Thanks. Yes, as I donīt have anyone else nearby to get a hug from it feels degrading to me to get one from a person, my counselor, and that isnīt even a mutual hug.
Also, to me that isnīt comforting as the hug is, by natural causes, restricted to that one hour and I canīt just call her and get some comfort when I feel sad. I donīt mean I expect it to be that way with a counselor but the situation raises my feelings of sadness and loneliness. I though appreciate you say you had gladly given me a hug.
I think I suffer from some kind of alienation even if I donīt know the exact difference between loneliness and alienation. I think dark thoughts and I just cry.
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Originally Posted by here today
I started to put "Hugs" on your post because I wanted to comfort you, but then thought better about it. Maybe that's how she feels, she's happy to try to comfort or welcome you if you would like it? I would have gladly given you a hug, even though I don't feel the need for one myself right now, but in your post you were sad and I felt a need from withing me to want to comfort you. Sometimes hugs are simple gestures that help relieve sadness a little, but it sounds like it just reminds you, instead, how sad you are.
I was thinking about you today and when Skies wrote about maybe you felt alienated, not just lonely, and how that is really for me such a good word to describe what I and maybe a lot of other people, especially with mental health issues, feel. And it is very, very sad.
But does that have to be "degrading"? It doesn't seem that way to me.
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