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14 Jan 2010, 12:38 pm

steeviebops wrote:
Right now I feel like I've very little to live for. I've been depressed on and off since I was 15 and I'm now 25. There's not many people who would miss me if I were gone but I know my family would for sure, that's enough to stop me contemplating.

This. I don't want the end of my own miserable existence to inflict pain on anyone. That's why I bear all this pain on the inside.


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22 Jan 2010, 7:07 pm

theOtherSide wrote:
my mantra is "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"


Yeah, I never got something though. In school they tell you that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Then, they say that drugs are only a 'temporary solution'.

Problem solved?


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30 Jan 2010, 12:40 am

First I should say I'm personally very far away from suicidal.

But I still think sometimes

Instead of suicide, I would sleep. A lot. Sometimes being perpetually tired can be a blessing. When I woke up I'd focus on doing whatever I absolutely had to. If I couldn't handle that, I'd cut that out of my life and go back to sleep.

Sleep (and literature) seem to be reliable reasons to live when all else fails.

I should say that being employed in something productive (a job or even building a skill) seems to help. It makes you feel like you're worth something. Eventually that satisfaction will get old, but then, what happens in the absence of that?


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