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I feel alone. People around me ask me what is wrong but I just tell them I am fine or tired. There is no one around me that I feel I can talk to. I don’t want to tell the people around me what is wrong because of fear. Fear of what? I don’t know. I don’t want my family or any other people around me to know what is wrong. I have no close friends in person I could talk to. I feel empty and hopeless. I am not sure now what to do.
Posted on 10/30/09, 11:10 pm |
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I'm warning you this might not be too helpful, I'm just going to say what I've done/do.
-I'm in counseling although I feel like I can't trust my counselor(only known her since August) so I tell her very little. With my counselor before that I opened up more but maybe that's because I was so desperate for help. -I talk about it with a couple people in my family but it's more talking in general about things that are bothering me and less about the things that bother me specifically. The odd times I've tried to open up more I find they don't understand and I'm in more pain than I was before that. The only good(ish) advice I can give you is to keep thinking through the ways to get better. You at least realize you need help- that's hard to admit for a lot of us. 
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Sometimes, the people we feel we can't trust are the most helpful ones. Don't shut them out unless you have a valid reason to. Ask them if they really want to know what's wrong first. If they say yes, start talking but start out small. If you feel you can keep going, go into something bigger with them. It won't be easy, but it might be worth it.
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Are you in therapy? If not you should get into it. It really helps me. It takes some time to get used to and open up ,but it will be worth it in the end.I am seeing my second therapist(i just moved) and already I feel like I'm on the verge of really opening up. You can also try writing in a journal/blog. Just get the thoughts out there and then reread it and try to reason through it.
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I don't really have any advice because I am going through the exact same thing it feels awful. So if you want to talk i'm here. :/
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I feel exactly the same way. It's like I have to hide what I feel from everybody else, but why? Because I'm afraid of them judging me? Am I afraid of them getting frightened by my pain? I want to get help; I just can't. Even if I'm in a hallway with 40 other people trying to get to classes, I feel like I'm the only person on Earth. It's like solitary confinement in your own body. I say "fine" and "tired" a lot too. I can't even bring myself to talk to a counselor about it, because I'd have to ask a teacher or my mom to let me go. Plus, I'm afraid they'd think my feelings were stupid or something.
I'm sorry if that didn't help at all (which it likely didn't). It's weird knowing that someone finally has said what I've been thinking for months.
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