What do I do when I feel like I've hit rock bottom and I'm not worth it anymore?

I find that is the best position to look around for a new perspective. If you are truly at rock bottom you have nowhere to go but up. It's always worth trying again. Try something that's sure to be a natural seratonin boost. Go down a slide at a playground, go to an animal shelter and spend some time with the animals (shelters encourage this so the animals get attention, they won't mind if you don't plan to adopt), look for a free exercise group I your area. Draw a silly picture or just go outside for a moment and take in all of the sounds and smells very deliberately. You are alive and the possibilities are endless!

First off, I will say that your thoughts might not be always true. In fact, once something bad happens our mind will unconsciously jump into some Automatic Negative Thoughts or ANT for short. It's crucial to remember that it's completely normal to see this happening. Once you acknowledge the fact that your thoughts might be wrong, you can try to gently identify your thinking traps/cognitive distortions and slowly but surely reframe your thoughts into some constructive ones. Here are some articles that I think will be useful for you: https://www.verywellmind.com/ten-cognitive-distortions-identified-in-cbt-22412 and https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/stop-automatic-negative-thoughts#2. Stay strong. I hope it's been helpful

I think of my worst times in the past which I have felt hopeless and thought I could no longer go on but that has passed too and so do this will. I just have to wait a little more and be a little bit stronger. No matter how long the night is the day is always sure to come. and no matter how petrifying and hard the darkness is twice would be the joy and peace of the light. The very hardest thing in life is WAITING. it's difficult to wait and especially when you don't know what will be the result but it's always worth waiting for everything has its own time.

Please remember that you are worth it, and there are people who care about you, regardless of whether you feel like it at the moment. I urge you to reach out to someone as soon as you possibly can; you are important, and deserve the treatment that you need to feel like yourself again, and to live a happy and full life. Please tell a friend, family member, or therapist. If you do not have access to that, or if you need immediate help, please go call the hotline, or check out suicide.org. We are all rooting for you here!

Keep going. I am in the same place. It's easier to give advice than take it. Because when I am alone with my thoughts, I feel like I can't do this. But I do know, from other times I have felt like this, that it does get better. It's kind of like going on a diet to lose weight. You may lose some every day but you don't notice it. and one day you look in the mirror and then see an old pic of yourself and you're like "holy cow, I have lost a lot of weight' - I feel like that happens in how we feel to. We look back on every day we kept going and then before we know it, we realize we are in a better place then we were last week. or yesterday. so if we just keep going, we WILL find a day that we are happy again. We can do this. One step in front of the other. One step in front again. one step at a time.

I close my eyes & internalize. I think of my past failures & how I bounced back from my failures. I always think about the journey I had so far, how I was struggling badly & how successfully I conquered all the obstacles with shear determination & faith. There are moments when I feel broke & the best part I learnt to handle it is through crying. Crying helps me to achieve that relief & then it helps me to internalize & go deep to the core of my being & who I am. When I feel that I've hit the rock bottom, I actually imagine it as I am surrounded by walls around me & my back to the wall, only way to escape is to move forward with full strength. I discuss what I honestly feel with my close ones & sharing this scenario helps me to regain my composure & strength to move forward.

I think it's important for you to go back and think what happened that causes you to feel like this. Sometimes bad past experiences shape us in a way that it prevents us from being happy and that can be difficult to get out and probably take a while. The important thing is you. You need to know what is best for you and what you want. In situations like these reaching out to friends and family can be of big help. It may take a while for you to feel progress but you have to keep fighting for yourself.

Eat healthy, wake up early, go for a walk, sweat, take a nice warm bath, read a book, talk to someone who can support you, breath, look at the sky, and do not get yourself attached to things that will not last forever. Visit your family members, help those in need, give money to the poor. Learn something new everyday, be useful for yourself and others. Persist and keep working and improving. Put your heart in the right place, protect your heart and keep it away from being attached to wrong things or wrong people. Learn about life and always seek the truth.

When you feel like you've hit rock bottom and you're not worth it anymore it's best to take stock of everything you do have. As a cancer survivor I find that it's unfortunately too common that people take their health and circumstances for granted. I can say with certainty that most people feel like they 'need' things in order to make them happy, but when you're truly happy then you realise that you don't 'need' anything at all. In fact when you're happy you realise that you already have everything you need in abundance. Every moment that you have is a gift that you could give to someone else, or to yourself. It's a chance to create something new or to learn something new and to be curious. The world is full of unturned stones just waiting for you to examine them, they are beckoning you and calling you. When you've hit rock bottom it's finally an opportunity to do what you've always wanted to: be yourself.

You should contact a mental health professional. Also consider contacting the The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. They will be able to help you through this difficult time. It may not seem like it now but things will get better. You may want to talk to someone you trust such as a friend or parent. The important thing to remember is that even though it may not seem like it now, you will get through this tough time. You have been able to get through everything life has thrown at you so far. Don't let this time be any different.