The past semester (since August) has been an especially difficult time for me.

Going back to August, a cousin of mine passed away. At that time I was just transferring to a new college and living in a new city. I left the city almost every weekend to go home to help out my family.

A couple months ago, I got news that my brother's girlfriend of over 3 years was just found cheating on him. My brother was immediately extremely depressed and began drinking a lot. He wanted to drink himself to the grave. I was in the city, and came home the next morning to see him.

My cat, who I have had for the past 15 years, was battling a form of cancer. We finally put him down right before Thanksgiving.

A very close friend of mine told me that both her parents died a couple weekends ago.

My father was just laid off, and my mother is close to losing her own.

We now have very little money, and it just seems as though things keep going wrong.

I know that my grandmother will most likely pass on this winter, as she has been sick for years and now she is getting signficantly worse to the point where she does not eat and is crunched in a fetal position 24/7.

I am truly struggling, because my support system of friends has fallen apart and I don't know what to do. I know I am moderately depressed and it would just help to talk to other people about this.