What's living?

Question

This question has been going through my head for 2 year and I'm 17 turning 18 in like 5 days. So I don't really have friends and when I was 14 I started cutting myself my mom found out but didn't say anything because she thought I stopped I just moved to my legs where she couldn't see I took the anger out on myself I thought it was because of being myself people wouldn't like me. At 16 I started taking hella pills because I hated living and no one will care but pills never worked now I'm here thinking about what is the point of living when all we do is grow up get a job that we most likely won't like have kid and die what's the point of living? That's the question I asked myself I just feel so depressed and down and don't know what to do I've struggled with being myself for so long and still can't find myself idk what to do tbh..

Answer

I'm so sorry that you feel this way, and from someone who has come out of the other side of similar feelings and situation at your age, my advice would be please seek help from a trusted parent, teacher, doctor, friends' mother, anyone. Self-harm I feel is a visible cry for help, and you just need to be brave and let someone know.

In regard to some of your concerns, the world is full to the brim of experiences just waiting for you to have, if you want to. You can chose your path through this life, you don't have to have a job you hate, or even have children, death however is the only one certainty to life so you don't need to bring it about early.

Please seek help xx

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Ok kiddo , I have a 17 year old son fighting depression.. I just found out and I'm making him a doctor appointment but my advice to him - yes he had a difficult childhood. I was 19 when I had him .. we grew up together .. it seemed as every person we have ever met in our lives is a nut case. And a ton of other crap he has been threw. You may not have much control over your childhood but now that YOU are the adult , YOU take YOUR life and you do something good with it !! Do something extrodanry! First you have got to get help with your depression .. can you do that ??  Then maybe you go to college and help others like you.  You find a job you love , you won't work a day in your life. I'm a paramedic and 8 years into it I'm thrilled everyday that someone actually pays me money to do it lol.   You are responsible for your happiness ! And at 18 , I know it sounds cheesy but you have the world at your fingertips...you don't have kids .. you don't have anything holding you back except your depression and I do hope you can get help with it.  I promise you life is worth living !! There are going to be bad times no doubt. But the good will start out numbering the bad.  Idk if you believe in God .... I do ... that's where I turn. I'm not forcing that on you but if you could find a higher power .. someone to believe in .. that helps so much ... it breaks my heart to see you young ones in so much pain. Life is NOT supposed to be that way. It doesn't have to be :)))

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