Depression Can Happen

I have been thinking about this subject for a while now, a lot of times I feel like I am a burden to other individuals around me.  That they simply tolerate me and a lot of times I feel as if I do not have any friends at all.  I know that this may seem crazy to some of you, but I can't help the way that I feel.  Lately I have been feeling this way but it comes in waves.  I don't always feel like I am just an afterthought.  I don't know what the answer is to all of it either.  If I had 18 people around me wanting to hang out at once, I think my anxiety would climb as well....  Oh what a tricky mind we can have sometimes.  Sometimes it will not make sense, but don't ever discredit your feelings and think that they are dumb.  A lot of times we can't help the way that we feel, but if you stay in that mindset that will eventually cause you more harm than good.  Eventually you will start to believe the lie that you are not worth it.  Eventually you will see yourself as l

What does success look like to you?  Does it include a big house, money in the bank, fancy cars?  Sure that is what people generally associate with success, but what if I told you that you are already a success.  A success that you have overcome a lot of obstacles to get where you are now.  Now you might look around in your current situation and think that where you are is not a success, but it is.  You are not where you were and that within itself is something to hang your hat on.  Recently I had a pending post about being a burden to people, I had it ready to go to the world but I kept reading it and decided to delete it because I felt that it was just me being small (when I say small, I mean that I was feeling down and looking for sympathy).  The gist of the message was that I feel like a burden to those friends that I have around me, that I don't quite fit in with their conversations and that I am just being tolerated.  HOWEVER, I know that those feelings are just false.  But