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This is my first time writing in a forum. I am 26 and have been suffering from depression on and off for the last 10 years but have had a really bad 3 weeks. I have been to a counsellor but it was a long time ago and it helped temporarily. I have just left a really stressful job that I hated but am currently off work from my new job with a back injury. For some reasons things just seem to keep going wrong for me, or at least they seem to be. I try to exercise but I have no motivation so my weight is increasing which adds to me feeling terrible about myself. I am the person that people come to with their problems but I don't feel I have anyone I can speak to and I hid my depression because of this. When I did speak to a friend about it she just said I was having a bad day and I felt she shrugged it off. I don't know what to do. Financially I cant afford to go to a counsellor with the treatment I have to have on my back but I would love to hear any suggestions anyone has to help me, even a little.

Thanks

Sounds Tough zars:

I hope you have some kind of welfare system you can fall back on?

Keeping in shape can sure be hard when even looking trim is not enough for most these days. As long as your able to get about ... that's a good thing ... usually means we can walk and keep moving forward. I am trying very hard to make that a routine myself as I know just how obesity can complicate things.

It's always easy for others to shrug off ... happens instinctively these days. Everyone is too busy thinking about themselves a Keep trying I guess?

Once again ... with regards to counseling and finances ... Does your country have a welfare system. There is usually a lot of fine print that many people overlook with regards to qualifying for help.

Don't get me wrong ... but I think at time counseling is over rated ... It's like society is becoming to reliant on professionally paid individuals for help and as regular as they pop a pill!

It's pretty much why people don't have much time for each other, because they have lost the ability to listen ... due to ranting so much down at the local clinic ... LOL (myself included ... although it is a requirement hahahaha and another hahaha )

I best leave you to it. I do wish you the best during this tough time. The transition your going through is enough to make anyone depressed, none the less, this does little to make you feel better.

For me ... I cant keep a job ... So I volunteer when I am not wishing I was dead. As for others not understanding me ... I talk to myself often! ... and it helps ... Financially ... I'm a non contribute on welfare payments doing whatever I am able under the table and happy with that. I aspire not to the values of society ... but just what little I can make myself content with.

Try not to expect to much of yourself and others ... take a few steps and try to eat less