Been a little while. Hi everyone. Whenever I think about suicide (which has been happening more and more frequently) I always try to figure out why I want to die. The main thing I’ve decided that drives towards suicide is an increasing lack of interest in everything. It all sounds so dull and tedious. There are times when I just want to be alone and sleep, times when being dead and people leaving me alone sounds very enticing. That’s actually one of the more frequent desires I find myself having during my moments. I suppose the other thing I find interesting about death is rather childish. When I was little and my Mom still believed in god, I asked her what heaven was like. She told me it was a place where everything you wanted came true. I’ve long since stopped believing in that exact heaven as a likelihood, but what if there’s something interesting after death? Something to explore or have an adventure in, someplace I wouldn’t find so tedious. I’ve decide that there are two possibilities after death, someplace I can have an adventure or experience something exciting, or nothingness, just a place to finally close my eyes and rest without being bothered.  I suppose there’s also the threat of eternal hell fire and damnation, but at that point my problems would likely be null and void. What bothers me is that my desire to kill myself appears to stem from me being selfish, lazy, and self-entitled. I’m scared and uninterested in the world outside of high school, and there are times when I feel like I don’t really feel anything about the people around me. I’m scared, lost and pissed off. Will someone please tell me how to keep moving?
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We both think very alike.. Wanna talk?
I suppose…
JustABrat, I was the same way. Depression can have an impact on your drive and after I got out of high school nothing seemed to excite me either. I tried a whole bunch of different things in college but ultimately decided there was nothing in this world that I really cared to commit to. All of it seemed so tedious and pointless, so I just ended up doing nothing. That is, of course, when the depression took a nose dive and my usual suicidal ideation turned to real attempts.
For some reason some of us just can’t seem to fit into the system. I wouldn’t mind being in love again, but going to get a job? Seems kinda pointless. The world bores me and I’ve simply chosen to abstain.
In any case, my whole point was I don’t think you’re inherently lazy, selfish, and entitled. It’s possible that depression has simply killed off your drive and your brain isn’t functioning the way other people’s brains do.
Maybe things will get better, maybe they won’t, but if you’d like to have something better you’ll have to seek professional assistance. From personal experience, I don’t think it’s just going to “come back” on it’s own. It’ll only get worse the more you let things play out, so if you want to live I suggest seeking help sooner rather than later.
Thanks. It’s just easier to keep this to myself. My family is aware on some level of my depression, I have meds for it, but I don’t want them to know what it’s really like. I just want to be left alone by them. Maybe that’s just being a teenager?