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Mental Health Support

whathehell

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5. Do you have anyone around you for emotional support?

Reply to gvstn (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 5, 2015, 07:25 PM

Nov 2015

As someone who lost her mother not long ago, and struggled on and off with depression her whole life, it sounds

like you could benefit from seeing a counselor or therapist to discuss your feelings, ESPECIALLY if you don't have

a good support system now -- Don't try and go this alone.

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How do you increase your self esteem when depressed [View all] irisblue Nov 2015 OP

Me too, I'm at my worst right now. gvstn Nov 2015 #1

I am so sorry for your great loss irisblue Nov 2015 #2

Thanks so much for the condolences. gvstn Nov 2015 #3

I was that for my dad. That was in 92. I still think if I had just done something different. LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #4

You sound like how I have been acting. gvstn Nov 2015 #7

It is just a different type LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #8

Thanks. gvstn Nov 2015 #11

Do you have anyone around you for emotional support? whathehell Nov 2015 #5

I keep telling my brother and sister than I am unwell. gvstn Nov 2015 #6

Maybe you need to be firm and direct about it.. whathehell Nov 2015 #9

I really have done so much. gvstn Nov 2015 #12

I understnd that you are clinically sick, which means, in this case, No Vested Interest Nov 2015 #16

Is there any cash to pay someone to come and get the house ready? TexasBushwhacker Nov 2015 #18

Another way to say self-esteem is self-worth, saying it that way HereSince1628 Nov 2015 #10

old journals and new journals irisblue Nov 2015 #13

Good idea. HereSince1628 Nov 2015 #14

not me, but how I'm feeling irisblue Nov 2015 #15

I try to figure out what triggeted the lack of self esteem and or self worth olddots Nov 2015 #17