-- Posted by osmoticdespair at 8:03 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 I feel really useless, really stupid, really slow and incompetant. Everytime I think "now come on maybe you are not so bad, you know you are not stupid, you know you can cope, you know better than this" I just get this overwhelming sense of "but what if I am really stupid, what if I am really incompetant and usless, who am I to judge, I am just being proud and arrogant". Eh. I feel bad anyway. I guess I just have to wait it out, but I wanted to whinge. -- Posted by vOlCoM 07 at 8:10 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 I feel the same way ALOT!  I hate my life, I hate the way I live.  I hate what I do.  I seem to hate just about everything.  Sometimes I'll think of things, and just break down and start crying.  I'll even cry myself to sleep alot, and I can't help it.  I've actually thought about suicide before, but I haven't thought of that in a while, thankfully!  But I just seem to get so depressed, and I try to tell myself things will get better, cause they always do!  But then I always think what if they don't... you know?  I always seem to think no one likes me, that they just try to act like they do when around me.  That they're all just two-faced people hating me inside.  Anyway, I understand the way you feel, and I'm sure A TON of teenagers do!  You're not alone! -- Posted by osmoticdespair at 8:13 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 I know its a common way to feel. I just wish I didn't feel that way right now. I think that the solution is probably to set myself a challanging task, and successfully complete it, but that will take ages and I want to feel better now. Heh. So impatient I am. -- Posted by tell me again at 8:15 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 I feel that way quite often.. and then I come on LW, and it makes it worse as it sucks what productivity i could have mustered, away. -- Posted by Boz1813 at 9:29 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 You write of intelligence is if it were measured on a scorecard or on a barometer.  If you feel deficient in a certain field, study harder.  Keep in mind, of course, that no one is an expert in every area; just focus on doing your best in everything you study. -- Posted by osmoticdespair at 9:33 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 I feel stupid, not ignorant (though I feel ignorant too). I feel like I cannot process information and thought with the efficiancy that an average person does and if I can I am ceirtainly no better than average - which if true conflicts with my "self image" and so causes me emotional distress. -- Posted by bitterness at 9:36 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 i feel the exact same way!!! i always feel as though im stupid and that everyone is above me and i hate it!! and it doesnt help any when you have people telling you youre stupid as well! ugggh. this sucks. i think im the dumbest person in my whole school. -- Posted by tell me again at 9:37 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 Maybe you can't process the information not because of a deficiency in something, but rather an overwhelming amount of something? Inarticulate info? But if you meant slow reaction kind of thing, then that's entirely different from intelligence too, but I'm slow in that way and it bothers me. In any case, i don't think youre stupid =P -- Posted by osmoticdespair at 9:43 pm on Sep. 8, 2006 Lets face it, if something wasn't a wrong about me then why the hell am I posting here on a teen forum instead of interacting with adults?