StarryNight......I'm not just walking the same road, I'm running down it full gallop. I lost my job (parttime front desk at a health club), I lost my license (suspended due to my suicide attempt) and I've left behind all the "friends" that I made while working. I am so new to this (diagnosed a few months ago) that I'm trying to make sense of it all......even though it is what it is......messed up brain chemistry.

I am struggling so hard trying to accept that I am mentally ill. I feel tremendously defective, completely incompetent, and almost invisible now to myself and the few people who are in my life. I'm actually projecting that on to them, but it's my state of mind most of the time. I have a good therapist who is helping me get from week to week. And I have found this group......don't know how I could go on without it......without the support, the shared feelings, the place to spend much of my time when so much of the rest of me is gone.

I don't want to sound so gloomy.......I'm a work in progress......just slow progress......but yes, I can totally relate to how you're feeling. Just keep coming back like I am, and know, like I will, that we're both going to be ok. There's lots of caring and understanding here, and I've found that what I need to hear, almost more than anything, is yes, I know exactly how you feel.

Wishing you all the best,
greylove