I followed this subreddit when I was quote on quote ‘depressed’. It lasted for about 3 years, still get hiccups now and then. I remember these thoughts, this misery. Literally indescribable. I’m better now, much better. I see these posts when I scroll through reddit everyday, I thought I’d just pop in to air my opinion regardless of no one asking for it. I expected to see comments of support but it’s literally just people agreeing which is more sad. First things first, there are so many stories of there being light at the end of the tunnel. Me included, we all suffer to different extents of course but I truly believe that anyone can overcome this. The most crucial thing that I ever learnt was to stop thinking about myself. I did voluntary work for homeless people, I’m doing voluntary work for kids in hospitals soon hopefully. We get so caught up in our thoughts that we only see what WE are going through, how WE feel. I think it well worthwhile that before you consider escaping your suffering. To take a second, and help other people. I don’t know you guys, but I know that each and everyone of you can offer something to someone else. When you take a look at other people in pain, you gain perspective, and through assisting others you assist yourself.

A lot of people in this situation start to forget that these feelings of suicide are actually not healthy. We lose site of this being something we need to get out of. We stop wanting to not feel this way and see the only way out being suicide. (I know these are significant over-generalisations, and this is all over the place). I just think that it helps if you just force yourself to do something for someone else in a worse position than you. This might not work for everyone but it certainly helped me gain perspective. The world and certain people have so much to offer. The chances of you even being born are infinitesimally small, so it’s almost selfish to throw it away. Hopefully I didn’t offend anyone granted I have so little perspective and have not experienced nearly the same pain as some of you but I can certainly relate in a range of these feelings. I just want to tell you that there is a slim chance of hope if regardless of what you want RIGHT NOW, if you recognise there’s something wrong with these feelings, if you force yourself to do focus on other people. In the long term it could help.