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Weekly Prompt #41: How do you perceive your own resilience and ability to cope with challenges?
by ASilentObserver
Last post
 2 days ago
...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]
Your Poem...
by EmmaE
Last post
 July 17th
...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/].
You can keep going 💙
by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
 May 11th
...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 
Go away forever
by Oceanridinghorses2
Last post
 2 days ago
...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.
My dad has everyone fooled into thinking hes a nice guy but hes not fooling me
by nessdamess
Last post
 Thursday
...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!
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.
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. 
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.
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. 
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
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?
I am great, others aren’t
by CallMeFriday
Last post
 September 16th
...See more I don’t have any issues with who I am as a person or feel that I’m doing anything wrong. I just feel trapped, I’m a teen and can’t get anywhere on my own. My mom is making me suicidal, how tf do I get away from her.
Cant find someone
by Davidino29
Last post
 August 25th
...See more I am a 15 yo guy who never found someone that would like to stay with me, i love playing videogames, go sometimes out for a walk(alone) and I have just 1 friend( an online one) i am good at school and I help when I can my classmates, and I love science, i just hate every guy or girl of my age, i cant find someone who is like me or at least similar, i am always the forgotten one, I liked a few girls but I discovered they hate me, and this summer was the biggest pain I ever felt, i trought many times to end this, but I love god, and now I just lost the hope to find someone, I learn that there is a natural selection in our society, there are people like me that are now worth to socialize and find love, i love myself, but I learnt this year that is impossible to find someone that I am compatible with, I stopped try to find, becase there is nothing to found in this miserable world, I am just... accepting this, the earlier i do, the less i will cry. Many people said that this is a phase in our teenagers years, but that is my entire life.
The death of her has ruined me.
by Ayirs2010
Last post
 August 21st
...See more Hello. This is my first post here. I'm a 14 year old teenager suffering through depression and anxiety.  Three years ago, when I was 11, my mother passed away. Since then, life has been extremely difficult for me. I was an exceptionally good at studies and was so bright. Ever since she passed, I have never been the same.  I procrastinate a lot of things even when I don't want to do so and face the consequences every single time. I don't know why I'm like this. I should've learnt from my mistakes. But no, I end up making the same mistakes over and over and over again until I suffer.  I somehow managed 8th, 7th and 6th grade because the academic pressure was low and our subject teachers were kind and not rude, hence they did not trigger me.  In 9th grade ( current grade ) I feel like everything has gotten a lot worse. I have been going through a major depressive episode since the last 12 days and I have missed 10 days of school including today. I had a language test today. I didn't give it. I stayed up all night yesterday wide awake thinking "I'll study 30 minutes later" and it was soon when I felt the sunrays entering my room. I was devastated. This catastrophic and self sabotaging behaviour that I do to myself has ruined me.  Yes, 10 days may not sound like a lot but this is the worst it has ever gotten. I wasn't able to pull myself out the bed and I'm slowly loosing the basic sense of hygiene. I'm still trying.  I procrastinated all throughout summer vacation and now I know nothing. Every other student is well ahead of me and I'm the only one left behind. Ranting about this won't make my situation any better but this is all I have got the energy to do. Ranting about my life.  I have so much to work on, so much to study, so much to catch up on, so much homework, so much lessons, so many projects, yet no energy. I'm exhausted waking up, exhausted going to sleep, exhausted while I'm eating. Nothing interests me anymore and I have left all that I used to do before that made me happy.  All I do now is sit and cry and hit myself on the head as a form of punishment for living up to my expectations and proving myself wrong. My parents don't understand, they're starting to get annoyed with my drama. They will probably force me to go to school tomorrow as well and I would have to again cry and throw a tantrum in front of them AGAIN.  When is this going to end? How did I end up like this? I swear this isn't me. I wasn't like this before. I couldn't have imagined myself being in this position. 
Family
by mata00
Last post
 August 18th
...See more As a 17 year old, I recognize I'm far too young to be dealing with depression & I think it mostly stems from my family. I feel like I'm taking care of my family, even tho that's my parents job. Not only am I taking care of my brother (who has a disability), but I feel that I'm also taking care of my parents bc of how emotionally immature they are. Im always there for my family but none of them can ever be there for me even tho they cause more than half of my problems. It also sucks knowing that strangers show appreciation for me more than my parents ever will. It would be nice if they could just lay off my damn back and leave me alone for once instead of dumping all their issues onto me and having me do almost everything for their own interests. And tbh, I really need advice on how to deal with all this bc lately I've been going super downhill.

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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


(Think that more resources should be here? Send a message to @EmmaE)