Hello,
I am still not caught up on the posts. My apologies. But I did see
@watermelon sugar post about feeling like no one likes her and saw some of you saying you feel the same as well. I also feel the same a lot of times. I am wondering if our anxiety or whatever these feelings are more common these days. Because when I tried to talk to my parents about my anxiety, it took them years to accept that anxiety can be this debilitating and have an effect on our daily lives and self-esteem. They are still on the fence (to be honest, they have accepted that I am disabled but they can't understand why or how) because for them, they say there are people out there who are homeless/starving/in war and we should be grateful that we are alive and have a roof over our heads and these feelings are just in our minds so we should just throw them away. My mom is 57 and my dad is 67 if that gives some generational context. But it is not easy to do so when we are feeling so inadequate about ourselves and thinking we are unlikable/everyone hates us, isn't it? Sorry to be a Debbie Downer. Just some thoughts I have had. I really appreciate that you all here are so open and transparent with your personal struggles no matter how big or small they are. I was able to work again today and I hope I am on the mend. I am sending good wishes and love to all of you who need them. Just wanted to say thank you to everyone, especially
@WilmaHun because we are the same age and you really seem to get the struggles with age-related expectations people (including ourselves) put on us.

On a lighter note, I have thrown myself into r/KUWTK and have been reading every post because it makes me feel so much better about my life. At least, I am not Kanye's ex-wife! I feel for his mental illnesses since I have a few myself but mental illnesses don't give us a free pass to be lashing out at everyone all the time!