What do you do when you don't want to live anymore

There are so many reasons to give up, to die. But you only need one reason to live, and if you look hard enough you'll find it.

Let time pass...and soon (in a week or a month) these feelings will have changed and your 'outlook' will be different. in the meantime try and remember how much people love you and how damaging it would be for them ...for life, if you gave in.
Success in this world is not measured by what you achieve ; it's measured by what you overcome!
Best wishes to you.

i have never been there, but ive had friends who have and ive given them all the same advice...i would reach out to others and start giving... stop focusing on yourself and your unhappiness and you wont feel so alone anymore. when you give love and service, the world blesses you a thousandfold.

heres a quote by viktor frankl who survived the holocaust and wrote a beautiful novel, mans search for meaning... those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.' if a man who has survived unimaginable suffering in life and find joy...so can you. its all a mindset. find your raison detre and follow your dreams. :D

I've been through crushing depression. Things like "just keep looking for a reason to live." and "find what makes you happy and focus on that" made me more miserable. It wasn't a choice I was making to be miserable, and I couldn't just snap out of it. I was able to come up with reasons not to kill myself, but If you're having these feelings every day, more than just a passing thought now and then, get help. Talk to a counselor. Maybe part of the problem is a chemical imbalance and medication will help. I was lucky enough to get a prescription that made things easier to deal with. It didn't make everything all better. It was just enough to help me feel like I was on firm footing and my head was above water. It let me focus on working with a counselor to figure out what my issues are and to change my thinking and develop strategies to handle my problems. If you get to the point where you absolutely can't take anymore, call a crisis line or go to the emergency room. They can help in the short term. If you're worried, then that means you know you don't want to die, and you can get the help you need. Good luck.

It would be much better to think of the cause of this pain, grief and confusion. Now sort it out. What is the #1 reason that you feel this way? Now.........GET angry! Don't let this beat you!!!!! Stand up, be strong....do something about it!!!!!!!YOU have the controls!!!! Nip it in the BUD!!!!! Say......NO!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!! I will not let this happen anymore! You deserve to be happy, to live everyday with peace, and a smile on your face! We all get beaten down, but by God-------- GET UP!!!!!! GET UP, MOVE, Make a difference!!!! Talk to us about what's bothering you, you are not alone! We care! (((((((HUGS)))))))))

Realize that in all likelihood, you won't always feel that way. Not only that, but you might feel better sooner rather than later. Then you hang onto life with all the strength you can muster, having faith in yourself.

What's gone wrong in your life that's taken away your desire to live? Counseling usually helps. And don't forget the basics like a healthy diet, exercise, and sleep. Sometimes when I've felt like I didn't want to live any longer, much of that stemmed from mental and/or physical exhaustion. Good luck!!

Smoke a joint and think fuck it. Ent all that bad, lets just keep it ticking till it stops.

When that happens I am going to go to get the Police think I am trying to kill someone and then have about 5 of them open fire and get myself shot about 20 times in the chest

i guess untill you have felt that way, which i have and am at the moment it seems easy to just say, forget about it and move forward and for those of you that have, thank you enough for caring and trying to make those of us that feel this way better. It's a mental issue that goes through your head every day, telling you over and over, it would just bring you peace, it will be over, your tired and this is the way to get the tranquility you are seeking. It's a voice, every day that tells you this, it's a voice that starts to rehash every reason why you feel this way, the people that make you feel like this. If you have the type of personality where everything that happens in your life you take personally, it's hard to keep you head up and keep it going. Everything bad is your fault no matter how much you tell yourself it isn't.
all i can say to those out there like me is know that your not alone, know that someone else is sitting there feeling exactly like you do, struggling to find a reason to keep going. find those other people, don't feel so alone and hopefully, together we can find strength in each other

do whatever it takes to push those negative thoiughts out of your head. Life is so worth living no matter how bad it gets. I would like to share a video with you that has helped me when I felt like giving up. I apologize in advance if you are not a religious person I mean no offense by sharing this with you.

die

I used to not want to live anymore. I decided that instead of ending my life, I would party hard and enjoy life instead. Now I love life and I don't party that hard.

