Desperate means leaving little or no hope, extreme or excessive or actuated by a feeling of hopelessness. You can feel desperate everyday because your job or activities, your environment and maybe your frend or your lover.
The problem is, when you desperate, what will you do?
When you think hopeless, you will do anything to follow your desire, no matter what if it can harm other people, harm yourself or break a thing.
A problem modern western society has today is the demand that it all happen righy now. That's an expectation that is just way too high! So, let "Patience" . Very few things happen instantly in the Universe; realizing that is the first step to defeating desperation. Patience in your life, can helpfull your act when your desperate. Everything not like what your see, you can't take a conclusin of your desperate eventuality. Let's try to positive thingking about your desperate because what will happen nobady can't predict. Try to viewpoint of your life from different side. Look other people that not luck like you. Try to loving faith, people gather with others in a church, synagogue, mosque, field, et all to share their faith and to strengthen it. Don';t you know that you are the special. You only you and no one like you.
Desperate is just one of much feeling that you feel everyday. Manage your desperate is one way to successfull. People who can beat their desperate mostly can be a success man. History can prove that.
At the last, try to smile, because one smile can change your world.