What's your biggest struggle?

[iremembertherain]

Truly, what plagues you most? What's your biggest stuggle(s)? How do you handle it/them?

Personally, I have depression. It's hard not to be gloomy, not to snap at people. Sometimes I just want to curl up in a ball and cry. Sometimes I do. It's an uphill battle I guess, but I do okay.  

[thrashmetaljunkie]

For me... i have depression. My parents put a lot of preasurre on me to get good grades, and a lot of times, it feels like its never good enough. I think the thing i have the hardest time with... is believing in myself, and accepting myself when i muck up.  

[iremembertherain]

thrashmetaljunkie

For me... i have depression. My parents put a lot of preasurre on me to get good grades, and a lot of times, it feels like its never good enough. I think the thing i have the hardest time with... is believing in myself, and accepting myself when i muck up.

Yah, I have the good grades pressure too, but mainly from myself. My mom insists that I grow up and get a really good paying job. She doesn't understand that I want to be happy, not wealthy. How do you deal? (I think I deal by not dealing at all sweatdrop )  

[thrashmetaljunkie]

i usually turn to God... i use2 be dumb, and turn to my ex. (still a virgin) I've learned to turn to God, He helps a lot.  

[Mjolnir The Hammer]

Whats truly plaguing me, at the moment, is my addiction to porn.

These chains and snares thrown around me have become almost too much to deal with lately. I masturbate all the time, and I'm so sick of it. Sometimes, I get so disgusted with myself, I feel like taking Jesus' advice and cut off my hand to remove the temptation, or option (for that matter), completely.
I still need courage to do something about it and these days are rough. If I can't do it on my own within a month, I'm gonna say," !@#$ it!" and get help. Pray that I find help. I need the thoughts to weigh down on my conscience to clear it. redface

 

[oORiver GoddessOo]

I have a few, my depression its not as bad as it was before, but im slowly taking control of it, and my relationship with my bf who lives far from me, i did a thread that explains it all  

[dirtdevilgrunt13]

iremembertherain

thrashmetaljunkie

For me... i have depression. My parents put a lot of preasurre on me to get good grades, and a lot of times, it feels like its never good enough. I think the thing i have the hardest time with... is believing in myself, and accepting myself when i muck up.

Yah, I have the good grades pressure too, but mainly from myself. My mom insists that I grow up and get a really good paying job. She doesn't understand that I want to be happy, not wealthy. How do you deal? (I think I deal by not dealing at all sweatdrop )

I am with ya on that... I have to keep above a 3.0 this year... It's hard for me.

But I teach myself to deal with stress, it'll take me 5 or 10 mintes to calm down. But also, I give my self something to look up to, meaning, I help people with depression and that kinda stuff. So I look at it as, I can't preach, unless i love a good life!  

[Dcaff]

maplestoryjunky

Whats truly plaguing me, at the moment, is my addiction to porn.

These chains and snares thrown around me have become almost too much to deal with lately. I masturbate all the time, and I'm so sick of it. Sometimes, I get so disgusted with myself, I feel like taking Jesus' advice and cut off my hand to remove the temptation, or option (for that matter), completely.
I still need courage to do something about it and these days are rough. If I can't do it on my own within a month, I'm gonna say," !@#$ it!" and get help. Pray that I find help. I need the thoughts to weigh down on my conscience to clear it. redface

I think this one is a HUGE struggle for most men whether they admit it or not. I know it has been a struggle for me! P.M. me if you ever wanna talk to someone who's struggled badly with this but also experienced the freedom of being delivered from it!

P.S. I don't usually reccommend books cuz Scripture just has so much more authority BUT, this book REALLY helped me in this issue of sexual purity. If you haven't read it yet, pick up a copy of "Every Man's Battle".

I feel the pain of your struggle dude and to any of the rest of you that struggle with this, feel free to drop me a line! I'm a bit older and I've been there and God has been faithful to help me through! He's good like that!  

[Your_42nd_Ex]

My biggest struggle would certainly be that I'm plagued with homosexual attractions... I hate it; I've been fighting it; and more than anything, I guess I'm reduced to just accepting it. I've prayed and prayed about it, and it didn't work. I've come to the conclusion that it's simply not important enough for God to fix. ...or that there's a good reason why I'm getting these temptations, though I'm bamboozled about them.  

[Princessofwhatever]

I struggle with depression and like ADHD, but most of all i struggle with letting myself be truly happy. I just have a really hard time forgiving myself even though i can forgive others pretty easily. I pull myself down and let other people pull me down too. I guess most of this boils down to the issue of whether i find myself truly worthy of salvation and happiness or not, and truth is, i don't. As a result, i find that i don't love and trust God enough to work with me so i can really help others spiritually. But if i don't let myself be helped, how can i expect to help others as much as i'd like to? i have medication (which im currently out of XD) for the chemical issues, but i just kind of ignore the personal issues, which i know only allows it to get worse, but i really don't know how else to deal with it... i baffle myself sweatdrop  

[The Noble Protoman.exe]

Feeling lonesome.  

[aTerraxia]

Sometimes I feel like I don't fit in. Like at church camp, everyone was praying at the altar and whatever, and praying for each other and everying had tears rolling down their face except me. I felt like I wasn't really friends with these people I called my friends. they were feeling all these things I wasn't feeling or experiencing completely different. I fear that I'm insensitive, but I tell myself that maybe I'm the one dry eye and firm shoulder for everyone else, but I'm just not sure.  

[iremembertherain]

Sieg Reyu.2

Sometimes I feel like I don't fit in. Like at church camp, everyone was praying at the altar and whatever, and praying for each other and everying had tears rolling down their face except me. I felt like I wasn't really friends with these people I called my friends. they were feeling all these things I wasn't feeling or experiencing completely different. I fear that I'm insensitive, but I tell myself that maybe I'm the one dry eye and firm shoulder for everyone else, but I'm just not sure.

I know what you mean. Sometimes I feel like I don't truly fit in anywhere. Even/especially church camp.  

[SinfulGuillotine]

As stupid as it sounds, I have a problem just being nice to people. Really, at the end of the day, I am a nice person. I actually dislike very few people, and I don't think I'm even capable of hating someone. If someone's in trouble, I'll do my best to help them out. I care about people.

But I'm opinionated, I'm stubborn, and I have a very low tolerance for what I deem to be stupidity. People who have problems typing and/or speaking with reasonably good grammar, people who use flawed logic, and people who can't seem to think for themselves get on my nerves. And I tend to let them know they get on my nerves. I get very snarky sometimes. On the one hand, I don't want to be an a*****e. On the other hand, sometimes it just feels really good to be kind of mean, even though I know it's not a good thing.