severe depression paranoia Posted: 02-26-08 17:54pm
I couldn't consider myself an anti-social
person, but I am somewhat of a homebody. I
have a boyfriend who likes to party and
drink and hang out with his friends. I
have had depression since high school. I
am easily hurt, sometimes this causes me
to cry in public places, and I hate it.
Last Saturday I went to a party and I was
trying to have fun. Actually I thought I
was. My boyfriend came up to me after he
had just taken quite a few shots and told
me that he had to ask the guy who lived at
the house with the party if I could come
over. I asked him why, and he said their
was an incident with a gun when the guy
let me hold it (I had never held a gun
before) and then freaked out on me when I
accidentally pointed it at someone. It was
huge and made of metal, and i'm really
small and petite, and it was just really
awkward in my hands, i had to set it in my
lap. I wasn't consiously aware that I had
pointed the gun at anyone, and I
apoligized, and told him that that was the
first time I've ever held a gun and I
thought the inncident was over. But last
saturday my boyfriend brought it up again.
He said "Drews not scared of you, you just
really freaked him out." then he went
along to say quit being a bump on a log
and mingle. I'm very shy and these people
are intimidating me for some reason, they
are loud, un ruly, and basically
everything that i'm not. My boyfriends
friend came up to me and outta the blue he
told me that I needed to lighten up. He
brings up a situation I don't even
remember. He asked me "Do you remember
that time when I was jokin with you
singing that song about a
psycho-scitzophrenic? and then you freaked
out on me? If i would have freaked out on
this guy I would have remembered it. But I
didn't. I told him I was just going
through some rough times, and I'm
depressed. I have it severly, and parania,
to the point I get sweatly palms and my
face turns numb, and I get the
uncontrollible notion to cry. I think
everyone is conspiring agains't me. I kind
of want other peoples opinions about
whether you guys think they were singling
me out. Do you think approching me at a
party about it was appropriate? Do you
guys think I took this too seriously?
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mominashoe
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Posted: 02-26-08 22:51pm
Ok, there is no reason why they should be
playing around with guns and it was their
own fault for letting you handle it.
People go through extensive training on
how to shoot and handle a gun before they
are even allowed to touch it. Guns are
not toys and you were put in a bad
situation and the fact that you were
pressured into something like that and
they were drinking was totally
irresponsible and not your fault, and you
are not overreacting.
People are not really conspiring against
you, they just are not really
understanding what you are going
through....sometimes when people don't
understand, they like to make fun to cover
up their embarrassment. If they really
care about you, they will try to
understand you for who you are and stop
treating you this way. They might see you
as an easy target for your condition, but
that shouldn't make you feel bad, but
contrarily, it actually makes them less
desirable as individuals.
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lonely_guy_20
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 3 Location: ,
Posted: 03-14-08 05:12am
i think people are conspiring against me
all the time. like talking about me behind
my back....i'm quite
ant-social...depressed...quiet...i think i
might know what your feeling