Three years ago I lost a friend to suicide. She had fought for years with depression, cutting, and a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.... I always [told her that the only One who could help her was God, and that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to bring salvation to her]. She never stopped me [...]
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? [...]
