<p>For instance, if you were depressed or suicidal, do you feel you would have someone/something to go to for support, and if so, who/what?</p>
<p>Anecdotes, long-winded stories, etc. are welcome.</p>
<p>Not really. I mean, I have my parents, but they put so much stress on me and don’t really seem to understand anything. My older sister is okay to talk to, but she’s always extremely busy. I have a few close friends I could talk to, but I feel like they would just feel really bad for me and I don’t want to be pitied.
I don’t really have anything I need support for, though, at the moment, so I guess it’s okay.
How about you?</p>
<p>I probably have more of one than I think I do. I feel like that would be a really awkward conversation to start, though.</p>
<p>Yes, there are some people, but for the most part people hate depressed people. But it will never change the fact that I hate myself.</p>
<p>@loltired I do have a few close friends I go to for support, but most of the time I end up helping myself, mostly because I feel most of them are not very helpful. There is one exception, and so whenever I have really horrible problems I go to that one friend, but nowadays I’m mostly self-sufficient, only telling my best friends whether or not I’m upset but not actually asking for help. I know that feeling, though, of just being pitied (an acquaintance of mine used to always hug me on sight because she claimed I was “love-deprived” lol) so I take care to avoid confiding in those kinds of people since they just annoy me rather than make me feel better.</p>
<p>I would probably feel uncomfortable bringing that up with most of my close friends/family, but I have one best friend who I feel I can tell anything to- back in middle school I was under a lot of stress and used really unhealthy ways to try to cope with it, and she helped me through that. I don’t think my parents would have been nearly as understanding/supportive.</p>