Well, alcohol withdrawals are beginning to set in. I have no more booze and no more money. I don't remember the past couple of days too well. I've been drinking all this time, and I think I probably spent around 40 of the past 48 hours laying in bed. I'm so exhausted all the time. I feel horrible all the time. It's getting to the point where I simply cannot handle it anymore. If I had alcohol or drugs, I'd just end up going to sleep all day anyway. But I wouldn't feel quite as awful as I do now.
I hate that I never really contribute anything positive to this board, and mostly just whine. I don't know where else to go to let these things out. I'm pretty sure I am going to die soon. I'm back to how I was months ago when my liver was giving out. Last night was the worst I've felt in a while. It just keeps getting worse. It's difficult to even get out of bed and walk around. I'm finding myself feeling closer to accepting death and committing suicide, although I'm not too sure how I want to go about it. I just don't want to live anymore. I can't afford any drugs or alcohol right now to calm down these feelings. I have nobody to talk to about it. I feel like absolute death. I don't want to live.
I understand what it is like to be so depressed that you just stay in bed. There have been times when I would stay in bed 18-23 hours per day sleeping and trying to sleep due to extreme lack of energy, complete loss of interest in everything, and because I just did not want to be awake feeling the pain any more than I had to. I also understand wanting to die as I have tried to end my life several times and came close to carrying out suicide plans. This includes a time when I was 16. We were going to my sister's for Easter and they had lots of guns. If my sister had not gotten pissed of at my mom a few days before Easter (and then did not speak or allow anyone to contact them for at least 6 or 7 years) I would have blown my head off with a shotgun as soon as I had a few minutes to get it without being seen. I'd be dead now. I was almost ready to carry out a suicide plan (asphyxiate in a cellar full of CO2 from melting dry ice) less than a month ago and would have done so if the medication I was put on hadn't started to work at that time.
Also, please remember that going off of recreational drugs will usually make you feel much worse for a while, especially while in withdrawal. The worsening of your mental state from going off drugs could last a couple of weeks or potentially longer. Now would be a terrible time to decide on suicide since quitting alcohol or other drugs can make one suicidal. You might not even want to die if you had not stopped drinking and using whatever other drugs you do so suddenly. You are not in a state where you can make a truly rational decision about taking your life.
Overuse of drugs can itself lead to depression, some are much worse than others. Alcohol is probably one of the worst to do that. Too much alcohol is also really hard on your body and can cause physical symptoms that make you feel worse.
Have you seen a psychiatrist and told them how you have been feeling? Most people are able to find a medication or combo of meds that works well for them. It can take a while for the shrink to find a drug or drug combo that works well for you but it is worth the wait. If you are depressed and are not getting treatment, you need to do that ASAP. I suffered through severe and often suicidal depression for over 10 years before I sought treatment. Research shows that the sooner you start treatment after developing symptoms, the more likely you are to fully recover.
I am very glad I am still alive. I have experienced so many amazing things since my first attempt. I really should not be here after trying to end my life and coming so close to carrying out other attempts. Last attempt, it was just luck that I had to get up when I was getting close to sleep. After falling multiple times, my mom is kind of worried and I told her what I had done. I woke up in the ICU 3 days later. My blood oxygen level had dropped into the 60s with an oxygen mask while I was out and I would have required intubation into my lungs to supply oxygen if it had dropped lower. It would drop into the 70s when I pulled my oxygen blowing mask up to talk after I was awake. As low as my oxygen level got when I was sleeping/comatose and being given oxygen, I would have almost surely died if I had stayed in bed and passed out or suffered permanent hypoxic brain damage. Organ damage (especially to the brain) occurs when O2 blood saturation drops under 60%. It was just dumb luck that my sister got pissed off when she did. I'd be dead for sure if I had been able to get that shotgun.
I believe that there are very few people who really want to die. They want to stop suffering and see no other way out. Death is not the only way out.
If you do not have health insurance and can't afford to see anyone for your depression, you can go to the ER. If you tell them how you feel, they'll get you help. This may involve involuntary commitment to a mental hospital. In Texas it is for two weeks and can only be extended beyond that with approval from the judge. They only extend it if there is good evidence that you are a danger to self or others. The law may not be the same where you are. You would almost surely be sent to a state run mental hospital. In any case, they would have no choice but to treat you. They would put you on one or more psychiatric medications, most likely.
I know nobody wants to end up in a mental institution, but it is worth it if the other option is either death or not getting proper treatment for depression. The one I was in was not a pleasant place, but it wasn't really bad like in a lot of movies either. It was mainly just really boring and I could not sleep because other people in my room snored all night. If you are still suicidal and have no psychiatrist/therapist to help you in these situations, consider going to the ER for it so that you can get help (which would likely mean some time in a mental institution). If you live in the USA or another country without universal health care, this may be the only way to get help if you don't have insurance or money.
That aside, I know a substance that you might try as a temporary or permanent replacement for alcohol. It is called phenibut.
Phenibut is a legal substance sold as a dietary supplement that would probably stop alcohol withdrawal and has nice mental effects that are better than anything I've felt from drinking. Probably too late for that to help you with WD's by now. It is probably a lot better for your liver than drinking is too. I find it much more recreational than alcohol and some people describe the effects as like being drunk but with a clearer mind. It also doesn't cause hangovers. You'll find it if you Google it. Or look on internet auction sites. Some health or supplement stores may even have it. It is much cheaper to buy as powder than pills. (MODS, I hope this isn't breaking the no source discussion. I did not name a specific place and the substance in question is classified as a dietary supplement, not research chemical or legal high. Edit it out if it's a problem).