friends help: I used to feel really bad about my life and stupidly resorted to cutting myself. - Help.com

Perhaps you could talk about this with your parents? Or another trusted adult like a school guidance counselor or a pastor?

Im not in school! Im a fair bit older than that. And talking to my parents is just not an option. Its like…..this isn’t me. It isn’t an option for me to feel like this. My family has always gone on about how they don’t understand how anyone could ever feel like this, or feel depressed, or conemplate stuff like that. They have always ridiculed it when talking about characters from movies or tv shows. Obviously, thats a how different scenario. But they have a total lack of understanding and would not understand how I could be anything other than happy. And equally my pastor is good friends with my family so I cant talk to him. And he is good friends with everyone I know, so I feel I can’t talk to him. He knows me too well and knows everyone I know.

Get professional counseling or call your local church to speak to a pastor. Those people will have more experince helping people deal with the kinds of things you are going through.

i may not exactly know how you feel but i’ve felt something similar at least once or twice. what you’re doing now, writing here and posting anonymously is one way of letting it out. so continue doing it. it really helps. it would also be best to look into something you might be able to do to keep your mind off the horrible things that make you want to do all that, but if there are old friends whom you haven’t heard from in a while, you might wanna say hi to them and that’ll also keep you a little preoccupied. you might even find that these long lost friends are still there to listen and help.

Praying is also something that helps me a lot.

pray to god. believe in yourself…seek a phycologist…i did the very same thing. although i felt bad for cutting myself i couldnt stop. talk to someone aboutit…tell them how you feel and about your problems, it really does help.

I think you definately need to talk to someone - offload for lack of a better word. I know it may seem like the most unlikeliest thing yuo want to do painful and bothersome and pointless .. but one for sure is that keeping all those emotions/thoughts inside is not healthy by any measure. As cleche as it seems counselling/psychaitrists are helpful and it seems to me need somthing to grasp back on to again (in terms of ur present life) some happiness or satifaction or goal/ambition that you need to realise that will bring back the desire and love of life and hopefully drive out those destructive thoughts for good.

Look deep .. i’m sure you’ll find alot you have to life for :)

pardon the gramatical/spelling mistakes in my post above … didn’t preview it :S