How is it, that you can have friends, family, and a significant other, and still have no one? Why is it, that everybody says they’re here for you, yet no one is around? Am I the only person, who can be around a million people, and still feel completely alone?
Hi, I’m Rhea 🤚🏼 I’m new to this type of social networking. And this is my first blog. But I have officially, and finally reached rock bottom, yet again. It is progressing rapidly, for the worse so I have finally agreed to let myself get professional help to assist with my major and severe depression.
“Regular” people, do not understand depression. Especially the severe kind. The kind that pushes people to the point where they feel like there is “no way out”… Which is why I am here. I’ve realized that I can not fully communicate with people who are not “sick”, and expect them to understand.
If I am not alone in these thoughts, I ask anyone and everyone to give their views and opinions on my questions and comments. I am here to listen, and talk. Because if someone can help me through my dark times to maybe one day see the light again, I would love to return the favor someday.
Thank you,
Rhea
One Comment on “Alone, in a world full of people.”
Rhea,
I feel you. How can one be surrounded by people and yet feel so separated? How can one understand depression when they themselves have never dealt with the low depression that we do. I have found that I have to find something in the future to look forward too…weather it’s a vacation, a meal, a date….whatever it may be…in order to feel a sense of purpose and a sense of excitement. When I find myself in the chains of depression I tend to have very negative thoughts that never seem to leave me. I think about all of the bad things that have happened to me in my lifetime and how unfair it is…and it makes the depression worse. I have found that focusing on the positives (which I understand is near impossible until you find comfort in it) really gives me a reason to get up in the morning and get going and prepare for the day. It’s a better choice than my previous choices to wake up every morning and get high and hope the day would progress into something positive.
I’m here to listen, here to give advice, and here to take advice and be heard. If you want to converse more about this topic I would love to do so. I’m currently at home and looking for a new job so I have plenty of time for the time being. I’ll keep an eye out on my email and see if you email me for follow up.
Alex.thielen@yahoo.com
Alex