Hey everyone. I’m an 18-year-old gay guy from a really homophobic country. I’ve suffered a lot lately and it’s just pressing me, it makes me feel so anxious, so stressed and depressed. My life has always been a pure suffering for me, I never got to enjoy my childhood and my teenage years. I’ve experienced a parent loss when I was 11 (turning 12). Seeing my dad in a coffin 6 years ago is still the worst memory of mine and after that my life just changed drastically and never ever got better, only worse.
Approximately 7-8 months ago I discovered that I can leave my country and get a military deferment if I got accepted to one of the world’s top 50 universities. After taking all necessary exams I immediately called a certain company dealing with admission stuff and after a long consideration I decided to choose TUM (Technical University of Munich). Unfortunately I was late for the 1st and 2nd deadlines so we decided to apply for the 3rd one. We waited, waited and on May 16 we applied to TUM and also bought a VPD ticket from Uni-Assist. We did it exactly on time, not being late for even a second and then waited. Uni-Assist, which was responsible for creating my VPD kept delaying it and because of it I missed some significant deadlines, being unable to send my VPD to TUM. Anyways, the point is that I got rejected because I hadn’t sent all my documents to TUM despite not being responsible for that since Uni-Assist should’ve sent those documents to me as I didn’t have them. So they basically denied me for something I wasn’t guilty of and my further mails were simply ignored.
Once I got denied it destroyed my well being. I had a tiny hope for a better future, for a miracle, for a way out and freedom, happiness, peace I craved so much. Sadly, I didn’t get what I wanted, I never did. I anyways tried not to give up and sent mails to my country’s Ministry of Education, explaining them the whole case and asking them to give me some more time to reapply again instead of being dragged to the military in January. I honestly hoped they’d look at my case and have some empathy for me and grant me a special deferment but they obviously didn’t. They sent me a mail where they spoke simply by rules saying that they can grant deferment only if I’m accepted until a certain date. And even here I didn’t get what I wanted, and my plans got ruined.
Now, I’m suffering because of another event in my life that made me and my whole family’s state worse than ever. It’s too personal so I’d prefer not to share some details but the thing is that with everything and this thing occurring, my mental state got significantly worse. I have intense headaches, almost migraines, I feel like I’m about to have a seizure or faint but thankfully none of that happened yet (it did happen before tho). I’m suffering a lot being trapped in a homophobic country as a gay man, being forced to serve in military with a bunch of homophobic soldiers. I’m suffering because life ruined me, betrayed me again, the system was so unfair to me I got denied from my university because of a document I couldn’t possibly create or send myself.
And now because of my state I feel like my friend I deeply care about started to slowly pull away from me which hurts me too much because I can’t lose him, not him. He told me constantly that nothing will ever make him get tired of me, get overwhelmed with me and reassured me that he’ll always be in my life but his behavior started slowly changing, he changed. My friend I deeply cared about and still do just changed and I feel like it’s because of me and my miserable personality. I feel like I vented too much to him, complained too much to him and he simply got tired of me. My anxiety and overthinking do me no good as they make me assume even worse scenarios. I understand that it can be absolutely annoying having someone like me in one’s life, someone who constantly suffers and complains. But it’s not my fault my life has been really challenging for me, it’s not my fault I have nothing to feel joyful about. The only thing that made me cheer up sometimes was my friend. He’s genuinely the most interesting person I ever talked to online and what hurts more is that he’s thousands of miles away and I don’t actually have him here with me. I deeply care about him and I’m just scared that me being excessively upset constantly could’ve just made him pull away, change. This is what bothers me the most now, because he’s the last person I’d ever want to lose. He’s someone I look up to and respect deeply. Losing him would do such an irreversible damage to me so I genuinely hope I’m just overthinking.