Re: I Don't Know If I Can Continue Living Any More

I was in a similar situation when I was your age, though it wasn't due to a parent being sick. I had severe epileptic convulsions, and I was trying to balance that with going to college and working.

My condition was gone by the time I hit 24, but I didn't really find the energy to do anything until I was 26. The key, I discovered, was just *DOING* the things I had to do and rather than thinking about them constantly. All you do when you dwell on them is wear yourself out before you even get started.

If you have trouble doing that it may be a case of neurotransmitter fatigue from your situation. Chamomile or St. John's Wort might help if that it the case, but remember that meds & herbs are just a crutch and you eventually need to walk on your own again.

As for going to the grocery store, etc, well...the brain has a nice little built-in failsafe/extinction mechanism -- doing things that wear you out MORE often will cause them to become routine and thus less taxing overall.

Above all, you just need learn to trust yourself & believe in your ability to overcome adversity. Once you're able to do that everything else becomes far more trivial.