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I’m feeling rejected by the board

deepdark
deepdark

I have 10 " friends" on this board. My email sends me writings from their journals & we answer eachother & send hugs. I have journaled twice & posted & basically begged for an answer & no nada zip I haven't heard boo. I don't think I'm doing anything different that I used to do when posting journal entries. I get their journals in my emails & I assume they get mine. I do understand that my perceptions are distorted by my depression but I'm feeling very very hurt & quite distraught by this silly situation

Froggie83
Froggie83
I have often wondered about this as well. Many of my journals have zero replies. Zero. None zip zilch nada. makes me wonder if its randomly not posting them or if i am just that whiny that no one bothers reading my journals.
There was one day a while back when i got like 18 emails.. All notifications from posts i had already read and responded to. So that was a glitch in the system.
sonnycamehome
sonnycamehome
This board can be slow sometimes - especially since we're still in a holiday weekend.

It's hard not to take things personally, but it's likely that people may not have even logged in.

Also, I don't think the email system is very reliable. I never get email notifications even though I'm supposed to.
Anna1212
Anna1212
I'm sorry. I think part of it is people are busy and it's hard to read and respond to friends' journals especially if you have a lot of people on your friends list. i have that problem too. I come to the main board if I really want a response quickly.
deepdark
deepdark
Hmmmmm. It’s just that the other posts no matter what... get a flood of responses & hugs. I’m glad to know I’m not alone & super appreciative of all your responses. I really am❤️
sahm15
sahm15
just saying hi. i am not here regularly. i come on when in a crisis. it helps. I don't know anything about sharing journals!
Bobby5000
Bobby5000
Good luck and your post seem interesting to me. I wish you good luck. I do think its good for people to take a second, particularly now, to say a kind word.

I order sandwiches from a place and know this one lady. I asked how she was, and she said despite Covid people were complaining. I listened for a few minutes, told her she did a great job, gave her a nice tip and she said can I give you a hug. Candidly I don't do hugs but we fist bumped, and she thanked me.
Julie111
Julie111
Same here. I see some of my 'friends' get tons of replies and I am lucky if I get one or two if any. Perhaps I don't have enough friends. I do my journal for me anyway and not for responses so much. Although it is nice to have a kind response. I gave up on responses a long time ago. If I need response then I post to a group. I usually find that is quicker and gets more attention.
I hope you don't give up on connecting and sharing.
rosykitten
rosykitten
I never receive email notifications or anything. I didn't know about this. Thank you for telling me. I will have to look into this. Also, I am back on DS. I haven't been around for years. If you want, we can become friends and go from there. Let me know.
Prycejosh1987
Prycejosh1987
Depression tells people things that arent true, like nobody cares, or life will always be this way. It doesnt have to be that way, you can fight back, and claim a good thing out of a bad situation.