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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 
Hi, just joined.
by ymisomber
Last post
 3 hours ago
...See more I recently came to a realisation that I am not what a normal healthy and happy teen should be, and it has jarred me quite a bit. I'm addicted to my phone, I don't go out alone, I don't get good grades, I don't feel good about myself. I lie constantly, I fake my feelings, I try to trick myself into believing i'm fine. I also don't have the motivation or energy to change any of this. I wish for nothing more than to disappear overnight and stop disappointing my parents.
Help out someone
by understandingPeach89
Last post
 3 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 linely if i dont go there
So tired, feel like crying and scared,
by ShellyZz
Last post
 3 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.
Hello
by lovedlucy13
Last post
 4 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 ...........
oh how i long to be yours
by StarrySkies1236
Last post
 6 hours ago
...See more you never will be able to understand the number of times I long to be able to be yours, to know you and to love you, and to be loved in return. the number of times I rub away an ache in my chest simply from seeing something that reminds me of what I’ve wished for and not received. it’s not quite being in love but it’s the closest thing to love that i’ve been able to label without healing new cuts or bruises. the simple nudge and nostalgia that follows is relentless in its pursuit as life moves me away. sometimes I’m scared that I’ll lose this but then I feel another wave of longing and am reminded that my mind doesn’t forget things as easily as I think it does. 💔💔🫶🏻🫶🏻
Overcoming narcissistic traits
by Jackyboi0516
Last post
 7 hours ago
...See more After several years of drama and resentment towards my mother, I finally confronted her with my own feelings, only to find out that she only cares about her own feelings and well-being. "You leech on me, you suck on me, when have I done this to you? When have I laughed at you?" As if my feelings are not important at all. That's when I realised that she is a full blown narcissist that my father and I had to endure for so long. I realised I do have certain instances where I disregard other people's feelings by instinct and I'm very scared of becoming my mother. I know I cannot escape that part what I am now is from my mom but I really want to cut it out of my life. Sometimes after I said something to my friends, I realised that is not appropriate to say it in the given situation and I enter a state of half regret half fear that I said something bad that it affects my relationship with them. I really do care for the important people around me but I'm really scared that I'm slowly turning into her. I'm still living with her but I mostly isolate myself from her to try and cut her off. (I'm a young adult, in pre-university) Every time I see her face, I feel sick in the stomach.
Depressed and Lonely all the time
by forcefulWater8028
Last post
 8 hours ago
...See more Hi I’m Dee, I’m a 55 year old woman that have been depressed all my life and was diagnosed 15 years ago with bipolar 2 PTSD and anxiety. Ever relationship I have I sabotage and I’m so lonely and scared most of the time. I feel the agisum coming from younger people and also have a hard time with anger. I would like to star by learning to love myself. But don’t know how. I don’t drink everyday but when I drink I binge till I black out and I isolate not only because I have no friends but I feel no one in my family cares.
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by livingskull
Last post
 8 hours ago
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As I Wake….a short story w/ a long message.
by XneedsHelp
Last post
 8 hours ago
...See more As I wake, I hear the life above me continue on as if I never existed. My love interest, who seems to don’t care if I lived or die, continues by. I understand completely that she has children of her own to take care, but I helped with all that. I didn’t mind, I wanted to and I miss them as much as I miss mines. The tears I shed, as I wake, are for my children, whose mother finally opened her eyes to the truth of, “it was both of us and not just me”. However the distance and protection of my new life from the monotony of the adults acting like kids from my old life, drove a wedge between my own. I am now in repair mode to develop my relationship with them. Baby steps but it’s working. As I wake, I’m still shedding the tears hearing my “dog son” above my head, listening to the commands I taught him through my ex. I shed tears on the decisions I made that I thought were correct but I feel as if I wasn’t enough for her, on her time, at her moments. Idk. I’ve sat my world down to build up another and then add my world. She wants what she wants and I reflect, “did she ever ask what I wanted with US?”  I shed my tears to try and shed my fears in silence as not to disturb anyone else’s world or lives. I put my all into my blended family. I know I made mistakes; financial. I’m not on drugs, alcohol and never strayed. She wanted a husband and I was trying to build myself into one. I struggled as a father to build myself into a man and yet I feel I wasn’t enough. As I wake, I pray that God brings them all back to me….As I wake, my tears shed knowing the reality of my situation. I have build my communication, worked on my clinical diagnoses, worked at trying and getting rid of fear. My eyes open to the pain and hurt that a man can feel for the loss of what all he had left. I have no family. I have no friends. No beginnings, just ends. I have let down my children, my step-children, my ex, even a very small part of me feels like I let my children’s mother down in a way. I’ve let myself down. As I wake, my tears fill a pool that holds all my memories of happiness that filters into sadness. I miss my family, I miss my happiness I miss my purpose. God knows I’ve tried and be the warrior I was made to be, but the war seems too long, too difficult to navigate. Battle weary, my eyes swell. I’m sorry, that I failed. I’m sorry for being that failure. I’m sorry…..As I wake, my tears fall, as I fall.  Thank you for your time if you read this. 😢😣😞😔😒🙏🏽
Academic stress
by understandingPeach89
Last post
 10 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?
I need help!
by 1Bm
Last post
 11 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
I just need someone to listen
by Sulsulsims
Last post
 17 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 

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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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