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Old Apr 12, 2016, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by elevatedsoul View Post
yeah even though people in my family have mental illness they still dont ... empathize?
its always about having it worse than the other, know what i mean?

so i just dont talk about it with anyone either

the shame and guilt sucks... i just keep trying to remind myself that i didnt choose all this.. and that this mental illness is not who i am, but only something affecting me right now...
and i try to keep in mind that things can get better... if i fight hard enough...
if i fight hard enough anything is possible right?
so we just have to stay strong and take it slow and steady

I think my problems right now are just really scary for me, and it's making it harder to not feel shame and guilt. The first depressive episode I remember having was in high school, so like 10/11 years ago or something. I still struggled through college, but didn't get as down for as long in that time. And then I spent the next 6 years almost doing fine on my own. I wasn't seeing a t or anything, just dealing with life on my own. But now I'm just sinking deeper and deeper, and it's scary. And maybe there's an ego thing going on too, that I could handle life on my own for so long and now I can't. I don't know. I just ramble when I post here, I don't know what I'm talking about.
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