I don't really know where to begin.
I've given my life a deadline of no later than the end of next year. I don't know what to set for my profile picture, so I will be changing it a lot until I decide on something...
I am in my mid-twenties, with a degree in education that I am not going to use. Evidently I have no useful skills, not worth giving a chance, nothing of value to contribute... I can't find a job that's not a dead-end waste of time.
Life is just not at all what I wanted it to be. Childhood set me up for this immense disappointment with the real world, seeing behind the curtains and discovering how fake everyone and everything really is. Including me, to be fair.
My parents, dwindling number of family and friends, don't understand how I feel at all. So I guess it's time to be a statistic.
I wouldn't say my life is bad by most metrics. I am hesitant to join spaces like this because so many people have suffered much worse. But, I'm the one who has to wake up every day and live this life, in this mind and body. And I don't want to anymore. I've been abused enough.
I can imagine what a better life would look like, but it's impossible to attain, so what good does it do to torment myself with the forever out-of-reach.
I'm tired of being strung along with a carrot, getting my hopes up just to have them crushed over and over again. Like finding decent jobs to apply to, but never getting them, and now I have been out of work for a year. Or finding someone to date, only for me to eventually relapse into being a piece of shit and ruining things with that person.
I am glad to have found this place, because I can't find any other place where I can actually get information about how to end my life. I would have done it already, but I am scared I am going to mess up and go back to a mental hospital, be forced to take drugs that don't change my life or solve my problems, be turned into a zombie. That's society's idea of "help" for people like me, I guess.
I understand that literal assistance with a plan isn't allowed. That's fine with me. I just hope to meet a few nice people, fellow strugglers on this mental illness journey, in an online space that doesn't demonize or patronize suicide.
I enjoy writing fiction. I like a good story. I love anime, sex, drugs (nicotine, coke, alcohol). I used to enjoy sports but physically I don't feel able to play soccer anymore, even though I'm not that old. So now I watch sports on TV, including baseball and football.
I also love playing video games; some of my recent favorites are Persona 5 Royal, Persona 3 Reload, Ghost of Tsushima, and Tears of the Kingdom.
I would like to think I am pretty smart, at least average looking for a guy, and I am too considerate, but it's like none of my interests, positive attributes, or personal achievements matter. Life just continues to slowly, steadily go downhill. And not just in spite of how hard I try, but more like a Chinese finger trap. Meaning, the harder I try to do something positive or improve myself, the worse my life gets.
I haven't killed myself yet because I am afraid of what comes after.