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Caring about your friends is a very good idea. Even if they don't take it well, or aren't able to show that it helps them, it will make a difference to you and to them.

I hope that things turn around for you soon. Maybe Spring will help when it arrives. Some day you will look back on this and it will be difficult to comprehend that you felt this bad. Feb. 24, 2003 was the day I reached my low point (the incident where neighbors called the police because they saw what I had done to myself). Remembering it now, on one level it does't seem real. I go back and read things that I wrote less than a year ago, and can't quite imagine feeling that way now.

Yes, I know it's hard, but hang in there. It really does get better.

<font color=orange>"Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways." -Rollo May</font color=orange>