(14 male) Recently and at some points in the past I have just felt tired of living, in the past I thought about suicide but I was scared of the pain and if it didn’t work. I have a caring family and friends, but I just feel like I can’t talk to anyone, if I were to tell my parents they would then probably take away my rifle which would make everything worse (I never have access to it’s ammo) and they might take away my guitar to prevent me from breaking it. I don’t feel like I can talk to my friends because I feel like they would see less of me. And I try playing video games but that just makes everything worse. I just feel trapped, I want to talk to someone. I don’t even really feel much emotion anymore and can’t even cry. It’s too much. On top of all this people will ask me why I don’t cut my hair or they tell me I look like a girl just because I have long hair, but I don’t cut it because I like it.
#I feel tired of life
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You are young, man. You have a lot to live for, and a life ahead of you. Trust me. You are loved. I know it doesn't feel like it. But you are. I know you are. I'm 23 years old, and still recovering from what happened to me. I still feel the same. Hopeless, like no one cares. But people do, it's just your brain telling you that. When I'm depressed I specifically keep myself away from any weapons, I urge you to do the same. All of us are here for you. I just met you, and I care for you already. I care for you man. Trust.
I’m probably going to leave my schools rifle team cause I can’t shoot for shit with my dumbass eyesight
It’s just too much, by the hour I wish to not exist more and more
Well you don't have to give up on what you enjoy just put it down for a bit, until you feel your mental state is stable
I can’t take a break from it, it’s either I leave or go to every practice
I see. You think staying away from guns for a bit could help your mental state?
Probably won’t do anything, I see no point, how would the guns effect me?
Well you mentioned you might quit it, so that's why I was asking you
No I might quit because I’m bad at it and just don’t feel like doing anything anymore
At this point I find myself getting angry at the even the most minor inconvenience
Yea, that's depression for ya. It's gonna happen...
Yea yikes be careful. If it's too sensitive id recommend a 1 on 1 with someone yk? Ask in venting. And I do apologize, I was checking my journal. I wrote a lengthy story lol. You don't want to trigger others so, maybe sensor it with bars || before and after the sentence and give a trigger warning.
Hey no need to be down about that man, it's just out of respect. But it's your journal! So do as you please actually 
Whatever I don’t really have what it takes to do all that
Hey man, I can sense the tension. It's okay. Sorry if I triggered you. Truly. I'm still learning how to be sensitive to other problems. But like i said, if you want to share it here go for it yk?
You didn’t trigger me I’m just unhappy
Sounds about right
The good news is man, you are so young. Imagine being like this while having to maintain adulthood. It's not easy. I got to pay bills, always consider my future. I know it's easier said than done. Trust me... My journey began when I was 17. I know how hard it is to just enjoy life. But you got so long ahead of you. Truly. Enjoy your younger years while you have them
I understand that but it just feels like my life is not even going by I just feel stuck
That's how I feel right now, maybe it might not be going fast enough for you, but you don't want it to. Especially in your childhood. Maybe try to find another hobby? You like music? Consider an instrument? I picked up guitar not too long ago
I play guitar but I mainly just play Johnny cash which just makes me feel worse
Ah Johnny cash, good one. Maybe try some Nirvana?
I really only like lynyrd skynyrd, ac dc, Johnny cash, and Tennessee Ernie ford
Free bird? 👀 Haha
Not that skilled
Ah I know that riff is hella hard, still an amazing song
Yeah
What do you enjoy in life brotha, I should have asked. What brings you joy
Yea, I feel that. Definitely. If you had the choice, what would you reach for? If you could feel joy
Alright, np
I’m back
WB homie
Finally get to go home to do nothing
Probably just going to play war thunder because it’s the only game that makes me feel something, usually just anger though. But whatever
@eager sedge have you ever thought about ||offing yourself?|| if you don’t mind me asking
Yes ofc. I'm tormented constantly. I never give in tho. I have 3 reasons.
