Holding on to what I'm losing

Mares73
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

I pray to wake up without tears of dread.  

I pray that my children will see me smile again 

i pray that the empty, lost person I am

will one day learn to live again.

I don't think I'm asking for the world. I'm asking for myself to be found under the crushing pain. I'm asking for help to lift that load so I know how to live in freedom again. The hopelessness, despair & self hate are my only companions, beating me down to the point I myself can't be found. Please please help me, I fall lower each day and the fight gets greater each day. I have no one. My husband can't handle it & finds solace in work, I've isolated myself from everyone I know. I used to be the life of the party. Now I don't recognise who I am.  It's so true what one member wrote-that she didn't want to die but more importantly she didn't want to live. Yes that's me. I have to live for others but I can't find a reason for myself right now.

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geoff
Champion Alumni
Champion Alumni

dear Mares, this maybe in different lots as the brain thinks of something else.

Maybe I should start backwards and how I remain depression free, but just a side line before I say what ever is that I am not pervious or totally insulated from having a relapse, which I did when Tessie my 18 year old little dog had to be put down, so I had a relapse for a couple of days, but I knew that I would get better, and that's the strong point here, THAT I WOULD GET BETTER, but in this relapse I let this illness consume me, I couldn't fight it, but that didn't matter, I knew that it would only last a short time.

That's the confidence that I need and when people here on this site never believe that they will improve, then look around the corner and what do you see, there's another world waiting there for you, and I will describe this in part 2.

99% of my time I have established a hard being, skin or surface in that I know that if someone else has depression, and I'm talking about people, family or new friends out there in a day by day situation, is that I can listen, understand and help them in what ever way possible, just as I do here on this site, because it's very important for these people to want to communicate, and by having this hard exterior means that I don't become depressed by what is said, so this is by having a hard exterior.

However I am a passionate and caring fellow, sorry guys, always have been and always will be, but when I was in depression it was very subdued, which is something that I really hated.

Sure I do worry for you and everyone else, and I can totally understand what and where you are coming from, and hell I appreciate every comment that you as well as everyone else make in your desperate need to overcome this illness.

Part 2 to follow. L Geoff. x

JessF
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor
I wish we had thumbs up buttons on here! Geoff this is great, this was sucha  turning point for me too.  Being able to have relapses and episodes but knowing that I can just ride it out and knowing it will pass.  A good friend of mine once said to me 'depression lies' and one of the lies it tells us is 'this will never change'.

Neil_1
Community Member

Mares

Just am writing to let you know you're in my thoughts.

Neil

 

geoff
Champion Alumni
Champion Alumni
dear Mares, let me know if you want me to continue, so if I don't hear back from you then I won't. L Geoff. x