new and depressed
Hi...I am a new member and I dont kno why I find it so difficult to express how I feel to everyone(I guess because it does sound so depressing)but I hope I found the ray of light I have searched for all of my life..I am now 56 yrs of age...for as long as I can remember I have been depressed...I dont even remember very many happy days in my childhood...I wasnt physically abused...but somehow I just couldnt shake off any verbal abuse or critisizing....I was also painfully shy and inferior..but I dont even kno if this is any of the problem...I have always felt like a great dark heaviness was on me..I have never enjoyed living..but I want to...my hope has always been in God and his word that says I have great plans for you and a future..I want to live out the great plan..please if anyone can relate let me know..I have felt so alone with this problem...thanks to you all
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Continue to nurture that spiritual side and work the skills in the program. It does take work, but you CAN get to a more peaceful place, as I have just started to do again. I have been through some pretty intense bouts of both anxiety and depression (was debating suicide the last time). You're just addicted to crappy thinking like I was. 
You can turn it around, but you have to work at it. And faith in God (or some higher power) is key I believe.
You can turn it around, but you have to work at it. And faith in God (or some higher power) is key I believe.-
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