Once when I was very low

[Tiina63]

I have always thought that one of the worst things about depression is the feeling of utter and complete aloneness which it brings, the feeling I am in complete darkness in a dungeon and that there is no one else within a light year.
Once when I was going through a very deep depression I met another woman who was in the same place and it helped me a lot because although I was still in the same dark place, I felt that she was in there with me. I had never felt this before whenever I was really depressed and I was surprised by what a difference it made.
I still felt just as depressed but at least the utter aloneness had gone. There was someone in prison with me.

 

[lifestream]

Been there, Tiina. It really lightens the burden when you know someone else is feeling the same way and you don't have the added pressure of hiding yourself around them.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I have always thought that one of the worst things about depression is the feeling of utter and complete aloneness which it brings, the feeling I am in complete darkness in a dungeon and that there is no one else within a light year.
Once when I was going through a very deep depression I met another woman who was in the same place and it helped me a lot because although I was still in the same dark place, I felt that she was in there with me. I had never felt this before whenever I was really depressed and I was surprised by what a difference it made.
I still felt just as depressed but at least the utter aloneness had gone. There was someone in prison with me.

The darkest part of you was understood and accepted. I've found that there are few things more touching and powerful than aspects of ourselves which others reject (and that that causes our self-esteem to plumit) …being accepted.

It's like your want to cry and then…that bond with the other person is all the more deeper for it.

Very rarely has this happened in my life but when it has…

of course, I fall in love in one way or another.