Eight years ago the father of my children committed suicide.... I was very unhappy, so I had decided to leave him and take my children.... He was unfaithful to me and hurt me a lot. That night that it happened he said that he wished I were dead. I was really scared because I could [...]
A few weeks ago, I traveled to another country without my twenty-eight and thirty-year-old adult children. Just a few days later, my older son jumped from a third floor and killed himself. So I returned to my country, but now I don’t have the energy to do anything at all. I would appreciate a word [...]
Sometimes I feel that I should terminate my life. When I was a child, my father always told me that I was good for nothing.... Each time that I tried to get close to him, I ended up going off to cry because he got so angry with me. I felt like he hated me. [...]
I got married when I was nineteen without knowing that I had a hereditary disease called hemophilia.... But everything was fine until I had to have surgery on my knees. Since then my marriage has been an odyssey. I suffered depression for the first time, and even tried to commit suicide by swallowing poison. Now [...]
I am depressed and I don’t know how to get over it. I have no desire to go on. I don’t want to live anymore. I want to die. I’ve tried to commit suicide, but something always stops me. I feel that I have a miserable life. Dear Friend, We are very thankful to hear [...]
I am the single mother of a four-year-old daughter, and I live in my mother’s house.... Labor conditions in my country have kept me from getting a good job in spite of the fact that I am a professional.... What makes it more difficult is that I don’t have anyone to take care of my [...]
I am a sixteen-year-old girl. I am very timid and I don’t have any friends. This started four years ago.... All my friends distanced themselves from me, and now I am alone. Sometimes I cut myself. I hurt myself, but I don’t want to continue doing that.... I wasn’t like that before. I was very [...]
This year has been very difficult for me. I am doing poorly in school and I have problems with depression and bipolar disorder.... I am twelve years old and have too much pain for my age. I have tried to kill myself many times because I am a disappointment to all my family, my friends, [...]
I am getting older, and I am still not married. The idea of having to keep living alone torments me and makes me ill. It is very bad for my mental health. I have even had thoughts of suicide.... I have spent years begging God for a woman.... Why is He doing this to me? [...]
I am a high school teacher. I’m in love with one of my students, and she’s in love with me. The issue is that her parents don’t approve of our relationship, which is in its beginning stages. For the past week my girlfriend’s mother has not allowed her to communicate with me, and I haven’t [...]
