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I mean feeling like you can't really talk about how your feeling and that others are just not interested or just don;t want to listen to you moaning because that's how they make you feel.

I have been forced in and out of phych hospitals since I was a teen. Now even when I have no intentions of harming myself. I find my self unable to share depression symptoms or self harm thoughts with anyone especially close friends and family due to the fear they may over react and try to control my life or have me hospitalized again. This keeps me even more isolated because I worry I won’t be able to keep up the act that I’m happy and fine when I spend time with them. Has anyone else had this… read more

Hard to describe this but I mean like does anyone feel numb at times but just carries on with daily life. Like as if you don't want to do anything. You feel nothing but no point explaining to anyone knowing they won't understand as they haven't been through depression and that?

I am not yet eligible for retirement with full benefits and have to work, but I have no "free" time (this time I post while waiting to see if I have to accompany a family member to the emergency room—now becoming a daily occurrence) and am simply a bundle of nerves. I am taking care of my blood pressure and have asked for help from friends, which my family will not accept because they are "strong."

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Someone asked me why people commit Suicide when they’re going to hell all I could say from my own life is that not really thinking where your going but person still didn’t understand and even thinks I’ll dying people shouldn’t take there life that’s a sin too so how would you answer that to someone who’s also old and religious ?

I am 19 which is quite young I understand, but whenever I try to talk to someone about being depressed or how I have a mental illness a lot of people just say I am being over dramatic when I have been diagnosed by a psychiatrist and have been admitted before. Why don't people believe me? Is it just cause of my age?

Okay so I've self harmed again, and I've told my parents but now I'm getting the if your grandparents find out it will break them apart they will be so upset and my Aunty is asking if I had ever thought about self harming and my mother said no
I also had my parents say if I cut again they going to section me and it's making me annoyed and I don't want to talk or open up to them because of it

I feel like a failure and a disappointment to everyone that's how it makes me feel

My dad isn't as bad as he used to be, but sometimes I can be in a good mood and he'll fuss at me until I'm not. I live with my parents so I can't avoid him. Before I was diagnosed with high functioning autism he wouldn't stop until I cried. My uncle, who I thankfully don't have to deal with anymore, did the same thing.