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by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
 1 day ago
...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 
Weekly Prompt #41: How do you perceive your own resilience and ability to cope with challenges?
by ASilentObserver
Last post
 Tuesday
...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/].
My dad made me dump my kittens off on the road. I feel horrible
by marsbursss
Last post
 54 minutes ago
...See more A bit of background. I am a teen who doesn’t know how to drive because my dad wasn’t rlly there half of my teen life, he returned abt 2 years ago abt 3 now but he still doesn’t rlly show me how to drive. My mom can’t drive. So, we have kittens from my cat(i want to get a job to neuter her; rn isn’t a good time bc i need to finish my school) anyway, my mom wanted to take responsibility for them because she got angry of me making sure the cats were outside doing their business in the backyard saying it was cold and I told her to take care of them because she was nagging about them and she did but this ended up being, me feeding the cats because my mom was on the phone with her boyfriend. (parents are not together) and i would find cat poop and pee inside the house, especially in their room and my little sister sleeps with them so I was worried because we had just closed the case with CPS but my mom still didn’t do it. My last straw was when she let them out on the front porch and they almost got ran over a bunch of times and she was standing there on the phone, talking to an another guy. My dad offered to take them and I did it with him, i thought maybe he would drop them off at a animal shelter. But what he ended up doing was he made me drop them off beside the train track and i think we were seen. But i ended up realizing my father isn’t someone i should be looking up to, i tried to talk to him about an animal shelter but he said no. There were cars and I can’t help but think i ended up killing them by my actions. They didn’t know better yk, they are kitten. My dad hates cats and dogs. But my dad acted normal and because i look up to my dad, I acted like it was okay. I’m trying to erase it from my memory snd pretend nothing happen but now i know because i use to have other animals that my dad most likely did leave them to die, I wanted to believe he didn’t but.. yeah. I don’t wanna become like my dad and not have a feeling or remorse towards animals because I mean i love my dad and a lot of what i do comes from his actions but this i don’t wanna copy this behavior. But i also don’t want to be like my mom, she is very dramatic about animals. I don’t have the nicest perspective on my mom, I am trying to be better because i know my mom dealt with a lot but my mom she loves animals but doesn’t want to take care of them and their feces or pee and will let the house get dirty and smell if it meant the animals lived there. She ended up calling the cops on my dad for this but they just ignored her call. I am very tired of my family. I feel like i am in the middle of my parents fighting, trying to get my siblings to listen and parent them while finding them something to eat because my mom won’t feed them and my mom help my dad pay the bills (she only pays one bill, which is the one less expensive and blows money on dresses) . I am tired. I have a lot of classes i need done in order to graduate this year. I am not doing the best. I have a very supportive boyfriend but I needed to vent again because i just don’t feel okay. I just. idk.
Stupid Mistakes
by courteousHouse1540
Last post
 2 hours ago
...See more Hey all, Just wanted to vent about a silly mistake that I made years ago. I had gotten a job in a local radio station with no experience, long story short I really suffered with a lot of anxiety at the time, crying in my car going to work ect, one day I really struggled after a woman phoned in to tell my boss I'd been unprofessional during an interview when I thought I was trying my best. I completely freaked out. I decided the only thing to do was to write a letter pretending to be my employer saying that I was getting a warning and that my behavior would need to improve and show it to my parents, basically saying that they would let me go anyway and that I should quit. My parents half looked at the letter and let me make the choice to leave. Anyway two weeks later I finished up at the job and didn't look back, tried to get a job and ended up in two great jobs, I was so happy it was over, I didn't even think of the lie I told for multiple years. Anyway recently, my two grandmother's passed away, pretty much one after the other in a few months, at the wake, someone asked me about the radio job - I was shocked and just said I make more money in my current job and moved quickly on with the conversation. Anyway, about a month has passed and I can't stop thinking about this lie and the horrible stupid thing I did, it's the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think of when I fall asleep. I don't understand where it's come from, and I have never told a soul about it, nobody understands how much I was struggling so it would make no sense to say it now, but I'm suddenly terrified someone will find out, I told everyone the same story because I was so ashamed I wasn't good at the job.
