Have been smoking since I was around 14 or 15 years old making me a smoker of 6 or 7 years, a pack a day for the majority of those years, and I am almost 100% positive I have emphysema, I have not gone to a doctor or been diagnosed, but have read enough about it over the past couple of months when symptoms got severe, it is so horrible to have it, and even worse considering it is stacked on top of a list of mental diseases I already have, among other things I would rather not mention, I have had a lot of thoughts of suicide over the past few months because I know that this will never go away and I am now shackled to this breath-robbing disease, and that is really not a life I want to live, the only thing that has stopped me from doing so is the thought of hell... my parents think I am crazy and am over-reacting because I am so young and have only been smoking for 6 years, but I truly beleive I have it, and it plagues my mind every single day of my life, I am sorry if this is the wrong forum to be posting this in but I could not find another one that was as simular.