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LethalUnicorn
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I can't deal with compliments
Depression Support / by LethalUnicorn
Last post
 May 12th, 2016
...See more I don't even know where to post this, but I'm depressed so I guess this is the right place? The weirdest thing just happened. I just got a compliment. Not on something I've made or done but on me. And the wrongness of it made me break down and cry. Because I'm not "great". I do all the things I do to try and keep up with the world and its expectations on what a person like me should do. I don't even do the things I do very well, my predecessors have always done so much more than I will ever achieve. I find it such a weird reaction. A genuine compliment is something you're supposed to appreciate and be happy about, right? But if it hadn't been said over a Facebook chat I probably would have laughed and... I don't know... tried to tell her that I'm not. Or maybe yelled at her for being wrong. Because I can't see anything "great" about me as a person. I really can't and in a way I hate that, because believing in yourself is another thing you're supposed to do, right? And that's another thing that I just can't do. I don't even know where I'm going with this. Has anyone else had an experience like this? How do you even deal with a comment... compliment... like that?
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"What? Still?"
Disability Support / by LethalUnicorn
Last post
 April 18th, 2016
...See more I've been getting those comments lately. I've only recently gone from "semichronic" to "chronic" time-wise, so to a lot of you here I suppose I'm new to this. I had a herniated disk in my lower back a few months back, and at first it hurt so bad I couldn't take any weight on my right leg without blacking out. I got help and it slowly got (and keeps getting) better, but sitting all day exhausts me and at the end of it I'm always in enough pain for my temper to be short and my mood to be generally bad. I had a lot of sympathy from my friends at first, and I try not to complain because that just doesn't make anything better. My friends, though, who I like a lot and sit and work with ask what's up when I start fidgeting or getting up and walking around a lot just for the sake of it etc. I tell them that it's nothing to worry about, it's just my back hurting, but it's getting better. That's when I get the "What? Still? I thought that was months ago". And yes. Yes it was months ago too. I know it's just... thoughtlessness and inexperience with these kind of things (I'm 23 and most of my friends are my age, +/- 4 years), but it's so frustrating. All it does is remind me that I've been in more or less constant pain for months, and it's going away so slowly. Sorry for the rant. Does anyone know of a good answer to these kinds of thoughtless comments that doesn't make me sound like a... well... you know?
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Is "empty" a feeling?
Depression Support / by LethalUnicorn
Last post
 November 7th, 2015
...See more Because that's what I feel. I feel like I have no feelings. I suppose I don't feel sad... which I suppose is good, but honestly I think I may prefer sadness over this void. So, is "nothing" a feeling, and regardless - how do you get rid of it?
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