I lived my life full of things that i should be proud of but no matter what i do i dont feel happy. It feels like nothing is ever enough and iam always confused in what i want! no one really understands me but the worst thing is that i dont even understand myself!!!!

because you are 18 and have a lot of living left to do

Emo kids.....bah!!!!

If you figure it out, Let me know.

Thats how I live too.

So yes at least one person really understands.

because some people u can never make happy.. i used to feel that way.. till i learned to be happy with myself...

Least you get it Mayhem.

I am 56 and still feel that way, you aren't alone. Believe me you are not unique, and I have a son who is 19 that feels that way, so it must be hereditary.

I heard scientology is giving out the truth.

I mean...I dont think you could have described it any better.

Post Highschool, even college, let down is pretty universal. Has a lot to do that your routine is blown away as well as most of your social circles sometimes with nothing to replace either. The economy sucks and it just about requires a room mate to have any hope of independence of living away from Mom and Dad which juvinilizes almost anyone. Peer age women want older more established and younger available is most likely to lead to disaster if not pregnancy and or jail. If twenty something men can't find a distraction then depression is likely. With so many judgeing you only as good as your last accoplishment and moveing toward the next life doesn't feel very satisfying.

wow thanks for that pep talk, I feel like /wrists now

I used to feel that way all the time. I'm not going to lie to you and say life gets better, it doesn't. Highschool never really ends, and that sucks, but how you look at the world can change.

I don't really know how, but all of the sudden I started to not care what people thought of me. I became strong and independent in myself. I decided I didn't need anyone else to make me happy.

The funny thing is, that once you develop that kind of attitude, as long as you're not a total jerk about it, people want to be around you. They want to know what you've got, that they don't.

You may not be able to just change your way of thinking like I (God knows how) did, but it sure is worth a try, believe me.

Life does get better...you just have to make it better. You cant just expect it to get better on its own.

I think people who feel like the OP are clinically depressed. They need some pills.

This has not been meant as a derogatory joke. Humans are made to be happy some of the time. If a person is never happy, not even some of the time, he needs pills.

This sounds simplistic and perhaps hurtful. This is not the only way to respond to my opinion. It is incredibly unnatural for a person never to feel happy. And they do make pills that specialize in the effect of righting this type of very wrong.

I don't believe in taking medicine, and especially not for depression.

The symptoms for those meds, are so that it's like you never even took the pills to begin with.

Most, if not all, of them say they can cause "increased thoughts of suicide"

What is it that you should be so proud of at 18? Raised healthy, wise children to maturity? Had a long successful marriage? Finished college? Yes yes I'm being a bit of an (_!_) but understand my point please. You haven't lived long enough to really be "proud" of anything yet.

You don't understand yourself because your brain and body aren't even fully matured yet (done growing), because you haven't enough life experience to really get to know yourself.

Hon I have three grown children older than you and I have once been a teenager, give yourself time, room for error and learn to love yourself. Everything else will eventually fall into place

You are the ruler of your brain, not the other why around. When you start having negative and or confusing thoughts make yourself find something pleasant to ponder on, get busy doing something to take your mind off the blues.

1. That may be true. I believe in taking medicine, for depression or for other ailments, like enlarged prostate.

2. This is not true.

3. Yes, this is true, but not for "Most" and definitely not for "all". For a few, yes. But MOST feel better with these pills.