What is the point.

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So I when I was in highschool a girl in my grade ended up getting shot becuase some random guy(not sure what his issue was shot her) but she could have contributed more to freaking society than I can......after all I have no job and college probably will not get me anywhere because I am just going through the motions.......sure I like to delude myself into thinking I can get involved with positive change or at least informing people about various issues but who am I kidding I don't even care about myself so how can I really help anyone else. Point is I should have died. My existance is useless..........I am not one of the fittest I am just a freaking loser who can't make anything of myself. Why should I even exist and why did I get the genetic and environmental factors or whatever that caused me to be prone to PTSD.......why do I have to freaking have a panic attack every time I am startled, get upset/angry really easily, and freaking prozac don't get me started on that but seriously how am I even supposed to feel and how do I deal with this and move on.

It sounds like you're really depressed. It's hard when you're stuck to feel anything other than the crap you're stuck in but eventually you have to pick a constructive focus for your life and dig out of it.
When I was 18 my girlfriend drown in her pool; I had a PTSD of sorts for years. What worked for me was to pick things in my life that I could work on and simply work on them. I'm sure you have things you can do that can help people; use those gifts to do what you can. The simple act of doing something beats it back and makes it bearable.
You're still young and who knows how you'll contribute to society; you could change direction right now change the world. You just need to focus on positive things in your life, on the silver cloud in even every bad situation, and refuse to let life beat you down because you never quit
I wish you well.
Also it looks like you're in Phoenix.. there is a meetup group that meets the 2nd Saturday of the month; might help to hang out with people that accept you. Though maybe I'm an idiot.. because mine says snowy owl
JD

Yeah that is what I try to tell myself, but it does not really convince me.....feels like there is no where to go and nothing to do. And there are a few positive things in my life that I enjoy.......but still that does nothing to change how I feel. I just feel really burnt out and though I do well in college it feels like I am just going through the motions I mean I think about getting an education and what I might do with that and focus on the moment but what good does focusing on the moment do if you don't really feel passionate or happy about things in general...I mean my most common responce when people aske me what I am going to college for I might say 'psychologhy and sociology' then they ask what I plan to do with it and the answer is 'uhh I don't really know.' not very convincing that I am excited about getting an education and putting it to use.

I think you've hit on at least part of the issue; without the end in mind it all seems pointless. That is completely understandable. You might need to change your major but first you'd want to think about what really motivates you, the kind of people you want to help, or the kinds of problems you want to solve.
Is there any particular group of people you have an affinity to that you want to help?
Is there any area of interest that you feel compelled toward?
Are there things you'd do (that have a somewhat related career) whether you were being paid or not?
Once you have answered your 'why' you can adjust what you're going to school for in order to give it a purpose that motivates you

Well I like sociology and psychology, I first wanted to major in history but that did not work out I mean I was not getting any more out if it then I would get from just reading about history on my own time. Then I thought communications would be cool but was very turned off by that when the teacher was saying the only real job to get with that major would be advertisement and I would never want to do that. Also that is when the PTSD really started kicking in and that particular teacher was kind of a jerk to me so I dropped out for about a year.

Then this last semester I just took a writing class I needed, a history class I ended up dropping out of and psychology 101 I did not like the professer but I found the subject intresting....so over the summer I took Psychology 102 and Sociology 101 and enjoyed them both......except I was not doing to well mentally towards the end of the semester which was stressfull so I ended up not writing the last psychology paper(still passed with an 87%) and I got in a bit of a hurry with some of my sociology homework but should still be passing. But yeah I do enjoy those subjects......I just don't see what I am going to do with a degree......I like to think I can get involved in some issues I care about but I feel like its a joke....I mean I have no confidence, no sense of a hopeful future, and I don't even really have the ability to enjoy myself......like I kind of enjoy some things but I do not really enjoy them and I can feel I am not enjoying them compared to other people and sometimes even they notice it.

I mean my birthday is going to be celebrated on Satarday at the same amusement park we always do, because I never bothered coming up with a different idea.....but I am not even up for it, but I would rather just fake it like I am enjoying it than deal with everyone questioning why I don't feel like doing that this year and then getting concerned and all that.....