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I'm struggling to think of reasons not to die.

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littlegingercat · 04/10/2014 01:24

The title sounds so melodramatic, but I really can't think of anything.

My life is completely and utterly pointless. I am unemployed, with literally zero job prospects. I have no friends. I am not close to my family. No-one would miss me.

I have crippling anxiety that mostly manifests in agoraphobia and social anxiety. I can't go outside on my own. I can't use the phone. Speaking to people sets off panic attacks and such severe self loathing that I can't see through it. I have self harmed for so many years that my skin is permanently ruined.

I despise literally everything about myself. There is absolutely no point to me being alive. I am trying so hard to just get through each day and hope that things improve, but all I keep thinking is that there's nothing better for me. Things have gradually worsened over the last ten years, and I am so tired and sick of being me.

Things aren't going to get better. I know that. Is there a point to just living when life is barely tolerable? I know this is an unbelievable self-centred post, and I'm not actually expecting anyone to know what to say. This is the only place I can say how I feel without worrying about people judging me, or there being consequences.

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littlegingercat · 18/10/2014 07:15

Thank you. You don't sound patronising at all. I don't really know how to be kinder to myself, it's just not something that I've ever done. I've never liked myself.

I don't know if the support worker thinks she's helping. It's making me scrutinise everything that I do, and I'm starting to get paranoid about it. I already do that to an extent, because of the social anxiety, and this isn't really helping.

I really need to stop with the comparing thing. I've always done it, and I've never come out favourably so I don't know why I can't stop.

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