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Weekly Prompt #41: How do you perceive your own resilience and ability to cope with challenges?
by ASilentObserver
Last post
 January 22nd
...See more Hello all, I hope you are all being easy on yourself this week. A few weeks ago we discussed: How does your depression affect your ability to care about and take care of others? [https://www.7cups.com/forum/depression/General_2427/WeeklyPrompt40Howdoesyourdepressionaffectyourabilitytocareaboutandtakecareofothers_336335/] Thank you to all who participated and shared their thoughts and questions for discussion. They were thought-provoking questions and thoughts. I hope you all did too. If you didn't share yours, please share them here [https://www.7cups.com/forum/depression/General_2427/WeeklyPrompt40Howdoesyourdepressionaffectyourabilitytocareaboutandtakecareofothers_336335/] and I look forward to reading and discussing them with you This week's prompt: How do you perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges? To perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges, you can reflect on your past experiences, identify your strengths, ways to embrace a positive mindset etc. Let's get started and share your thoughts with us. I look forward to hearing all your thoughts and ideas.  Join us in the 24/7 Depression Support Group Chat [https://www.7cups.com/connect/groupChatrooms.php]
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Your Poem...
by EmmaE
Last post
 January 13th
...See more Hi everyone, I came across this poem prompt and thought I'd share it here if anyone would like to try! ------------------------- My Poem (Title) My name is (name). Today I feel like a/an (adjective) (noun) (verb)ing in the (noun). Sometimes I am a/an (noun) Sometimes I am a/an (noun) But always I am (adjective). I ask the world, "(question)?" And the answer is a/an (repeat your words from line 2). ------------------------- If you’d like to join the depression support team, please check out THIS POST [https://www.7cups.com/forum/7CupsLeadership_188/SubcommunityHelpWanted_2306/HelpWantedDepressionSupport2023_295219/] for more information. To join our tag list and receive notifications, click HERE [https://www.7cups.com/forum/DepressionSupportCommunity_52/DepressionSupportLeadershipTeam_404/NEWautomateddepressionsupporttaglist_274831/].
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You can keep going 💙
by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
 November 22nd, 2024
...See more Hey everyone (: I hope your all doing okie 💙 and if your not (': we *do* care about you and we would really love to be there for you whenever you need us. 💜 I really hope you know that you don’t have to do this alone, buddy.  i don’t know what your going through right now, exactly. i don’t know how you feel (': but i’d like to remind you that it *is* okay to *feel* 💙 and it’s okay to take your time when figuring things out. it may be hard to explain how your feeling as well and i get that. 💜 (it’s important to take some time for yourself also 🥰 please do try being kind to yourself 🥺)  and some days… it just feels like too much, doesn’t it? we feel like we can’t take it anymore, we can’t go on anymore. Things just get too overwhelming, life just gets too hard… and hope seems like a distant dream. i know i’ve felt this way many times (': i think many of you might be able to relate 💙 but honestly, i need to remind you that there *is* hope, and you really can keep going. your never ever alone 💜 and you’ve never been truly alone.  And even though you might have never seen it, you are strong. stronger than you think you are. You’ve come *this* far and I am so so proud of you. i know it hasn’t been easy. i’m so proud of you. 💙 i’m sending so so so much love your way 💜 you deserve it, you really do 🥺 we love you, we care about you *always* and yes, there *is* hope for you. 💙 i promise.  🌙 Ni 🌸 @HealingTalk 
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How do you cope?
by AbigailMadden
Last post
 11 minutes ago
...See more I don't really have any coping mechanisms other than ignoring my feelings. What do you do to cope, what helps?
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I have depression and I don't know why.
by AbigailMadden
Last post
 23 minutes ago
...See more My name is Abigail, you can call me Abby. I struggle with severe depression, and I've had it for over a year now.  I don't know why I have depression. My life is great. I have amazing parents, an amazing dog, I'm financially stable, I have a best friend that treats me great, I have straight A's in school.  And yet, I still feel depressed. I feel empty, worthless, angry, suicidal. The whole shabang. And it makes me feel horrible, because I know so many people have it a million times worse than me. I feel like I'm not supposed to ever feel negative emotions. I feel like someone with a life as good as mine should be happy all the time.  But I'm not. And I don't know why. 
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12 years
by Simon003
Last post
 24 minutes ago
...See more It’s been 12 long years, a long lasting depression. With a lot of pain, loneliness and guilt. It ruins everything i do, everyone next to me. 2 years ago I’ve met someone.. she made me so incredibly happy. For the first time after a long time i was feeling happiness. I won’t say the whole story, i will go straight to the point. She left 3 weeks ago, I was still struggling with my depression but that gave me the final blow. It’s been 3 incessant weeks of pure pain, both physically and mentally. I am not proud to say there are dark thoughts in my mind.. I think you all can guess what I mean, it’s becoming stronger after each day. And I am unable to fight back, I don’t want to let myself go.. but it feels like it’s the only way. I don’t know what to do. Soon I will be 22, but i am not sure to be able to get to that day.
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I have deep feelings and I am sad and lonely…
by sensitivemeemotion
Last post
 30 minutes ago
...See more Hi, I am very sad and I feel lonely… I am very sensitive and my feelings are deep… I would like to be listened and supported, if it can be without solutions… Some time ago I lived a very hard situation that I cannot explain to not get worse… I have two people around me but I barely can talk to them because they are struggling emotionally…