What are your reasons?
||Collin. Zane. And family.|| I physically can't. Or id be completing the deadly cycle I went thru. When i say those names. ||They are the names of 2 fine gentlemen who took their lives because of the narcissistic abuser|| that I had to face. Sorry, not tryna make it all about me. Just feels like it needs slight context.
Yeah no problem
I promised those 2 guys, id live for them
Imagine how I feel homie. She did all that damage and I'm still alive. I can't explain it, I feel angry in a way? I said to myself once or twice it should have been me. Idk, I just hate suffering ya feel? But yea. They can live through me. For sure.
It's like, going through hell with your 2 buddies. Only you make it out alive
Yeah, my parents always told me not to wish death on people I care about because my dads aunt wished death upon her dad and then her dad ||was shot and killed in the line of duty||
That’s tough I’m sorry
It's alright. I'll heal for them, live my life. I appreciate your sympathy bud. If you ever feel like reading the full story, it's in the list of journals. Yea I don't wish death upon other people either, just revenge. Wish for her to suffer as the 3 of us did.
I should add it's quite long
Oh I'm sorry g. I know you and some trouble with em too. But, thank him for his service
I guess my reasons are that,|| i would be scared about if it would hurt or if i would survive, ||wouldn’t want to leave my parents hurt because they work all week for me and my siblings and have to drive 4 hours a day, and|| I wouldn’t really want to cost them all the money||
The first reason is a really good one. Completely practical. Second, we don't even have to think about that because it ain't gonna happen homie. If I can go thru what I went thru, and make it out alive, bruised but alive, you got this g. This will pass. Just like my trauma will pass. There's no timing healing though. could take a while. But, as long as you exist and are surviving, congrats you are doing better than everyone else. You know how rare you actually are despite sharing the planet with billions of people?
There's one planet in the whole universe that you occupy. And this planet like us has seen hell. Been reborn many times. And the conditions are picture perfect. We have an atmosphere. We are protected by it. And here you and I are, existing. On this lovely planet. Alive. At the very least.
I don’t know man it’s just hard, I don’t want to deal with the thoughts, I’m starting to feel more and more like I should do it, you know?i ain’t going to but.
I'm glad to hear that. It's okay to live on the edge sometimes. I do it too. You are the most important part of your whole existence. Without you there would be no you. Sometimes the thoughts creep in. But, we have something wrong in our brains. Remember that. Its not just you, but you could have a condition yk? Look at me I got a whole slew of em. And I even forget that sometimes
Yeha
, it doesn’t help that I can’t even trust one of my friends anymore, which has led to me starting to not trust any of my friends let alone anyone, I have started becoming aggravated and angry at my other friends for the smallest of things and I feel terrible.
I was the same way back then. Have you tried explaining yourself or talking to them about it?
Or is this feeling you have causing you to feel like you can't trust them
Not really, I feel like they will just tell everyone if I tell them
Hmmm. Well, maybe they aren't your friends then yk? It's important that you can confide in them
Yeah I guess, I don’t think they would but I have lost trust in almost everyone because of family stuff and stuff with friends
It definitely happens. I hardly talk to any of my family as well
It’s specifically my brother, I have grown to hate him because In my younger childhood he would lie to me and steal and now he just doesn’t listen to me when I ask him to do anything and he still sometimes lies
Sounds like he's got his own problems too
Well, id say I did it once. ||It was because I needed to feel something|| never out of anger tho
I can say the same thing but I would also do it whenever I was so angry I couldn’t find a way to calm down
Problem is I liked it. And. I promised I'd never do it again.
I would specifically ||bite down very hard on the meaty part of my pointer finger until I stopped feeling angry||
I can’t really say if I liked it because I don’t know
Also that part of my finger just doesn’t really feel the same, it doesn’t hurt but it doesn’t feel normal
Well my phones about to die so I’ll talk in like 10 mins maybe less
Yea it's like an outlet I feel
Np bro
I’m back
What was it like liking it?
