Need help, feeling depressed :(

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lizzie2020

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Hello,
I'm a student curently in university in my 2nd year and i have been feeling so depressed. I don't have many friends in uni and i am also very far away from home so i can't go home whenever i miss my mum. Also, i don't have a lot of money either so i can't really go out to places like the cinema or home much. When i can, i go home so that i can help my mum with my severely autistic brother because she is his main carer and her life practically revolves around him. I feel really bad for her because she can not do what she wants to do because she has to take care of my brother who is 23 years old. The only place she goes to is church on sunday. She knows that i don't have a lot of money so she tries to give me some but she doesn't have much money herself so i feel bad. I also have quite a few health issues as well as i suffer from PCOS which makes me feel uncomfortable in my own body and very ugly. I was bullied during the whole time i was in primary and secondary school so it makes me really scared to meet new people because i just feel like everyone hates me. I'm 20 years old and i've never had a boyfriend which just makes me feel so unwanted and i wonder if i will ever meet someone. All these feelings are really overwhelming me and i feel like no one understands what i'm feeling. Sometimes i cry for hours and hours and i just can't stop. I would like some advice as to how i can stop feeling like this all the time and start being happy.
 
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Sirk

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Jesus loves you....A LOT.

[video]http://m.aa. .com/watch?v=kwd4viRzBUA[/video]
 
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Sirk

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Here's a better link.
[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kwd4viRzBUA[/video]
 
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jogoldie

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Coming here is a good start.....welcome my young sister......what your doing takes courage......
Because of your fears......it holds you back......people see this.....you my dear child....you are the daughter of the most High God.....you are beautiful to Him....precious and strong.....God has made you just as He pleased......you must be beautiful........

Throw yours shoulders back and know you are made for His purpose....He has great plans for you.......when.....yes when...... you succeed.....you will take this knowledge you are obtaining....and
you will use it for His good...and help your mother .....you are preparing your walk....take that step of
faith....people will want to know you....shine your light....they will come...and God will put the friends in your path....ones who will help you grow....to show you how wonderful you are......stand strong knowing God is preparing you for greatness.....peace and love.....jo
 
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tourist

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I pray that this site is a safe harbor for you and a place of comfort and peace. I have said a prayer for you and your family. God wants you to have life and have it more abundantly. Welcome to CC.
 
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Sirk

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This might sound a little unorthodox but my experience with pain is that you have allow yourself to stay in it and feel it. We humans have all kinds of little coping mechanisms to escape feeling our personal pain. For example, have you ever noticed how a person will laugh or smile under emotional pain? This is the brains way of trucking itself to not feel the hurt. I think it's very important to stay in the pain before jesus and process it with him. Allow yourself to have pain. It the only way that you can heal from it.
 
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Siberian_Khatru

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lizzie, sometimes depression is a very difficult thing to "cure." I deal with it as well in my own way.

Now, first: Money may bring/buy happiness, but it doesn't bring or buy joy! In fact, a study I found a few months ago proposed that the areas of the world where people were most happy were those of poor or mediocre financial stature. I do hope that you and your mum's money situation improves, all the same!

Second: Good friends are difficult to come by. I'm glad you're not entirely alone; some people face next to no human interaction and are utterly miserable, consequently. I'll be your friend, lizzie!

Third: Boyfriend's are overrated. :p Try to consider the fact that you're very young, still; at 20 years old, there is, hopefully, still lots of time for a man to enter your life. Do yourself a solid, though, and please do not get together with the first guy to be nice to you. Have respect for yourself, and differentiate between a "guy" and a "man."

That's just my two cents. Hopefully what you're going through ebbs in time, lizzie, and you can talk with us here. :) My door is always open.
 
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lizzie2020

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Thankyou so much everyone for your support. I was feeling really down today and now i feel bit better :)
 
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AbbeyJoy

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hi Lizzie welcome to cc, and I will be praying for a good friend for you. I hope you'll find someone Just keep trusting in God and his ways, I know what it feels like to be lonley, what I do I find something I like doing and I like to Read and go for walks and Try to meet the right people who I can trust. It's nice to meet you and will be praying for great plans for you and I will be praying for a way that God will provide for you to go home :)
 
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