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Weekly Prompt #41: How do you perceive your own resilience and ability to cope with challenges?
by ASilentObserver
Last post
 Thursday
...See more Hello all, I hope you are all being easy on yourself this week. A few weeks ago we discussed: How does your depression affect your ability to care about and take care of others? [https://www.7cups.com/forum/depression/General_2427/WeeklyPrompt40Howdoesyourdepressionaffectyourabilitytocareaboutandtakecareofothers_336335/] Thank you to all who participated and shared their thoughts and questions for discussion. They were thought-provoking questions and thoughts. I hope you all did too. If you didn't share yours, please share them here [https://www.7cups.com/forum/depression/General_2427/WeeklyPrompt40Howdoesyourdepressionaffectyourabilitytocareaboutandtakecareofothers_336335/] and I look forward to reading and discussing them with you This week's prompt: How do you perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges? To perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges, you can reflect on your past experiences, identify your strengths, ways to embrace a positive mindset etc. Let's get started and share your thoughts with us. I look forward to hearing all your thoughts and ideas.  Join us in the 24/7 Depression Support Group Chat [https://www.7cups.com/connect/groupChatrooms.php]
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Your Poem...
by EmmaE
Last post
 December 6th
...See more Hi everyone, I came across this poem prompt and thought I'd share it here if anyone would like to try! ------------------------- My Poem (Title) My name is (name). Today I feel like a/an (adjective) (noun) (verb)ing in the (noun). Sometimes I am a/an (noun) Sometimes I am a/an (noun) But always I am (adjective). I ask the world, "(question)?" And the answer is a/an (repeat your words from line 2). ------------------------- If you’d like to join the depression support team, please check out THIS POST [https://www.7cups.com/forum/7CupsLeadership_188/SubcommunityHelpWanted_2306/HelpWantedDepressionSupport2023_295219/] for more information. To join our tag list and receive notifications, click HERE [https://www.7cups.com/forum/DepressionSupportCommunity_52/DepressionSupportLeadershipTeam_404/NEWautomateddepressionsupporttaglist_274831/].
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You can keep going 💙
by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
 November 22nd
...See more Hey everyone (: I hope your all doing okie 💙 and if your not (': we *do* care about you and we would really love to be there for you whenever you need us. 💜 I really hope you know that you don’t have to do this alone, buddy.  i don’t know what your going through right now, exactly. i don’t know how you feel (': but i’d like to remind you that it *is* okay to *feel* 💙 and it’s okay to take your time when figuring things out. it may be hard to explain how your feeling as well and i get that. 💜 (it’s important to take some time for yourself also 🥰 please do try being kind to yourself 🥺)  and some days… it just feels like too much, doesn’t it? we feel like we can’t take it anymore, we can’t go on anymore. Things just get too overwhelming, life just gets too hard… and hope seems like a distant dream. i know i’ve felt this way many times (': i think many of you might be able to relate 💙 but honestly, i need to remind you that there *is* hope, and you really can keep going. your never ever alone 💜 and you’ve never been truly alone.  And even though you might have never seen it, you are strong. stronger than you think you are. You’ve come *this* far and I am so so proud of you. i know it hasn’t been easy. i’m so proud of you. 💙 i’m sending so so so much love your way 💜 you deserve it, you really do 🥺 we love you, we care about you *always* and yes, there *is* hope for you. 💙 i promise.  🌙 Ni 🌸 @HealingTalk 
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My 7 Cups Dream Journal
by integrityblues
Last post
 24 hours ago
...See more Entry 1: The Boxes of Cats It was a little strange but what I remember most is visiting a house that was in my old neighborhood that I’d recently moved from (it really wasn’t, so dream logic) but I came back to collect something I left or my mother left. It was very sad and the people who were there now were sort of okay with me wandering around and looking. I kept noticing the signs that I’d once lived there (painted over places that still revealed chipped paint and stuff I recognized from my apartment). Then I looked beneath a couch or table and found boxes full of kittens. Two boxes were full of meowing kittens in water that the new home owners had no idea were there, and one more box held a very dead cat that was an older one from a previous litter. All of the kittens were starving without their mother and I knew that it was the reason why the older one passed. The new owners suddenly smelled the dead cat and I took it upon myself to get rid of it. When I came back an hour later all of the kittens were gone, and when I was walking past another house I could see all the kittens. They’d all grown up into adult cats!
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Why am I so alone?
by Sleebo
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more I don't know what's wrong with me. I seem to be so forgettable to everyone... I don't talk to anyone from high school, even though we just graduated. Nobody ever wants to hang out. Nobody cares. I try to organize things and I get nothing and it's so frustrating. I feel like people only use me. I only have one person that I can truly consider a friend, and she doesn't even live in the same state as me. I feel so alone. I don't have anybody and nobody would bat an eye if I were to disappear, which is basically what happened. None of my "friends" have heard from me in months because I'm just... so sick of feeling disposable. They talk behind my back. I know it. I've HEARD it. I can't keep anyone around. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It has been this way for years. I frequently remember that I don't have any friends in real life. I'm forgettable and disposable because I don't stand out, but I don't know how to. It really gets to me. My own family doesn't even care. Of course, they'd be sad if something bad happened to me but... beyond that. Nothing. They don't care about who I am. Or what I like. Nobody seems to have any interest in me besides this one friend. I have nobody. It hurts and I try to brush it off, but humans naturally crave social interaction. What's wrong with me? It has to be something that I'M doing wrong. It's the only way for this all to make sense.
