Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I have felt so many times over the years that life is not worth the anxiety and depression it causes. Today I will remember that had I ended my life earlier I would have missed out on so many things. I love animals, and I would not have come to know the pets I have loved. I wouldn't have accomplished the writing that I have, or managed to see different places even when travel has caused me anxiety. My life has often seemed a lost cause, or that it was impossible to ever feel better or solve a certain problem. But today I will remember that when I have felt this way before I was glad afterwards that I didn't give up. I am very depressed today; the ache in my heart does not go away. But I will not give up. I will scrounge up the crumbs of hope that I have, and live another day.
I will pray that you will have the strength to overcome any obstacles, and that you will have the happiness that you so deserve.
I spent most of my childhood, teens and early 20's in that never ending pit called depression. It's a horrible place to be. The worst was when I was 24 after I was raped. I could not see anything left to live for so I was on a mission to die. I made several attempts to slit my wrists but every time I did this a commercial for the suicide hotline came on the tv (Yes I was watching tv while doing this...) and their message was always "It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem". This happened 4 times - same commercial playing at the exact time I was dragging the razor blade across my wrist. That saying saved my life. After that I NEVER saw the commercial again. Now tell me that isn't divine intervention... :-)
So I share with you what you seem to already know - that suicide is indeed a permanent solution and if you succeed you may miss out on so much that life has to offer. I look back, and although it has not been an easy road, I am glad that I have lived to experience all of it.
Hang in there and please continue to chose to live each day and try to embrace all that life has to offer. You deserve a happy full life. One free of depression and anxiety.
Take care