Postby Xeno » Sat Oct 26, 2013 5:53 am
You seriously need to take a step back and look at your situation. You're getting really worked up, and subsequently depressed, over something that really isn't that big of a deal. I get that to you it is a big deal, but in the grand scheme of things it is not, and you're taking a victims mentality because you feel that you're being either intentionally excluded or ignored. The truth is that you aren't and you have to understand the dynamics of the situation you're in. Firstly that you're being a water boy for a high school football team. Water boys are never considered to be important parts of the team (they're not even considered part of the "team"). You're getting yelled at by the coach because the coach is interacting with you in the same way he interacts with the players, by demanding things.
You're also getting upset that you're not being given other things to do, but it sounds like you've got enough on your plate providing water to the team, so it only makes sense that other people would be given tasks to complete instead of you. This is how proper delegation works, you don't overload assets, you spread work around to those who can handle it the best so there is a relatively equal load. You might end up with one person doing one job and another doing four, but the guy doing the one job typically is doing something more important than the four things that the other person is doing. You don't want to detract that major role, so you utilize other persons to complete other goals.
I understand that you're in high school, and you've got a really crappy home life, and being a teenager sucks. I've been there in some ways. I remember being in high school and hating it and myself and everything around me and just wishing it was over. I know what that is like; but that's high school, and high school sucks. You'll graduate and then either go to college or get a job and move on with your life and things change. Things aren't a complete 180, but they change and you begin to realize that all the high school drama and petty crap that goes on there doesn't mean anything. You grow up. Life becomes both easier and harder at the same time and if you adopt the perspective now of "none of this really matters", then you'll be a lot better off when you move on to the next stage of your life.
I've spent a large part of my life stressing about things. Minor details of numerous things, the actions of others and how they directly impact my work load, money constraints, the opinions of my peers and superiors, the opinions of complete strangers, trying to overload myself with as much job knowledge and skill as quickly as possible to get to the head of the pack, and I've finally given out. A couple weeks ago my body finally had enough and my hypertension, which has been an issue for a while, triggered what I thought was a heart attack. I had to be taken from work to the emergency room by ambulance. Luckily the doctors found that I was not having an issue with my heart, but my stress levels were so high that it was triggering physiological responses that are causing me pain. Since then, in the last few weeks, I've just given up on caring about most of those things I was stressed about. I still care about them some, because they're important, but I have to quit letting the actions and opinions of other people control my life.
Don't stress yourself into the same situation I got myself into, just chill out and let life happen. Bad times are just times that are bad and they'll pass.