This is the initial and introductory state, which leaves us feeling depressed and alone. Convinced our lives are inconvenient, unnecessary, meaningless etc. The days are filled with despair and disappointment and the good days feel few and far between. However, it's important to remember that this is merely a stage in a much larger process and that the emotions felt here are not going to last forever.
Hi there, I’m what’s considered a young adult. I’ve been through my fair share of loss and tragedy. One of the recent and biggest changes in my life was when my family and I moved to another country. This definitely contributed to my depression, which is why I felt so drawn to do this. The chance to speak to others maybe going through some of the things that I have, or who have gone through similar or even vastly different experiences, and to just serve as someone for you to speak to and be heard and comforted by.
I have experienced first-hand how hard life can be and how little we can feel like we matter. It’s a dark and lonely place to be in and often people don’t like to talk about it but that doesn’t make it go away. It doesn’t make it better. Our sadness is still there. Our loneliness, our emptiness, our pain. It’s all there and sometimes it feels like that’s all we have, but it’s not. If you noticed, the ‘d’ in ‘Anti-d’ is in lowercase, it was done on purpose because here we are taking away all the power depression claims over us and are reclaiming it as our own. Repositioning that power within ourselves where it belongs.
I have experienced first-hand how hard life can be and how little we can feel like we matter. It’s a dark and lonely place to be in and often people don’t like to talk about it but that doesn’t make it go away. It doesn’t make it better. Our sadness is still there. Our loneliness, our emptiness, our pain. It’s all there and sometimes it feels like that’s all we have, but it’s not. If you noticed, the ‘d’ in ‘Anti-d’ is in lowercase, it was done on purpose because here we are taking away all the power depression claims over us and are reclaiming it as our own. Repositioning that power within ourselves where it belongs.
This is the part of our where we must self-discover what is holding us back from our breakthrough. What is the stickiness that’s holding us back from our progress? Like us, the butterfly is stuck and surrounded by something that it ultimately needs to consume and embrace in order to evolve into its truest and most glorious form. That beauty takes time and patience. It takes progress and we must value the progress as well as the process. And as painful and inactive as it may feel, advancements are being made, slowly but surely. This is also when we shouldn’t push our support systems way, the people who choose to be there for us and love us through this. We don’t need to isolate ourselves even more than we already feel. Just letting people be there for us, being aware that they are, will make so much of a difference.
This is the final stage in our process. This is where we take everything we’ve unpacked about what holds us back, after having grown from and accepted it all for what it was, and are truly left feeling like we’re on the other side of where we once were. A lighter, brighter, more beautiful side. And we are finally...set free to live.
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