Sorry Givenup,
Jack has not actually asked for help at all.His post is more a list of despair and where he thinks he has failed.
I've asked him why he posted as he said he didn't know why he had. He has not answered. So, no, he has not taken the first step of asking for help at all.
I am simply trying to encourage them to start looking after themselves and for you to say I'm telling them what to do is very wrong.
Did you not read these last words of my post :
"Your choice, every time. Choose misery, it's so easy isn't it. Choose good and you have to work for it and put your heart into it. Choose."
How can you possibly interpret that as "telling them what to do"?
You, yourself, have said that now you are actually trying that now you want a future.
That's the whole point Given. YOU have to want it, no one else can do it for you or even make you want it. It's YOUR choice, always.
I give advice and suggestions, not tell people what to do. You cannot tell someone else what to do as they always have personal choice. I can warn them of potential consequences but that doesn't stop people doing what they want either.
And I repeat, no, Jack has NOT asked for help at all. And nor has he replied when I asked him if he did.
Do you really think I suggest any of this is easy? DO you? It's not and I say so above. If one has depression then a doctor is a must as it won't go away by itself. So, at some stage, people have to take the initiative and seek at least medical advice. That IS easy.
The essence of my words is that the person has TO WANT to change. You say that yourself so I do not understand your attack on me over something you have written yourself.
Writing me personal messages of abuse is also unacceptable and any more will be reported. I excuse the one you've sent because of your youth.