YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin
Postings on this site are NOT by mental health professionals, rather the opinions & experiences of a community of regular people. If you feel like you are going to hurt yourself or others PLEASE call Suicide Prevention at 1-800-273-8255
fifthsonata,
I wish I could give you a hug. And a bandage.
I relate to your desperate question about WHY???? It's so hard to make sense of depression. It just feels ridiculous that you can't explain why the world is so painful to you. I have never been a cutter, but I do other things instead. Eat, mostly. It's the only physical thing that makes me feel good. Play solitaire on my computer for hours on end, just so I can ignore the fact that I am utterly alone and terrified. Sob uncontrollably. Sleep to escape my life. Why? I wish I could tell you. I wish some of it made sense. I hope you can find some peace.
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
--John Muir
If I could reach through this monitor I'd give you a hug and tell you that you aren't alone. We're all fighting our own personal horror shows but we're here for you. Please vent away.
"Of course you have an active inner life, you're bipolar"
my therapist.