I am so bitter. My life has been a long string of failures and disappointments. I'm 23, living at home with my parents, no romantic partner (and there never has been one), only working a few hours per week at my mom's business, in school earning a degree that will do nothing but make me more competitive for med school and I'm not even sure if I want to go to med school. I've ruined nearly every chance and opportunity that has come my way.

I'm so jealous of people who are more successful-academically, career-wise, socially-and let's face it, most people are quite a bit more successful than me. I want to be someone else, to be born as someone else, live out their life trajectory, have their personality traits and intelligence and skill sets. I feel that being someone else is the only thing that could ever get me a better life, because I am doomed as myself.

I so wish I were someone else.

I feel like the worst person on the planet, and not in just one way-I'm smart but not brilliant (so it doesn't count), I'm not pretty, people tend to dislike me and not understand me...I thought I was a good and nice person at least, but all this anger and envy triggered by my sad life circumstances is making me question even that.

I feel like I have nothing to offer anyone. For the past year, I've been jumping from crisis to crisis. I feel like I'm slipping, falling, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to get back up.

How do I stop being so bitter? Convinced that as long as I'm me, it will never get better? Get over my intense envy of other people? Learn to be hopeful again?

God, I just wish I had been born someone else.