Lonely Loneliness

Is there relief

Question:

Our societal structure seems to be causing isolation when our population has never been greater. Isolation without communication leads people to feel alone and the loneliness is usually the worst contributor to the depression.

Absolutely true, exactly the reason I am miserable these days and do nothing but sleep.

Response:

Thankfully I do not have schizophrenia although I appreciate the kind words. I have a long term depression coupled with anxiety and that has made my life pretty miserable emotionally for some time. I feel for the schizophrenics so strongly because the strongest weapon in your arsenal against this is your mind, except of course, when you cannot trust it. I feel so much loss over a variety of things and that is what hurts the most. Job related which of course affects income. Friend related because these emotions, as irrational as they may seem to the observer are nonetheless very hard to over come. I pray a lot. I take medication and I work now. I was a returning graduate student for sometime and that made things hard because I spent so much time with my head in the books. It was necessary for me to find a job after so many years in another career field which I could not work in due to the anti-depressant medication. I have read many books about the treatment of depression and I believe "The Feeling Good Handbook" is probably the best I’ve read. I haven’t been good about implementing the routines over the years and if I did I probably would be a lot further along in the healing process. My pride is probably the biggest impediment to healing, only because I want to feel invulnerable again but that only comes from ignorance and I would have to become ignorant again. Thanks all for listening. Hopefully I can help someone here also because life is definitely preferrable to suicide and I just learned of a relatives friend that committed suicide by jumping off a high building. The family is now having a terrible time over-coming that tragedy. I think my mothers satirical position on suicide is the most accurate…"People who kill themselves are usually killing the wrong person". I don’t promote death in any shape or form mind you, and I am oh so aware of the pain depression can cause but there is much to live for. Our societal structure seems to be causing isolation when our population has never been greater. Isolation without communication leads people to feel alone and the loneliness is usually the worst contributor to the depression. Anyway, thanks for the support. Drop me a line if you need to. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The only bright side to this has been my incredible increase in compassion for people with conditions like schizophrenia and such. What a horrible thing it is, to lose trust in your own self and senses. If anybody feels like they have faced this demon and wrestled it, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. There are several good books written by people diagnosed with schizophrenia (or by their loved ones).  You can look over My Book List ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/alt/support/depression/ for a few of them if you’re interested. Sincerely Stewart

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The only bright side to this has been my incredible increase in compassion for people with conditions like schizophrenia and such. What a horrible thing it is, to lose trust in your own self and senses. If anybody feels like they have faced this demon and wrestled it, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

There are several good books written by people diagnosed with schizophrenia (or by their loved ones).  You can look over My Book List ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/alt/support/depression/ for a few of them if you’re interested. Sincerely Stewart —

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snip If anybody feels like they have faced this demon and wrestled it, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

Hello John ) I think you’ll find a lot of understanding in ASD. — —  Whiskers

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The only bright side to this has been my incredible increase in compassion for people with conditions like schizophrenia and such. What a horrible thing it is, to lose trust in your own self and senses. If anybody feels like they have faced this demon and wrestled it, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

- I don’t have schizophrenia but pretty much everything else that’s considered mental illness. Depression of course being the worst. Now i know how others feel and I feel more compassionate towards them. Sometimes i wonder if I cross someone in the street who is suffering from depression (and probably a poster in this ng) would we recognize each other? Would we connect in ways that we do here? I like the brotherly feelings we all share in here. I wish it were the same in real life though.

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I hate to sound so whiney but I have been fighting depression and some other mental illnesses since the spring of 1992. I want to screem in frustration sometimes. It screws with my head so much and I have to admit that it sounds strange to say it when referring to the way I feel mentally.         I broke up with my fiancee’ along with some very heavy responsibilities at work and it was just an overload. I was pounding coffee to stay awake because I couldn’t sleep at night and I had my first panic-attack. Panic kicked my butt. It continues to kick my butt in the form of low grade anxiety that keeps me from healing.         I have lost so many friends because of my behavior change. Even my family says I have changed. The panic attacks made me feel like something broke inside me and it has been nearly impossible to believe anything else since then. I have spent a lifes savings on counselling and medication in order to hide it from my work. People that have never had something like this happen to them, cannot conceive of the horrible nature of it.         The only bright side to this has been my incredible increase in compassion for people with conditions like schizophrenia and such. What a horrible thing it is, to lose trust in your own self and senses. If anybody feels like they have faced this demon and wrestled it, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. -J

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