Well...i had depression and i had the same view but after i discovered that all lifeform is connected to a great energy (we call it god but trust me its more than that!) i decided to stay and finde out more about it.

Post questions about suicide on AB =) Then use the humor to live on.

Use your imagination to find something interesting and/or creative to contribute to the rest of humanity.

Suck it up and quit acting like a whining, spoiled, teen-aged brat.

Any questions?

I'll just wait to die thats all.

man, I've felt this way for most of my life. Since like, high school, and now i'm almost done in college. Everyday, the thought of killing myself passes through my mind. I kept that mentality of "just keep going, things will turn around, it'll be your turn soon, don't give up" but, now, after like 5 years, it's getting really hard to keep going. It is getting harder each and each time when I have to talk myself back into living. That is how I feel now, that I have to convince myself to live. I wish that I could just enjoy life, I see people happy, smiling everywhere, and everyday I put on my mask, hiding my pain from the world. I show myself smiling, laughing at jokes, like everything is ok, but then when I go back to my room, I look at my window, and how easy it would be to just jump out and land head first on the pavement and just end it. I feel like things arent going to get better, that they are just going to get worse, because before I at least had friends to get me through it, now I am on this boat alone. It was a trio of us, we were best friends, and our problem, virginity. The most forsaken and painful word in my life. One of those friends got a girlfriend, through sheer luck, god layed his hands out and just threw a cute girlfriend right into his world without him having to even do anything. And the other friend, now lives far away. So, everyday, now I see the friend with the girlfriend, and he tells me of all the "fun" things he's done with her, and don't get me wrong, I feel happy for him, and it's not that I'm jealous either, but when will it be my turn. I am 20 years old now, still a virgin, just wasting away in my own head, fighting my own internal dialog to trick myself into living. I have never had a girlfriend, I don't know how, and I don't know if anybody would even want to. The most I've ever done is just make out with a girl, and I've only done it on two occasions in my entire life. The loneliness tears me to shreds. I have plenty of friends, and I don't want anymore. I don't need anymore goddamn friends, I just want somebody to love me. I mean, I'm no Brad Pitt, but I'm not like that ugly. I'm just the typical medium height skinny kid. All I've ever wanted all this part of my life is a girlfriend, someone to care, to give a shit about me. If I did end myself, I wonder if anyone would care, obviously it would affect my family and like close friends, but nobody, nobody, would be affected in the sense that maybe ever in their life would they have wanted to been with me. I'm such a nice guy, I hold the doors for people, if somebody drops something I'll help them pick it up, so I don't understand why it feels like God is punishing me to eternal damnation and loneliness. Every night when I go to bed, the first thing that comes to my mind is, what if I just had a cute little girlfriend here, holding me, the comfort, the warmth, maybe the love. Then I hear of all these big stupid asshole Bro's that would get like a girl straight from my dreams, and they treat them like shit, cheat on them, the works. Virginity isn't even really the problem, if I just had a girlfriend, even if we didn't do "it", as long as I had somebody, I've just always wanted to know what it is like to feel loved, by somebody else. Having somebody care for you in that way. That is all I want. So every night I deal with that, I don't know how many pieces of my soul are left to be ripped and torn off from these internal struggles.

Stop listening to Pantera and Megadeath, go outside for some fresh air, call your mom and tell her you love her.

You can go on living, or take the "coward's" way out, and kill yourself.

Put in your head life will get better,,good luck

Keep living and while I'm doing that I'm searching for what I have to live for. :)

keep living anyway

It breaks my heart how much pain and hurt is in this world. Nobody knows what depression feels like unless they have truly suffered from it before. Depression is not curable. I suppose changing exercise and dietary habits would help....worth a shot. It is such a struggle to keep living when you no longer want to.

