Loneliness Support Group

Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected and alienated from other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any...

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"Rage, rage against the dying of the light&qu

strumphyy
strumphyy
I used to be such a fighter. Depression has followed me throughout the years, but I would always be ready to chase it away. Yes, there were weeks, months when I was feeling so lonely but I would try so hard to change that. My mind, my heart, they were a battlefield..I would pray not to be lonely, I would cry..

But somehow I stopped. Today I can't cry anymore, I don't pray for loneliness to go away.
One of my friends on DS has a status that , after all, it is what it is...And I have begun to take it as it is..

This hasn't made me feel any better (well, maybe only when I listen to Bright Eyes and I feel at home).
I sometimes miss the times when I would rage against the things that made me sad, but it's so comfortable right now..
Comfortably numb...
wep
wep
Sometimes I feel rage inside also I feel so numb from the negative things that had occured in life from the past. I try not to hate anyone (especially from my family) but it is hard to trust. I know that I have to trust someone but it gets in the way, I'm trying so hard but I retrieve to my game on the computer and can not be hurt by anyone, I'm in control not anyone else.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Depression takes away your drive to fight it. It's the difference between fighting someone once (like the battle at the end of a movie) and fighting someone every single day of your life. You can get pumped up for a big battle; it can be exciting as hell. But the daily grind of fighting depression wears us all down, no matter how much of a fighter we may naturally be. I related a lot to what you wrote.

One approach that works for me is fighting through indirect means. Instead of making a full frontal assault, do things that will help you. For example, some people have a tendency to isolate themselves when they are depressed. You can "fight" by simply making a rule that you won't let yourself do that. If someone else drinks too much when they're depressed, they can "fight" by not letting themselves drink the way they would want to. Tactics like this may not make everything better but they can do a lot to limit the damage.

And since a lot of depression is about the damage we do to ourselves, in the end it helps the depression too
sugar09
sugar09
Never give up and stay very strong ! Have you read " The Mind is a Battlefield " by Joyce Meyer ? It is a life changing book ! You may want to try reading it - it changed the way I think about life.