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and i am even alone on the internet... i really must be a horrible person.

Hi, ReligiousGirl,

I'm sure there are people here who would love to come alongside you & encourage you.

You are NOT a horrible person! :hug::)

Sometimes the postings here slow down on the weekend.
Please be patient.

Praying that your sadness gives way to being at peace. May God's love and mercy lift you up.
 
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Plenty of people here who feel alone. Also some who are alone deliberately, like me. Why don't you hang out here every know and then, you'll see people saying things that you can instantly relate, and you can jump in to the discussion. No fear, many here understand loneliness, suffering, self-loathing, fears, you name it.

Also, the "what you are feeling right now" is a good thread to get to know some people, it usually gets few posts a day. It's been a little slow the last few weeks (just like me and my brain), but I guess people are just more tired this time of year. Some people are also lurkers, they see many threads but they rarely answer, but sometimes something hits so close to home that even they answer and type something, and plenty of good discussions to be had.

If you have something specific on your mind that you want to get out of your chest or ask someone, feel free to make a thread about it.

Said a little prayer for you. You're not any more horrible than anyone else. I'm the most horrible, I reserved that title years ago. You're not getting it. IT'S MINE!
 
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and i am even alone on the internet... i really must be a horrible person.
You are not a horrible person. We are all fragile in some way; we all have problems, some more than others. We try to be there when we need each other to rant, talk, cry or laugh. And like they said above the weekends are sometimes slow and with the holidays coming up it may be slow. But we will all try to check in and be here if you want to talk.
Again, you are not a horrible person. I don't talk to 'horrible folks'. :tutu::wave:
 
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Isn't depression cruel, mean and so dishonest? If there is anything I learned to understand then it is that depression robs us of the truth and having reality in Him. The good thing is that we can know that the truth loves us - Jesus died for us that we can have communion with Him, and He is always present for those who seek to be in the power of the truth and not in the power of the lie any longer. Honest dear suffering sister, ask Jesus to teach you to ignore what your feelings are saying and to heed what the truth is saying instead.

Loneliness is one of the realities that can be suffered when we meet it in the lie but can be very beneficial when we use it to serve the truth in. Honestly true my lonely times often produce good times now instead of suffering, though it took me a few years to learn, it has really paid off heeding Jesus truth and not the lies of my depression, His truth has made life much easier than it was before.

Not only loneliness has improved, I also lost my doubt in God and His Word, hopelessness, despair, guilt, shame, arrogance, rage, hate, and so many physical passions and otherwise burning emotions and thoughts.


The biggest mistake we make when we are depressed is that we look at ourselves as the culprits, not understanding that we are victims who haven't necessarily done anything wrong to deserve this. For example with me and many others here on the forums depression is part of a mental illness that keeps on reoccurring, yet the truth of God can make us stronger than depression fires our way, be of very good courage. Furthermore it seems conclusive that many depressed people are very sensitive of nature and often kind-hearted people.

I come around C.F many times a day but often just to check what's up and if someone needs a listening ear. You can always throw me a line when you are feeling lonely or are having a hard time. I will never judge you, but always try and show you how the word of God can help you fight the terrible forces you are battling on a daily basis.

Do put your faith in God's love and you will see that such gives birth to hope, and hope in God shall never disappoint you when you walk in the light of His truth, no matter how depressed you are.



I once wrote prose to express how I have dealt with suffering I hope it might encourage you.



What Can I Say About Suffering

What can I say, about what have I learned from our Heavenly Father? I can see now that evil lies cause pain to be alive within human existence. I have watched how isolation, forces lies down into suffering souls - as The Wicked cut all ties with truthful love and our crushing depression generate its own misery in our agonising hell down there. I know that in the Pit all lies end up - dragging us down living dead. Yet why would I continue to let bad life be dominant in my inner world of awareness and not God's loving truth to rule my every moment?

I have learned that creeds, values and morals are rules upon rules ruling. Still wicked lies spread like maggots through my flesh, killing all goodness within me, because I'm imperfect! To just let it be and move on is best I learned about that. And so The Word of God spoken in love for God, self and neighbour, is The Voice to heed at all times.

I have experienced that time brings good and bad, up and down, far and wide for everyone. Yet the power of God's love, as even bad sin and great failings ruled me, couldn't subdue Jesus grace over me as His loving truth set me free to be myself - time and again.

I understand that anguish speaks to those experiencing life truly untrue and lovelessly - and that our Heavenly Father never wanted this to rule His kids. Indeed I know that my wretchedness longs for the demise of all my agony. So that misery may never rule my life again, no more Bad Life overshadowing my here and now, instead freedom for me. For in God's loving truth, even through much hurt, I can finally stay on top of things, my loveless lies to hand to Christ as God's Good Life grows within in Return.

I know now that loving truth is the only useful weapon against the forces of evil. Complete freedom for me if I heed God's love in truth to rule my daily life. So why would I foolishly keep letting malefic lies decide my future. Why not forgive, why leave truthful love? While I know that only God's good makes my life a worthwhile experience?

I have seen that life is genuinely worth living in honest loving togetherness. Where everyone who exists is esteemed because they are specially made. For our real value lays not in how much gain we can yield for others. But simply because all existence speaks of life's importance to be loved. The communion of Saints - true love loving people doing the loving - is very important therefore.

So I choose loving truthfulness to steer me through those terrible storms down here. For even through extraordinary agony and times of incredible much suffering. God's truth preserves my life. His loving goodness keeping me from falling. As I found that warm-heartedness is truly effective against the deadly chill of devil's breath.
 
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I have no one to talk to right now. Feeling so alone. I'm not coping and just wish there was someone to talk to and someone who cares about me.
Hi I am new to the site and just saw your post. I can relate to how you feel sometimes. I am newly divorced after 28yrs and fresh out of prison I have most of my families support but the days sitting alone can be very difficult to say the least. I sometimes feel like I will have no one to be with ever again.
 
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Plenty of people here who feel alone. Also some who are alone deliberately, like me. Why don't you hang out here every know and then, you'll see people saying things that you can instantly relate, and you can jump in to the discussion. No fear, many here understand loneliness, suffering, self-loathing, fears, you name it.

Also, the "what you are feeling right now" is a good thread to get to know some people, it usually gets few posts a day. It's been a little slow the last few weeks (just like me and my brain), but I guess people are just more tired this time of year. Some people are also lurkers, they see many threads but they rarely answer, but sometimes something hits so close to home that even they answer and type something, and plenty of good discussions to be had.

If you have something specific on your mind that you want to get out of your chest or ask someone, feel free to make a thread about it.

Said a little prayer for you. You're not any more horrible than anyone else. I'm the most horrible, I reserved that title years ago. You're not getting it. IT'S MINE!
Well I think we all belie we are the worst of the worst. I know I am the worst. [emoji12]
 
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I am very alone too...
i know your pain. There's a hole in my heart that just seems like it will never be filled
I can relate to you for sure. Living alone for the first time in my life and being divorced after 30yrs of marriage. But know that there are a lot of us around and with God's help we can overcome
 
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