What do you do when you feel it's hard to go on with life?

Just do it. One never knows what good thing is around the corner. Get some medication for help, therapy, change of scene, run til you drop. Really, we’ve all felt like that for one reason or another. What has you heartbroken?

Well what is wrong? I can only give you advice if you tell me what’s bothering you!

You try to do the things you used to enjoy. Your may like nothing you used to enjoy. So just start trying new things then you are bound to find some new things that will take your mind off the heartache. Either a loved one passed away or this is a break up, to be fully honest both are hard to deal with. Either way I am sorry for your loss/trouble whatever it is. You have to just go day by day. Keep afloat at school or work…hopefully you can keep it under wraps or have understanding people around you. I am speaking fomr the other side of the tunnel so it is easier right now. I remember the days when I did not want to live on and nothing was worth it. But really after you start to see that you started off as a single person and you were happy and find with that. You just have to relearn that person again. What faye said was great but please hold off on the medication until the final straw if all else fails. It’s just another crutch your going to have to get off of sometime. Good luck missy…this may be one of the most painful things you have to go through but after there is not much left in life to bring you down again. Get back up slowly! You can do it.

You just keep on and find anything to give you purpose and dig in with all your life. I got there about 15 years ago and I’m still here. Life is a series of births and deaths. Sometimes you shed your skin and are reborn.

I’ve been where you are. It always gets better. I promise.

I know how you feel. Life overwhelms you.
You need to keep a schedule and put one foot in front of the other. The schedule can take control if you need to mindlessly follow it for a while.
I have been feeling down lately but I force myself to keep my appointment with my trainer. I can only imagine how much worse I would feel if it weren’t for getting my heart pumping those three days a week.

Yes, it always gets better. I mean – what else can it do? Not a joke. But kinda funny.

Time heals everything, everything.

Tomorrow is another day….. positive thinking will help you through.

@augustlan It doesn’t always get better, not for everyone.

Think that if one part of life is not working it does not mean the rest would not work out.

I have been there, unfortunately more then once. You have to try and push yourself up and move forward. If its a lost love, trying to fill the void with other things you enjoy or perhaps finding new friends that you can spend time with. The biggest thing is to not spend too much time alone.. being alone is the worst thing because you truly experience the full force of your loss. I always felt better around my friends or people that I love spending time with to make me feel better. It will eventually get better, time will heal (or patch) all heals to a manageable state. Keep on fluthering, lots of jellies to help you :) :)

@princessbuttercup, you’ve been having a hard time, but really, things will get better even if you can’t even imagine right now that that anything can change. One time, a long time ago, someone told me, “This, too, shall pass”. It’s short, it’s simple, but it’s something that has always stuck with me. Anything that’s ever been a hardship in my life, whether it’s just been one of ‘those’ days, finances aren’t at their greatest (or broke, in other words), or even a death, I look back to that simple thing phrase and remember ‘this, too, shall pass.’ And it will. Trust me on that.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Dig deep and buck up. If you quit? Life isn’t always easy.

@Macaulay: use caution when offering this maxim to a person suffering from despair or something close to it.

@augustlan
No it doesn’t always get better. Sometimes you must accept that somethings will never change. You lost your legs..cheer up. You have an incurable condition. Look on the bright side. It makes the person not in the position feel better to not have to become intimately involved with another person’s pain, but it doesn’t always help that person to be pacified. The greatest compassion is the truth. It is as much a sacrifice for the bringer as the receiver.

I know a beautiful 16 year old girl who is confined to a wheelchair paralyzed from the neck down after having just been in a car accident. What comfort can I offer her or her parents? Life goes on.

@SeventhSense Can’t say I like many of your answers, but that one is fantastically true and sensitive from you. Real great answer.

@Dibley
Thanks for the left handed compliment. I’m not your average narcissist.

@SeventhSense I was just being honest, hats off to a good answer.

Ok, maybe I need to clarify what I mean… the situation doesn’t always improve, you are correct. However, the feelings that surround it most often do. Acceptance is a huge part of that process, to be sure.

Also, perhaps “always” is a little strong, but in my experience, that has been the case. Sorry to generalize!

I get drunk. Sad but true. Cheers.

@susanc You’re right. Quick Nihlistic arrogance.

@princessbuttercup Maybe you’re at a point in your life which requires some humbling reevaluation. If life seems really chaotic, cluttered, black and hopeless, look for the beauty in yourself, your surroundings, and your world. Write down three things you love/respect/admire in yourself everyday and post them on your mirror of fridge. Making short-term to long-term goals is vital.
Try to verbalize your values, wants, and needs in life. Rid yourself of unnecessasry bullshit, reconnect with those who have been on your mind and distance yourself for relationships you’re no longer benefitting from.
Moreover, keep in mind that whatever the trouble, it could be worse, won’t last forever, and will be over before you know it.

@Macaulay, very good answer for everybody ”look for the beauty in yourself, your surroundings, and your world. Write down three things you love/respect/admire in yourself everyday and post them on your mirror or fridge. Making short-term to long-term goals is vital. Try to verbalize your values, wants, and needs in life. Rid yourself of unnecessasry bullshit, reconnect with those who have been on your mind and distance yourself for relationships you’re no longer benefitting from”

Think don’t take life too seriously you will never get out of it alive…....