What are you reasons to go on living?

Have you attempted suicide?
Did you choose life?

If you answered “yes” to both questions, we hope you will help us with our research.

I am posting this on behalf of the team behind The Reasons to go on Living Project. We are collecting the stories of [...]

It appears long time ago that I have slipped through the cracks of life.  It seems though I am watching everything from a glass window with no interaction with others.  I am 29 years old and I honestly do know what to do anymore.  I have had long term friends just shove me aside like [...]

I’m 45 years old, and I can tell you from my own personal experiences, that depression is a b***h! I have a love/hate relationship with god, but I think that He (or She) has a plan for me. I think I tried to kill myself at least a dozen times since I was 12 y/o [...]

Being on the both ends of suicide is something that I never thought I would ever experience by the time I was 22. On August 5 2002  was the starting of all the bad things that would happen in my life. I can still remember everything about that day, I remember exactly what I was [...]

All my life I have been alone.  Never really feeling that I fit in.  I have always felt like someone looking in on others’ lives.  ”This” has never been real for me.  Every time I think that my  life is ready to begin, it is ripped from me… always back to the same routine of [...]

What my father did and how I fear following him.

I’m become sick of all this. I can’t go on living this way. My brother has started to hit me. It’s not that bad at the moment, the occasional punches and kicks. My parents do nothing about it except laugh. I get made to do everything around the house and it’s becoming all to much [...]

I posted “My Life” yesterday. Well… to be fair I posted it a few hours ago. Since then I have done nothing but think and think and think… so now I feel the urge to write again.
Today I have NO energy. I’ve never felt this numb. It is part of depression… and it is awful! [...]

Greetings all:
I am a 26 yr old female, who has battled depression on the same level as most of you-to the point of taking my own life. When I was a junior in college, I consumed 2 bottles of wine, and a long island iced tea in little under 3 hrs. I did this in [...]

w.o. getting in2 2 much detail bout my life, ive nevr had a loving mother, just a lying, disgusting, psychotic, lazy, conniving whorebag egg-donor who lied 2me bout who my dad was for 16 years then finally broke it 2 me 1 random day as a way of dashing my dreams for a better life. [...]