✨️ Hey there! ✨️

I'm Blackberry, you can also call me Berry. 🫐

I'm a teen from India. 🍓

 My pronouns are she/they. 🌈

I struggle with depression, loneliness, overthinking and self-doubt.

I've never been diagnosed with depression, yet I am pretty sure I am dealing with it.

I also deal with school stress and the stress of dealing with not-so-great parents.

Although my username might call me an exuberant Berry, I am actually anything but exuberant.

I don't have anybody in my offline life who can support or listen to me or someone I can talk to during difficult times. 😔

I have no true friends in real life, 7 Cups friends are all I have and I'm incredibly grateful for them. 🧡

I literally rely completely on 7 Cups for emotional support. 💙

I am a totally different person at home, in school, and on 7 Cups.

7 Cups is where I am my most real self and I love 7 Cups more than anything else on earth. ☕️

I love being here because here, I get to be more of the person I really am. 😊

I will never forget the people I have talked to on here and who have listened to me and talked to me, and I really do miss talking to my friends who aren't around anymore.

I am quite a sensitive person, and it's sadly very easy for people to make me cry. 😭 Please be kind.

As much as I can cry sometimes, I also have times when nothing makes me cry. Those times are so hard because crying kinda helps me get my emotions out. 😢

Every so often, I feel like I am done with life and I feel like giving up. ☹️

I find I very hard to keep going, it is very hard to find the motivation to keep going, but I try to find reasons to live. 😔

I really really hate school. I might score well but that does not mean I like school. 🏫

I am, if it's correct to say, addicted to 7 Cups and YouTube. I spend a lot of time on Cups and it is important for my survival.

I like plant photography, but I don't know if I call that a hobby. 🌿🌱💚

I am really scared of dogs 🐶, though I love cats. Meeeooow 😺🐾🐾

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say, 'My tooth is aching' than to say, 'My heart is broken'." 💔 — C.S. Lewis

"People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding." 💚 — Deepika Padukone

"When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone." 😔 — Fiona Apple

"If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather." 🌧️ — Stephen Fry

"The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why." 🤔 — Unknown

"That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end." 🔚 — Elizabeth Wurtzel

"Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die." 🌹🥀 — Danny Baker

"Your abuser's trauma does not justify them abusing you." 🤕 — Anonymous

"Verbal abuse is still abuse. It's abuse in the form of words. Don't assume that a few hurtful words won't cost them their life. Words hurt." ❤️‍🩹 — Unknown

"It hurts the most when the person that made you feel so special yesterday, makes you feel so unwanted today." 💔 — Anonymous

"Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache." 😭 — Iyanla Vanzant

"When you're depressed you don't control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people understood that." 💭 — Anonymous

"My thoughts are destroying me. I try not to think, but the silence is a killer too." 🙁 — Unknown

"Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live." 🥀 — Ginger Zee

"This is not the life I wanted, and I do not want to have it anymore." 😔 — Anonymous

"I am laughing and smiling but on the inside, I am dying." 🥀 — Anonymous

"Keeping a lot to myself, because it is hard to find someone who understands." 😔 — Unknown

"It is that feeling when you are not necessarily sad, but just really empty." 😐 — Unknown

❤️ Thank you for reading through this! ❤️

💕 Sending you loads of love and warmth 💕

🫐 Berry 🍓