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My biggest trigger is when my “close” ones don’t connect to me at my lowest. I feel surrounded by cardboard cutouts. This feeling can push me to the edge of suicide overnight. I’m an extremely giving person yet any time I’ve needed support during depression, my friends and partner have come up short. I’m considering cutting out a bunch of fair-weather friends. I’d rather be alone than feel so fucking lonely and invisible exactly when I need love the most.
This would change my day to day a lot - I’d give up 60% of my social life.
Have you tried this and does it work?
Partners are a whole other story maybe, my life is too tied up to his, a breakup would send me reeling.
Do your friends know how to support you? I know when I'm feeling low there isn't much they can do but invite me over and hope I come.
Maybe when you are feeling good you can give them concrete things to do to make you feel supported. Do you need food brought over? Do you want to be taken for a drive? Do you want sometime to come over and watch tv with you? You get the idea.
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