If you could start your life again what would you do differently

[Soon4me]

To avoid where you are now ?
For me i would liked to have had different parents who would not have over protected me
and who would have allowed me to have friends and make my own mistakes and learn from them
and not made me to take meds that messed up my head.

 

[IQof87SadButTrue]

I would focus more on my education and not have skipped every class. I would get a good skill at trade school to become a mechanic and escape the poverty I live in now. Second I gambled away my life savings on my addiction which would have been enough for me to retire on I would have not done that.

 

[Meena]

I would have chosen to live isolated since i had 24 (when i had my first bipolar crisis) and lived as a hikikoromi to protect myself from society which has no piety and compassion 4 people like me. Just hide myself from society.

 

[Malice1]

I would have chosen to live isolated since i had 24 (when i had my first bipolar crisis) and lived as a hikikoromi to protect myself from society which has no piety and compassion 4 people like me. Just hide myself from society.

Agreed, especially with the bold part. I would have isolated and hid myself from society for sure.

 

[Jon86]

Not sure physical illness over decades brought me to the hell of suicidal depression. I don't think I had a chance to be honest. I would break just the same with a second go around. If my physical health was fine, I wouldn't be on here.

 

[Tiredman]

If I could go back an reverse my physical injuries I'd do it

 

[chronicpainnomore]

I wouldn't let the military do my back surgery. It was supposed to make me feel better, but they messed it up and it's been a shitshow ever since. Medications managed the pain well up until now but thanks to the drug abusers, I'm fucked.

Going back further, I would have behaved in high school so I didn't blow the full ride at Georgia Tech that I had.

Why is it that the most important time in our lives when it comes to our future is also the time when hormones are raging and we're daft idiots?

 

[Fylobatica]

Basically, I wouldn't change anything - -because it's human existence that has lots of faults, no matter what you do to be 'happy'. Being happy, often, might not be enough

 

[Steve]

To avoid where you are now ?
For me i would liked to have had different parents who would not have over protected me
and who would have allowed me to have friends and make my own mistakes and learn from them
and not made me to take meds that messed up my head.

Like you, I would have stopped myself from taking those benzos recommended by the school counsellor. Those pills fucked up my head big time.

 

[Strumgewehr]

CTB earlier.

 

[JSRF]

Report my homelife to CPS and hope to get transferred in a proper family

 

[Irukinj]

Jump into Niagara Falls when I had the chance...

 

[ImNotBatman]

Not trust my best friend, and to not be so petty to my ex. :(

 

[Imaginos]

Hmm, not much, to be honest. Somehow being able to kill myself at a far younger age certainly goes without saying. Other than that, well I don't know. I've managed to avoid a lot of life's bullshit being that I've been fortunate enough to live as a complete hermit/hikikomori for the last 11 years while also not really having any major past regrets/trauma to speak of. Only thing I can think of is for me to have been less of a prick to my mom when I was younger. Then again, she was quite the pill to swallow herself back then, so enh. Fuck it. The thought of starting this shit over again is a fucking nightmare, anyway.

Basically, I wouldn't change anything - -because it's human existence that has lots of faults, no matter what you do to be 'happy'.

This person gets it. Well said.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

CTB earlier.

Same! I wish it crossed my mind at age 16-17. Now I have to wait an entire year


Goodness it can't come fast enough

 

[Endthismisery]

Asked my mum at the age of ten to give me up because she clearly didn't love me and I think if I didn't see the stuff I had seen growing up

Maybe the best part of my day wouldn't be knowing suicide is around

 

[bygone]

I'd avoid doctors, apart from routine check-ups and vaccinations. If I hadn't trusted, elevated those fuckers, put them on the pedestal that we, as a society, do - I'd be in great health and at the prime of my life. Modern medicine is profit-driven and full of greed like every other industry. I'd be married, probably have kids by now. I would've quit my job by now, moved to another city. My life would be utterly unrecognizable if I only had my health.

 

[El Topo]

I'd avoid doctors, apart from routine check-ups and vaccinations. If I hadn't trusted, elevated those fuckers, put them on the pedestal that we, as a society, do - I'd be in great health and at the prime of my life. Modern medicine is profit-driven and full of greed like every other industry. I'd be married, probably have kids by now. I would've quit my job by now, moved to another city. My life would be utterly unrecognizable if I only had my health.

Pretty much the same story for me.

 

[DF90]

My life has always been a depressing shot show, but I think I could be relatively content again if I could go back and change some of the things I did last year.

 

[Tomasnil]

Run away from home earlier

 

[NumbItAll]

I'd kill myself much earlier to avoid a pointless existence of misery.

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

I would end it once I turned 18 … would've saved me years of misery.

 

[millefeui]

The last thing I want is to start this life all over again. A new life under my own specific criteria? Maybe, who knows. This life? No, thanks. Screw that.

 

[Life sucks]

The last thing I want is to start this life all over again. A new life under my own specific criteria? Maybe, who knows. This life? No, thanks. Screw that.

Yea we don't choose anything and even if we want something we can't get most of the time and it will end anyway. What a joke is this life

 

[Deleted member 847]

It doesn't matter. Even if you start life again and make the best decisions (let's say you're also very lucky) and achieve your dreams, the world will still be the same harsh place you already knew. Why do you think famous and rich people commit suicide too?

 

[typx]

Be raised by my dad's side of the family instead of my mom's.

 

[KillMe]

The only thing that would make a difference would be having different parents. Other than that, I wish I would have killed myself a lot earlier.

 

[theinfinitesadness]

Run away from home at 15.

 

[vonvonwantpeace]

CTB earlier.

THIS!

 

[Tabbyql]

I dont remember but was told social services were coming round all time, to check wether my parents were treating us right etc.... I guess the first thing would be to tell social services when I was 5, to take us all away. Then maybe I would of had loving and supportive family, and maybe my life woukd be different.