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Fighting Off A Wave Of Depression

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Jezzryn

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Hi,

I am still reletively new to the forum and I haven't yet written much, but right now, I feel I need to vent a little, because I fight against a fall down into depression.
Like most here, I didn't have an easy life and I never had many friends. I'm not a crowd person, I tend to be odd and reclusive and I had mental problems... like all my life. they just got worse and worse until I could barely function. Somehow though I always made it without having to be put in hospital by force. (The thought of being hospitalized just terrifies me. I don't do well in unfamiliar enviorments and totally close off)
A couple of years ago, I met my bf. she's truly amazing and although I can be really trying, annoying and straining and bitchy, she sticks by me. She's like family.

But she moved shortly after she got togehter with her boyfriend. Which is a very nice man and I loke to think we're friends too. for a while it wasn't so bad, she lived 2 hours with the train away and i went to visit her ervery couple of weeks for a long weekend or a week or more. But they had to move again and now they live much farther and less affordable to go often. Still I got to see them like 3 times a year. But fate made it so, we now only see eacht other like once a year.

I just returned from a visit and like always.... I miss them terribly. Not just my best friend buit her boyfriend and his mom and brother (they live in the same house). They're all rally nice and understanding. I never feel like a freak when I'm with them. They don't make a big deal out of my ptsd, depression and phobioas. They accept me like I am.
But here, where I live... I just got... nobody. I rarely leave the house. I lock myself in my own appartment. It's gotten worse, since neighbhors of mine drunkenly crashed my door a few months back. I can't sleep now without extra security.

Anyway.
I'm back home only since yesterday, I have stayed there for 5 weeks, but I wont see them again till christmas. And I miss them. I feel like curling up and crying, till I am too tired to even stay awake and then sleep, sleep sleep.
I try to distract myself, but... It's just too quiet and alone here. I am somewhat afraid of my neighbors and I just want to go back there. Which I can't. I feel pathetic an whiny and I have no idea what to do withmyself. I don't want to do something stupid or unhealthy.

I just have no idea how to deal with this in a way that would make it better. And I feel silly. Instead of being greatful, that I have such amazing friends I complain, because I don't have them around all the time...
 
I think that you have these friends shows that you can have good friendships. Ofcourse all friendships are different. Some allow us to be more open than others. But wouldn't it be good to have the friends you talk about here, and another friend or friends closer to home.

I wonder, do you have a therapist? Because this might help you find and overcome the obstacles that are stopping you building a wider circle of friends.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I do have more friends, but.... not really here where I live. Either we drifted away or they moved. And I am really really bad at making new friends. I am awkward with new people and really shy.
And to be fair, there are days and even weeks, when I do not want to see anyone.

At the moment I don't have a therapist, but I have a psychiatrist who has suscribed me new medication and I will be searching for a new therapist. The last one didn't really work out.

I am feeling better, though. I still miss my friends, but I am better.
 
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