Welcome. I am new here, too. My feelings already about this forum...that people can feel so fragile and yet so loved, too!

I understand the desire to explain 'it all'...I wanted to yesterday when I first joined, but then I realized that I did not need to explain all of the reasons why I am suffering right now and needing to do work on myself emotionally...there were so many in my case... but, now I am able to learn from them...I am understanding why I made all of those choices...low self-esteem from having being brought up to be a caretaker of others and not of my own precious self...and so now I am determined to learn deep self-love. For this, I am grateful.

You may want to share some details, though, if you really think advice might help you...

For me, after I thought of my looong list of difficult circumstances and poor choices I now accept I simply could not have made any of them any differently, and I realized that my emotional fall-out is normal...I have come to know I am sensitive, caring, and have been grieving for myself and others like me...and that it takes courage to not be perfect...to be flawed...to be real...and to slowly step out of my comfort zone of isolating myself...

I encourage you to know that it took courage for you to feel your feelings and to reach out for support. Pat yourself on the back ~ It is perhaps a sign that your weakest point may be your greatest teacher yet... your greatest opportunity for self-growth?

Sending love ~ Chloe