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Thank you emily67 I just joined this website today. But to have someone out there who understands means everything to me.

I go through the same thing I have noticed the older I get the harder its been. I can relate to having no close friends for similar reasons It wasn't till last year that I started to try and push myself more to make friends. What I did was trying to get myself to go out more (even if it was a walk i...

I think society is what makes us feel this way. I believe there is so much more to life beyond the 2.5 kids, the house, the 9-5 job. Its society draining us of purpose. I push myself through my depression. I push myself to go outside, to run, to do things I know that would make me happy, make me fee...

I have lived with depression my entire life and no one around me seems to understand what I live with. Its a mix of social anxiety, fear, feeling alone. Im in my mid twenties and I struggle every day. It just keeps getting worse. I try to push myself into activities and keeping myself busy. I try to...