Opinions?
Sometimes I feel like I’m alone battling certain mental issues. I try talking to my partner about how I feel, and he’s just so insensitive, telling me I have no reason to be depressed or comparing my life to more unfortunate people. It’s weird with him. I know he has the capacity to be a very comforting and consoling person because he’s done it with the mother of his kids, when it comes to me, just no. I don’t really get it, but I don’t question him otherwise it will wound up in an argument. I’ll try talking to my parents, they act as if they don’t believe in mental illness and always laugh at me and deem it as me being “weird”. This is toxic and such a toxic mindset for people to have. I’ve let out so many direct and indirect “cries for help” to the people surrounding me, only to have them turn their back on me. I do suffer from severe anxiety and depression and it’s not fun. I don’t think it’s fair to invalidate one’s feeling just because there are people in our world that may have greater issues going on. I do understand, but am I not allowed to feel a common humanly emotion and express it? Why not? I’ve sat in front of my partner and my parents tears in my eyes expressing these things just for them to sit there quiet and later tell me I need to stop being depressed. Would I be wrong for just cutting my family and my partner off entirely ? I told my mom how much social anxiety I get in public settings especially alone, and she totally brushed me off and told me to get over it. I love my mom, but I really think I should love from a distance sometimes.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.