I think helping others makes you feel useful. Needed...loved

It does help because we are "giving back" something that has been there for us, whether it be a shoulder, advice, whatever. It helps the people and it helps us to heal, accept and move on. Stay positive.

It also helps me to help others because it makes me feel like I do make a difference (even if small) in this world and make it a better, happier place.
I think we all need to feel that way, it is healing...all people need to feel useful!!

I think so many of us here have always been more comfortable as helpers than asking for help. This site is the FIRST time ever I have been able to be completely honest, even in my darkest hours and never worry about rejection! So I have been able to ask for help and give help too!
We "pay it forward" here! I think this site is a miracle!

I like what Nancy said. This is also the very first place that I could be honest and not worry about what others think or say about me. For me, helping others stops me from thinking how bad my sitution is. If you think about it , the people who you're helping, some of them need more than you at that time like unimazed 19 tonight. Also it makes you feel like you've a reason for being here on earth. It all depends who you ask and how they're feeling at that time.

gonecrazy...that is exactly what it does for me!

Not only does it remind me that I am not as bad as I think, but it helps to get me out of my funk and do good for others!

Sometimes I feel helpful, most times not.

To help another, is to help yourself. Souls reach for one another like the grass reaches for the sky and the sky reaches back down to the grass.
It's interconnectivity that surrounds us all. If you see someone in need, don't walk on by, stop and give them what you have and it will be given back to many times over and you will experience a feeling like you have just hit the mother lode and you will have made God smile.

Helping others does wonders for my soul alright, all the while helping me get out of me, myself and I....YES

Helping allows me to express the goodness and greatness that is working within and through me.

And is a given opportunity for me to help lift another spirit in L

ONE WORD (OK, FOUR): YES!:)

If i reach out and help just one person, i feel like i have done something good, or given something back to society. It does help to be able to feel like your contributing something to help someone else, even if sometimes it might be too late you know that your not a selfish individual but want to leave with a positive imprint somewhere.

When someone tells me "thank you, that makes me feel better", or, "I feel like a big weight has been lifted off me," it makes me feel great.
Making a real difference for someone makes me feel like I am useful for something, that all this pain I have endured is for some good reason, and helps me remember that "it is not all about me."

When it comes to children, I have the patience of a saint and I love doing things for children. It's the adults that have turned me against being too helpful to others. There is a lot of ignorance and poverty in WV where I live and most interpret a kindness as an opportunity to become a leach. I'm sorry but I've been kinda soured with helping others because I usually get burned.

Totally, all my family and friends say that I give really good advise......but I SUCK at taking my own advise!! LOL

and one of these days I will learn how to spell advice, LMAO