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Life is Crushing
by aquaEast5833
Last post
 32 minutes ago
...See more I need to get my head right. Filled with so much stress, anxiety, and depression which leads to over thinking, guilt, shame which then results in overeating, withdrawing, and lashing out. I have a newborn, a marriage with no connection on any level, a soul killing job, friends that apparently aren’t friends, family that doesn’t understand or has earned trust yo be involved, and so much more. I feel like life is crushing me and I’m so intensely filled with emotions and thoughts about how my life had so much potential and I used to be filled with so much life and vibrancy. I loved philosophy, played guitar and graduated from a prestigious music college, was a go yo person for so many, was in shape, confident and loved life. Now I’m unhealthy, miserable, can’t get out of my way and so stuck. I can’t breath or think or focus or anything under the crushing weight of it all.
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I make myself nervous.
by AbigailMadden
Last post
 34 minutes ago
...See more I've been making myself really nervous lately. Every day I think of a full-proof suicide plan, and it scares me just how much detail I put into those thoughts. What scares me even more is how I could do it any day with easy access. Does anyone else just randomly start planning out a suicide?
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Feeling Insecure
by crimsonPenguin2489
Last post
 41 minutes ago
...See more My looks have changed!!! I’m overweight and have no motivation my hair fell out due to alpecea from medication changes and bleaching it!!!! I feel alone!!! When I come across the population where I live or go in the sun nobody wants to look at me, people avoid me, I make them nervous, they stare at me laugh at me and criticize me, scorn me!!!!!! I wear wigs to help with my insecurities!!!! But sometimes it just don’t help!!! I use hair shadow that makes it worse I use hair fiber that gets all over the place and makes it look like I just colored my scalp!!!! I’m depressed and I just got a new job working with children with Autism and other mental health issues or disabilities I got hired working for the school district that pays well!!!! I’m afraid they won’t like me!!!!!
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My 7 Cups Dream Journal
by integrityblues
Last post
 49 minutes ago
...See more Entry 1: The Boxes of Cats It was a little strange but what I remember most is visiting a house that was in my old neighborhood that I’d recently moved from (it really wasn’t, so dream logic) but I came back to collect something I left or my mother left. It was very sad and the people who were there now were sort of okay with me wandering around and looking. I kept noticing the signs that I’d once lived there (painted over places that still revealed chipped paint and stuff I recognized from my apartment). Then I looked beneath a couch or table and found boxes full of kittens. Two boxes were full of meowing kittens in water that the new home owners had no idea were there, and one more box held a very dead cat that was an older one from a previous litter. All of the kittens were starving without their mother and I knew that it was the reason why the older one passed. The new owners suddenly smelled the dead cat and I took it upon myself to get rid of it. When I came back an hour later all of the kittens were gone, and when I was walking past another house I could see all the kittens. They’d all grown up into adult cats!
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2025
by querencia798
Last post
 60 minutes ago
...See more HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!!!!! 🎆🥂🎁❤️ Prayers and prayers. May this year be bigger, brighter and blissful. May we all be safe, and happier. Amen.
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Messing things up
by determinedSea4370
Last post
 8 hours ago
...See more I woke up and had no motivation to do anything today. There was a resounding 'nothing matters'. I slept the day away until it was too painful to keep doing nothing and feeling nothing so I drank to destroy everything. Now it's midnight, I've accomplished nothing other than feeling ill, and I have work tomorrow. I don't know how to break this cycle. Please wish me luck that I can function at work.
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Another evening spent crying alone in the room
by WorthlessBeing43
Last post
 15 hours ago
...See more I'm always depressed😭😭😭
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Struggling
by puppyindustrial
Last post
 22 hours ago
...See more I’m so overwhelmed. Everything feels too much and I’ve been constantly crying lately - almost everyday for 3 weeks now. I have no control over it and it is such a despairing feeling. I am overcome with feelings of intense sadness and I feel so incredibly alone despite having people around me that I know care about me. Yesterday I experienced the worst emotion I had ever felt in my life and it really frightened me. My sister had showed me something funny which made me laugh one of those good laughs where your stomach hurts and you’re gasping for air - but all of a sudden the laughing turned into uncontrollable sobbing and I was hit with the most intense feeling of despair. My stomach felt like it was filled with butterflies, but not the good butterflies, and I felt physically sick. I seriously feel like I’m going crazy and I’m not sure how to overcome this.

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Community Resources

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- 9 Types of Depression and How To Recognize Them 

- You don't have to understand, you just have to be present by @MarianaFilipaSouza6

A beautiful testament to the nature of depression

- Rethink Mental Illness: Depression

Basic information and facts

- Resource Masterpost by @Sealiously

A plethora of amazing links

- Depression Self Help Guide

Discover some ways to help manage what you're going through

- Safety Plan

Here's a safety plan for those who are passively suicidal. Your life is important

- Resources to Help Manage Depression

A collection of helpful links for more information and support

- Depression Community Path

A path that helps guide you through dealing with depression on a day to day basis


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