Things that make you *try*

tips on how to cope: dealing with your feelings, dealing with the consequences of self-harm in your life. share your ideas and maybe pick up some new skills, too. you don't have to want to stop to learn something new here.

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Things that make you *try*

Post by Licentia Poetica » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:04 am

We all know those times that we want to lie in bed instead of get up.
Drink instead of deal with the problem.
Give up on that assignment because it's too hard.

But there are times we don't give up.
There are days we drag ourselves out of bed.
There are times we don't drink, or hurt ourselves, because there are other things more important.

So what are they?

What makes you try?

What's more important that this shit?
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Post by Spidey » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:52 am

kowing that in all honesty, there is something better to be gained from trying and not being depressed.
there is, in the end, the letting go.
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Post by (*Haven*) » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:08 am

I have to be feeling really bad not to get myself up for uni classes. Even after suicide attempts, mild or on the bad side, I've gotten up the next morning and gone to class.

Uni classes are important to me. Especially when attendance is important, or there are in class points to earn that add up and will help me get a better grade. Because in the end if I get a bad grade, I'll feel worse.

And classes get me out. And that's always a good thing. I feel that classes are a responsibility.
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Post by treasure » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:52 pm

i like the title of this thread. i have occasional glimpses or things that make me feel like i have a purpose besides feeling like shit...

(but right now i can't think of anything :-? )

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Post by beachgirl » Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:38 am

My son.
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Post by oneWayOneLifeOneLove » Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:43 pm

Just being there 2 help other people and my younger sisters
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Post by wilson » Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:33 am

my friends are the reason i strive to achieve.
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Post by Queen Zandra Ava » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:48 pm

my friends, my boyfriend and my dreams make me try.
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Post by pretty » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:58 pm

The next good thing - the sun on my skin or a good meal or making someone laugh or anything.

The people I love.

The thought that I have so much I want to do.

Holding onto the belief that the world is a beautiful place.

Knowing that it is better to participate, to take the shit, than to numb myself to it. Because if I don't feel the bad stuff I can't move on from it, and I can't feel the good stuff.

That there is good stuff.
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Post by red umbrellas » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:28 am

knowing that one day, as unlikely as it seems right now...i might want to live and that my life might feel how it should. and that i have to do what i can to keep that possibility alive.
and those i love.
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Post by Quiet little Angel » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:02 pm

knowing that hurting me doesn't take away the pain for good makes me try not to...
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Post by Heart7799 » Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:54 am

honestly, its my own stubborness that makes me try.......its weird, because no matter how much i want to give up on everything, its like part of me won't let myself.........
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Post by Scatterbrain » Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:29 am

Well, it used to be JM. The text that says "be good". Knowing that you care, and that I would be letting you down. Now that I realize that you really dont care, that I am just another student that you have coached, I dont really know. I guess, now I try for Jordin. I feel terrible letting her down. She is the closest I have to someone who understands. I hate being the person who disappoints people... know what I mean?

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Post by Skyeler » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:37 am

My wife, because I know she loves me as much as I love her and that's ridiculous.

Our son, because... well that goes without saying. He's my life.


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Post by ghellie » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:31 pm

*lang*




becasue i wont let the fuckers beat me anymore. they will not win. i've gotten this far. i'm not giving up now, after all the crap.


and my little girls. i'd do anything for them. they even help me go to school. so i can get a job and look after myself so i can keep seeing them

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Post by beautiful_facade » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:56 pm

Promising myself that this won't last for ever.
Reminding myself that if i stay in bed there is no way i can start to make it better.
My parents.
My little sister.
A couple of friends.

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Post by syn » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:00 pm

Knowing that I have been given life, and I only get one so why waste it.
My family.
All that I want to achieve in life.
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Post by makie » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:22 pm

The thought of being in love again someday.
Music.
Art.
A better future.

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