[retro_chic]

What do you do when you're too afraid to live but too afraid to die?

[Zerpa]

I lock myself in the bathroom and write out what I think. Describing it separates me from it just enough.

[basicgoodness]

That's a tough question. I know how you feel. I have reached the point where fear seems to rule my life, where every possible move seems terrifying. I don't know if I fear death, though. Maybe the process of dying, but not death itself. Sometimes I think anything would be better than what I am currently going through. But I have to keep on for the sake of my children. They are keeping me alive.

[dexter]

I have no children or family or significant other or anyone to keep me alive.

My answer to your question: hand on to the "live" part only because if you can get there it offers many more and better options than dying.

Dying will put an end to the constant pain. Living we have to suffer through the pain but with hope of it getting better and establishing a satisfactory or excellent life with happiness and people in it.

I an struggling right now in a partial hospital program with little hope but I'm working on faith that things might get better. I will admit I feel like I am failing at it right now, almost run out of steam to forge ahead.