What's your sob story?

My parents beated me for nothing, schoolmates hated me (I was an excellent pupil), my borther was trying to kill me when I was 16, love of my whole life broke up with me with shitty sms because of her mother, after that I had a mental illnes for 4 years. And now I found my place in this world.

This one makes me sad because it's all my fault and I brought it upon myself.

Two years ago as a sophomore in high school I got an F in three classes because I didn't care anymore and did nothing but play a stupid FPS game every day, for more than 10 hours a day, and ended up dropping two honors level classes. Then I sorta cared in my junior year and brought all my grades up to A's and one or two B's (albeit no AP/honors + retaking all 3 classes).

Now I'm a senior and managed to get into 3 AP classes and felt pretty confident that I might actually do decently, but during senior conference the counselors said, "The UC and Cal State systems (we're in California) look at your sophomore and junior year classes and performance, and then at your senior and freshmen years." So they'll look at the two years I did worst in, and now I'm feeling pretty screwed up.

Okaaaaay...

First off, terribly sorry to hear about your situation! I do hope it gets better and quickly! Stay positive :D

Well, here goes. Was born and raised in Atlanta, GA. Was the minority in my grade. Picked on, beat up. Was left in a ditch one night as a gentleman hit me across the back of the head with a baseball bat. Robbed and woke up in the hospital the following morning. Being in that environment I developed severe paranoia and anger issues. Scars across my face and knuckles from fighting. Shortly after moved to Macon, Ga. Marginally better there. Fell in love. Attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle of pills and cutting my wrists after seeing said love with another man. Bled out, woke up in the hospital for the second time in my life.

Father was never there up until very recently. Mother was strung out on every form of drug under the sun. Was forced to take care of my sister on a parental level at the age of 15 as there was no one else there to do so.

Finally came to a point where I realized that life is entirely too precious to waste on things that only matter in the present and have no bearing on the rest of my life at all. Dropped the paranoia and anger issues. Chose to be happy. Chose to life a life on my terms and not someone elses.

My problem now is running away from problems. Both set of grandmas have a form of some sort of cancer and no idea how to process that. So, I do so with humor and never contacting them. Mostly scared to visit as I'm afraid it will be the last time I see them. Scared to call cause what are we gonna talk about. Cancer and how that sucks?

7 years ago I got complex regional pain syndrome, was in a wheelchair/basically homebound for 6 of the years. It wasn't until this February that I did physical therapy and got a bit stronger, but am in extreme pain 24/7 still (just have to exercise/move through the pain). Wasn't diagnosed til January, none of the doctors believed me before that. Suffered extreme depression, was suicidal a few months ago but fought it like crazy (still have depression but meditate/see a psychologist). A month and a half ago (a couple weeks before Robin Williams died in a VERY similar fashion) my dad commit suicide. He was in extreme pain as well and could hardly get out of bed like me, so it's been extremely difficult I basically am watching what could have been me. And the only reason it wasn't was because I didn't have it in me to kill myself and could barely move by myself. My illness isn't curable but there's ways of helping it, I have an infusion Tuesday that may help but nothing has helped so far. Trying to stay positive and fight the pain as much as possible but it's rough when I'm in so much pain in over half my body all the time.

p.s. I'm really sorry things are rough for you, hope things start looking up for you soon and thanks so much for the giveaway.

Anything anyone ever does amounts to nothing in the end, so existential problems are lost on me. However, I do get a little restless when I sit on my ass for too long.

I'm 29. Graduated high school ten years ago. Never been much of a socializer, so most of my "friends" I haven't spoken with since. Graduated college with an impractical degree without further education (no money, and I just don't know what to do with my life). Haven't spoken with many of my college friends for some years either. Never had a girlfriend. Never kissed. Never held hands. I've had a few crushes but they've never shown interest/rejected and promptly got other boyfriends. Living with the ailing parents at their (my) rural home, currently unemployed but with little time as my energy gets drained helping them maintain the property and gardens. They are cheap too and prefer life 1800's style where you grow your own food and burn wood for heat. Apparently oil is expensive. But is it also a drought year, so the shallow well is not getting enough water. Showers, laundry, dishes, flushing toilets are spread throughout the day cause there is not enough water to do them as needed. It doesn't rain enough. Or when it does its a major hurricane and we lose power for a week. Fuck you, Irene. Fuck you, Sandy. Anyways had an IT job unrelated to my degree, but got laid off twice. Some corporate bullshit, "data center consolidation" aka "fuck the contractors so we can make record profits". Above minimum wage but still not enough to live on my own, 2 years, no raises, boss goes "At least you have a job" bullshit (no more). Back to square one. No one seems to appreciate those with a passion for learning. Worried about the future of civilization. Depressed that no one cares about the future of civilization (climate change, overpopulation, famine, global war...). Secretly hoping (sometimes) that civilization does end as then my skillset might become more valuable and appreciated (assuming survival of course). Maybe I could rebuild from the ashes or something. I wonder if having a girlfriend mellows out the desire for catastrophic change being one itself.