So tired, feel like crying and scared,
by ShellyZz
Last post
 5 hours ago
...See more Warning post contains graphic words, violence and more.   My brother and I were homeschooled.  My brother since kindergarden, I after finishing 3rd grade.  Unfortunately my moms homeschooling idea was to just leave us to figure out everything ourselves.  My brother has a lot of anger from this.  Me?  I think I do but mostly I just feel exhasted when thinking about it. He recently found out a surgery he needs isn't covered by insurance.  So his depression has worsten.  He said he wants to kill the people who made homeschooling legal.  Why?  Because it screwed us.  He did get his GED but the only jobs he can find are manual labor since everything else needs a collage degree.  Which he feels it is to late to go for now.  (passed his twenties but not in fourties)  The way he kept saying he wants to kill them to make consequences to show how bad homeschooling screwed his life up, scared me.  I really don't know what to do.  He has talked about suicide before and brought it up again saying his life is over anyway. He can't run anymore and can't afford the surgery.  I can barely even help myself.  And don't know how to help him.  He is finally in therapy but the anger in his voice.  I love him so much and just don't want him doing anything stupid.  He lives with other family members right now and not in the same state as me.  The therapist suggested getting a lawyer for disability and to sue his work place since his injury appeared there.  But his work place said it happened during his personal time.  I hate not knowing how to help him.  My own therapist once told me I need to just let him go.  Great now I'm crying.  I feel so bad for him.  He was such a bright, energy given child.  He is still very smart but won't or can't figure out how to use it for his own good. I'm not sure if I should contact who he stays with or not.  Its hard for me to tell if he is being serious or blowing off steam.  As that is how he always used to blow off steam. Feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to answer them.  I won't give exact age/location for safety reasons.  I'm just so tired of failing to help him.
Fighting into loneliness of next week - gift giving issues
by livbinny
Last post
 5 hours ago
...See more When u know how you fought loneliness last week U know how to fight this week Even if all u see n feel now is isolation Yk I come here not for “fix” or advice… I’m doing that n progressing to take notes n trying my best in this aspect Entirely I missed only comfort me empathy I feel empty w hole in my chest cuz I never got the supported I rly needed That’s all I’m asking here now Anything else is just pointless n won’t make me feel good or validated … Feeling disconnected cuz I’m tired of fighting the same pain I don’t even deserve to be in for so long. It’s so not fair, so sad n so confusing at the same time. Over this weekend I also learn some “new” stuff around my relatives …. No matter how distant ur family is, just cuz ur glad they are in ur life n u like them for who they are simply cuz they are… It’s not that they will be thinking or be willing to be the same for u.  Even after we got reunited, yk? ​I was constantly trying to show my care which came natural to me ….but I also wanted them to know I think of them, having that care eventually received back, I wanted them to know they have my attention….. letters, gifts….but they either not reciprocated at all or weren’t willing. To this day, I dunno how yk cousins felt after each letter to every one of them I made. As for gifts, all I got was simple “thanks, they liked it” from my godmother. Not cousins themselves. We are not in contact n my suggestions went down the road or air into blindness….. Moral of this weekend was: match the care received or stop if you don’t see them giving u the care back….. Basically as always w ppl.  Don’t settle for less. Don’t always assume or look through lenses of “goodness” instead of set based reality. So far, only objective thinking here helps. But it’s sorta logical thinking when u look for evidence n nothing else. Not if they’re good, if they’re ur fam or strangers, if they been there before for u or not. Are they now? I always end up in same answer…NO You come to pint in life - where u don’t know how it should rly look like cuz u never got it back……ofc it still hurts me. If I fight self pity by being disconnected instead of totally sad, I dunno what else, just be it n I come here to express what is happening to know who is on the same boat. That’s why all I need is comfort n empathy. Being in this rabbit hole myself n feeling same inside is just as difficult as anything else in life. Cuz it’s real. But by this time, you all know that..
help
by Phoenix1234theythem
Last post
 5 hours ago
...See more im not doing well at all just getting worse thoughts getting worse depression worse everything is worse. ik im so lucky to have a fab support circle but not enough anymore, i need professional help so im gonna ask my parents for a therapist. except i am bad at opening up so probably even the therapist won’t rlly be able to help cos they won’t even know what’s wrong with me. heck i barely know what’s wrong with me myself.
