I'm lonely. It feels stupid even as I write it. I am surrounded by thousands of members and people with like interests, but I feel completely alone. I get literally thousands of emails a day...but they are notifications and reports and support requests mixed with the occasional hateful rant about what a terrible person I am over some action the mods had to take. Not one ' hey how are you doing?'
A few people I would call friends have given me phone numbers for if I need to talk... But I've never been comfortable on phones and find reaching out when I know how dark a mood I am in too desperate to bear.
I've had some really good close friends, but they got in relationships or otherwise decided to give up the lifestyle, and walking away from the site to them means walking away from the guy behind it so there's less temptation to turn back. I understand it, but it hurts that I can be so easily tossed aside.
People have their own stuff to deal with. I get it.
But here I am fighting another round of depression. On the first night of those terrible first two weeks when you've come off one medication that wasn't working anymore and waiting for the new one to hopefully begin to work. Crying silently behind a locked door because though I don't like alone I know the people on the other side can neither handle the darkness nor are able to add any light. Sure you can and will make it through the night but wondering if tomorrow is really worth fighting for.
Alone.
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