Get a Gun with blanks and go out and threaten KIds while the police are called then point it and fire a blank and they will return fire hitting you in the chest with about 12 Bullets killing you

everything is just so fucking ridiculous. i lean toward an atheistic/agnostic view of things but even if there were a god or gods it/they would obviously be so much more ridiculously complex than any human brain can imagine. most people focus on what's my purpose and some are really satisfied with thinking a particular god of a certain human mythology usually exists but few really think about what is the purpose of the god/gods (i bring up gods because although most have fallen into the whole monotheism thing, it seems there shouldnt really be a limit on these super beings if you allow one of them). we know we'll never fully understand the HOW of everything but the really fucked up part about existence is even if we did then we would spend eternity in boredom after figuring it all out. if we dont live in poverty, then we live in highly controlled/bureacritzed societies where profit/power rule, where our biggest leaders are rich, militaristic devils, and where we literally become the shit weve partially produced and put an arbitrary price on. the average human life span is less than 3 billion seconds for fucks sake!!! for all intent and purposes, the universe is infinite and of course we all wonder what the fuck is outside of so-called space-time. does it ever fucking end. SERIOUSLY! and even if it technically did, what the fuck does that mean!!! and if it goes on forever with or without a multiverse, then FUCK!!! my thinking can essentailly be summed up in nihilistic/absurdist philosophy. i guess thoughts like these arise because of the realization that one can mentally, not literally, remove one's experience from one's body through empathy, imagination, and dreams. when one realizes that consciousness seems to be non-material one can imagine almost all possibilities and show emotional and intellectual dissatisfaction with every possibility. For those who've written about females or males (or technically bipedal ape mates and economic slavery if you get married to them or bring poor little bastards into full existence/i know getting your dick wet or high on love can sometimes feel good but really think about the responsibilities it entails,how disgusting the human body really is, reflect that that person will die and a hundred, thousand, million, billion, and probably many more years will pass without anyone/anything knowing your or her name, and the sheer effort and ditraction spouses serve and usually the nonreflective stupidity and insanity they perpetuate), not fitting into any of society's primate tribes, religious or family expectations/daily horseshit, there are bigger fucking pills to swallow. and dontgive me that shit that im priviledged since all of us are prisoners on this tiny little speck of infinity, i live in one society that like all will fall, the last century was filled with 3 world wars (if you count the cold war as one in which millions were brutally killed), and were all just complex numbers to economic institutions and reality/nature.

Don't.

Pick something you have always wanted to do. A place you want to go. And then find a way to do it. Maybe it will be years before you get there but it will give you a goal. Something to hold on to. Something to live for, I guess you could say. You can think about it a little everyday. Soon it wont sound so impossible or far away. Whenever you do something think about whether it will get you closer to your goal. I just found mine and for the 1st time in my life I feel like maybe I have a future. And if you decide to end it all anyway, leave a will. Leave your stuff to a poor person [like me]. Even a little bit of something can make a difference in the life of someone who can't pay the rent or buy food.

Think about suicide without acting upon it.

whatever you do don't die

You try something else. You talk with people. Get right with God. Search your soul and search again. Then like me, after 40 years of feeling this way, you realize this life wasn't meant for me to be a part of, and you look for a peaceful way to end your misery.

never been there, but if i were i would do it. Not mess around just do it.

Get a knive or pistol. Then come to Langley Grammar School. You'll do the rest automatically... If you want an extra quick death I'll show you a guy called Arjun Sharma, he's one reason i'm pro abortion!!! if you can take the torture and look at him, you WILL lose the will to live. Speaking of Will, another retard Will Tuck makes you think that GOD is evil, to even make someone that ugly. Once you seen those disasters, then take ur pick knive or pistol. If you got an extra bullet, give it to me wen ur dieing. Actually I wana gather all the retards and then run them over, you can jump in that herd of losers. I would attach images of them, but people will report it as abuse, to their eyes....

First, talk to somebody you trust that isn't an idiot, keep talking. (You've already kind of done this by posting your question)
Second, start eating healthier. Lots of fruits and veggies. Stop or at least slow down the drinking.
Third, get some exercise, any exercise.
Fourth, get some solid sleep but do not sleep more than 9 hours and do not use any sleep aids.

