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🌹 Welcome to August: Celebrating Resilience & Hope! 🌹
by Angelanj
Last post
 September 1st
...See more "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." — Maya Angelou To Our Newcomers: A warm, heartfelt welcome to you! We're so glad you're here and part of our caring community. Whether you're seeking support, connection, or a safe space to share, you belong here. ♥️  To Our Returning Members: It’s wonderful to have you back! Your presence and kindness make this community stronger. Thank you for being here.  ❤️ This August, we honor Never Give Up Day (August 18th), a reminder of the incredible strength we carry, even on the hardest days. Let’s celebrate resilience, hope, and the power of lifting each other up.   🌈 Monthly Prompts & Activities: 1️⃣ Share Your Comeback Story – Tell us about a time you kept going, even when things felt impossible. Your strength inspires others!   2️⃣ Encourage a Fellow Member – Leave a kind note or supportive message for someone who might need a boost.   3️⃣ Self-Care Challenge – Try one small act of self-kindness each day (e.g., a walk, journaling, or a mindful break).   4️⃣ Never Give Up Playlist – Share songs that motivate you to push through hard times.   Let’s make this month a reminder that no one walks alone. Every step forward—no matter how small, is worth celebrating. We’re so grateful you’re here with us! ♥️  Gentle Reminder: You matter. You’re valued. And you’re never alone. 🌹
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A Belated Welcome to May: Mental Health Awareness Month 💚
by Angelanj
Last post
 July 7th
...See more "Little by little, a little becomes a lot." – Tanzanian Proverb 🌱 Hello everyone, Welcome to newcomers and returning members of the depression support community. Whether you just joined or are coming back after time away, you belong here. 💚 May is Mental Health Awareness Month. First, I want to sincerely apologize for this late post. This month carries such an important message, and it's one worth sharing no matter the date. Even as we move further into the month, the focus remains the same: the courage to keep going, the power of small actions, and the hope that tiny joys can still reach us. This month's prompt: Create a Dopamine Menu 🍏: What is a Dopamine Menu? A Dopamenu is a simple tool to help you boost your mood and motivation. Just like a food menu, it gives you choices. You pick activities based on how much time and energy you have. The goal is to help your brain release dopamine or the "feel-good" chemical, without pressure or perfection. Blank Template : Example of Dopamenu 🍈: How to Use your Dopamine Menu : Step 1: Print or save the blank template. Step 2: Fill in each section with your own ideas. Use the example for inspiration. Step 3: When you feel stuck, pick one thing from your menu. Start with a Starter if you're really low. Step 4: Do it. No pressure to finish. No guilt if you stop early. Step 5: Repeat whenever you need a boost. Feel free to share your Dopamine Menu in the comments! Sending love and light, Angelanj 
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Your Poem...
by EmmaE
Last post
 May 23rd
...See more Hi everyone, I came across this poem prompt and thought I'd share it here if anyone would like to try! ------------------------- My Poem (Title) My name is (name). Today I feel like a/an (adjective) (noun) (verb)ing in the (noun). Sometimes I am a/an (noun) Sometimes I am a/an (noun) But always I am (adjective). I ask the world, "(question)?" And the answer is a/an (repeat your words from line 2). ------------------------- If you’d like to join the depression support team, please check out THIS POST [https://www.7cups.com/forum/7CupsLeadership_188/SubcommunityHelpWanted_2306/HelpWantedDepressionSupport2023_295219/] for more information. To join our tag list and receive notifications, click HERE [https://www.7cups.com/forum/DepressionSupportCommunity_52/DepressionSupportLeadershipTeam_404/NEWautomateddepressionsupporttaglist_274831/].
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2025
by querencia798
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 5 hours ago
...See more HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!!!!! 🎆🥂🎁❤️ Prayers and prayers. May this year be bigger, brighter and blissful. May we all be safe, and happier. Amen.
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i need help.
by lavenderCurrent1411
Last post
 8 hours ago
...See more i think i finally realized how bad my life has gotten and i dont really know what to do about it. my boyfriend told me that the way i live is pathetic and that he could never live like this. and as much as it hurt to hear, the worst part is that i dont even really disagree with him i dont have a job. im not in school. most days i just sit in his room while he goes to school or plays video games with his friends. i basically spend my entire day waiting for him to be available again and thats the part that scares me the most because at some point i stopped really having a life outside of him my entire mood depends on how we're doing. if we're good, i feel okay. if something feels wrong between us, i feel like my entire world is falling apart i dont really have goals that im working toward. i dont have a routine. i dont have something that makes me feel accomplished or gives me a reason to get up and do things so when he isnt around, i dont really know what im supposed to do with myself i know thats not healthy. and i dont want to make him responsible for fixing that either. hes allowed to have school, friends, hobbies, and a life that doesnt revolve around me. i just wish i knew how to build a life that doesnt revolve around him either because i genuinely love him, but i dont want loving someone to become the only thing i have going for me i dont want my self worth to depend on whether my boyfriend wants to spend time with me that day i want to actually feel like my own person again
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Why Does Your Voice Scare Me Now?
by Jyotik005
Last post
