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Losing hope

User Profile: Reforged882
Reforged882 13 hours ago

Every day I wake up feeling suffocated with a tightness in my chest. Battling with chronic depression, anxiety ever since I was a child, had psychological trauma from school and recently got diagnosed with ASD. I stopped taking my medications because it kept suppressing my emotions more. But now I am worse, I can't handle the intense loneliness that autistic burnout brings. Cannot meet my friends frequently, maybe once a year if I'm lucky. I've settled for online friendships but I am struggling to keep anyone in my life. I can't reciprocate or pretend anymore, all the nostalgia makes it impossible for me not to breakdown and cry. It's a nostalgia that makes me sick to my stomach because I wasn't even myself around them. Now everything is falling apart, all these years of masking and trying became useless since I have no one when I really need somebody. I miss times when conversations were light hearted, but I also remember how disconnected I was with myself. I feel like if I don't bring my best self everywhere, things will always fall apart. I try so hard only for it to be blown away like dust.

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User Profile: determinedSea4370
determinedSea4370 9 hours ago

@Reforged882 I can feel the pain through the post. Damn. I am so sorry and I feel for you, really. I'm in a similar boat with the depression, anxiety, ASD, and intense loneliness and the nostalgia that hits you like a bag of bricks all the time- it's like grief. And then the depression comes around to whisper in your ear that this is it and it's only going to get worse. I want to help. Maybe we can help each other. Are there opportunities in your life right now where you can meet people irl? Like, have you got any free time? I'm not saying you have to make friends because that is hard, but maybe you could have casual meet up with once a week people in your life.