Recent content by Just.Shy

Hello and welcome :) I'm sorry to hear you are feeling so alone at the moment. I know from personal experience how horrible it is to not have people supporting you, especially family who most people are able to take for granted as being there for them. I hope you find this forum helpful, and...

I'm glad that you found this forum then, maybe just small steps of seeking help will gradually build to you getting all the help you need, as you are already doing everything else that you can to help combat depression.There is no shame in getting help for depression, it is just an illness that...

Hi Phantimos, you shouldn't be so hard on yourself, it sounds like you have a lot going for you. Have you sought any help from anywhere for the depression? There may be some help available at your University? I think many post grad students can struggle with the work/life balance purely because...

I just tried seven cups and it was terrible! It made me feel even worse that nobody on there even wanted to speak to me :(

I recently joined this site and had hoped it would be busier. I really need people to talk to right now and want to start developing friendships which is something I've never really done before. Does anybody know of any similar forums to this one that might be a bit more active?

Hi, thank you for your message and advice. I've been in my job a few months now but I'm really not close enough to anybody to ask to grab lunch or anything. People are not interested in me because I am so shy. Even before people talk to me, they seem to just not warm to me, it must just be...

Thank you for messaging, it was really hard losing him as he was really my only social companion. He actually meant more to me as a friend than anything but I spent all my time with him, and every Christmas we would always go to his family. I never thought it would go from that to nothing. I'm a...

Hi, This is my first time posting here. I'm so sad and lonely because I don't have a single person in my life who cares about me. The only person who I ever thought loved me was my ex partner, we were together for ten years but now he has ended things and living in a different country. He was...