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Sometimes suicidal thoughts sound less like “I want to die” and more like “I don’t know how to keep doing this.” Depression can make tomorrow feel impossibly far away.
If you’re living inside that sentence today, please tell someone.
You can be bored for hours and still have no energy to do anything about it. Nothing sounds interesting enough to start, and the day slowly disappears while you wait to feel like yourself again.
@leftunsents It is scary to open the fridge, see your favorite meal, and realize you would rather go back to bed. A day without tears can still be a day you need someone to come over.
@MikeJMele It takes a lot to tell someone how bad it has gotten when you remember being laughed at the last time you cried. If someone tells you they are thinking about suicide, take them seriously and stay with them while you get help.
@sxhealth101 She can be special to you, and you still get to tell her that the joke she made about you at dinner hurt.
It gets lonely when you have to laugh along to feel sure someone will stay.
@imdatfeminist You can be the one who ended it and still catch yourself looking at houses in the town you planned to move to together. Missing the life you pictured does not mean you made the wrong choice.
@w0a0i0f You still know how to make their favorite soup without a recipe, and for a while even the smell of it hurts.
Then one day you make it because you want a bowl.
@Ryan_Daigler The first time a kid shows an adult the messages and says they are scared to go to school, that is reason enough to step in. Those screenshots should matter while the child is still here to ask for help.
@JillianTurecki Sometimes the breakup hits all over again when you change your RSVP to one for your sister’s wedding.
You had already made room for them in days you had not even lived yet.
@ChrisWillx A vague message from your boss can have you mentally packing up your desk before you even know what the meeting is about. Feeling scared is reason enough to be kind to yourself while you wait for the facts.
@MikeJMele A list of therapists is a lot to work through on a day when you barely have the energy to answer a text.
Offer to sit with someone while they make the first call, then check in again while they wait for an appointment.
@DearS_o_n It hurts to admit how long you put off what mattered to you, so make yourself one promise small enough to keep tomorrow. You have already lost enough time to the man you think you should have been by now.
@DearS_o_n Text first if you miss them, and give them a chance to make the next plan. It is easy to think you have a weekly coffee date until you realize it only happens on the weeks you ask.
@AjayHadiya6 He is back to cracking jokes in the group chat, so it is easy to assume he is doing better and forget to ask.
A man should be able to tell you he is still struggling on the same day he made you laugh.
You make one small mistake and spend the rest of the day waiting for consequences that never come. Anxiety has a way of turning uncertainty into something your body treats like an emergency.
You start feeling like everything takes too much effort.
Replying. Showering. Making plans. Even deciding what to eat.
After a while, depression starts shrinking your life around the energy you no longer have.
@amerix Learn to ignore things beyond your control, for they are the cause of apprehension, anxiety and depression. Focus on what you can control: Your thoughts, mood, mouth, consumption, skills, relationships.
@Vicophobia01 Your parents ask how work is every Sunday, and somehow the conversation always moves on before you get to say what you actually want to do with your life. The thing you wanted most from your parents was a second question.