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i can't find meaning to live
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I lost the wish to continue my life. my energy motivation and concentration were exhausted. I was numb. i'm in the swamp. i had not lived a bad thing for to be unhappy. I have no goal to live. i can't find meaning to live
Welcome Fernando.
Sorry you feel this way about life but please know that these feelings can change. How active are you at the moment? Do you go out/school/work/social groups/exercise?
Do you have family around you?
You may not feel a meaning right now, but be patient with life and with yourself please.
Sorry you feel this way about life but please know that these feelings can change. How active are you at the moment? Do you go out/school/work/social groups/exercise?
Do you have family around you?
You may not feel a meaning right now, but be patient with life and with yourself please.
Hi @Fernando! It sounds like you are deeply in the grip of clinical depression, which is a treatable disorder in brain chemistry, so I urge you to tell your doctor how you're thinking and feeling because there are medicines which can make you feel better. It's depression which is causing you to feel that life has no meaning, but with the right help and support, you will recover your sense of feeling glad to be alive. Keep posting here as well because sharing your feelings with others who understand can also help you to get better. When you are ready, perhaps you would like to tell us some more about what has happened in your life to bring you here, so we can get to know you better and offer you more support.
Hello and welcome to the forum, I hope you go back exercising (it's great for keeping the mind occupied) and of course for physical health and well being to. Do you like the college education you are getting? You have made your first step to recovery by joining here and sharing some of your story. Please share more when comfortable doing so? Stay safe and sound and again, welcome.
Being suicidal may be common, but it is not normal or healthy. It's a clear sign of illness, usually depression.
You may want to try taking anti-depressants, at least until you no longer feel suicidal. There's also more info about treatment methods in my signature links
Eagerness to live is something that comes naturally when you are in good health. If you can treat the underlying causes that are making you feel suicidal, then the desire to live will be there.
It sounds like you will have an interesting and lucrative career ahead of you if you are able to treat your illness.
You may want to try taking anti-depressants, at least until you no longer feel suicidal. There's also more info about treatment methods in my signature links
Eagerness to live is something that comes naturally when you are in good health. If you can treat the underlying causes that are making you feel suicidal, then the desire to live will be there.
It sounds like you will have an interesting and lucrative career ahead of you if you are able to treat your illness.
I too hope you get back to exercising; it can be at home or short stints, but it can have a positive effect on the brain that definitely makes it worth trying.
Please speak to a doctor about feeling suicidal. These feelings and thoughts can be treated, just as physical illnesses can. It often robs us of our pleasures in life. I also used to be an avid reader before and that actually used to be a source of solace for me.
Don't feel that you just 'have to' suffer along like this. You can get help and feel much better!
Please speak to a doctor about feeling suicidal. These feelings and thoughts can be treated, just as physical illnesses can. It often robs us of our pleasures in life. I also used to be an avid reader before and that actually used to be a source of solace for me.
Don't feel that you just 'have to' suffer along like this. You can get help and feel much better!
Thanks for good wishes and messages. Success or unsuccess is not important to me. I think the end of the road will be suicide,i read related what i feel shows this, but I'm not very close, maybe I'm not very brave, if i don't suicide until now that's reason my mother. i love my mom. And everything can change tomorrow. I am trying to be patient and durable right now.
I tried to exercise but it did not successful. I don't want to go to the doctor. Chemicals(medications) will be an artificial solution. I went to doctor in 2011. I only used medication for 2 months. I had school and emotional problems. i knew i would be well
because i think i could be happy. I had goals and I had thought smart people would solve their problems.
I'm trying to read some books related to my problem, on the other hand I making mistakes on my daily life because my concentration is low.
I'm pleased to find this site, take good care of yourself.
I tried to exercise but it did not successful. I don't want to go to the doctor. Chemicals(medications) will be an artificial solution. I went to doctor in 2011. I only used medication for 2 months. I had school and emotional problems. i knew i would be well
because i think i could be happy. I had goals and I had thought smart people would solve their problems.
I'm trying to read some books related to my problem, on the other hand I making mistakes on my daily life because my concentration is low.
I'm pleased to find this site, take good care of yourself.
Any medication is an "artificial solution". Depression is a physical disorder in brain chemistry which can be treated by medication which restores it to healthy levels. If you would take an aspirin to get rid of a headache, or antibiotics to get rid of a painful infection, why would you not take medications which get rid of the pain of depression? Why suffer like this when there are meds which can help? Depression can be as life threatening as any other serious physical illness and medical treatment is surely preferable to dying?
No medicine can solve all the problems in your life which contributed to your depression, but they can stop you feeling suicidal and stop the pain, giving you a better chance to deal with your issues. They save many people's lives, my own included. If I was in pain so unbearable that dying seemed the only way to stop it, I would take any med which offered relief without hesitation.
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It's true that medication has limitations. It's going to treat the symptoms and not the cause.
If the medication helps you to sleep, work, have better relationships, exercise regularly, and have the energy to fix problems though, those things can cure the depression, and the medication just helps you to do that. So medication can be an indirect form of cure.
Above all, if medication can keep you from making a suicide attempt, it's well worth it.
There's more to treating depression than just medication though. I recommend acupuncture and traditional Chinese herbal medicine frequently. Acupuncture has been endorsed by the World Health Organization for treating a variety of conditions, including depression
If the medication helps you to sleep, work, have better relationships, exercise regularly, and have the energy to fix problems though, those things can cure the depression, and the medication just helps you to do that. So medication can be an indirect form of cure.
Above all, if medication can keep you from making a suicide attempt, it's well worth it.
There's more to treating depression than just medication though. I recommend acupuncture and traditional Chinese herbal medicine frequently. Acupuncture has been endorsed by the World Health Organization for treating a variety of conditions, including depression
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