StormyRaynebow
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Hi! I've been struggling more and more with the symptoms of anxiety and depression as I age. I was browsing the internet, asking questions about my thought processes, when I stumbled across this forum.
I just want to tell you all how incredibly grateful I am to have found this community. I already feel less alone and more able to deal with the daily struggles.
I was recently released from a mental institution where they forcibly drugged me, attempted to confuse me, hit me, and restrained me. The experience has made it nearly impossible for me to leave my house and has made it difficult for me to even talk honestly and openly with my therapist (he called the PET team that had me admitted). Although I have many friends and family members who are sympathetic to my situation and experience, I am finding it difficult to trust them as I know there is no way they could possibly understand how it feels to go through something like that. I hope they never do and I know they are just trying to help, but after a few months of trying to get my life back on track, they're starting to say things like "suck it up" and asking why it's so hard for me to move on from here. In some ways, I'm doing much better, but every day is different and it seems like my mind throws me curve balls as often as it can.
Anyway, it helps to know that there are others out there like me, that none of us have to suffer alone anymore.
In case no one has said this to you lately:
I see you. You matter to me. You are not alone.
And, for the first time in a long time, I don't feel so alone either.
Thank you for that.
I just want to tell you all how incredibly grateful I am to have found this community. I already feel less alone and more able to deal with the daily struggles.
I was recently released from a mental institution where they forcibly drugged me, attempted to confuse me, hit me, and restrained me. The experience has made it nearly impossible for me to leave my house and has made it difficult for me to even talk honestly and openly with my therapist (he called the PET team that had me admitted). Although I have many friends and family members who are sympathetic to my situation and experience, I am finding it difficult to trust them as I know there is no way they could possibly understand how it feels to go through something like that. I hope they never do and I know they are just trying to help, but after a few months of trying to get my life back on track, they're starting to say things like "suck it up" and asking why it's so hard for me to move on from here. In some ways, I'm doing much better, but every day is different and it seems like my mind throws me curve balls as often as it can.
Anyway, it helps to know that there are others out there like me, that none of us have to suffer alone anymore.
In case no one has said this to you lately:
I see you. You matter to me. You are not alone.
And, for the first time in a long time, I don't feel so alone either.
Thank you for that.
