My life has been flowing really well up to a point. I’ve been in an amazing 7 month relationship, I’m a published author, and on the surface it just really seems like things have been great. But I have not been ok. My friend went missing, they found him a month later dead from suicide they say. The entire experience was really emotional. I’ve been pretty out of everything since then. I’ve fallen back into my depression like never before. Anxiety... I can’t even go to parties anymore. Large crowds make me anxious, my girlfriend can’t even be around me anymore when I’m like this. I don’t blame her. I don’t want to be around anyone. My a cappella group which once brought me the most joy out of my college experience, is now the thing I dread most. Every rehearsal is a fight with myself to get there because the people there make me anxious, I never feel good enough, and I feel like I’m making it worse for everyone there. Yesterday was our fall concert, I didn’t have fun at all, and it’s always my favorite day. I had to hide in my room for the majority of my after party because being around people is too much for me to deal with.
I’ve been feeling really bad about myself again lately. Days I don’t want to exist. Days nothing is worth it anymore. I don’t want to anymore. But it sucks, cuz I know how much pain these acts put people through. I can’t even be angry with them though, because I know how it feels. I know how bad they probably had to be feeling to just do it. I just can’t look past it some days and wonder why I keep holding back.
It’s not that the people here aren’t good enough for me, because they are. It’s that I’m not really doing anything good for them. I’m just not good enough right now. It’s not that people don’t love me. Because I know they do, just nothing can make me feel better. That’s the frustrating part. Knowing I have all the people in the world who love me so much, but I just can’t do anything but feel horrible about everything.