I Feel Like a Failure Sometimes

I try to be positive. I think I am doing good.  When in reality I am just floating along in a sea of sadness.  I am avoiding dealing with life.  I am effecting my children.  I have disappointed  my kids.  I have disappointed...

I feel like a failure because:
I told myself college would be different; but I still feel just like I did in highschool.
I can't make friends and don't feel like I'm a good enough friend to the ones I have. It's not because I don...

I just have to keep in mind, that the biggest mistake I could possibly make, is ending my life.

Do you sometimes wonder if you were born without a purpose in life. I do! Ever since I finished school, I didn't know what I wanted to do in life; and now being nearly 41; I'm in the same predicament. I started out with cooking for a...

I am a single mom raising 3 boys on my own.  I have been alone for 5 and a half years now.  I feel like a failure and a horrible mom.  I am  never home to help my kids with homework because I am working.  My two...

My sadness and stress recently has turned into a bout of depression. I've had many of them in my lifetime.
The vet visit Monday cost me every dime I had. If my ex-husband had not been there with my son I wouldn't have had enough to...

So sometimes I can't do anything right and nothing goes to plan. I always tell myself all the things I need to do and be productive, but instead things just never turn out the way they should. Instead things go badly and I just screw my...

I think we all feel this way sometimes. We all have struggles and make mistakes that make us feel like a bad person. It's part of the experience of living. The trick is to not let it get to you., A mistake is not the end of the world...

Hello everyone few of you has read my story ''Why?'' well I'm still living this life of mine there were times I have up but God brought me up and have me another chance my family would say I'm stupid and retarded , I'm going to tell you...

I'm always screwing up it seems. Whether forgetting to do something or doing something wrong or being too mindless and stupid to understand what's going on, I always feel like I'm letting everyone down. It's a very frustrating feeling...

Man I feel like a failure. Well, recently I have. Maybe the last couple of months really. I am stuck in a rut. Trying to get myself out of my current state of 'stuckness'. Having to re-evaluate everything in my life and maybe even...

I'm retired millitary and served 2 tours in Vietnam. I lost a lot of friends while there, and couldn't save them. I spent many nights asking why I survived, and why I couldn't help them. I still have dreams and nightmares. I relive the...

This is a strange group for me to write in. 
I have been married but had no children. Unfortunately due to my disability that was never an option. My marriage ended after five years, but I've never thought of it as a failure.
I never...

Months ago, I had so many plans back then. I was sure of the paths I should take, of the requirements I needed to fulfill and the companies I'll send my resumes to. But now what?

I don't know what happened. It seems like a huge tornado...

I really felt & still feel like a failure this past week, I had an interview for a college course I really want to do but they said no because I didn't have enough voluntary experience, I told them I've volunteered at a daycare centre...

it just seems like most things i attempt to accomplish always fail :/ reason i started feeling this way comes from a varies of situations that has happened over time in my life. first it started in middle school when some of my grades...

Hi i am British 42 male, Life is.... oh its so difficult.
I live with my Mother and her partner in a house.
in 2003 i started having seizures and i still have about 3 a month,
I have been given so much epileptic medication but none of...

Sir Winston Churchill's thoughts have taught me a few things ~ whenever I notice I may slipping in that direction quickly I remind myself:
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss...

Sometimes it feels like the depression just sneaks up on me. I can have a good day and then BOOM here comes the emotions pulling me down. Its hard to live and I know that sounds like a excuse but it truly isn't... I'm starting to feel...

I'm feeling like a complete failure right now. I ruined two relationships in less than one year because I'm just completely idiotic and scared and useless on that sector. The only thing I want is to be in a happy relationship and...