Well, when you are driven near insanity in my case. It felt good, because I was deprived of love and comfort. So, the pain was my way of feeling something. Man. Watch who you give access to your emotions my guy. I regret it. I can't recall if I ever showed her or not. I think I did.
Left one hell of a scar. Which I think is actually gone now
Man that sucks
Oof
My right hand pointer finger the skin in the spot is noticeably rougher and discolored
But nothing like a scar
Yea man, it's not a competition but I feel the darkness I am dealing with is worse. I don't wish it upon anyone. Especially you my guy. Everyone gets their heart broken once. It should have never been to that extent.
Oh no it definitely is worse
Mine is nothing compared to yours
But like I said it's not a competition. You are still dealing with things yk?
Yeah
Idk why but I have a tendency whenever I have a ||achy tooth or I bit my fingernail too short to mess with the spot that’s hurting until I can’t bear the pain anymore|| I don’t understand why I do it, I just have a urge and I guess ||the pain doesn’t bother me until it gets to be too much||
ADHD maybe? Might be the only thing you can focus on
Maybe
I can’t really say || if I like the pain, but I guess I don’t really dislike it||
Could be that it makes you feel slightly alive. Who knows, you might have a slight affinity for pain like me. I can say that when rose smacked me angry, or joking, I liked it. Because, It was better than not being touched. Quite sad it is. And I still slightly like pain to this day, physical. God. Mental pain I can't stand. Never catch a break. A part of me might inflict it because it shows me that others are suffering too, and I sort of enjoy it. But I don't really though. Otherwise I'd become her. Take it from me homie. Feel free to use my experiences. Even if we don't share the same. What you are going thru is rough. But I went thru hell. And I pray that you don't have to go thru that. And that this is only a bump in the road for ya.
Yeah I can’t really stand anything mental either but as I grew older and started to feel depressed pain stopped bothering me, I would even ||punch things that would hurt me just so I could feel|| something else when I was mad besides the anger
Weird thing but have you ever tried eating spicy stuff?
Yeah?
That works for me fr
There is also a correlation between when I started feeling unhappy and when I wanted to join the military and go off to war
Like if I want to feel some sort of pain, and put myself thru it. Spicy stuff
Sadly not for me
I'm sure you will make a great soldier. It's never too late. You have time to get your mental in shape brotha
Maybe but I’m just saying that I guess I just thought that if ||I died in war I wouldn’t care and if I were to survive then it would have been fate||
Nah fam you'd fight for your country and be revered for being a hero. Someone who served
And I still kind of feel that way, I guess ||I just wouldn’t have the guts to do it to myself ||
That I would kind of want to ||die but to scared to do it myself||?
Yes. I felt the same way for a while. But, life shed a little light on me and I almost died twice in one day. Then after that I never wanted to die again. At least, not by random ofc some thoughts pop in but. That's just the disorder talking
I guess so
A random though I just had is that ||I had never harmed myself with a knife because I’m scared of sharp things, especially needles||
I also don’t like ||blood||
Then that works in your favor
I guess || but it also doesn’t because I’m not really scared of guns because I assume it would be painless||
We should be scared of ||dying|| in general. That's what makes us human, ya feel?
I guess but I don’t really feel like that rn
One time ||I was rather close to my tipping point and was almost going to think of a plan||
Yea I did think of a plan. But, it was going to be peaceful. ||I was gonna get lost in a forest. I hoped no one will find me. Hopefully starve||
I hate feeling hungry, plus that would take a while, so I wouldn’t want to do it that way ||I prob would have just used melatonin or smth to go in my sleep, but it’s too late now:/ ||
Any rest is better than no rest 💯
Anything you want to talk about? I’ll listen
A morbid thought I have sometimes is ||is death like sleeping? If so then I wouldn’t mind too much||
Yea sleep is very peaceful tbh. You wouldn't even know. And tbh I feel like I've given the narcissist enough attention today. I just hate being left with the pieces I have to pick up. Then all the sudden, wham. I decide to become sober. My brain is like "we are going to process all of that, right now" so 1.5 years later in struggling with CPTSD and it's gonna be hard to find a relationship. Fr.
