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Thank you both for the encouraging words! I'm doing my best and I do try to look at the glass half full. Sometimes I do get so down but I am glad there is a community here that I can turn to when I get so lonely. I know it's important to count one's blessings and I think that is the key to managing ...

What you say is so true, it's something to be managed everyday. When feeling engulfed in those feelings to try to deal with them through positive reinforcement.

I have a question/topic for discussion, and that is how to let go of negativity and not become bitter. Personally I have discovered that I have become quite bitter and I don't want to feel like that. I think in certain circumstances bitterness keeps you back from healing and perpetuates depression. ...

Thank you. I am glad I decided to join, oddly enough simply by finally sharing it somehow I feel a bit better.

I have gone through this before, and I did quit my job, ditched my friends, or done whatever I needed to do to heal myself temporarily from depression and it worked. I say temporarily however because now I feel I have hit the big league of depression where there is very little external changes I can...

I have just joined this forum because my loneliness got too much for me to bear and your post was the first I read. You are not alone in feeling this way. I have been suffering from depression for a long time, I have been up and down but somehow I always had some hope. This time I feel hopeless and ...