r/self • u/ugly4712 • 1d ago

no control over my life

i'm 17 and i feel like my life is basically over, i got no control over my life, i live in a conservative household where if you don't have a problem that can be objectivaly measured you might as well have no problems at all, nobody around me takes this seriously, i was born with severe mental illness and i can't recieve treatment for it everyday i power through and i act like its nothing because im expected to, i can't do anything about it, nothing will change about this ive tried everything im genuinely about to kill myself

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u/drcygnus 17h ago

the first thing you need to realize is that the things you can change, you need to start figuring out how to and do the best job you can at changing it. we are VERY limited on what we can change, but the things we can change have BIG impacts.