Also on a side note I have had a cough for two months, so I will randomly have a coughing fit and not be able to breath for 1 or 2 seconds, it’s weird, but I don’t really dislike it
man that sucks, I’m sorry
You just promise me something homie. and I'll promise you something. Now I'm living for Collin and Zane, but you got to live for you and promise me you won't do anything, you know what I mean? Realize you are still young. I'm actually jealous that your issues are all you have to deal with. This damn near sucks. Even if it's hard. Live. Exist. And I shall do the same. For me. For Zane. For Collin.
I don’t really want to make a promise I might break in the future, I’ll try my best
👍
Is it normal to always feel tired?
Depression!
Mm makes sense
I was like that too, it was the first time I experienced it. Damn I was tired as hell
I also can’t get may dang hands warm which sucks
I've had depression before but damn I was exhausted
It's cold as helll
It’s like only a couple degrees on top of this god forsaken mountain in Pennsylvania
And my beds next to a wall heater
Yea you aren't too far from me. Jersey here
Oh cool
My feet. Are cold as hell
Damn opposites
Can I send you some pictures in your dms?
True
Sure. In a few here I'm gonna watch a show and eat
Nothing weird
Nice
I fell asleep a couple hours early last night and I don’t even remember falling asleep and I was woken up by my parents arriving home around 10pm, I fell back asleep about 10-15 minutes later and felt cold the entire time, I have noticed that I have started to sleep in the fetal position, I feel tired even with the extra sleep.
Me too brother me too
I fell asleep in math class 3-4 times even with my extra sleep
I feel tired and it’s the middle of the day
Also was hungry but couldn’t eat because I i just didn’t feel like it
Also have had this nervous/anxious feeling in my stomach all day
Yea that sounds like depression homie
How are you doing
Eh, woke up not thinking about the trauma but, yk, sure enough here we are lol. Feeling lonely fr. HBU bro
I’m the same, still got that feeling in my stomach but can’t do nothing about it, at least I don’t have rifle practices today
I have it too honestly. It's like vigilance
Started grinding my teeth which is not helping the three that already hurt, I guess I’m doing it because they hurt
Yea that's not good, don't wanna lose those lol. I know that when I'm on my meds I tend to clench them together or, move my jaw constantly
I’m probably going to see if there is any sleeping medicine in the cabinet to just try to sleep when I get home
What time you get home?
3
Not like I have anything else to do unless I just watch tv
Eh well try to let it come naturally. The last thing you want is a habit that can spiral into something, yk?
Try to eat something which should trigger a little comfort in ya, then try to take a nap
I’ll try
My mind just hurts, not physically but mentally
Understandable homie. Maybe you should try to reach out to a doc, see if your parents will take you. Or, if you can hold out. At 16 years old you won't be denied to see one on your own. Depends on where you are from
I just don’t trust anyone to not tell others, and I don’t trust a professional to not tell my parents
Well at that age they can't. I don't believe. And if you see a therapist they can't break the law. There's a confidentiality law in place for that homie. We have to take steps forward to get better. The tired part is gonna eat at you until you find a solution. Then it spirals into more anxiety because eventually all you want to do is sleep and when you wake up, you don't want to be awake.
Someone else told me a therapist would tell my parents if they think I’m a danger to someone or myself
Well that's if you are a murderer lol. Are you?
No, you will just be honest about your thoughts
Well I’m not a danger to others but they might see me as a danger to myself
Well from what you've told me brotha, sounds just like me. I'm technically a danger to myself as well. But that's where you come into play. You gotta be strong enough to not do anything yk? It's okay to have thoughts. But to act on them is a different story. You are stronger than that.
Yeah but they would still tell my parents
I’m going to try to let it pass like it did a year ago
But seeing as it came back idk if it will
Maybe it will. You never know brotha. There's a difference between having those thoughts and expressing them vs actually being serious about it. I'm sure therapists can tell the difference
I don’t want to worry my parents
That can't always stop you from getting the help you need, not fair to you
Well I also don’t want anything else to come out of that
Not the only thing I don’t want
And parents are always gonna worry yk?
