Depression Support Group
Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.
so this website was recommended to me by a counsellor with the Crisis Text Line and i’d figure i’d try it out. so basically ever since my best friend stopped talking to me in May for no reason, i’ve felt this overwhelming feeling of loneliness. since then, many of my friends have left me. i just started college and because of that, i’m no longer in touch with a lot of my friends. my boyfriend was gone for a month and a half and got back on September 15, but i didn’t find out until a week later that he was home and when i asked him about he said he got too busy to tell me. i feel so unimportant to people. so unwanted. i’m in a constant state of loneliness and feel empty most of the time. i’ve cried myself to sleep every night for the past week. i started cutting again. i know that’s not going to help anything and i feel pathetic for resorting to it. my current best friend told me he was disappointed in me. the girl i fell in love with told me she wanted to be with me for weeks and then suddenly decided she was too busy for me. i just want someone who cares. i want someone to love me for who i am. i want to be enough. i’m tired of people leaving. i don’t want to spend my nights crying in bed because i have absolutely no one, not even my family. i don’t care about life anymore. i don’t think i can last much longer. i’m not saying i’m suicidal, i’m just saying that if a car were headed straight for me i don’t think i’d get out of the way.
Secondly, alone is a good way to be when you are down, because nobody has to see too much. Keep your privacy for a while, cry as much as you need to, and your body will process all of the changes you have gone through and come out the other end. Try to avoid evolving your pain into action. Pain is just raw pain. Keep it at that level without doing anything about it. Cutting is seen by most normies as an act of melodrama or romance, and they resent it. They won't feel sorry for you being brave in your time of woe; they will want to punch you in the face.
that's the thing n0body ever tells anybody that cuts; this reaction other people have to it. It's not a compassionate reaction.
What you are going through now though is largely physiological and we've all been through it. Your body has to get through it. You have had a lot happen, and are grieving.
Grieving can create depression and anxiety, but it's not congenital; it's situational.
So don't assume that how you feel now will last. It might last a year. it won't last two. You will come back to yourself but with more wisdom, more resilience, and more ability to cope with life's changes.
As to loving yourself comments: I don't know where those comments come from, unless they are talking about the act of loving: taking actual care of someone who is down. Taking care of someone who needs to be looked after.
Do that for yourself, and you will come right.