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Holding too many different jobs
by aquaKitten9729
Last post
 Wednesday
...See more I'm depressed because I can't seem to stick with a job for very long and have problems working. I've held too many different jobs in a short time frame
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Slipping into old patterns
by loyalBeing54
Last post
 Wednesday
...See more Hello everyone, I have been battling depression and anxiety most of my life. My upbringing was (to put it politely) rough and I remember being extremely depressed as a child. I have gone to counseling off and on for the past 7 years and I have been doing a lot better until the last year. Needless to say life happened and a bunch of stressful events have come crashing down on me. I can't really talk to my family and friends because they either don't understand what I'm going through or they think I should just "let it go." But letting major hurt go has been a problem for me. I just want to get back on track were I didn't over think everything and I had some semblance of self esteem. If anyone has any thoughts/feelings/advice or just kind words to help me put it would be greatly appreciated. Talk to you soon.
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I can't do it anymore. I am just too gone and broken and just too confused and just too down. I got nothing left in me.
by confusedandbroke
Last post
 December 11th
...See more I am 38, Parent's died in my early 20's no siblings, no other family. have had no friends, what friends I had just used me or stole money from me then threw me away. in my 20's I was homeless and going town to town state to state had many day jobs, did many things learned many skills. volunteered sitting with people who were dying and had no one there. learned to read and write at age 20, I volunteered in homeless shelters, children's hospitals reading books and drawing with children who had cancer and other diseases and were dying. I volunteered in no kill animal shelters. I just don't know what to do anymore. I am at a loss of what to do. I would go to the park and hang with people and would even play tackle football with some guys at the park, never knew them just walked up asked if I could join they said sure told me what to do and I did it. Did boxing for a few months, got my CDL but no trucking company would hire me , worked for a band etc. did construction jobs had my own landscape company etc. Now here I am in my late 30's pushing 40, single, alone, no kids, no education, learning issues crippling me from being able to further my education. Made a facebook account and have no one to add on it no groups to join, I have no one to talk too daily. I am on disability unable to work. I have arthritis crippling me from my lower back to my feet and every where in between. Lucky if I can even walk a mile and stand for an hour at this point. Past ten years I have tried to get my GED and failed and have tried getting a fundraiser and getting grants and getting companies and churches and such to invest in me as I start a shelter to take in teens 18 to 25 who are homeless and help them get off the streets and on their feet and help get them a job and their own place. all the while trying to find a girlfriend someone to love and settle down with and make a life with and be with all at the same time as I try to start a couple of businesses of my own that also got shut down in my face while living in this dead end town that has sucked the life out of me. I have no family, no friends, I go months to years no one to talk too, no one who calls say hey whats up, no one who calls to talk about the new game of thrones episode etc. or just to bitch about their dog shitting in their shoe and pissing on their bed while chewing up all the toilet paper in the house. I have put myself out there for the past eight years in the dating scene trying to find a woman to date and settle down with. I have been rejected around 1600 times and told I am ugly, disgusting, worthless, useless, told I have nothing to offer a woman or give a woman, mocked at laughed at, told I don't deserve love or a relationship, told I needed to end my life for being so fat and lazy. 7 nights ago I had 10 women reply to my dating post telling me they loved what they read about me, they wanted to get to know me, they wanted the same things in a relationship etc etc etc. all of them ghosted me once they found out I was obese. all but one, One was a single mom of 4 by 4 different men, living with her parents no job, an alcoholic then told me if it was an issue she understood. we talked for half an hour, she sent a pic. I sent one back. when she seen my weight she said hell no, I should be ashamed of myself and I am worse than a drug addict and I need to end my life. there is no way she would ever be with someone as horribly fat as I am. but right before that she was talking about how funny I was, how she couldn't find any decent genuine men like me. how I seem to have a great heart and so on. I just feel like my life went from something really good to a complete waste of nothing and I am now nothing but a worthless failure that doesn't deserve anything and can't do anything with my life anymore no matter how hard I try. I just fail at everything I do now. I rent a room from an elderly woman who is in bad health and I give her 350 a month all bills paid. and if she dies I will be homeless. no car, no where to live. no family, no friends. homeless and on