Yeah but I guess I’m just scared to go
I feel like I shouldn’t be unhappy because I don’t have a bad life but I’m just sad
Still got the terrible thoughts too
Yea me too that's why I'm kinda keeping to myself ATM
Got the shakes from my hunger
And a headache from something
@eager sedge hi if your able to talk, if not don’t feel like you have too.
Just trying to stay sane homie.
Aren’t we all
I’m going to try to eat something
Haven’t eaten for 8 hours and it’s given me a headache and made me dizzy
Neither have I. So, in the same boat
Doing anything right now? I just got home
Just laying here. I think I feel pretty down today.
I’m probably going to try to sleep because I’m hungry and unhappy
Sorry about that though
Rest well
Same bro. Don't push it. Let yourself feel it.
It’s so tiring, I just want it to be over
My days feel so long
Perfectly said by Johnny Cash “time stands still when your lonely”
I'll be in and out of discord but we got each other man. And you have a discord too
Yeah
Man I don’t even feel anything listening to my favorite music 🙁
I just feel worse
Good bro. Me too
I’m feeling better now
Sadly no ibuprofen in the cabinet for my headache
Only melatonin
Me too slightly
Nice
@eager sedge how’s your night?
Chillin I gotta go to work soon
You got to work at night?
Yup
Cool
I work overnights
What do you do?
Security basically
Oh cool
I’m took some melatonin and now I feel… weird
It’s kind of a good feeling
Less lonely feeling
Do you know the smell of those melatonin pills?
It’s like a earthy burnt kind of smell
Yes
I don’t have like thoughts in my head jts kind of jsut like. Have static in my head, I hate it
Gn brother. Give yourself a break
Thank you, you have been very kind
I appreciate it
Would probably cry to sleep but I just can’t
Good night
I have to wait for the other melatonins to kick in
I’m starting to dislike sleep because it’s so peaceful and then I suddenly have to go back to my life
You awake?
I woke up and just sat in bed for like 5 minutes again, I don’t know why I just do. The melatonin helped me sleep better and more peacefully, I still just can’t shake the feeling that something’s wrong though.
Ye, for a bit
How are you doing?
Alright, tired. Wbu
Also tired, still got that weird feeling in my stomach
At least the weekend is around the corner
Still not feeling very much emotion
Feel like I’m losing the relationships with my family
Just gotta last until the weekend
Well that’s basically done already
Do you sleep during the day and are awake at night?
Yes
Do you like music?
I sleep a lot. And I used to be embarrassed about it but, eh I don't really care now. Not really much to do anyway
Yes
True I spent all day yesterday on discord
What music do you like
Rock and roll lately. Nirvana and stuff. Some hip-hop and rap.
Sick, I like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Johnny Cash, AC/DC, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Tennessee Ernie Ford, along with guitar music from S.T.A.L.K.E.R and some old ww2 Russian songs
2/3 of my teachers are absent so I only have work at the end of the day
I randomly just got dizzy :\
Did you eat?
Yeah I ate break fast
Lunch is in an like an hour and a half
Got anything on your mind? I’m bored
Nothing except taking a nap lol, and just relaxing after work. Which is a good thing. I'm giving myself the power to deny that woman access to my mind.
Good, don’t let her
I actually ate something for lunch today
Did ya go?
Had to go, and this is just making everything worse, ||it makes me want to steal a single round and use it on myself,|| but whatever
Word. Sounds good
How are you
Good. I ate
Nice
@eager sedge how you doing?
Headed to work
damn your lucky I wish my school had a rifle team
i would think so too, but since i cant shoot very well I dont
well it's not really about that man, I was implying a deeper message, your lucky my dude, you have things many others do not, and while life may suck at the moment trust me it's temporary, just find something to pour your heart into and distract yourself and you'll get thru it all