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I feel disgusting

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JackHamilton
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I feel disgusting

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:( I hate life,I feel disgusting,I have too much body hair,I am overweight,my hair is falling off,I am mentally ill,I have HORRIBLE Gender Dysphoria....I have numerous sexual disorders,too! I don't even know if this feeling of disgust is connected to my sexual abuse that happened years ago,by 2 people.I don't have friends.Nor a job.I am 60% disabled.I just want to die.
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Sam W
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Re: I feel disgusting

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Hi Jack,

Before we do address anything else in this post, if you're having thoughts of self-harm you need to reach out to folks who are trained to help you in those moments and evaluate if you need to go to an emergency room. Given your location, this hotline will provide you with people to talk to: http://www.suicide.org/hotlines/interna ... lines.html . After you've had a chance to talk to them we can talk about some of the other stuff here, okay?
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
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