Ironically voted "Most likely to succeed" in high school yearbook. 10 year class reunion coming up. Awkward.

I don't have enough money to buy a good PC. (I'm from Vzla) :'(

EDIT: BTW, this is for you guys Avenged Sevenfold, Carry On

1 year from finishing BA in Business with a focus in accounting, then I have another year to get cpa license and another year to get masters.. I dislike school.

Well, here goes. Been my whole life playing games (of course I studied etc etc) and I've never planed something for my future. Now I'm "trapped" in this nonesense part of the life when you start to think "what should I do?". I can't find anything good to follow and if we count the fact that my social life its near to zero it goes worse. Not so many friends (actually got 3), my parents have never been proud of me or any of my archievements (Don't get me wrong they're very good people) and atm day by day I found myself immersed in a sea of ​​depression always thinkin' "should I put an end to this? or try to keep pushing through this whole damn lie that we call life?". I can't find a purpose to my actual existance or at least for now. So yeah, a lot more of thing to say in my sob story, a lot more, but the most important it's there.

same as you just that i am a male and i also dont have any rl friends.

Every day I go on steamgifts.com and see garbage threads on the forums

i'm 36, i live with my parents, i get a good salary as a desktop publisher, but its not enough to move out and cover living costs. it only covers my car financing, a loan i had to take out, my life insurance, medical insurance, fuel for car, personal items like deodorant/soap/etc, and the occasional game. i also help in the house to buy electricity and food occasionally.

i suffer from depression and am bi-polar. i was abused when i was about 3-5 yrs old in day-care (i dont remember this but was told of it), my uncle later molested me when i was 7, at 12 i was raped by the boy next door, and again at 14 by 2 other boys.
the amount of support i received from my family was zero. they firstly didnt find out till 10 yrs later, and then would not confront my uncle about it. he is a big 'christian man and pillar of his church' - so unfathomable that he would do that.
i am also treated with mistrust from my family, they dont believe me when i say something, and always side against me in arguments.
i am also an introvert. needless to say i cooped up everything inside, growing angrier and more depressed everyday.
i tried to commit suicide twice now. i have no friends as i trust no-one and the few i did always ended up hurting me horribly.
so far the only thing that keeps me going is my love for my cat, Taelian (pure white persian)l. And the promise of new and exciting games.

my life is sad.

Well, my family have been in financial problems for a few months now. We couldn't even pay for the rent, and we thought about selling the house, moving to the city, get a cheap rent. We didn't even have enough money to move, so we were stuck. Winter is coming, the heat is expensive, plus the fee for snow removal.

I feel like I was partly responsible, because I don't have a job and can't support my family in any way. Living away from the city, getting a job is nearly impossible.

Let me tell you, this summer was a terribly depressing summer for me.
We really had big financial problems at a time, to the point where we didn't think we could buy enough food to feed everyone, but somehow, we managed through every time.

That was a very stressful summer indeed. I was depressed most of the time.
But now, it's getting better. We all talked about it, and I'll try finding a job nearby, and we are starting to get back on our feet. My dad's small business is getting a bit more customers, which really helps.
We may not be always lucky, but at least we always support each other, and that's all that really counts. ;)

My PC is out of commission since Tuesday of last week. Either a virus or the 5 year old HDD just went kapoot without a warning. But until I can scrimmage money for another HDD I wont risk repairing or cant save some of my files. 5 years worth of data with no backup, real sads hope I don't end up losing it all. especially some of my steam game saves that can't use steamcloud ;_; I was just about to finish bioshock 1 too.

This thread makes you realize how small your problems really are. Damn.