It's hard when you're going through a particularly shitty time and you feel lonely, lost and depressed. It's even more difficult when you try to seek consolidation from friends but everything they say makes it worse. During my university years, I had a few ultra religious friends who believed God was my answer. Many times during my rough times I heard "just make dua" or "read salah and it will help". For the record, it did not help. I became disinterested in "Allah will help, just pray, read the Quran" and all the other bullshit they spouted and I began believing in my own abilities. If there was something I could change about how I was feeling, then it was up to ME to go ahead and change it. If you really have to believe in something then it should be yourself. Give yourselves credit where it's due. Give yourselves a break, you're doing the best you can. God didn't help me, I helped me. *Sidenote: Thankyou for all your private messages. We will try to answer questions and comments as and when we can. Please bear with us.