Is it normal this is affecting me?
My birthday is next week and for the first time in my whole life I have nothing to do on that day. No dinner, no parties, no one to spend it with. I didn't really care about it at the begining, but now that the date is closer I'm starting to feel like a failure. I don't have close friends, and most of my family lives in another country. I don't have a boyfriend or a sexual partner. I spend most of my days home alone on my laptop, reading, and doing word puzzles. It's starting to have bad affect on me, the other night I sat down thinking about it and it made me cry. It made me cry a lot. I mean I know it's not the worse thing in the world and that the feeling will pass and I'll be just fine, but it's affecting me so much, I'm nowhere near excited, quite the opposite. Is this normal? Any advice? Please... ?