You are not physically sick. --- Its anxiety making you sick. You are not lazy, you are not pathetic. --- Its depression whispering in your ear. Everyone does not hate you. --- You are just insecure and fear abandonment.
Reasons to stay alive: 1. It would hurt those close to me. 2. No more adventures. 3. I would miss graduating from college. 4. I would miss out on my future family. 5. Because I promised.
You can't just lock people out of your life every time something goes wrong. Instead, set your boundaries and discuss them with the people in your life. You can't get mad at people for crossing boundaries they didn't know where there to begin with.
Change does not come from a place of comfort.
You won't be sad for the rest of your life. Yes, there will be sad days, but there will also be happy ones. Live for the memories you have yet to make.
And that's on processing my way through a depressive episode.