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Thanks Jim,
I can relate with all you say. I do see a counselor regularly. Dont have kids, but I am blessed with an incredibly supportive, understanding wife (whom I've put thru hell so many times). I can relate to avoiding certain people too. And I've cut back on the number of "Friends" on FB. So much "look at me and how happy and wonderful my life is, and pics of all these exciting places I've been to, and all our beautiful family and friends." (Anti)-Social Media can be very dangerous for those of us not living the "exciting, terrific, happy, spectacular, good and no bad lives." I only have friends I know and trust the few times I go on it. So good to have THIS platform to share with others the truth of reality!
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I left Facebook because of the vitriol. I couldn't handle it. I've thought about reactivating my account, but haven't been able to bring myself to do it. Even my brothers and sisters are stressors. They don't get it. My son doesn't understand depression, and thinks I should be able to do certain things to get over it. My daughter is a therapist, so she certainly gets it, but she thinks that I should be in a better place after 20 years of treatment. She doesn't exactly agree with my doing talk therapy without specific goals. But it is what it is, isn't it. HA!
Jim