Not doing ok.

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I am writing to ask anyone for your help. I am struggling to stay safe and am reaching out to anyone that can offer support to me at the moment. I have fallen into a place of constant overwhelm and I feel so deeply alone with it. My therapist has gone away for several weeks and I don't really have anyone else who I can "be me" around. The sense of isolation is itself so enormous I can barely breath when I think about it.

Thankyou to anyone, I really don't know what else to do right now.

What kind of help are you looking for?

Did your therapist offer any contact information for therapists you could see in his/her place?

I'm sorry you feel so overwhelmed. Do you live by yourself or does anyone live with you?

Hmm, any words of reassurance or hope.

Well I have no idea what's wrong other than you're overwhelmed....so I hope you can get through that ok and I know how it feels to be really overwhelmed. Are there any simple things you could change about your situation to make it better? If you're overwhelmed about a lot of things it might help to try and address them one at a time instead of all at once.

She did leave details, but thought it would be harder for me to cope with seeing someone new than no one at all... I'm not so sure about that right now. I can't really talk to anyone in my "real life" about this, they all have such high expectations of me well beyond anything I am capable of, the pressure is a big part of why I feel so overwhelmed. No one believes that I am fighting every second.

I know that feeling. That feeling deeply and truly sucks.

You are not alone.

Find your own expectations and try to live up to those. That's hard enough. f**k everybody else. Lovingly and respectfully-- but f**k 'em none the less. This is YOUR LIFE. This is not THEIR LIFE.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

This is a pretty "socially loud" world. So many people have so many different ideas and you can't tell who you can trust. Sometimes you can't even tell what "being you" looks like. You're lucky to have a good therapist by your side, there's some pretty bad therapy out there.

Yeah. She's right. People seem to have a hard time remembering that this is YOUR LIFE. Like, they'd rather tell you what's wrong with your life than go live their own. Probably because it's easier to make up a life for someone else than to live one for yourself.

Still-- It can be done. It isn't easy, but it can be done.

Not alone. Not alone. Not alone.

Alexi,
I'm in a similar situation, so know what you're going through. It's a horrible feeling, You're not alone. Just take every day as it comes and know you're not alone. You can get through this. Do you know when your therapist is coming back?