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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1364109" data-attributes="member: 5328">G'day there.I have been through this sort of thing from time to time over the last twenty-five years, and I have five really important things to tell you.1. This will pass, and you will feel better, by and bye.2. There is something you can do when you start feeling better that will very likely stop this from happening again, and at worst will make future attacks uncommon and not this bad. (It is called 'cognitive-behaviourl therapy'. Ask about it when you are well enough.)3. Although you do in fact feel dreadful right now, the other, external things are not anything like so bad as they seem. There are other people who love you, not just your mother. Lots of people would miss you if you died, and some would be quite shattered. There are quite a few things that you are really quite good at, many worthwhile things that you could do. You aren't stupid, unlikeable, or unworthy. There is every prospect that you will be able to overcome challenges and live a full and rewarding life. What's more, if you think carefully about the things you have accomplished, and about the people you know, even now, even while you are feeling rotten, you will be able to see that this is true.4. Your mother would be a lot worse than just sad if you died. She would be absolutely devastated. She would mourn for years, perhaps the rest of her life. So suicide is not a way out.5. It would be worth your going to see a doctor. I don't find that anti-depressants are good (for me, at least) in the long term, they can be a great help in bad episodes like this.And finally: people (such as myself) get through depression. So can you.Regards,Agback</blockquote>

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