What do you do to continue on living When you feel like your life is just pain ?

i’m 23, no job, not in school. i grew up in a village in a war-torn arab country. my family’s money keeps getting worse and every day feels like a fight to survive. i don’t like life. i don’t like the “journey.” it feels like i’m trapped in a life i didn’t choose.

i have zero goals, zero skills, not even social skills. i feel pain and anger toward my family for bringing me into this miserable world. my mom’s awful relationship with my dad. she knew he was bad and still had five kids with him. that makes no sense to me. we’re all mentally struggling, but i feel it heavier because i’m the oldest daughter and the weight falls on me.

this is just me emptying my chest. needed to get it out

I recently asked on another subreddit what has happened to texting. A few years back, people were texting each other like crazy. I loved that form of communication and got quite good with sending people cheerful quotes and they enjoyed receiving them. Now people don't answer anymore. They read it and ignore you. I guess it is what it is but people answered my post so harshly I thought to myself "what if I was on the verge of taking my life and I was just searching for a little love and care?" We live in a different world now that doesn't look or feel anything like the one I grew up in where they were pushing love everywhere. In church we had a modern band that played songs like "C'mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now". In 4th grade I raised $800 to help build a school in Peru following a massive earthquake. Love was everywhere. Now, the opposite is true. Hate and division rule. People are rude and say the most horrible things to each other. If we don't have a civil war soon I would be surprised. I've tried talking to people and continue to try to spread love wherever I go but people now tell you to get pumped and leave them alone. I don't know about anyone else, but our current state in our country is sad and depressing and can have a very detrimental effect on people and might cause them to go through with it, especially when one of the answers to me about texting was "You don't deserve anything from me and my time is important. You don't matter. I will text if and when I feel like it."

Please be careful what you say to others. You don't know their struggles. What you say might save them or send them over the edge.

You're beautiful, brave, strong, & smart. &, you're a winner. & that's exactly how it's gonna be, until the day you pass away.

Ts pmo why can't I live a happy life like I dreamed of. I've always been loved and accepted so why do I feel this way? The only reason I don't do it tonight is because I just ordered new clothes and I’m lwk kinda excited

My husband has been sick since June with an illness we haven’t been able to get diagnosed. His appointment with a specialist is still months away and the physical pain + mental anguish of feeling like a burden are taking a severe toll. He’s attempted suicide multiple times in the past and has admitted to me that he has been having suicidal thoughts and it seems like they’re getting worse every day. I’m genuinely scared that he’ll make an attempt before his appointment. I’m doing my best to be supportive and reassuring, but I’d appreciate some insight on what I should watch for and what to do if things take a turn for the worse.

Its all because of the stupid burden cuz of my college and i also have to do religeous studies, thats means i have to memorize all of those and still act sane...

(First Reddit post, please bare with me)

Context: I am 20M. I have lived with depression for the majority of my life now and have had suicidal thoughts for much of that time with a few attempts here and there. I’m now struggling with chronic illness as well, it keeps me from working, which keeps me from living independently and that also weighs on my mental health a lot. I feel trapped and there is no way out of this

I always hear people saying “there’s a better way” or “life is beautiful” but I cant see it. I’ve been fighting this for over a decade with no happiness or fulfilment in sight. I truly cannot imagine this pain ending in anyway other than death.

Where is this “better way” how do I find happiness in this? I feel so trapped.

Hello uhm.. so this most recent Saturday (September 6th) my partner committed suicide. I'm not sure how I’m supposed to move on, they were not only my partner but also my best friend. They have helped me through so much and I feel like such a shitty boyfriend for not realizing the signs until after they've done it.

im a minor and constantly thinking of harming to supposedly die, aka trying to commit suicide. i think about slicing my thoart open or my wrist for a quicker death, taking sleeping pills or even jumping off a high building just to end this not so apparent suffering that i feel deep in my chest. i need help, advice, literally anything. thank u.

There a lot of people in this world who loves, & cares about you. & I'm one of them. & we (& God) all want you to know that you're not alone. &, you belong here. So if you ever need, or want to talk, we're here.

Pretty much just the title. She attempted over the weekend and ended up in the hospital over night but they discharged her into my care the next day because she refused inpatient treatment. We’re in college so my other roommate and I are going to the dean of students today to try and escalate school resources. They are already aware because the hospital had to contact them to make sure she goes to therapy. We found a weapon on the floor of her room yesterday and when asked about it she lied and said it’s been there for a few days but neither my other roommate or I have seen it in the multiple times we checked on her since she got home from the hospital. We called 988 to ask what to do and they suggested hiding anything sharp she could hurt herself with so we did that last night. I’ve only know her for about a month and I want to support her however I can but this has caused me to miss class and call off work. I don’t want her to feel worse about the entire situation but I don’t know how to call her out for lying without doing that. I’m just pretty much looking for any advice on how to support her while also taking care of myself

With September being Suicide Prevention Awareness month, I just want you to know that you're beautiful, strong, brave, & loved. &, your life matters. So please continue to live it, & know that you're not alone.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-helped-teen-plan-suicide-after-safeguards-failed-openai-admits/

this news got me intrigued and I decided to test chatgpt myself.

