I want to know how do you forgive yourself for trying to take your own life. No one in my home can understand why i did what i did. I wasn't trying to hurt anyone but myself.
I didn't think when I did what I did i just did it. I lost my girlfriend and now she says she just wants to be friends
and she can't forgive me either. Please help don't understand why my head keeps repeating everything over and over. they say i have to fix me but i have never just been me there has always been someone there. My husband soon to be ex. My children and then my girlfriend I have never been on my own. what do i do?
I find one of the most discouraging thing is a failure to be successful. I do not know how to forgive oneself for doing the act, actually I do not know that you have to forgive yourself. Perhaps you can learn by it for sure. The question should be how to help your family understand. NAMI has a support group called Family to Family, I have heard people say that this group helped their family. Just a thought.
Forgiving oneself is difficult. but its even more difficult to see the need for it....so your on the right path.
In the book "Finding Forgiveness", Eileen Borris talks about 7 steps in finding forgiveness and letting go of anger and bitterness. I read this book and it helped me finish the process of forgiving a horrible crime done to me. the startling part was to find out that the process of forgiving ME was the most important part. No, I didn't cause the crime to happen, but my bitterness and problems because of the issue made me a pretty passive aggressive person...and a "poor me" person. I even tried to take an over dose and didn't see the damage it did to people who loved me. I had to forgive myself for that too. But forgiving yourself takes knowing your deserving of it. Why don't you think your not?
your a unique human being deserving of love and forgiveness just as much as anyone else that God created. allowing yourself to feel his love and acceptance of you, which is UNCONDITIONAL, can help you...pray, meditate and ask for his love to heal you, Take responsibility for your problems in a loving way...the way you would do for your own child... forgive yourself and heal your life. You deserve it.