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I am not even sure how to start. Sometimes I have the courage to start, then something else happens and, like a balloon, I deflate and think, what is the point??? Self-loathing becomes a way of life I think. It clouds us so we cannot even see there is a good person hiding inside. I need a shovel

Love to you, and keep your "dukes" up. You are a bright and shining soul who has so much more to handle then my paltry problems. It is people like you who teach us about courage, strength and tenacity.

Let us know how you are doing when you can...

Maybe learning to measure "success" differently????? Screw the old ideas you had about that...you woke up today, the day is warm, there is coffee, you made it through another dark thought, you loved yourself, if only for a minute, you smiled at some point, and it was not fake or forced.......

We do know that suffering can end and does end. Sometimes I think it is what we get out of the suffering that makes us strong. Am I strong, not always, but, every time I get out of the dark hole, I realize it is not a train coming. That is today anyway. We understand that a lot of how we feel about ...

Frame, we have to keep on keeping on, don't we? I know it is easy to want it all to end, but, even that isn't easy. I am depressed too, I wish I could just not wake up, but, every day I do....there must be a reason for that. Let me know you are okay...being an adult sucks sometimes (well, all the ti...

I agree totally. What did people do before anti-depressants, they dealt with the issue or died? Not much of a choice, but, I avoid doctors like the plague. They fill my head with garbage, and, ultimately make me feel more like a label then a person. However, having said that, you are 19 and depresse...

I agree totally, you cannot help your sister, any more than anyone on this forum can really change a person either. Not that having a sympathetic ear is a bad thing...certainly not! However, realistically, I understood when I came into this forum that really, the only one who can change my life is m...

I just don't feel like I can get ahead, emotionally, physically, financially. I am actually worth more dead than alive but there is a suicide clause in my life insurance policy for two years, and, I don't think I could put my son through that. I feel badly that I cannot help him financially, he is i...

My story, where does it begin, back in high school???? as a young adult???? I guess it begins with my father, who never really loved me like he loved my sister. I have never felt worthy or worth anything. I thought as an adult, well, I'll get my MA and dad will be proud...he didn't even come to my g...