Have you ever felt like you wanna give up

Yeah I do. I just finished a 9 week contract from hell, all while raising a puppy. I wanted to quit within the first week. I wanted to quit, give up all my responsibilities, surrender my dog, and crawl into a coma. But I kept getting up and doing what needed to be done while also setting boundaries with my boss when I had enough. This is because I knew that there was an end in sight.

I built a lot of resiliency and realized the kind of job I'm really looking for. Now in back at my job before that 9 week contract and I work from home vs working in a classroom setting, 50+/hrs a week. Was I making more money then? Yes. But for what? I had no free time, I was raising a pup that needed my attention, and had no time to do anything recreational.

Now I'm back to working from home as a video editor working 30/hrs a week. It's my first week back and it will only get better. You have a choice. You can find a new job, new place to live. We aren't as trapped as we feel.

However there may be more to it than that. I also have complex PTSD, insomnia, DID, am an alcoholic and sex and love addict in recovery. So I get that there may be a lot more to it than I touched on. If you dont already have a therapist I would suggest finding one, at least getting on a waitlist. And if you struggle with addiction, find help for it. There a many anonymous groups out there.

Good luck.

Pretty much every day. It’s just learning effective ways of fighting it so it gets delegated to the back of the mind and all the purpose and meaning is at the front

i used to feel like that all of the time but god has changed my life. now i feel it every so often and it's such a big despair because i believe in god. but then i remember he has my back and nothing is like that here

Every other day or so

Stay strong!

I've already given up...

Yes, things do get better if you keep insisting and your resilience will become a powerful value

Yeah, pretty often. I was going to give up recently, talked to my dad about what keeps him motivated and he introduced me to the concept of the "Quitter's Quiz". Apparently it's something they did in boot camp or something. Just a simple piece of paper that asks a bunch of insulting questions like "are you a quitter", "are your parents quitters", "are your kids quitters", etc. If you answered them all "Yes" and got to the bottom of the page, THEN you could quit.

Just like him, I thought it was stupid when I heard it, but I decided to draft up my own quiz and... nope, couldn't get to the bottom of the page. Something about it just challenges you and you feel like a massive pussy. It got me through the last steps of what I needed to do.

Occasionally I do feel like giving up on the whole world, but I have to take the bad with the GOOD!!!

Yes, I totally gave up in June of 2009. Obviously, I'm still here but not for lack of trying. I ended up locked up in a hospital and then in jail. Lost everything I owned except the clothes I was wearing. And my car I lived in for a while. But I bounced back and I'm self-efficient and have a decent life.

Yep

It’s best to give up when you fail at something.

Can you do me a favor, and please define, give up"? Are you suicidal, and talking about giving up on life, or are you talking about giving up on something specific like giving up on breaking a Guinness World record, or something? Can you please be more specific about what it means to want to give up, OP?