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Feeling down

  • 24-10-2012 11:13am
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    LegacyUser
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    Firstly, I want to point out this isn't depression - I don't think it's as serious as having depression, but I still haven't been feeling great.

    I'm a college student, and lately I have been stressed, as I'm quite far behind on work. Some weeks however, my stress just gets replaced with an empty feeling, and a lack of motivation - on days where I don't have early lectures, I can't even find a good reason to get myself out of bed.

    Over the summer, my good friend, let's call him Mike, broke up with his long-time girlfriend and I helped him through that as he took it badly, and we became even closer friends, and even went on holidays together before going back to college. He used to confide in me, and thanked me often for helping him through it.
    However, since getting back to college, I find he won't confide anything in me at all. I know he has still been receiving texts from his ex which are wrecking his head, and that he even drunkenly visited her house one night - but I only know this as I've heard it through another friend ("Paul"), who he confides in now. Even when I ask him directly, he won't tell me what he tells Paul. He spends a lot of time with Paul now, and very little with me, and I'm unsure why there was a sudden change.

    This has been getting me very down lately also - everytime I hear he has told Paul something he hasn't told me, or they spend together when I'm not there/invited, it just makes me feel much worse. I have a good few friends in college, so I'm not sure why I only am affected so much by this scenario - possibly it's because I've done so much for Mike through his breakup, more than Paul did for sure, or maybe it's because I would have considered him my 'best friend' and just miss the way things were? Talking to my friend about this isn't an option as it's almost impossible to word without sounding petty and ridiculous, and I can barely put my finger on the issue in my head nevermind verbally.

    I'm not fully convinced this is all that's getting me down, perhaps it's just stress and I'm latching it all on this situation, almost to give me something to blame?


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