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I Haven’t Left My House For 3 Months…….Please Help Me!!!
Depression Support / by SatinLacePoet
Last post
 January 27th, 2025
...See more I have been struggling with what I consider to be depressive type symptoms. And I have not left my house for 3 months, other than to walk down to the mailbox, a few times. So I haven’t driven my car for the same amount of time. And I don’t know how to break the cycle. As I am always too exhausted to go anywhere. I struggle with sleep issues, but am afraid to take sleeping pills and many over the counter sleep aids have not worked for me. Abut I have other reasons why I don’t leave the house. I don’t sleep and eat when I should and I lead a completely sedentary lifestyle, as I spend most of my time in bed, or sitting down. So I don’t get any exercise other than walking up and down the stairs of my house to go downstairs to the kitchen, etc. So I worry that my immune system will not be good enough to keep me from catching something, if I am around too many people. And there are a lot of things that go around this time of year. I haven’t lead a normal lifestyle for about 5.5 years and though I was already going in this direction, about 6 months, before the pandemic, it got much worse during and after the pandemic. And I have not yet gotten back to a normal way of life. But the hardest thing I am struggling with is that when I get upset about something, or my significant other and I have an argument, I can’t seem to do the things I need to do for myself and I immobilize. I don’t keep up with my hygiene, I only shower about once a week and I don’t go through my bedtime routine, or sleep and eat when I should. And the worst part is that I feel like I can’t turn to my friends for support, because when I have, they either don’t reply to my texts about it, or I feel like they don’t understand. And I feel like some of them have judged me for it. And I don’t think my therapist has the right skill sets, or life experience, to really help me in the ways that I need help. And although I can talk to my significant other about most of this, he can’t always help, because most of what I am dealing with is because of my stress about our relationship. So I feel like I am struggling without any real help from anyone. I can’t deal with the way I am living this lifestyle and although I have made a lot of progress, off and on, for about the last year, I have not been able to break the cycle and get back to a normal way of life. I am terrified that I am wasting time, as most of the time, I don’t even have the motivation of energy to work on my goals. And I am so addicted to the internet, that all I do is stream videos, tv, movies, or research things. I order most of my groceries online and have them delivered to my house, because I’m too exhausted to go to the store. And I can’t get any dishes or housework done, other than doing some occasional loads of laundry. I can’t take what I’m going through anymore, but how do I break the cycle, when I can’t even do what I need to do for myself right now? Any words of advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Wanted: Friendship Advice For Highly Sensitive Person!
Friendship Support / by SatinLacePoet
Last post
 January 26th, 2025
...See more Hello! I am having a problem with a few of my friends being slow to reply to texts. Or, in a lot of instances, they just don’t reply at all. And both of these behavior patterns tend to bother me. Especially when I put so much thought and effort into texting them. And it isn’t reciprocated. I also, sometimes, like to send them pictures and gifs, but most of the time, they don’t make any comment about them. And I wonder if they ever received them. And because I am an “HSP”, or highly sensitive person, I tend to feel things very deeply, so it really hurts my feelings, when they are either slow to reply to my texts, or don’t reply at all. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind if it takes them hours, or sometimes, even several days to reply. But what bothers me is that one of these friends tends to not reply, at all, to my texts, on a very regular basis. And she usually doesn’t even reply, if I send her pictures or gifs. In addition, I have two other friends that do the same thing and sometimes, don’t even reply to texts that are wishing them a happy birthday or holiday wishes. And two of the three of these friends also go through periods of time, where they are slow to call me back, after I’ve called them. I also want to add that one of these friends doesn’t like to text, but my feeling on it is that it only takes less than a minute and sometimes even less than 30 seconds, to just send back a quick text of acknowledgment. Yet, most of the time, they don’t even do that for me. I also have told one of these friends, ie the one that doesn’t like to text, that it hurts my feelings when she won’t even take the time to send me back s quick text of acknowledgment. And though she apologized to me for it, she only improved in her text communication with me, for a short time. And then she went right back to being slow to reply, or mostly not replying at all. When these friends are slow to reply, or don’t reply at all to my texts, it makes me feel like they don’t care about my feelings. Or that they take my reaching out to them for granted. I have thought about talking to them about this, but I’ve only talked to one of them, so far and because she just went right back to this hurtful behavior, I am reluctant to talk to her, again, about it. I also worry that if I try to talk about this to my other two friends that they may think it comes across as weak or needy. Because I don’t think any of them are as sensitive as me. And I’m afraid they won’t understand why this behavior bothers me. So I am reluctant about talking to them about it. Do any of you feel hurt about this stuff? And how should I handle these situations? Should I talk to them about it? Or just keep it to myself and continue to be miserable about it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much for reading!
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Newbie Hub / by SatinLacePoet
Last post
 November 7th, 2024
...See more I’m new and am here to get support for some mental health struggles, as well as some personal issues. I would also like to make some new friends!
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