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How old are you anyway? As the person mentioned in the previous post, if you feel depressed or even worse considering taking your life you should seek some help. Although life can be tough, its all about lessons and learning. It might be time for you to go out and experience what life can be like by meeting new people, going out and experiencing new things. Negative thoughts attract negative things so try filling your mind with more positive things. Good luck.

Hey man, I know the world can be a cold, dark, lonely place. The only thing that I can say to you is that you are not alone. There is always someone out there for each of us. Always something new for us to discover.

I know this might sound lame, but, run, burn these demons in your soul with a good solid run. When you’re tired, use these thoughts to fuel you. Be strong! We all feel lonely and lost sometimes, lets put them to use and let them fuel our drive to achieve. And we shall become stringer for it.

Been there. My wife died, lost my job.

The only way out of depression is to commit to life then do everything you can to make that life meaningful by reaching out to others, focusing on getting to know them, helping them, socializing, loosening up, letting yourself fail and laughing when it happens.

When you feel down, all you see is blackness. You miss all the goodness out there. You only see what you feel. You find what you are looking for and when you look to justify depression, all you see is depressing crap.

Emotions lie. Go out and exercise. Focus on the nature around you. Soak up some sun. Try something new… new food, new music, new people. Go to meetup.com.

Get out of your head and take some risks. You will be re-energized.

just remember that everything changes with time. it’s probably the last thing you want to hear now, but time really is the only solution to feeling better about yourself. depression sucks. but things will get better i promise. just keep moving along, do things you enjoy, and try not to sit alone in your room contemplating the bad parts of life. sulking only makes things worse.
if you need somebody to talk to, or anything really, you can talk to me. i love meeting new people.

” There is no greater purpose in life then serving others “
hope this sentence brings light into your darkness, i assure you that is the key…
we are not the center of the world, you may have to work from 9 -5 to survive but instead of getting a new plasma tv get a normal tv and give the other for the poor, we dont have to be that self centered, we dont have to be that foolish, the material world is pointless, the world just trying to make us obssesed with it, break free and see the real beauty of this world , see the real purpose…

Oh boy, here we go.

Hey, I know how it is. You want to be free of the shadows, but then the freedom that awaits is terrifying. I don’t want to be alone either..but then now I’m scared that they’ll see how empty I am. That I just have nothing to offer them.
There have been brief moments of relief, but it doesn’t last. It’s like a constant, pointless struggle. It’s so much easier to give in. I hope you find the strength to get through this.

I’m trying to quit cutting. I’ve started punching things and not letting old wounds heal instead. Ahh..cold turkey is hard.