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63marie wrote: »

Hey @Roselite, I'm so sorry this sounds really hard. You deserve to feel listened to and supported by the people in your life. I can relate to how lonely it feels when you feel like you've got no one to turn to and only that time once a week where you feel like you've got to remember everything you need to say in such a short time. We're here for you if you ever wanted to offload

Thank you, I appreciate it. I'm sorry that you relate to feeling isolated too. It definitely gets overwhelming trying to keep track of absolutely everything I've been through in the span of a week that I want to talk about in a session, and even then there are plenty of times I never get to talk about everything because there just isn't enough time. So there's a lot of feelings that I think of as having no place to go. I know self-regulation is an important skill and I try my best to cope by myself but it helps immensely if you're able to confide in others, be listened to and feel loved, supported and valued despite your struggles. It's just unfortunate I have rarely if ever experienced that (in a lot of cases when I was younger I sacrificed my wellbeing to do that for others without receiving it in return).

so im a first year at college and i had my first proper day yesterday (last week was my induction) and its honestly so hard to make friends. like i try to make conversation with people but it goes nowhere. i wanna make friends with this one girl but today when we had a group project to complete she wasn't in my group so i couldn't talk to her. i mean i did talk to her in the morning a bit but it wasn't enough to form a friendship if that makes sense. i mean friendships just form overtime so i understand why this is not an instant process. but i dont even know where she hangs out during our breaks so i can't talk to her at that time. the thing is i was gonna join lunch club to try and make some friends but because of my changed timetable i can't join. i now have college on a tuesday, wednesday and thursday and on a tuesday and thursday i finish early so that's why. and on a wednesday i have class from 2:30pm to 4:45pm with a 15 minute break in between and lunch club starts at 12:45pm and lasts for like one hour (i think, it might be until like 2ish but i have no clue). plus the enrichment activities aren't really enrichment activities, a lot of them are just online. maybe the ones i selected are meant to be online but i was expecting them to be in-person. and i wanted to join the student representatives which is basically student council but that wasnt an option when i completed the form. therefore there's really no way to make friends unless if i talk to people in my class. this just sucks.