I am brand new here. I just discovered this board recently. I am a male 56 and single, never been married and no kids.

As of this year I've been feeling like anticipating that bad things are going to happen. Like a big storm is coming. Nothing has happened yet, but there were some health challenges for me earlier this year and some personal setbacks. The health challenges are not serious but they are scary.

Since the health challenges happened I have been very much anticipating that bad things will happen. Like all kinds of disasters will happen and that I will not be able to cope with them. This has sent me into depression a lot.

I feel like I'm all alone in the world. My parents are long gone and my siblings are just doing their own things. We are not very close and never were. I don't have many friends to speak of. I only have one friend. He really cares about me but I feel like I'm not too crazy about him. But he's much better than nothing. I have acquaintances but I feel like I don't want to bother them. Making friends for me has been difficult, and it's very difficult to make friends at my age.

I tried a support group but it was not very helpful. Also I have been to therapists and they were not too helpful either. They were nice to talk to at the time but it would wear off after a while.