Need a friend
I have been very low lately and I am trying to get all the help I can. I would love it if anyone who has problems with depression would want to share with me their experiences and make a friendship and support for each other. Anyone?
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@ClassicalMe Hi nice to meet you! I have had three depressive episodes in the last three years and it has been really exhausting! Today was the first nice day after a long time. How about you? What's your story?
@Beginagain31 hi! Nice to meet you too:) i'm glad to hear you're having a good day! I live with a roller coaster of emotions. I go through days where I passionately want to die or I can't seem to make it out of bed, and I'm sad and cry at every little thing, then the next day I can be really happy and encouraging... I agree, it's VERY exhausting! I think it really helps to have a reliable support for those days where you just arent feeling superb. And I'm a great person to understand that.
@ClassicalMe Are you on therapy or medication? I started with Zoloft but now doctor told me to start taking a new one, a mood stabilizer because my moods sometimes go high. I also plan to go back to therapy. How do you cope when you're depressed? What do you do?
@Beginagain31 I do admittedly speak to a therapist on this site, and I take medications, but TBH nothing legally prescribed. I have a dog and he helps me cope with alot I think, and this site helps some too. Sometimes I just pick a spot on here (forums, therapist, listeners, my feed, etc.) and just start typing, anything, whatever I feel. I often delete it later, but at the moment it helps me cope. Sucide prevention TEXT lines are actually really cool, despite being a tad cliche, and they have talked to me through alot of tough nights. I get anxiety talking to people is why I use the texting line and not talking in person. Honestly, I'm still working on coping. I still have really bad days that I screw everything up and ruin any progress I make, or where I just am flat out depressed and nothing helps, But I think as long as your moving (frontwards OR back), your good. When you stop moving, then you run into problems.
@Beginagain31 Also, let me add, It's really good to hear from you! :)
@Beginagain31
I am new here, as of today... I would really like to be your friend. I really need someone to talk to and be friends with that understands where I'm coming from and can relate to me. Maybe we can be email penpals?
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As I came across your thread I think about the fact that it has now been over 8 years since I last had a friend to talk to. 8 years without a 'phone call, without an e-mail, without a visit. Depressive illness is entwined with social isolation.
It is fading from my memory now but there is still perhaps a dimly lit recollection of warm conversations, they used to flow like a poem, now they are only echoes.
My depression started suddenly, it was a Vortex, and I have never been the same since.
But there is some light within the tunnel; if I put the effort in, with as much will as I can manage, I can still enjoy my piano, going out on my bike (the Church of the Open Road) and being with my children and cat. There are good things all around me. Maybe people like us can see the good things in our midst but we cannot move to reach them.
I would also like to add that reaching out to someone, revealing this curse, is an incredibly important conversation. It is not the same as revealing that you have been struggling with a bad back. So I admire the bravery of anyone who chooses to do so, in whatever way they see fit.
