Despair - S. Kierkegaard.

Despair is a sickness of the spirit, of the self, and so can have three forms:

1. being unconscious in despair of having a self (inauthentic despair)
2. not wanting in despair to be oneself
3. wanting in despair to be oneself

The sickness unto death - S. Kierkegaard.

 

If you are reading this, at least we can say that, there is a possibility for you to not be in state of (inauthentic despair) 1.

 

Despair: hopelessness of doing a thing in order to improve worrying situation.