The persons status below got to me. I dont usually share dark personal stuff about myself because I have some peers on this Facebook who I truly value but after one of my greatest inspirations passed today, I wanted to share. Since a child, I battled severe and almost ongoing depression. I spent most my childhood in hospitals and stuck inside my house having to take breathing treatments because of having Chronic Asthma. I would look out the window and see kids playing and feeling left out. Gallons upon gallons of blood drawn from me in the hospital from a very young child until High School and then random times after. During all that, I would feel peoples emotions around me starting since before I could remember as a child. Feeling the other sick kids in the hospital. Their pain, suffering and so on. I could care less what i was going through. As I grew older, Feeling how cruel people could be. Feeling the hate, misery, depression, jealousy and not understanding this. What was wrong with me?!?! I later learned it was empathy. Everyone is empathic. People like me drown in our empathy. It floods through our soul and we mentally drown in it. I met someone in High School who taught me how to deal with it and control it. I also learned that helping the people that arent well mentally also helped. Being a good listener and friend to people who are depressed is some of the best therapy you can do for some people. It helped me. Just a good friend listening and giving feedback helped me beyond belief. I have a select few friends that have gave me unique, non-cliche advice that has helped me. Mostly, these days, I do not think like that anymore. I still fight depression. I dont want it to win. I try to stay away from people who are always negative and think the worst about a lot of things. Helping people has seemed to work for me the most. I love helping people in all aspects of life. Dont judge anyone, you never truly understand what most people are going through.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:27:31 +0000
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