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Lonely and useless

JoshuaNew Contributor02 Oct 2018, 6:36 pm AEST

Lonely and useless

Hi All,

First post here.

I've lived for 45 years. I've never found a place I belong. I've never found that other better half. I never seem to do anything that people want.

Ultimately, lost and lonely and feeling pretty useless.

I've suffered from depression on and off for my entire adult life.

I find it hard to meet people at all, let alone those that are interested even in friendship, let alone love, let alone someone who could handle it when I go a bit south, mentally.

I don't keep it all to myself and I do think I've got plenty to offer the world.

But it's hard sometimes. Really hard sometimes, and one of those times is now.

It's obviously a bit of a downer to talk about but I saw the add on TV for this forum and figured I'd try it and see what happens.

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Zoe7Senior Contributor02 Oct 2018, 7:00 pm AEST

Re: Lonely and useless

Hey @Joshua Nice that you found us

It is not a nice place to be sitting when you feel alone so it is great that you have reached out here for some support. This is a great community where I hope you find the same compassion, care and support that I do. Have a look around the site, maybe enter some discussions and introduce yourself here - that way more people will find and introduce themselves to you too.

If you have any questions then feel free to tag me (@Zoe7) and I will do my best to help you out or point you in the right direction at least

Welcome to the forum @Joshua

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Unknown userMember02 Oct 2018, 7:11 pm AEST

Re: Lonely and useless

Hi Joshua,

Welcome to the forums! I hope you find them to be a really supportive and helpful community. It sounds like you are in a very difficult place and it is very courageous of you to come on the forums to share this and hopefully hear from some people who might be able to relate.

In addition to @Zoe7's excellent tips for getting started, just wanted to let you know we recently had a discussion on Loneliness here. It is closed now, but if you are interested you can still read it. There are also some discussions people have started themselves on feeling lonely and experiencing mental illness such as this one here by @Whiteknight.

I look forward to seeing you more on the forums 🙂

Take care,

Tortoiseshell

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BunniekinsSenior Contributor02 Oct 2018, 7:17 pm AEST

Re: Lonely and useless

@Joshua Hi Joshua and welcome to the forums 🙂 I don't suffer from depression I have other mh issues but my daughter does. She is in hospital right now for her depression so I think I have a little understanding of what you are going through.

I am so glad that you have taken the leap forward to say hello on Sane. We are a friendly bunch of people from all walks of life with all sorts of mental illness's. We have threads which are quite serious with other threads for eg: Good Morning! which more light hearted and about meeting people. My favorite is Friday Night Feast starts about 6.30-7.00 it is great fun.

Hope to see you around the forums.

greenpea

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