The Last Few Days Have Not Been Pleasant

Lately I feel like I have been getting an awakening about myself. I have been feeling very depressed because of a doctor's procedure that was done for me a couple of days ago. I feel like I have to take it easy. There are things I like to do that can pass the time away but I can't now for the next few days or so. I feel like I am grieving and going crazy. I wished that I never went through with that procedure.

Just today a woman that I know had sent me an email saying that I am very miserable with my life and I need help. She suggested that I should see a Psychiatrist and take anti-depressants. I would have to agree with her on that. But I didn't like the way she came across. She came across as being very stern and she was telling me that I come across as person as someone that nobody would want anything to do with.

Also I have some personal issues to sort out in my life. But I seem to have a hard time making a decision, even though others think that my decision should be easy for me to make. I'm middle aged and alone. It's very frightening to me. I have very few friends, most of them are pretty far away. I have one good friend who just now took off for three weeks on vacation. I miss him a lot. He does not understand about my depression and anxiety but seems like he's willing to be patient with me. So many others are not patient with me.

Are there others that are going through the same thing? I feel so alone in this.

You are depressed. When we are depressed we tend to take everything very personally and attach negative to other people's words.
Go to the doctor. I bet you'll feel so much better

That willingness to be patient despite a lack of understanding makes him the right kind of friend to have. I'm glad he's there for you.

Do your doctors know about your depression? Have they checked for additional causes for your symptoms? (Personal experience: depression can coexist with other illnesses producing similar symptoms.)

Medical issues when you are alone are pretty horrible. I had a minor stroke a year ago that left me crosseyed for a few months and I thought about other people who had people to help them out. I had my therapist and the medical doctors. I guess it's a good excuse to be lazy and watch television, that's what I did. With one eye at a time. I just tried to hang on til I felt better.

Hi will19
Loneliness is naturally scary for us, human beings, who are supposed to be social by nature. Society in the way is working now does not help us to be social, though. Of course, as we see many other people being surrounded by others, we feel we are weird and outcast. It is more and more difficult to reach out other people for me now. However, I have discovered that I am not doing all my part. I don't know why I have raised the bar of my caution, that is not good to make new friends, to reach out, to enforce existing relationships. I am trying to be more open and not to let my negative to interfere that much. I do not know if your loneliness is related to fear, caution, or something like that but I find mine is. Hope you feel better and recover from your procedure soon