ex depressed people of Reddit, what helped you get through it?

My mom. God she was constantly there for me and I didn’t appreciate it at all. In fact I resented her for it and pushed her away, I told her to leave me be. When you hate yourself you don’t want to see others helping you because you feel you don’t deserve it. My thought process was that my mom is stressing over me when I don’t deserve it so I feel even worse because that makes me feel bad, and since I feel bad she’d stress over me more. It was a viscous cycle. After my suicide attempt she refused to leave my side despite me verbally assaulting her for it. She quit her job and did everything for me. She forced me to go to the psychiatrist and forced me to take my medicine. I absolutely despised her. That was in March. I’m now taking 300mg if lamictal every day and am pretty content with life. When I think about how I treated her despite her love and affection for me, I want to tear up. I’m an extremely sensitive person and it makes me feel insecure so I try to act all tough guy in front of other people, but the truth is deep down inside I love my friends and family so much that the thought of them being stressed, let alone being stressed because of my well being, makes me feel a way that I don’t even know how to describe with words. I love you mom, I love you dad.

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