Boreal
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I'm curious if anyone has ever felt rejected from communities?
I've tried to involve myself with GLBT communities several times throughout my life, and every time I left feeling misunderstood or out of place. I was happily dating the same sex all the way back in freshman year, but the last piece of the puzzle is only now falling into place and I've been facing a lot of internal conflict over how I fit into the world around me.
While I can live with these feelings day-to-day as I try to reach a state of balance, reaching out to others "like me" and having no one understand only makes things worse and causes me to worry that I might actually just be mentally ill (and that the non-GLBT friends who are trying to help me are doing something akin to enabling psychosis).
I'll admit I've been kind of depressed... and I really don't know where to turn when "my people" haven't been supportive.
I've tried to involve myself with GLBT communities several times throughout my life, and every time I left feeling misunderstood or out of place. I was happily dating the same sex all the way back in freshman year, but the last piece of the puzzle is only now falling into place and I've been facing a lot of internal conflict over how I fit into the world around me.
While I can live with these feelings day-to-day as I try to reach a state of balance, reaching out to others "like me" and having no one understand only makes things worse and causes me to worry that I might actually just be mentally ill (and that the non-GLBT friends who are trying to help me are doing something akin to enabling psychosis).
I'll admit I've been kind of depressed... and I really don't know where to turn when "my people" haven't been supportive.