Academic stress
by understandingPeach89
Last post
 5 hours ago
...See more So i was a student in btech 2nd year in indore but i stoppend going to my college classes because i was feeling like a *** going there and i wanted to leave btech and take bba so i stopped going to my college classes and few days back my mom got to know that i dont go to my college and i wanna take bba so my father whi is very strict who lives in gwalior alone and me and my mom lives in indore so my father came and took me and mumma with him in gwalior and he is telling me that i will not allow you to go to indore now and take bba there he's telling me that you will take bba but in Maharashtra or in rajasthan but i wanna take bba in indore cause i lived there for like 10 years and my frnds and girlfriend is there i will feel lonely if i dont go there anyone who can suggest me or give me a tip?
good morning!
by creativeBlossom4507
Last post
 14 hours ago
...See more today i woke up so that is a big blessing. always nice to scroll through the 7 cups threads. i have been a listener since 2020. i have helped lots of people just by listening and i am and will always be grateful for this blessed opportunity. i never want to take the small things for granted. thank you Jesus Christ! Amen! 🙏
I just need someone to listen
by Sulsulsims
Last post
 14 hours ago
...See more I’m really tired of my mom ignoring my mental health. I’ve tried opening up to her thinking she was a safe space and I was clearly wrong. All she does is dismiss me and invalidate every feeling I have. Maybe my reasons for being depressed are valid to you but that doesn’t mean they aren’t valid. Like do you think I want to be depressed? Oh yes it’s so enjoyable bed rotting wasting my life and not having motivation to even take care of my self. Yes I do it just for fun because I have nothing better to do . Like wth. It’s really annoying but the second spending upsets her the world must stop and I must aid her side . What kind is delusional is that. It is getting to the point where it’s making me angry because it’s actually ridiculous. Like I self enflict every thing that’s happened to me. It’s the most insensitive thing I’ve heard of. I just wish I had someone to help me and be there for me if my mom won’t even help me who will 
am i disappearing?
by justateen68
Last post
 14 hours ago
...See more i’m here, i’m alive but i don’t feel nothing anymore i breath and that’s it, i’m empty and that emptiness is expanding all over me i just think im dying inside.
I need help!
by 1Bm
Last post
 15 hours ago
...See more I am literally feeling like I’m having a mental breakdown I’m so sick of being alone for the holidays. Everyone around me is happy and have someone and I’m stuck alone with my kids. I want my kids to experience having a family like setting I’m so depressed granted I should be grateful for the things I have but I don’t even want to celebrate the holidays but I’m forced to because I have kids I just want to lay under my bed and be in the dark in hibernation
Horrible Surroundings
by HelloHereWeAre
Last post
 15 hours ago
...See more I am exceptionally depressed about what is going on in the world, and it is exhausting having to keep up. I discovered hundreds of books have been banned where I live, I have discovered people do not support nonprofits, and I have learned terrible things have happened to people. The responses are so apathetical, and I am tired of living around people like that. I am also tired of having to act like I do not know what is going on as a form of self-preservation. I know what is going on and it is horrendous! The hypocrisy is also overwhelming. The fact that there are even discussions about some of this stuff is so beyond my comprehension as well. I feel like I am suffocating in the toxic environment of my surroundings, and I know I need to move. Yet, to be frank, that upsets me too, because I am also tired of having to constantly start over. I also am sick of having to repeat myself. I literally have to repeat myself on an almost daily basis, and it has been that way for almost a decade now. I am tired of being talked down to by people who have less knowledge than me. I am sick of being expected to withhold ridiculous standards which I do not understand and/or even agree with, while simultaneously be talked to as though I am unintelligent and unimportant.
Hello
by lovedlucy13
Last post
 17 hours ago
...See more Hi it's been a very long time since I have posted a thread. But I just have a quick message to this community. Don't keep it to much together ...........

We hope that you can find some respite here from what you're going through. We all help each other through the darkness. Welcome, friends, to the Depression Support Community at 7 Cups. We're so happy you're here <3

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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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