Helplessness and hopelessness

I just feel tired alone and sad. I feel like i am suffocating from all the sadness and anxiety inside of me.

[MistyBlue1]

I'm so sorry you're feeling so low today. You aren't alone... there are lots of us here who are on this journey with you. Take baby steps. Maybe find one small positive thing near you to focus on for a few minutes. Breathe. You aren't alone.

[Hidden in reply to MistyBlue1]

Unfortunately, even if there's alot of people around me i still feel alone just like i am loosing the battle

[MistyBlue1 in reply to Hidden]

You're here, and you're typing to someone. That's a good baby step, even when you feel like you're losing. I can sort of sit here beside you. Feeling alone is so hard.

[Hidden in reply to MistyBlue1]

I really appreciate your kind help thank you..

[MistyBlue1 in reply to Hidden]

I work from home, and I'm alone about ten hours a day, trapped in my own anxiety-consumed head. My son was doing school from home, but now he's back in person. The struggle is real, and I know what it's like to feel cut off, alone, and trapped in whatever lies your brain is telling you. Depression lies; anxiety lies. Somedays it's just about doing the next tiny, right thing to keep going.

[Hidden in reply to MistyBlue1]

I truly understand what you are going through because i feel same trapped in my own brain can't escape, and the saddest thing is that I wasn't my self for months and nobody noticed 💔

[MistyBlue1 in reply to Hidden]

Oh, I get that. I sometimes wonder how my husband doesn't say more often "are you ok?" when I so clearly do not FEEL ok. But everyone is trapped in their own stuff, too, and that makes it hard to feel seen. I see you. Still just sitting right here beside you.

[Iammesues in reply to MistyBlue1]

I too sit right beside people that haven’t noticed I stopped talking 8 months ago. I feel better keeping all my thoughts to myself. I think some people are blind to sadness

[MistyBlue1 in reply to Iammesues]

Yes, most people are caught up in their own brains and just don't see what they aren't specifically looking for. We are all pretty self-absorbed, which is a pretty human trait, I think. That's what makes these message boards so helpful, I think. To make them work, we have to type the words that bring us here. "I'm sad." "I'm anxious." Whatever it is. It gives us an avenue to reaching out that maybe we don't take in our 3D, real-world lives. Does that make sense? I'm so sorry you're feeling sad today. I hope you can find that one baby step to take that gives you a tiny spark of improvement. And that that spark pushes you toward another one.