Gratitude for People You Love
Something that has helped enormously on my journey with depression is having a strong support system. Feeling less lonely makes me feel like every day I have a reason to keep myself motivated; I look forward to spending time with people I love 🥰
I wanted to encourage everyone to respond to this thread and share: Who is someone you love or are grateful to have in your life? Why? How has having them helped you?
I'll go first: I love my friend Adam. I'm grateful to have him because he knows exactly what to say to cheer me up and he is the most straight forward person I know. He's helped me by being a good friend and encouraging being supportive of one another on our journeys through life.
@electricAlessandra1606 awwww thanks Adam for being a good friend to alessandra ❤
I have no family or friends, but I'm lucky enough to live in a carehome, where I have 24 carers, and lots of support, I love them all very much ❤ and I'm thankful for 7 cups, i have friends here, who love and support me ❤ I feel like the people on cups, are the best kind of family ever ❤
I am grateful for my mum, my brother and also my doctor. I am even grateful for one of the bosses I have had.
I am grateful for my mum because she stuck by me like a rock in my periods of highest difficulty. I would always have someone I could call and they would talk with me super sweetly and try to help. She was super involved with my treatment medically and also helped my monetarily heaps. Now, I am better and she wants me to do many things like live a normal life (like getting up early and other things). But, that does not discount all that she did for me when I needed it most.
I am grateful for my brother because He supported me right through childhood and was an awesome friend! When I have going through depression, He was almost the only person who knew and he supported me super nicely. Now, he has a family and remains mostly involved with that. But he will always have a place in my heart, always.
My psychiatrist was also awesome. I do not see him now. He was super interested in my getting better. He went through so many different tries with me to find something that I would be happy taking, medicine wise. Even when I was ill, and not able to think clearly, when I would ask for my meds to be reduced because the side-effects were too difficult, He would many times agree. If I was too sick he would put me in the hospital, but even when I was clearly unwell but still ok to manage, he would listen to my requests and adjust my meds. I am super thankful for him. He stuck with me for 7 years and invested so much time in my recovery.
Finally, my boss. I was very lucky to have a boss who was super adjusting and accomodating. He allowed me to work for him for a long time and was very kind and one of the first jobs that I lasted a long time. I told him about my illness many months later, but he was super cool with it and just took it as something that happened; he was a genrenal practicitioner. I was even admitted to the hospital and he knew and he still called me back to work after I came out. He was definitely pivotal in me feeling that I can work in the society!
Thank you to all these awesome people!! And that you to Alessandra for making this post!!
@electricAlessandra1606
Even for people that have been of great help to me I have no feeling of gratitude.
That's okay too! Whar about an activity you love? Not everyone is a people person.
@electricAlessandra1606
😞Nothing touches me on an emotional level unless it makes me sad or angry. I have kept up with my blacksmithing hobby but it provides me with no pleasure, no creative release, and no sense of accomplishment.