Hi everyone! I haven’t been on this site in forever but wanted to come back and share my story. Several years ago I was in a deep black depression that I just couldn’t shake. I was on medicine and seeing a therapist but it wasn’t helping. I saw no point in living and only thought of death. I attempted suicide many times and failed… self harmed nearly every day. I saw no hope and no reason for moving forward…. but I kept going. To this day I’m not sure what brought me through but I made it out of the dark. I came back just to tell someone who is struggling… it gets better. There is hope! There’s a reason you are still alive! Keep going! Keep moving even when you don’t feel like it! I almost gave up and left this world… if I would have I would have never met my husband, or had our two beautiful children! You never know what beautiful things in life you will miss out on just around the corner if you give up now! Keep going! All my love. Exhausted24
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Thank you. If you’re still around, what was your turning point?
I had a very toxic family… they gained attention from me being “mentally ill” and them being my caretakers. I didn’t believe I could live without them…. they made me believe I was beyond help. Once they were out of my life everything changed…. I also had a close friend who died in a car crash. Going to her funeral and seeing her in a casket changed my perspective. I had been kinda glamorizing death of that makes sense. I realized I really didn’t want to die…. I didn’t want to be in a casket. I really did want to live.
Thankyou for the hope 🙂
There is no guarantee that it gets better… I’m living proof of that.
So am I.
My biggest fear in posting was for people to think I was possibly belittling their feelings or making light of their situation… please know I’m not. I have been there and seen people say things it get better and it infuriated me because I was like easy for you to say! I really do get it! Anyways I really do just want to be encouraging not an asshole! I hope things get better for you…. Truly I do
You did a good thing. Don’t doubt it. You come across as a survivor. Not an asshole. I wish you all the best. And thank you again.
Ah, the mountainous challenge of the despondent:
We feel terrible and so hope is difficult, but something beautiful may be just around the corner..or not…but maybe.
God loves to make things tricky. Thanks for sharing. Glad you’;re doing well. You offer a ray of hope in the night
You have been here earlier than forever! This site hasn’t even been here forever. And you were clearly here at some point in the past, so you were here a definite amount of time ago.
And true enough, there is always hope. Just think positively! Make plans, follow through, and whatever you do, don’t plan to set yourself on fire and run around while flailing your arms through a mall. Nobody likes it when people do that, and it probably won’t help matters much. Plus, you might traumatize some rube who will then fall into major depression him or herself, and at some point, it will spread like wildfire and everyone will be doing it. Depression will be the new happy, and that’s probably not good. Somebody needs to think more about the bottom line of major retailer’s revenue projections. Millennials have already started to kill the diamond industry, after all. And what would the world do without diamonds? De Beers would have a lot of very unhappy investors. The military would be displeased at not being able to manufacture new death-rays to attach to satellites, and we’d all have to pay a mint for a green laser if we got the urge to blind some airline pilot. I don’t want to live in a future where blinding airline pilots is reserved strictly for the rich, so be happy everybody!
Exhausted24 exhauseted24 omg I never thought I’d ever see your name here. The last time I’ve talked to you was when Kallie Jayde had passed away, and then I believe you disappeared. I was worried that maybe her passing had caused you to follow behind her.. but I’m glad to know that you’re okay. We’ve never really talked much at all so I seriously doubt you know who I am. I’m just glad you’re safe and life has become better for you.
@darkwillow I do remember you!! And I still think about Kallie all these years later… she was so young.
Me too. I loved talking to her. I miss her lots, even know I didn’t know her that well.
I hope you’ll post more updates here and there. I like hearing about your life