 9 hours ago
...See more I wasn't like this .. I am used to it .. I am used of watching fights , raising voices , arguments .. , mom and dad fighting and cursing eachother , mom shouting at everyone , cursing for no reason and being indifferent towards me i am used to it but it feels different now . I get anxious at raising voices , I want to cry or leave the space .. i just want to silent all the noises they made ... I want to have a normal family yeh mine is too but not often .... but i can't stop them i can't tell them to keep quite or pleaseeee don't fight !!! because even if i do they ignore or keep doing that and when i cry in front of my mom she curses me saying " DON'T TRY TO GET ATTENTION " , yeh maybe  i am trying to get attention.. i never get from u but i don't want it i guess , i don't know but even if i try to not get effected it still hurts when u talk to other kids or anyone or everyone so sweetly but not to me ... But i can't do anything about this bcz this is us ... its okay i will be fine and used to it soon .... But it hurts bcz i wasn't this sensitive but now even when their is little rise in tone i get anxious and restless and all i could do it lock myself in room and try not hear... and cursing myself bcz I feel worst in myself bcz of ur words ... I know this is stupid but what can i do ? this is me ... weird and stupid and weak maybe ... I DON'T KNOW but its feels like a fact . 
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What is the meaning of living?
by globalartist
Last post
 9 hours ago
...See more I am 27, and lots of things happened in my life. Everyone has bad times but it is heavy to carry to each of us. From childhood i couldnt find the meaning of life. After mom and dad left me behind i felt just a big hollow. Then the life treated me so bad. And i cant find any reason to live. Yes doing things everyday. But i dont enjoy the things i do. Whats your meaning for life and living?
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I am exhausted
by ShaheenAvare55
Last post
 17 hours ago
...See more I am a 23 years old last year medical student who is living with his narcissistic toxic abusive parents in a *** country, I have no one and no where to go , I have no money in my pockets, I tried my best to make my life better, I am a polyglot who speaks 7 languages, I love music, gaming but now I am just don with them , I can't even enjoy them anymore , I just want to feel peace but this feels impossible
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Is a miserable life worth living?
by ShaheenAvare55
Last post
 18 hours ago
...See more I am a 23 years old last year medical student who is living with his narcissistic toxic abusive parents in a *** country, I have no one and no where to go , I have no money in my pockets, I tried my best to make my life better, I am a polyglot who speaks 7 languages, I love music, gaming but now I am just don with them , I can't even enjoy them anymore , I just want to feel peace but this feels impossible
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Being Single Sucks
by quietSummer620
Last post
 18 hours ago
...See more Very random post but I’ve been feeling isolated and lonely due to being the only friend in the group not in a relationship. We have fun hanging out but I’m always left alone because everyone leaves to go to couple things. I feel like a part of me is also behind in life because I can’t find a partner. But I also have had some pretty bad experiences with dating too. Wondering if anyone reading this also feels similarly to me.
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My mom and middle sister
by bekind400
Last post
 18 hours ago
...See more A year ago my sister had a stress attack and since then everything has changed more than it already was. She was in the hospital for about a week and my mother was very worried, now she treats her differently than she treats me and my older sister.I mean, she favors her more, since I was little I was seen as a child who wouldn't be an example because I didn't like studying at school and my mother thought I wouldn't even make it to high school(im the youngest sister).Now, nowadays, if she starts an argument or talks to me in a bad way, it's all my fault in my mother's eyes, everything I do is wrong, yesterday we had an argument about how I dress because I had to go to the dermatologist and I dressed basic and obviously she didn't say anything to my sister about it, she told her that she dressed nicely (i was wearing a gray top and some wide leg pants) and I didn't understand what was wrong with that, but when I confronted her about how she was favoring her more, she got really angry.She denied everything exactly as I expected her to do and I left it at that until she calmed down because I also had a cold and I didn't feel like arguing.I don't understand why parents favor their children and when they do something wrong they tend to yell at them for things they did years ago even though they are completely different people now. Ever since I was little I was seen as someone who didn't care about anyone's feelings or anything, but what my mother didn't know was that I cried at night when everyone was sleeping until she found my diary where I wrote that I wanted to k### myself (this was a few years before this thing with my sister) and she changed a bit her perspective about me but now its way worse.It feels like my middle sister just likes the attention and everytime i dont keep my mouth shut im still the wrong one.I honestly don't know how i didn't k### myself yet bc trough 2021-2025 i went trough a horrible depression about stress,school,exes and just being lonely and not finding someone who just sees trough me and who loves me.Idk what to say anymore,what do yall think about it?Also thank you for reading all of this ❤️
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My 7 Cups Dream Journal
by integrityblues
Last post
 21 hours ago
