I'm miserable all the time

I'm pretty into music myself. I was a vocalist in a death metal band until this week, when I quit due to a general lack of committment, laziness and an inability to do vocals live, as we were looking at playing live, and I realized during rehearsals that it absolutely shredded my throat to do that.

I'm taking a break from music because of that. I do have another project I'm looking into, which will be a depressive black metal band, just a studio project with me and a friend. I've been writing lyrics for a project like this since around 2015. Regardless it's still up in the air right now. I need to get myself stable and committed before joining another musical project, and if that doesn't happen then the whole thing is off.

As for the other stuff, I don't really have anything to study (I dropped out of school) and I'm a pretty big introvert. Besides that my friends are all busy with uni, music or both, and when they aren't, I tend to be depressed or otherwise not wanting to hang out. Even with all that discounted, I still can only really handle one day with a friend/friends per week, more than that and it completely exhausts me socially, being such an introvert. About meeting up with old friends, I actually went back to the old state I used to live in a couple of weeks ago. Met up with one friend who's still cool (although he's a drugged up hippie who rips off Centerlink for a living) and the other main friend I wanted to meet up with said he wanted to but then refused to get back to me.

I've tried exercise but I've never had the motivation to stick with it. I do something for maybe 2-3 days and I give up, as I am with just about everything. No surprises there. It's all a vicious cycle, really.

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