I think that its difficult to know how to handle a situation like this unless you have borne witness to it or experienced it yourself however you did ask for people to make comments so there will always be some rough with the smooth.
Read between the lines of these posts and accept, as you seem to have done, that you need professional help but you should still try to rise above anything that would have previously upset you.
I hope that it works out for you as you have the majority of your life ahead of you and taking stock now and changing your perception of life should help to stop you wasting the rest of it by being 'inside'.
Good luck to you bubble!