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TW: Depression / Suicide Ideaiton.
As someone who has lost family to suicide and also has spent nearly half of their life dealing with chronic depression and suicide ideation, I want to send love to anyone struggling right now.
If no one else gets it, I do.
As someone who has lost family to suicide and also has spent nearly half of their life dealing with chronic depression and suicide ideation, I want to send love to anyone struggling right now.
If no one else gets it, I do.
Over the years, I& #39;ve learned how to cope with depression and how to talk myself into staying here when everything inside me wants the opposite.
Right now is particularly difficult because a lot of the ways many of us have learned to cope involves face to face and interpersonal relationship. Whether it& #39;s going spending time with friends and/or family, going out for a self care day, going to the gym, etc.
A lot of our go to ways of coping and holding on no longer exist and I want you to know that I feel you, I see you and that I& #39;m sorry. It& #39;s ROUGH.
Reaching out is even harder and even more discouraged as well, because right now more than ever, we& #39;re all aware that people "have problems of their own."
Yes, everyone is going through it right now but it doesn& #39;t take away from the fact that this is a huge adjustment and you& #39;re learning how to cope in a world you& #39;re not used to.
It& #39;s okay to be frustrated, sad or even discouraged.
It& #39;s okay to be frustrated, sad or even discouraged.
I too have felt very discouraged from reaching out and have had trouble being honest about how I feel during all of this. The ways I used to cope temporarily don& #39;t exist and learning new ways to do so has been hard.
I& #39;ve been on edge for a minute now and have picked up the phone to talk to friends and family and instead of being real about where I& #39;m at, I& #39;ve tried to make them feel better because we& #39;re all going through it.
One thing to remember though is that on your journey of loving, caring and being compassionate towards others right now, don& #39;t forget to be compassionate towards yourself. You deserve that too.
And I don& #39;t have any grand advice because I& #39;m going through it myself, but I& #39;ll encourage you to do this: Please take care of yourself. Please be patient with yourself when you& #39;re going through those things / feeling the heaviness of life. And please keep reaching out.
I& #39;m taking care of myself by not responding to every text, email, phone call, request to do something or DM.
I& #39;m taking care of myself by talking to a therapist once a week via telemedicine.
I& #39;m taking care of myself about not feeling guilty about saying "no."
I& #39;m taking care of myself by talking to a therapist once a week via telemedicine.
I& #39;m taking care of myself about not feeling guilty about saying "no."
I& #39;m taking care of myself by trying to create new traditions and finding new ways to connect with people that I love.
I& #39;m taking care of myself by sleeping whenever I get the opportunity and not feeling guilty about not always creating or wanting to work.
I& #39;m taking care of myself by sleeping whenever I get the opportunity and not feeling guilty about not always creating or wanting to work.
I& #39;m learning how to give myself time and space to just BE in the midst of all of this and I hope you are as well.
I& #39;m so glad you& #39;re still here with us and if nothing else know that it won& #39;t always be like this.. I promise.
I& #39;m so glad you& #39;re still here with us and if nothing else know that it won& #39;t always be like this.. I promise.
If you& #39;re reading this, set aside time this week to do something nice for yourself (whether it& #39;s making a nice meal, binging a show taking a bubble bath, etc) and don& #39;t feel bad about it.
You deserve that xo.
You deserve that xo.
I promise you that there& #39;s someone out there that& #39;s tinking about you. Reach out to the people that you love and that ones that love you during this time. I& #39;m sure they would love to love you where ever you are, however they can.
Also, if someone is on your mind reach out to them. Let them know that you& #39;re thinking of them. If they& #39;re awesome, let them know you think they& #39;re awesome. If you& #39;re praying for, let them know you& #39;re praying for them. If you love them, let them know you love them.
We could ALL use a little extra love right now any of us have to give. xo
