hi I have been badly bullied all my life for the way I look and called names so I guess I started to hate people and the people who hurt me. so when I grew into my 20,s to take offence easily to what people said to me and I started to develop mental problems, alcohol problems and have not worked in over 5 years because of them. it is like god has thrown me to the tormentors for hating other people, I am just tormented of thoughts of what people said and done to me from different periods of my life. I cant control the thoughts or make them stop. so lately I have started praying for every person that ever wronged me, I have even started to talk to some of them, I confessed to god to forgive them for what they did to me and forgive myself for hating them, I pray for them daily and wish them the best and totally forgive them but when I stop praying for them its like the tormentors make me hate them again even though I really only want the best for these people and have forgiven them. also the only thing that relieves the torment is alcohol which I hate, cause I don't want to drink at all. its like if I drink the torments will go easier on me. I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advise or maybe someone else has gone through this before and might be able help me, thank you.