Getting out of a rut
I had a massive one year episode of being in a highly depressive state. I basically was ready to end everything I was extremly apathetic towrads everything in my life, I distanced myself from abosolutley every single one of my friends.
I have since then started to get better and have regained hopes for a better life and have started to put effort into myself and my future. Does anyone have advice on how to reintegrate myself back into society hah sounds silly but I literally dont know anybody anymore (dont want to reach out to old friends cause I realized they're not the best for me) I was jobless for a while and now I am trying to find an apprenticeship/job but thats taking a while, so I have zero channels of socialising or finding new poeple to talk to. I am volunteering at a charity but cause of covid everything I do with the is remote. How do I find poeople?
I have since then started to get better and have regained hopes for a better life and have started to put effort into myself and my future. Does anyone have advice on how to reintegrate myself back into society hah sounds silly but I literally dont know anybody anymore (dont want to reach out to old friends cause I realized they're not the best for me) I was jobless for a while and now I am trying to find an apprenticeship/job but thats taking a while, so I have zero channels of socialising or finding new poeple to talk to. I am volunteering at a charity but cause of covid everything I do with the is remote. How do I find poeople?
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I had a massive one year episode of being in a highly depressive state. I basically was ready to end everything I was extremly apathetic towrads everything in my life, I distanced myself from abosolutley every single one of my friends.
I have since then started to get better and have regained hopes for a better life and have started to put effort into myself and my future. Does anyone have advice on how to reintegrate myself back into society hah sounds silly but I literally dont know anybody anymore (dont want to reach out to old friends cause I realized they're not the best for me) I was jobless for a while and now I am trying to find an apprenticeship/job but thats taking a while, so I have zero channels of socialising or finding new poeple to talk to. I am volunteering at a charity but cause of covid everything I do with the is remote. How do I find poeople?
I have since then started to get better and have regained hopes for a better life and have started to put effort into myself and my future. Does anyone have advice on how to reintegrate myself back into society hah sounds silly but I literally dont know anybody anymore (dont want to reach out to old friends cause I realized they're not the best for me) I was jobless for a while and now I am trying to find an apprenticeship/job but thats taking a while, so I have zero channels of socialising or finding new poeple to talk to. I am volunteering at a charity but cause of covid everything I do with the is remote. How do I find poeople?
Firstly I'd like to say I'm really sorry you experienced that. I had a similar thing- I have bipolar so have experienced a few depressive episodes- one was 9 months and ruined my life for a year and I was left with loads of consequences I had to fix- I had to repeat a year of A levels again (having repeated 2 years of school already due to being in hospital at certain points when I was younger) and ruined so many friendships and even family relationships. Some of them I still find it difficult/embarrassing to talk to because I basically had a breakdown at school, posted loads of weird stuff on social media when I was manic and I'm now know as the "crazy one". Sorry for rambling about myself- just wanted to say you're not alone <3
So I've got a few things that helped me reintegrate myself into society.. Firstly a few simple things was that I started exercising a little bit everyday- made me feel more confident and like I had a routine. I also scheduled times to eat and get out of bed (when I was ill I would forget to do basic things like eat/brush my hair etc and it made my social isolation worse. Now for bigger things- I actually cut out toxic people from my life- if people laugh at serious mental health problems then they are not worth your time. I also joined a college and took some course- helped me socialise and meet like minded people. Hope this helps <3
