Originally Posted by EskimoJo
I had the same, and was bullied by the so called friends, and after I fought my way past my first bought of depression (not only caused by the bullying, but I can't be bothered to tell you the whole horrible story) and finally managed to find direction in my life, I got told that I would not be able to go to any Uni with the grades I got from college. So I made the decision to pay the approx £2000 from my own savings to do more A levels. I got my straight As, but my mum, who had recently turned 50, was diagnosed with cancer while I was there. Sad, no? But I was still alive and managed to get into a wonderful Uni and had a lovely first year where it seemed life was finally going right. I'd lost my job, and my debt levels were rising beyond control, but still, I'll survive. Then my mum died. Then I spent a year ignoring my depression and grief and ended up failing many things. Passed the year overall with re-takes, but feeling disappointed every time I woke up wasn't what I wanted anymore. I had the couselling and was taking the meds, but it wasn't working so I've had to quit Uni for a year and watch all my newly made friends graduate without me.
So here I am, struggling to get a job. Not able to rent out my room in a flat with 10 other girls, a light that doesn't work and a shower with cold water only, so I'm (well my dad) is having to pay £300 a month for my room, and I have no student loan, savings or income. It feels like I'm going mad, that I don't know what I'm doing, that I made the wrong choice. I know what it feels like to think your life is worthless and I know what it's like to have suicidal thought but not be able to point to anything substantial enough to justify your death (which makes the depression even worse at times), yet through all that, I remember that I will never succeed in anything and life can never get better if I decide to give up.
Even when life is filled with gloom, there is still hope that something good will happen. Hold on to hope, go back to your doctor if the counselling and any meds aren't working and fight for your life dammit! It's yours! It's the only one you get (I think!). How stupid would it be to destroy your own gift? Fight, fight, fight and never give up.
Good luck. Sorry for the essay.
This attitude is what the OP needs to adopt, especially this: "..yet through all that, I remember that I will never succeed in anything and life can never get better if I decide to give up."
EskimoJo, you are going to achieve great things in your life because of the mental strength you have gained from positively dealing with issues early on in it.
Let me quote the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!