Do this all at once... literally same day. We are all animals. Animals start behaving strangely and irrationally when the quintessential things in life are altered or taken away. Only after doing these things will your perspective change and you will slowly realize there is no reason to apply a permanent solution to a short term problem. We only get one shot at this, don't waste your turn.

It's time for a change , whether it mean move , change friends ex....

Everyone who lives through what you are going through finds
as reason to go on. Those who fail to do that are sadly not with
us any more. I do not know what your reasone detre is or was but
you must find a new one. I am still looking for mine but, there is
something that I found resently that helped me.

Go figure out what the Singularity is. It's coming in the next thirty
years and it is going to be amazing. You'll have to reason out the full
implications of it's coming but when you do you may find that you
want to stick around to see it. Or not. This worked for me, although,
I still want someone to share it with.

Find a safe place to sit and watch the show. That's the only thing keeping
me around at this point. I just want to see it. Then maybe I'll leave this world.

Change your life. Live different. Try new things. The universe has a lot of different ways to live, and you don't need to die to get a whole new life.

If your life doesn't satisfy you, change it.

strike back a the people and or institutions that ruined you, send a message, stand up for the future victims

The only rational choice is to kill yourself, maybe take a few of those whom you perceive as negative or harmful down with you to prevent them from doing to others what was done to you. So many of us are dead inside yet we cling to our pathetic existence and subject ourselves to needless suffering.

its all about enjoying day to day things, so you do what you like to do , sometimes a person has to sit and be still and meditate , if they get a lot of bad feelings built up that just won't go away , they come from the mind and the patterns, the only way to get those out is to be stiil and let peace come

a problem is desire, we want things and sometimes they cannot seem to come, we are better off then finding something we enjoy every day long, keeping the desires very quiet and soft, like a tiny plant, that we cannot expect to become a tree too quickly , yet would die if we drown it with negativity

the meditation by sitting in a chair and just being for a while dissolves most all problems, and gives us the right mind to see the truth about our situation, we need to do the things we need to do to be invigorated, maybe a cup of coffee, maybe doing some good deeds for others, that always makes things a lot better, working FOR OTHERS without desiring compensation is a great thing to do for an hour or o a day .

the mind is our tool , we cannot let it USE US , we have to use it, the only way to clean it is to be still without sleeping, to let it go , the peace comes.

its always nice to eat right but there aren't set rules, sometimes eating right fixes everything, having enough water, doing something like yoga is amazing, the best way to bliss as far as i am concerned, as it disciplines the entire body and mind to be happy .

GUESS WHAT ; every moment is blissful if we ALIGN with that, that is why people do yoga, they get HIGH, all the time, on feeling good, why
the body releases TOXINS that are stuck inside it for YEARS, all the GLANDS release HAPPY CHEMICALS, its a great thing.

its not "gay" or anything, football players and diamond dallas page and people like that do it, its for getting blissed out and a bit stoned on groovey awesome feelings that make life a living heavenly joy and when you do yoga you can figure out the right way to do the things in your life you need to do to be very successful and happy .

remember YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT, but you have to enjoy being alive in day to life , making the right choices, to GET THERE

and there is enough cool stuff to do in this world to keep everyone satisfied.

Party like a rock star. Try marijuana. Stoners are unmotivated and lazy because cannabis makes them content, despite a lack of a plan for the future...Or you could just define a definite purpose in life for yourself and become focused on that, making no excuses and passing no blame...But who needs success?

i'm sorry to be a real pain, but i would try and find out how i could accomplish that. I understand the question because it is also my question. No one asked to be brought into this vale of tears; no one need find excuses to leave it. If, like me, you are alone and have no responsibilities, within minutes of your passing, you will be forgotten. that's the way it is. If you do come across any way to "move on", let me know. If you do not see a reason to your personal life, then no amount of "life is a gift", "you can help others", you must not think that way; it's simply a phase" will make no difference to you. I wish there were an organization that dealt with people who think that life sucks and wants it all to be over asap. thanks.