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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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Idk why im like this
by FireflyDust000
Last post
 December 13th
...See more Why does working make me feel like i lose a small part of me? Will it always be like this? Working makes my mental health worst but i have to work. Maybe i just need to stop being sensitive and deal with it?
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loneliness, depression, etc
by okaysimones
Last post
 December 11th
...See more im so tired of feeling so lonely and sad 24/7. it feels like i have no support behind me when it comes to my depression and anxiety. i have a *** relationship with the majority of my family so they can’t help, and it feels like my mom is distant-ish emotionally so i can barely ever rely on her, and my therapist i feel like isn’t much help either. i have trouble making friends so it feels like im completely by myself. im so tired of living my life this way. it doesn’t feel like it ever truly does get better, im. convinced it doesn’t.
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I feel like I'm slipping again
by coolpeoplez
Last post
 December 10th
...See more ughhhh every thing sucks rn ever since I had pe today I have felt like bawling and screaming all f*cking day in PE we were playing basketball which I not only am horrible at playing we needed partners and there were no other girls in our class so I already felt like crying because no one wanted to be partners with me then Maddie(not her real name) invited me to be partners with her and devi(also not her real name) be Maddie's a huge bully to me and earlier she had called me a slow b*tch and Maddie like wouldn't let me talk to devi which has been happening like everyday even though they like barley talked since I started school there (its been 4 years) but now suddenly they are bestfriends so that sucked I sat out and cried a little after. then there was Spanish. I have literaly the worst table group EVER. its Brian and drew Brian sucks and drew fine when they are not together. all in all Brian thinks its the funniest thing in the world to make fun of me and be annoying I swear to the Lord above he cant keep his mouth shut for the life of him so I sat alone at a little table which was much better. after school still felt like crying a lot and I had to go on a 45min drive to do some TSA pre check thing thing for no reason and couldn't do my hw one time when I do it every day so I cried some more then was taking a shower and found out my sister has been wasting my expensive body wash that I got for my birthday. I was feeling really great and happy almost all the time and I knew cause with depression your gonna have good and bad weeks so I knew at some point everything was gonna go down hill so I guess this is it. and I'm not really sure but recently when ever I've been getting really upset like to today I would give myself *** noses and I just wanna know if this would fall in the category of self harm I think it does. but yeah I just kinda hate everything today.
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Fear
by practical7858
Last post
 December 2nd
...See more I fear that I will not leave this toxic house mentally and physically. I will forever be haunted by the pain and crying screams I had every night. I am scared that i will not be able to achieve my life the way i want to because i wont make it past moving out of this house. 
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Go away forever
by Oceanridinghorses2
Last post
 November 19th
...See more Sometimes I don't want to be alive anymore. My older sister is always talking over me when I'm trying to talk to my parents about anything, school, friends, ect and then I stop talking and go to my room upset and I'll cry. I wish I could just go away forever. No one would miss me.
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My dad has everyone fooled into thinking hes a nice guy but hes not fooling me
by nessdamess
Last post
 November 14th
...See more He manipulates me and emotionally verbally abuses me yet im treated like the help the charity the crazy mentally unstable weak link by him i'm sick of it!
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Special rant.
by IntelligentPink
Last post
 November 14th
...See more Writing this in piiiiinnnkkkkkkkk (I love pink) my home life...isn't the greatest, my mom is put bluntly an alcoholic. Has been my whole life, it's only now stopped because she's pregnant, but before her liver almost entered the early stages of failure, she almost had to be hospitalized. (My dad just doesn't give a single ***, and I'm 99% sure is cheating on my mom) I resent my family, my older sister ran away, twice and bought CPS for a friendly chat at our house (humiliating.) my other sister didn't run away, but did the exact same thing and ran her mouth and bought CPS to, I nevertheless do NOT intend to bring that kind of attention to myself or the family, whom despite it's flaws, is 110% better than being in the horribly underfunded foster system, and my mother, is who I resent the most. I just, feel like giving up, I've been thinking suicidal thoughts, I've self harmed, and now I feel humiliated, I resent my own family, I resent myself, and I miss my best friend, I coped with self deprecating humor, and now my friends joke about me being autistic or special...That's just, awesome. (humiliating) TL;DR, My family is absolutely destroyed, and now I'm crying for help.
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Upset
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Last post
 September 26th
...See more A lot of times I don't want to be alive anymore. I go to school, dancing, have family things to do, have dogs and cats and sometimes it feels like I'm not good enough for anything. Our parents always want me and my older sister to get only A+'s in everything, be the best at dancing and everything else we are doing and it feels like we have to be perfect at everything and I just don't want to do this anymore. 
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Ladder
by LilliRex
Last post
 September 17th
...See more Emotionless and empty that is how I feel. Nothing inside me is real. I am falling down a rabbit hole in unending sorrow. Wishing I wouldn't wake up tomorrow. I feel nothing and everything at the same time. Life is a long ladder I must climb the steps that keep breaking under my feet I keep falling down  I don't want to get back up anymore. Life is a chore  I pick up the broken wood and glue it back together. the wood gets weaker every time,  I must be a mime, and no one listens to what I'm saying. I keep asking for someone to help me, I give my heart away for free now it's gone. The steps lead my heart back. I lost myself when you left. Please get back to me, and don't leave me alone. You left when I was ten. I won't care about anything again. I smashed the ladder to pieces, I don't want to trust again. I smashed that ladder now all love is gone one more time and I'll snap in two please don't tell me you'll leave too.
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Dreams
by LilliRex
Last post
 September 17th
...See more Dreams are a magical thing. Dreams are things you wish you had or did, my dreams are so vivid. I wish they were real, my dreams steal. They steal my heart from the ladder, They give it back to me. When I wake up I lose my heart, waking up is the hardest part. I say I want nothing, my dreams know I'm lying. My dreams show what I want instead, in my dreams I am dead. 
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Strict parents issue
by lililglazies
Last post
 September 17th
...See more Um hello , I dunno where to start from but erm.... I'm currently 14 yrs old. And these days i feel numb and sad ... Mostly being of my strict parents and there standard of a perfect daughter. I from the very beginning was compared with other children, who were better than me and was and till now beaten by my parents .. yesterday ig i messed up and told them i don't wanna live anymore which resulted for my father slapping me ... I don't know what to do please help ... I just don't wanna live anymore ... But I'm too scared to do something abt it or even call someone... I don't have any trusted adult and o cnat rely on my teachers... My friend suggested me to call the hotline but that will end them being arrested and i don't want that... I also have sister.... My parents expect me to pay back all the things they have done for me one day in the coming future .... Next yr I'm giving my boards and they want me to top.. that means studying 24/7 and I'm not feeling quite well mentally
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Unsupportive Parents
by braedenbhc
Last post
 September 17th
...See more My parents are never satisfied with the career I want. I really want to be a horse trainer but they try to discourage me from it even though they have no experience in the industry. My definition of a horse trainer and there's is completely different. They think I want to be the type that works for a rich person and trains one of their horses for shows. While that would be an amazing oppurtunity I know that's not realistic for me. I was thinking more of having my own barn and having clients and working with rescues. And when I mentioned that they said "oh well people volunteer their time with rescues and don't get paid" like they're not understanding that it can be a career also. They don't even know the correct names of the gaits of the horse. And my dad always critiques my riding when he can't even do what I do. They keep forcing me to be a vet or a marine biologist. Like the other night my dad says to me "goodnight my future veterinarian" When will they understand I don't want to be that! I can't handle blood (which horses have a lot of), I'd freak out during surgery and most importantly I can't trust myself with the life of someone's beloved pet. When will they see me for who I am?

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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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