What is going on?

I don't understand what's going on, either with the riots or with myself.
What are we as humans doing to allow / make this happen? Disspiriting and depressing. Heart is hurting pathetically for those that have been made homeless, have died or been injured, lost livelihoods and got caught up in something that they didn't want to be involved in. Humanity can be good, but just now, this, this is frightening.

Overwhelmed, bombarded, hopeless, shattered, hurt, worried, powerless. 
It is often a whimsical thought - that I want to escape the world, or stop it and to get off...

what to say?...

Want to write, just not sure what to say. Had and having a really crappy time. This is the first weekend in a while that I am trying to survive through alone, having had crisis team support to get through the past few. (They did help this time). 
The crunch seems to be, I have no idea why I am alive. The futility of it all feels all consuming and overwhelming, clouding all attempts to distract, be busy, just do stuff. I have no relationship to work for, no family of my own to be better for, to be there (here?) for. I have lost links with close family and most friends. There is noone who needs me. It seems I am working towards working again, something that terrifies me. Workers tell me of the value of work, of how much I have to offer (ha!) how good it is for everyone. I have always thought that I want, need to get back to work and that has been motivating in the past. I used to live to work, it defined my very being. 

Now? Now I dread it, dread failing again, letting people down again, dread the paranoia contact with people evokes, dread the deadening exhaustion of working without sleep, dread working without a life to make it seem worth it. For years I have been driven by the guilt that being on benefits brings. Is this any reason to keep going? How to see beyond this pointlessness?
This is why I haven't written, why I don't know what to write. I want to reach out but then this comes out.