Re: Have you been rejectet(friends)because your depressed?

Great story Luella.

"Friends" is many times a misnomer.  Those who stick by you through thick and thin are very few indeed, and as you discovered - sometimes even zero.  Starting from square one many times means getting rid of your "friends" - all of them.  Yet as you heal your depression and anxiety you will begin to attract others who are more in line with where you are at.  It is part of the process.  I recently lost a brother to a stroke who was crippled for two or three years before he died.  Prior to the stroke he was an active member of a well known fraternal organization, even a master of his local group at one time, yet no one from that "brotherhood" ever paid him a visit during his long illness even though they were well aware of it.

As I've posted many times in different forums I got through my depression (and eventual PTSD) primarily through meditation.  I did have a counselor for about six months but in looking back I see him as a totally unqualified and unprepared charlatan.  His bachelors degree was from an unaccredited school, and he really had nothing to offer and how he ever got licensed I'll never know yet he was recommended to me by the head of the psychology department of a local college.  As I recently looked for a counselor for a relative who is on SSRIs (ugh) I learned that there are a myriad of them to wade through and 90% of them who listed their specialties and credentials I would reject out of hand.   I do think that counseling can be beneficial but I think that finding the right one for an individual's needs can be an overwhelming if not an impossible task.  That's why I've incorporated several "self help" books into my meditations and even those provide me with just a little insight.  By searching directly within to understand what I'm really doing that is damaging my life and then changing it, has been most helpful to me.