# @strivetobe on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQZrArNCYRS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36405092-strivetobe-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-29T17:13:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Church of Jesus Christ Youth (@strivetobe) — https://gondola.cc/strivetobe

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Comparing myself with others affected me more than I could’ve ever imagined. 

Gradually, I started to feel more insecure. This insecurity, and other challenges, built up to a point where I was close to ending it all. I felt like everyone had something in them that I didn’t have. At one point it felt like everything was pushing me to end my life by suicide, but I had an impression from Heavenly Father saying, “No, come here,” and I felt Him encircle me in His love. He gave me the strength not to do it, and to ask for help. 

At that time, I felt that part of my struggle was that I wasn’t looking unto Christ. However, He still helped me draw closer to Him though. For me, looking to Christ means trying to see His hand extended to me in everything.  I think and ask myself, “If He was there when I was far away, if I come closer to Him how much closer would He be to me?” —Isidora #LookUntoChrist 
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If you or a loved one is experiencing thoughts of suicide or extreme feelings of anxiety or depression, seek help immediately from a trusted adult, or call a crisis hotline. If someone you know is expressing signs, view the “Ask, Care, Tell“ Church instructional video on ChurchofJesusChrist.org. 

Find additional resources at suicide.ChurchofJesusChrist.org, or find a number for your local crisis hotline at the link in bio.

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