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I can't think of a reason to live.

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CandiedSkulls · 14/07/2019 00:30

Please don't delete this. I know I'm going to get links to the Samaritans, I've tried them in the past and have not found them helpful but I'm fine with getting linked again. I don't have anyone to talk to IRL, I'm not going to kill myself imminently, please let this stand if people choose to respond.

As the title; I really can't. My life is devoid of anything. I don't work, I live with my parents and claim ESA for MH issues. I don't have friends. Crippling OCD rules a lot of my life.

Doctor doles out meds. I take them. I've had therapy, systematic desensitisation, mindfulness. Doesn't do anything. I'm diagnosed with depression, GAD, social anxiety, OCD and OSFED.

I think about dying constantly. I dream about it. I have two nephews who I adore and I want the absolute best for them, one of them is well bonded to me (the other is only 10 weeks old) and I know he would miss me. But I think it would be better if I wasn't here. I'm a very negative influence, I try very hard to fake being happy and ok around him and the rest of my family but really, what's the point? I could leave him a few thousand £s, that'd be better than me.

How do I find a reason to live? I don't want a relationship - I'm asexual and lost my virginity through being raped. I don't ever want to have to have sex again. I spend so much time wishing I was dead, that it would just spontaneously happen. I dream of it. In most of my dreams, I'm finding ways to kill myself. I have to fight to stop it becoming another OCD compulsion, it's exhausting. I don't really know what I'm fighting to preserve. I don't have a life. I'm just a thing that exists. I'm barely human.

LilyMumsnet · 14/07/2019 11:14

Hello OP, we are really sorry to hear you are feeling this way. Don't worry - we're not going to be deleting your thread.

We hope you don't mind, but when these threads are flagged up to us we usually add a link to our Mental Health resources. You can also go to the Samaritans website or email them on [email protected]. Support from other Mumsnetters is great and we really hope you will be able to take some comfort from your fellow posters, but as other MNers will tell you, it's really a good idea to seek RL help and support as well.

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