Family and Friends

I’m here because I’m struggling with depression, anxiety, and academic burnout and it’s really impacting my friendships. I have no energy or desire to hang out or talk to my friends, and they just confronted me about being a flake and not reciprocating the energy they are putting into our friendship. They are right. And it just fills me with so much guilt and shame to know that I’ve been such a distant and disengaged friend. As much as I want to do better and prioritize our friendship, I struggle just to get out of bed every morning. I’m trying my best just to be okay with myself and regulate my emotions and it’s so incredibly overwhelming to even think about hanging with friends. Can anyone help me? #Depression #Anxiety #FamilyAndFriends #Friends

I’m so worried about my friend and it feels awful that there’s nothing I can do. His cat is sick and probably won’t make it. He said his cat is the only thing keeping him going and if he loses his cat, he won’t have anything to live for.
I only know this person online and honestly I don’t really know if he considers me a friend or not. He said he would be unavailable from his social media for a while so I have no way to reach him to know that he’s okay. I still sent him a couple messages of support but he probably won’t see them. I followed him on two different platforms and when I checked with his other account, I found that he’d deleted all of his posts except for a new one saying that it would most likely be his last post because he was losing the only thing keeping him going.
I know I don’t know this person personally, but he’s been one of the only people I could talk to about my current interests. He’s always been very kind. It hurts so much to lose him, especially with the uncertainty of if he’s safe.
I don’t even know what to do with myself now. I know there’s nothing I can do. But it feels weird to just keep going on like normal.

#Suicide #FamilyAndFriends #Anxiety

...and not because I'm not patriotic, really. I come from a long line of soldier, sailors, marines, and airmen, my husband was in the Army, and every brother in law that I have is military (or former military; which includes my sisters' husbands and my husband's brothers).

I dislike 4th of July because of the irresponsible people in our neighborhood lighting off incredibly LOUD fireworks for weeks around the 4th. As I sit here typing this, one of my neighbors is either shooting a firearm or is lighting multiple bottle rockets. The police around my don't really care (although they will kill my disabled veteran husband over for having "too many lights on our truck"-yes, this is a true story).

Anyway, my husband has PTSD from his time in Iraq. His job was to run toward the rockets AS they were being fired into the FOB, so he and his team could quickly figure out where the people firing them were so his team could return fire. (This is a VERY oversimplified explanation, but you get the idea. So, naturally, fireworks are a BIG trigger for him. We've been married 18 years and this has been the case for 16 of the 18 years.

I don't mind comforting him or reminding him that he's safe, that's not the issue. The issue is that he goes through the episodes to begin with. I hate seeing him like that. I wish there was something I could do to make it better :(

#PTSD #triggers #Caregiving #FamilyAndFriends #MentalHealth #Trauma