Is it normal that nobody understands me except myself?

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So I've had severe depression and social anxiety for a few years now, and I have had a lot of therapy for it. Even so, I feel like no matter how I try to explain it, I am never really understood by anyone. My mind doesn't really work with words, more with emotions. Sometimes I look at myself and realize that nobody understands me, and probably never will. Am I just being a delusional wreck again?

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    Nobody understands anyone.

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  • Aliceee93
    10 years ago

    We are all different. Do we really understand each other fully? Or just to an extent?

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  • DangerousPotatoGuy
    10 years ago

    You just have to be open with the people around you or anyone really. You'll be at peace with yourself and you'll have to learn to understand other people first before looking be understood by anyone. I guess you could say it works karmically

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  • green_boogers
    10 years ago

    You have very high expectations. I don't understand myself, nor do I understand anyone else. I also suspect that nobody understands anyone or anything, except textbooks, newspapers, and that kind of stuff.

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  • Shackleford96
    10 years ago

    For some reason, your post reminded me of this book that I read when I was in high school. It was called Walkaway by Alden R. Carter.

    http://www.amazon.com/Walkaway-Alden-R-Carter/dp/0823421066

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  • thegypsysailor
    10 years ago

    If you understand yourself so well, why do you still have "severe depression and social anxiety"? Wouldn't it be logical that if you understood yourself, you would do something about your problems.
    Either you wish to retain your "severe depression and social anxiety" or you are lying to yourself and don't really understand yourself. You can't have it both ways.

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    • macaroniheyo
      10 years ago

      I think going to therapy IS doing something about it. And understanding yourself doesn't mean anxiety and depression will get any better. In fact, they could get worse.

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      • thegypsysailor
        10 years ago

        Isn't the whole point of therapy to "understand" your problems? With understanding you should be able to change things, otherwise, what is the point of therapy or understanding?
        It is you who must do something, no one else can do it for you. "severe depression and social anxiety" are not the normal condition for a human being, though most likely they are common manifestations of today's society.
        At some point you must choose another path or be swallowed up by your severe depression and social anxiety, forever.

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        • macaroniheyo
          10 years ago

          I don't think you have that great of an understanding of what it's like to be severely depressed. It's not that simple.

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          • thegypsysailor
            10 years ago

            You have no idea of my life. All I will say here is that I know for a fact that one can choose to no longer let the depression and social anxiety rule one's life. It takes nothing more than the will, the need, the desire to change.

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            • chloroplast
              10 years ago

              Motivation is hard to come by when one is questioning whether to live or not.

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