I split this post into three parts, one for each person.

My mom: I keep trying to talk to her about how depressed I am and how much I’m struggling but she literally brushes it off and downplays it. “It won’t always be like this”, she says. Duh, I know that. But I don’t feel that. That’s the current issue and it’s like she doesn’t recognize, which is odd because SHE has been diagnosed with MDD. So I thought she would understand if anything.

My friend: One of my friends told me I talk too much. It’s not what he said that hurt, it was how he said it and what followed. This person has been my friend for a year, so they know what I struggle with mentally. I see them everyday. He made me feel like a burden, as if I don’t already experience that pain. However, I thought I was making it up. Until he said it out loud. So now I’m overly cautious about everything I do or say. Which doesn’t help right now since I’m going through yet another identity crisis.

My crush: There’s this guy I’m talking to, and a part of me hopes he sees this. He’s so sweet and I’m so happy he lets me talk to him, especially about his personal situations and relationships, etc. But right now, in this moment? I feel like he’s pulling away from me. Naturally I wanna jump the gun and pull away first, but part of me feels like that’s my paranoia talking. What I really want is to have a conversation about it with him. But I can’t. We’ve seriously only been talking for like three weeks and I’m already so attached. I’ve talked to him about something similar already, too. So it just feels repetitive. What do you guys do when you get this way?