Thanks everyone. To WibblyWobbly, I'm still underage, so I can't leave the house during the times I feel alone like this. You'd think living in a family of people who love me would help me. But, I'm hiding my depression from them, so, while I still love them and they still love me, there's a divide between us now that I can't bridge, and being around them is taxing to me, the same way being around people I don't know very well is. Last night when I felt this way I saw that there were people logged into a few of the chat rooms, so I joined one for a while in order to talk to someone. That helped. I've tried writing out my feelings and actually my digital journal has over 50,000 words in it from this year alone. It doesn't help nearly as much as talked to a live person does though. I guess even if you do have one or two friends willing to help you, depression is still a very lonely illness.
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"Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys." -CS Lewis, the Screwtape Letters
Teen with (probably severe) depression
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