Originally Posted by Elitist1991
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!
I don't think I'm mentally strong at all! If I was, I wouldn't be so susceptible to depression would I? People always seem to call me strong and brave for trying my best and not giving up, but the truth is, I only do it because I love my friends and family so much. I couldn't bear to be without them or to cause them the pain that my breakdown/suicide would bring.
are my strength and it continues to build every time they love me.
I kinda feel bad about my rant now, because maybe the OP doesn't have people like that in his life.
I know how much worse my depression was when I had family but no friends.
But thank you for your kind words and that wonderful poem which always makes me smile when I read/hear it.
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Re: I will be dead in less than 6 months...
I know how much worse my depression was when I had family but no friends. 
I'm so lucky to have survived tbh.
The little one's so silly for going back right after the mummy got it off! And the kids giggling in the background make it funnier! 
Still gives me a bit of goosebumps though imaging a big bug like that on my face and not being able to get it off! 
but it was so cute the fact that mummy dog came to the rescue. x]
My advice would not harm the OP.
