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Family are pressuring me to find a job and get married. Advice needed
So I'll give a little context, I'm 24M living in the UK. I've been NEET for the last 6 years other than a brief part time job which I failed at miserably. Like many on here I suffer from a number of mental health illnesses mainly debilitating social anxiety. I've never been able to hold down a job and have never even been on a date because I literally begin to shake uncontrollably with fear in certain social environments. I've managed to get by so far in life by carefuuly avoiding social interactions which might trigger me or making up excuses to get me out of them. I come a from a south asian, socially conservative family where not getting married, having kods and a 9-5 is just unthinkable and my parents are starting to really pressure me about getting a job so I can bring a nice girl home and looking at settling down. So far I've brushed them of with jokes or told them I'm looking but now it's getting to the stage where that is no longer working and they are really on my case about it. I'd have no issue ignoring them except I can't because I live in their house and I don't pay rent. It's getting to the point where my dad's starting to arrange job interviews for me and I can only fake being sick so many times. I know what will happen if I attend an interview. I'll begin to shake violently and uncontrollably the moment I the spotlight is on me. I can't admit I have mental health problems to my parents aswell because most south Asian family's aren't forgiving with things like that. They just attribute thongs like depression, anxiety and other mental problems to laziness and bad attitude and would just tell me to snap out of it or work harder. Either that or they'll disown me for 'bringing shame on the family'. I need advice guys5
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