Venting thread

[Raphael]

We just don't want you to die!

That's all! That's literally all!

I know it doesn't always seem that way, but we do care about you. We would all be sad to hear you were dead.

Please, malloc. Please don't kill yourself.

But what is the point of living when life sucks? Every day is horrible for me and it will only get worse for the foreseeable future.

You shouldn't give the kind of people who love the idea of people like yourself killing themselves a reason to celebrate.

[Travis B.]

We just don't want you to die!

That's all! That's literally all!

I know it doesn't always seem that way, but we do care about you. We would all be sad to hear you were dead.

Please, malloc. Please don't kill yourself.

But what is the point of living when life sucks? Every day is horrible for me and it will only get worse for the foreseeable future.

Yes, the political situation does suck but the general view that "life sucks" is a product of your own mind alone, something that a therapist will help you solve. We don't have leftists and liberals committing mass suicide like so many alleged lemmings here in the US, so there has to be some reason they see things differently from you here.

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

We just don't want you to die!

That's all! That's literally all!

I know it doesn't always seem that way, but we do care about you. We would all be sad to hear you were dead.

Please, malloc. Please don't kill yourself.

But what is the point of living when life sucks? Every day is horrible for me and it will only get worse for the foreseeable future.

you seem to be trapped in your mind with this idea that you are completely and utterly powerless to make a change for the better in your life. before you attempt suicide, if indeed that is what you actually plan to do, I challenge you to try and make one thing better today than it was yesterday, then another thing the day after that, and so on. it could be something so small as looking to the bright side for once, or something so large as taking it upon yourself to spend the entire day giving out compliments. If you do this for a while and your life doesn't get even the smallest bit better, then I can't help you. but I think you will find that you aren't as powerless as you think you are.

[zompist]

I've let this go on a bit because people are making good replies. As a sampler:

The horrible and ever-worsening world is largely a prison of your own creation.

the political situation does suck but the general view that "life sucks" is a product of your own mind alone.

you seem to be trapped in your mind

It is their job to sympathise with you, which is why you need to see one.

Why don't you just give it a try anyway?

GET PROFESSIONAL HELP!

And of course

We just don't want you to die!

I should note, when I and Nortaneous are telling you the same thing, it's likely to be true.

I also told you

You won't, however, use the board to keep avoiding therapy, to keep fixating on suicide. It is not healthy for you, and it is also not healthy for the rest of us here. We are not trained professionals.

If you have questions about how to get therapy or what it involves, you can ask. Anything else, including arguing and suicide threats, I will delete.

You obviously like to argue, and that in itself is not bad. But you're using your abilities to spiral into depression and refuse help, and you cannot use this board to do that. I will close this thread temporarily to emphasize that.

To be clear: Get professional help. You will never get our permission or approval to keep spiraling downward. If you absolutely don't know where to start, call 988, or call (800) 247-0661.

(If you have actual questions about therapy, that's OK— many people here can answer them. But you are making excuses to avoid what you need to do.)