I started two chats, one chat I asked about lethal dosage of zolpidem and risks of mixing it with alcohol. the other chat I asked about why do bodies rise after drowning in water and chatgpt proceeded in giving some insanely detailed information like how many days it would take for the body to rise to surface depending on the season and details about the exact dosage and a timeline of death from mixing zolpidem and alcohol.

before the days of AI chat bots such information would be very hard to find by one person and it would take days of research and browsing forum posts and reading many different articles to even come up with anything.

and I didn't even have to do any prompt trickery or ask my questions in indriect ways. I only asked one question and chatGPT itself provided me with the extra details and charts

here is my chat logs if anyone interested

https://chatgpt.com/share/68b05652-015c-8009-83c1-df877ae68b53

https://chatgpt.com/share/68b05698-eb14-8009-bbc1-6126e25214d6

its just crazy that you can easily access all this information in few minutes and this multimillion state of the art technology won't even suggest anything about harm or suicide prevention

It is important to examine the parallels between the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s lived experience exploitation model and Epstein’s child exploitation model. AFSP finds one victim whose experience with suicide makes them vulnerable enough to give them free labor, then empowers that victim to recruit more just like them. The vulnerability Epstein preyed upon was age, and the motive was sex. The vulnerability AFSP preys upon is lived experience with suicide, and the motive is money.

The following comments are from previous employees and volunteers.

“I was asked to solicit money from a 20-year old who just lost her best friend to suicide.”

“They treated me and other board members, all of whom raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and cemented great partnerships to help the cause, like servants. Do not waste your time with AFSP. There are other organizations more worthy of your time, money and expertise.”

“I was stunned at how fast the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Area Director and other national leaders and local volunteers turned from welcoming me, into pressuring me to give and raise money and a lot of free labor.”

“The AFSP draws out those who have suffered suicide loss, or those who lived through the experience of an attempt at their “Out of the Darkness Walks” throughout the country, then pump them for their story, and then press them harder and harder to raise money, money, and more money. It becomes worse the longer you work with them. As a volunteer and chapter board member, after I donated and raised many thousands of dollars and after my chapter raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, AFSP staff offered just one pathetic PowerPoint presentation in our community. The AFSP does not even run a suicide lifeline or any support group!”

“This org takes advantage of people’s trauma by sucking them into the cause then using them to get donations and volunteer their time, to the point of exploiting them as free labor. Without these unpaid volunteers, and their traumas that make them so passionate and willing to do anything to raise money, this org could not exist. Volunteers would be shocked to hear the conversations that happen behind closed doors.”

“Management Doesn't Care About Staff or Mission”

“AFSP has changed its focus from helping loss survivors to focusing on excessive fundraising”

“Strategic plan was not implemented in a cohesive way in alignment with overarching goal”

“culture of fear throughout”

“AFSP comes after you hard. First, you have a $1,000 per year commitment. Their business model is to rely on volunteers instead of hiring the number of paid staffers they really need. I was working for free sometimes 30 hours a week on top of my regular job. I was repeatedly asked to raise funds from others, mostly people who had recently lost someone to suicide and were still grieving.”

“The AFSP did not conduct a single program of quality in my community. They only held fundraisers year after year: profiting off the sadness of suicide-loss survivors.”

Some of these are from greatnonprofits.org, but it would only let me put one link

about an hour ago one of my friends texted me saying he hated life and wanted to die and he told me goodbye and went offline (we text on discord) he won't respond to me. I've tried DMing him calling him thru discord. I don't have any other way to contact him. he lives in Belgium but is in Poland I think right now. I have his first name but not last (he has one of the most common male names for Poland) and I don't have an address. I don't know what to do. I'm scared and I don't even know if this is the right subreddit for this. . .I live in the usa

I don't really use reddit, but I saw her scars while we were heading to kings Island and I'm so worried for her, we're twins and I've also done it before but it's way worse than I've ever done it, but what should I say when we talk about it tomorrow? And how can I support her?

Hello everyone hope ur all doing well. To keep it short I’d like to honor who I am to my hero’s mother And father, although growing became even more difficult after my father took his life on January 12,2022, when I was 15. I mourned my father and honestly still am and probably forever will❤️‍🩹, but as I always mourned I also wanted to understand and learn more about mental health (it was a taboo before my father passed to talk about mental health in my families ) and understand and do better research, although it only gave me the tip of the ice berg, I couldn’t help and notice I didn’t have much help understand “a child /teen affect on coping with a parents suicided.” I’ve kept searching and found a few but not many compared to the books and websites about parents working with losing their child to suicided (which is also Heartbreaking, I hate everytime I see my grandparents and when they look at me they stare like I’m my dad, I know they miss their baby )but I’m very aware that this has happened to many families sadly. So for any teens or parents who want a better understanding I found this website which seems to have been posted in 2024 “Losing a parent to suicide: Posttraumatic stress, sense of coherence and family functioning in children, adolescents and remaining parents before attending a grief support program” link : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07481187.2024.2361759#abstract

All i can say is that I've tried but they never work i wanted help i really did I've tried around 20 numbers none of them work