I am not happy with myself. I feel empty, depressed, and hopeless. Where do I even begin?

Answer: You begin by realizing that you cannot pull through this on your own. You need help and there is only one place that you will find that help and it is in the secret place of God. "Seek first the consciousness of that infinite Something and then goodness will follow". Remember that Jesus himself said "I of my own self can do nothing" and so it is with you that the presence of that Something, the Father within, can do all things and it is your feeling empty that is the beginning of a new world for now you have available to you the infinite source of all good.

And you begin by practicing the Golden Key "stop thinking about the badness in our life and think about God instead". Why? Because in the consciousness of the Presence of God there is greatness, there is wisdom, there is omnipotence, there is omniscience, there is peace, there is Life. And it is that Life that is your shepherd and you shall not want. It leads you by the still waters and makes you to lie down in green pastures. It is the peace that passes all understanding for in that Life there is no badness of depression, or hopelessness, or unhappiness, to overcome.

"Except God build your consciousness, they labor in vain who build it". When you have built a consciousness of God, your world is new and now you have been set free to live in the harmony of God's being. Now there is hopefulness and you no longer have to ask the question "where do I even begin?" because now you have answered your own question.