Why do depressed people push loved ones away?
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Moderated by Smita Joshi, BA Psychology / MA / Advanced EFT Practitioner
Updated: Jul 12, 2024
Anonymous
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Dec 4, 2015
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Because they are afraid of not being loved or understood. They feel they must fight it alone and that their loved ones may not be able to help.
1Hamza1
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Dec 6, 2015
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Because we feel we are letting them down. We are scared of disappointing them. This only fuels our depression even further.
eternalPassion14
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Dec 6, 2015
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Often its because they dont want to hurt the ones close to them away and could possibly feel like they bring everybody down and may not want that
PracticalMaple
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Dec 11, 2015
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more often than not its because they cant love themself and so they think that no one else should love them. Also because they may realise they are depressed and it hurts them to think of their loved ones seeing them this way
BethanyRuth
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Dec 11, 2015
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I think partly they feel that if they let people in they'll be more vulnerable to being hurt. Or they don't want to hurt their loved ones by letting them in and telling them what's wrong.
themightypotatochip
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Dec 12, 2015
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Sometimes people that are depressed feel guilty about the fact that they are making other people unhappy and they don't want people to feel as bad as they do so they push people away.
BreannaMarie
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Dec 12, 2015
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It's easy to feel like others around you won't understand when you're in a depressed state. They won't get it so you don't want to bother talking to them about what's going on. Or people may feel like they're a burden on the people they care about, so in order to save them the trouble of dealing with the depressed person they'll push their friends and family away. It's a coping mechanism, albeit not a healthy one.
Anonymous
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Dec 12, 2015
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Depressed people push away loved ones because they don't want to hurt anyone else and get them attached to the depressed person because they then could be some depressed by being around the depressed person so much. So if they push the people away they can't hurt anyone.
Anonymous
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Dec 13, 2015
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Depressed person pushes his/her loved ones away because he/she cannot carry the pressure. He/she does not want to hurt those people because he/she does not want them to be involved with his/her problems.
Anonymous
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Dec 13, 2015
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They feel like their depression is a burden to others, and think that nobody cares or understands what they feel.
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