((cryingontheinside)), there are very few people that truly understand what it feels like to be depressed, unless they've been there themselves. And you risk injury every time you reach out to explain yourself. But... sometimes, you will get someone that understands enough to see in their eyes that they do, even if they lack the words or physical tools to greatly assist. The kindness of strangers cliche has an element of truth to it, in my experience & I've clung onto those rare moments of 'understanding contact' to keep me going.

Since contacts on a forum are usually of an abstract 'non-real-life' nature, it's easy to dismiss them under that IRL categorization - but, that's not entirely the case. The individuals at the ends of the myriad of electronic bits whizzing between participants on a meeting place like PC, are real IRL entities & the others I get to know here become like stars in the night sky. I may not know their names, or all their troubles - but I'd still miss the presence of each of those specs of light in the sky...

Keep fighting...