...See more Entry 1: The Boxes of Cats It was a little strange but what I remember most is visiting a house that was in my old neighborhood that I’d recently moved from (it really wasn’t, so dream logic) but I came back to collect something I left or my mother left. It was very sad and the people who were there now were sort of okay with me wandering around and looking. I kept noticing the signs that I’d once lived there (painted over places that still revealed chipped paint and stuff I recognized from my apartment). Then I looked beneath a couch or table and found boxes full of kittens. Two boxes were full of meowing kittens in water that the new home owners had no idea were there, and one more box held a very dead cat that was an older one from a previous litter. All of the kittens were starving without their mother and I knew that it was the reason why the older one passed. The new owners suddenly smelled the dead cat and I took it upon myself to get rid of it. When I came back an hour later all of the kittens were gone, and when I was walking past another house I could see all the kittens. They’d all grown up into adult cats!
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little history and newest update
by modestNorth2327
Last post
 23 hours ago
...See more May 29th GONNA BE A LONG ONE Starting to get back into the slump I tried so damn hard to get out of, and idk what the *** to do. Within 2 weeks, I lost my job, lost my apartment, had to move back home, and a week later had an infection in my eye, which is causing me to lose my vision. I now live back home with my mom, and my partner came with and it’s just so much not knowing what in the world is coming next. Every time I try to plan something with my mom and just explain to her everything in life and how it feels, I’m canceled on or just ignored because she is talking to her new man. It’s to the point that I really have no one to deal with this with me, and it’s kind of ***. Been like this before, so I’m just faking it till I make it, but like honestly, it’s getting old. NOTE: I did adult things today and signed up for an online counseling session this coming week to maybe see how things will go after this. We shall see!! June 8th: Little update, not going deep, but things have only gotten worse with her, as now I have become her venting-stress person to go to, then just disappear after it all. Like she just drops everything and anything, then goes to her room. Also had my initial appointment for therapy and was told, 20 minutes in, that I don’t meet the criteria to be in therapy, and there was nothing further, as the meeting was ended. GREAT!!! That is all. SO 9/18 UPDATE  Since those last two posts, things have gotten even worse. Towards the end of August, my partner and I had split up due to the narcissistic personality she had, along with me being the bad guy and the cause of every issue there was to mankind. We had split on the last day of a trip we had taken to SD after a huge argument, and honestly, my mental health has only tanked from here. Just before our split, though, my mom, who im still with, moved her 31M boyfriend and his 8-year-old son into the house, and we all live together. What I had imagined was the complete opposite. I had the dumb idea that things would be nice with all of us, and OH BOY am I wrong. The BF does not know how to parent his child at all and caves in to everything he wants, and the child is just a holy terror. But the F***** part that hits me is that no matter what time or place, whenever im just trying to talk to my mom, since she knows how I am mentally, her BF and his child have to be involved, according to the BF. I have pretty much started locking myself in my room whenever I am home, or I just leave till they are all asleep. I am rarely eating or sleeping anymore due to all of this, and honestly, I just don't know what to do anymore. But I guess I'd just update a few people who have been here since May and saw my original post about all of this. 
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TW Weed
by Kozak15011
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more I'm 15 and I've been struggling with strong depression since I was about 12 and it's never really gone away no matter what I do or try to change in my life it's genuinely just always there almost every day it's ruined my interest in everything I used to love doing I feel so unnoticed as well and I try to vent to someone and it's always the same stuff either they don't even listen or they don't know what to say depression genuinely ruined my life into a nicotine addiction which gradually stopped working so I tried weed and now I only feel happy when I'm high at this point (I don't smoke weed a lot) I genuinely just want to feel loved by people and I dont some days are straight agony even if nothing is happening and it's like I'm incapable to even be happy now. I apologize if this Is really deep I've just been bottling this all in for a very long time.
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World seems crazy
by plumAcai2025
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more Anyone else feeling this.

We hope that you can find some respite here from what you're going through. We all help each other through the darkness. Welcome, friends, to the Depression Support Community at 7 Cups. We're so happy you're here <3

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- 9 Types of Depression and How To Recognize Them 

- You don't have to understand, you just have to be present by @MarianaFilipaSouza6

A beautiful testament to the nature of depression

- Rethink Mental Illness: Depression

Basic information and facts

- Resource Masterpost by @Sealiously

A plethora of amazing links

- Depression Self Help Guide

Discover some ways to help manage what you're going through

- Safety Plan

Here's a safety plan for those who are passively suicidal. Your life is important

- Resources to Help Manage Depression

A collection of helpful links for more information and support

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A path that helps guide you through dealing with depression on a day to day basis


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