Currently feeling ill

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I'm having a bad reaction to medication at the moment. I have to take Steroids for a while along with Zovirex for shingles. It's making my ability to deal with negative emotions very difficult and a person I had a bad parting with years ago tried to hurt me on facebook today. All this is leading me to feel very alone because (despite my luck with my Mum, bf and kind neighbors) I have no other social contacts, I want to have a friend with whom I can discuss this with (I can discuss it with my bf but one person can only take so much).

I feel cripplingly alone. I've tried to make friends at a knitting group and I got too scared and stopped going. I'm sure the Steroids are making my usually mild lows into backbreaking lows but still that doesn't change how I'm feeling now. I've been shaking and crying.

Thank you for reading/responding.

Oh I'm very sorry. I'm in a slightly similar situation but of my own doing kind of (suddenly can't stand to take medicine, the withdrawal is going horribly, I am taking it at low doses though).

Anyway you are not alone, you are the kindest, most empathetic and friendly person and I wanted to apologize for not being able to offer much back but PM me anytime. I will try to think of ways you can increase your real-life social support network.

Thanks. It's difficult for me at the moment. Thank you for your kind words, they mean more to me than you can imagine.

The person who I had a bad parting with was really cruel and acted as if the falling out happened yesterday. Usually I'd be easily able to shrug it off because I know that I didn't do anything wrong with this person apart from being naive when I was about twenty-one and not understanding much about politically driven people or people who were controlling (I still don't know much about that kind of thing). At the moment though, because of the steroids, it feels like my negative emotions are ramped up by a level of fifty.

I hope you feel better soon too.

It will all get better I think because there is a lot of good as balance for the difficult things if time is given. Puppies, kittens, flowers, my family and neighbors, people trying to be nice, good food, good hugs, smiles, art, cool gizmos, trees, fruit, clean water and kindness of any living being. I'm a little bit out of practice at listing the good things so it's a little bit short. I hope we both feel better soon.