know I am.
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You are not useless. You do not know what your posts may do to help someone else. I have posted before, and today I felt awful when I woke up, like I do many days. I am grateful I have a place to live and I am not drinking again and on the street. I have food, clothes, a car, two dogs that love me and although I can not work at the moment and I am going to school online, I am essentially living off student loans. Yes, I will be in terrible debt when I graduate (god willing) and yet all my needs are met. I know it can always be worse, and as I have said before, I have to keep myself in the present day or I freak out. I have no idea what is coming. An asteroid may blow up the planet tonight. Hang in there. I think you help people posting even though you may not know that.
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I’m so sorry for your pain and suffering, it is very sad to hear so many people going through life with constant pain. Please don’t call yourself useless because it’s not true what you’re saying, your wife is working to support her family and I respect that, the world is so changed and men do jobs the same as women, they take care of each other when needed and vice versa. I may be a female but I truly get what you’re saying but it’s wrong, your family loves you and need you, we’re always being tested in life but put your faith in God’s hands and have faith in your own abilities and strength.