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Its my bday
I'm in a miserable place in my life. I've done alot of shitty things and I need change. Today was kinda shitty. Really shitty. I've not been on my meds (currently back on them) so my depression is extra dark. I just feel hopeless and worthless and like I deserve all the bad things in my.life .. yep
You're young and you really deserve to be having fun right now. Or, at the very least, you deserve a day where you're not feeling so dark.
You are not hopeless or worthless. You are just going through something that comes with those feelings as co-signers. This is not something that is your fault at all. Depression is an illness. People often make the analogy that no one tells people with, like, diabetes that they're idiots or hopeless and worthless if they need to take insulin. The same goes for any other organ, and the brain is an organ. If it's broken and in need of extra attention, it does NOT make you worthless. It makes you a person with depression.
Please try to do something nice for yourself for your birthday. Even if it's just going outside by yourself for a while and gazing at the stars and writing a couple of things down that you can think of that you like about yourself.
I'm grateful your here, and therefore I'm grateful for your birthday because it means you're alive today.
You can begin to atone for the shitty things you feel you've done, and begin exacting change tomorrow. Tonight, please just celebrate you.
I agree that other forms of treatment (psychotherapy, counseling, and and) can also be beneficial.