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I hope you have family and friends to support YOU as well. That's a lot on your shoulders there atm.
I hope you'll find some rest (meditation or just sth you enjoy doing for your mind/heart/spirit) inbetween all this chaos. Hug.

I'll be sending all the positive thoughts and energies your way that I have! I have an old and very sick pappa too, I know how hard it is!
Best wishes!

I'm curious how your doctor came up with depression only lasting up to two years? It's been 17 years for me. I don't try to "battle" depression anymore, but also I stopped identifying with it too much. I try to find ways to live around it. I try to be good to myself, but occasionally force...

I understand how you feel! I guess I have sort of an eating disorder as well, often either binging or starving myself. (Never been "diagnosed" or anything.) I started reading a lot about it, but nothing ever really seemed to help until I came across "Constant Craving" by Doreen V...

Thank you so much for your kind and welcoming words! It really seems I'm in the right place!
See you around.

Hi R.London. :) Sounds you have a lot of great stuff going on in your life atm, congrats. Though great it is being engaged and moving into a new home can be a lot at once. (Speaking from experience here. ;)) So maybe not too surprising your depression seems to shine through atm. I'm sure you'll pull...

Hello everyone. First time I've had internet at home in a long time, and I guess the first thing I did was check out if there were any communities/helpful sites on depression. When I was about 13 I started understanding I had been abused sexually by my brother. I had a violent mother on top of that....