the street with arthritis in my back my knees ankles feet unable to walk more than a mile in a town with no uber lyft taxi or city bus an hour from any town either direction one way I have absolutely no one, no where to go every night when I go to sleep I wonder if this is the last night I will be here and every morning I wake up i wake her up to see if shes alive and for her to check her blood sugar for her diabetes and hoping to god shes still alive. I get 790 a month every room I find to rent they want 400 plus half in bills. I can't afford that. I can only afford 350 with all bill included and no one will do that. and if I do find anyone who will they don't want me on disability they want me working and no one will rent to me because of my weight I've had people turn me down over my weight and rooms with all bills paid are around 500 to 600 a month. I have meds, and copays to drs and other things I need to get through the month not counting food. I cant afford that on my 790 a month check I don't know what to do anymore. I was supposed to be in Wisconsin last month for an apartment complex for low income, been on the waiting list for years finally got called up. but when it came time I couldn't get there, didn't have the money for the bus ticket, for rent, and to have the lights turned on. was trying to save but things came up around here that took the savings. I bought a car last year but got scammed out of 3 thousand.I don't know what to do anymore. I am at a loss of what to do. It seems like everything I do or everything I come up with either blows up in my face or I get scammed out of or it just is a closed door. and I am feeling like I am just meant to be alone in this world forever. . I just dunno anymore what to do. I'm so broken beyond fixing at this point. I can't take anymore.
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blockage
by affableStrings4654
Last post
 December 8th
...See more So I'm an artist. I draw and paint, mostly. I have been doing digital art more often recently, but i do have a day job and lots of adult responsibilities. I also have depression. It's making it extremely difficult to finish pieces of art. I have a goal of trying to do one digital painting a month, and I"m always struggling to meet it. It used to be really easy for me to create things when i was younger. I got to spend a lot of mental energy on my art. I think part of the reason i struggle with it nowadays is that i am too critical of my own work. i am afraid of messing up or having my art look weird. perfectionism leads to avoidance. i don't know. it doesn't feel good. I want to be back to making things without the pressure that i put on myself. but I also don't know how to stop.
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Bipolar
by Claire81
Last post
 December 7th
...See more Hello, Just wondering if there were other people (members or listeners) with bipolar disorder? I'm always up for listening to people who have queries about it. Claire
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Depressed Fellow.
by EmpathyS
Last post
 December 7th
...See more i m just so depressed i rarely feel hsppy i feel tired of this world tired seeing people justifying violence, hatred, harrasements, bullying and other forms of inhumane stufffs i wonder if even good people exists or its just the fear of law that stop tghem from doing bad.. that is selfish and not truly being good i m soo tired of this world
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Emotionally Immature Parents
by babybluerose
Last post
 November 18th
...See more Dear 7Cups Friends, I am happy to be here.  I am 39, bipolar and disabled living with my parents.  I live in California where a one-bedroom is $3,000 a month.  I am blessed to not need to pay any rent because the house is paid off.  But a therapist said my "rent" is my emotional burden. I never want to move out.  I want to be there for my parents.  They have no friends and they act emotionally divorced from each other.   My heart breaks every day seeing my mom and dad say nothing to each other.  They only talk when it's necessary.  And my mom mentally abuses my dad saying she would like him to die.  I am not here asking for advice on moving out.  I would like someone to tell  me of a similar emotionally immature parents story so I can feel better.    I have this book:  Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson  I will look through this community postings and support you guys too. Best Wishes, Baby Blue Rose
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Relationship stress
by unassumingSummer8183
Last post
 November 12th
...See more Have you ever felt like your partner is not helping you with your anxiety he is givibg you the anxiety..
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how i feel
by cate20
Last post
 November 11th
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Pmdd
by placidGrapes8613
Last post
 November 2nd
...See more I suffer from pmdd. Some of the symptoms of pmdd are deppression, illogical thinking, suicidal ideaology. I have a lot of great treatments for pmdd. I have so much stress that nothing works. I have a pit in my stomach. Iam on day two of St. Johns wart.

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Community Resources

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- 9 Types of Depression and How To Recognize Them 

- You don't have to understand, you just have to be present by @MarianaFilipaSouza6

A beautiful testament to the nature of depression

- Rethink Mental Illness: Depression

Basic information and facts

- Resource Masterpost by @Sealiously

A plethora of amazing links

- Depression Self Help Guide

Discover some ways to help manage what you're going through

- Safety Plan

Here's a safety plan for those who are passively suicidal. Your life is important

- Resources to Help Manage Depression

A collection of helpful links for more information and support

- Depression Community Path

A path that helps guide you through dealing with depression on a day to day basis


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