Quick life story–I’m now a 31-year old woman. I dropped out of middle school due to depression and anxiety and stopped leaving the house for 4 years, with the exception of car rides with my mom. At 18 I got into treatment and have been [...]

This one goes out to the hurting, lost, broken, defeated. I don’t know you, but perhaps I have known some of your feelings. The pain that consumes and eats and gnaws at every fiber of your being. Oblivion seems to be the only answer.
I urge you to not let it be. I may not [...]

I’ve always been a rock for my friends and family; when my mom was thinking about divorcing my father, who is my world, I was there for her, when my closest friends found their lives falling apart, I was there for them, but now when I’m losing everything, I’m all alone. For the last two [...]

I’ve visited other sites for the suicidal. They attract mostly teenagers, who say they want to kill themselves because their parents won’t let them get their tongues pierced, or because they are – or think they are – gay.
Their posts usually get a lot of responses. Some urge them to stop [...]

first off, im sixteen years old and i’ve never felt so worthless in my life.
Lets start from the begining.
When i was young my dad abused my mom so eventully my mom left him and then one night he did something bad and then had to go to prison for 4 years so i was dadless [...]

I am a 41 year old married male. Father of two late teenage girls and only child to elderly parents. Suicidal thoughts have plagued me for years. I have attempted it three or four times, sought some basic psychological help with anti-depressants. (Zoloft, Celexa, Wellbutrin) but that’s been it.
I have been self employed for [...]

I’m writing this right now. I was always of the mindset that anyone who wanted to kill themselves wouldn’t bother to make posts like this. I felt that making these kind of posts was just a way to “get attention”.
Funny how things change, huh?
I’m 20 years old, I’ll be 21 in a few months.
As with [...]

I am lost. I can’t remember who I am anymore. No one to talk to or share my pain. My past eight years of living has been a living hell. It all starts with the destruction of my self-esteem. I use to be happy all the time but not anymore. When I reach the age [...]

i was born in 1980 remembering at the age of five living and being born in brooklyn in the bedstuy projects being in a room with doors of the henges family arguing and fighting sleeping in a room with other people [...]

Hi. I am 37 and the proud mother of 6> I have 3 teenage boys 15, 16 and 17, 1 teenage daughter 13, 1 nine year old son and 1 three year old daughter. I have struggled with depression all of my life, at least since I was 8 years old, thats as far [...]