Hi everyone, I have been dealing with a lot lately and I am struggling and would really appreciate some suggestions as to how I can cope better with all the stress that I’ve been dealing with for 7 weeks. what has happened in the past 7 weeks: I have been feeling down a lot lately and heaps of things keep happening that add to how I’ve felt. - first thing that caused me to feel down was when I started questioning life. Well is life meaningless or not? It has to be to humans if nothing happens after we die right? I can’t get rid of these thoughts, I’ve been consistently thinking about this along with everything else. - next thing was my stepdad got sacked for literally no reason. - then I found out I am moving house and school! I had to say goodbye to all my friends, it was so hard and I’ll probably never see them again. - then my nan had a really bad fall which left her with 15 stitches in her forehead and her whole face was bruised. - my gymnastics coach broke her foot in 5 places and needed surgery but she had a reaction to the pain killers and was throwing up for a whole day and was In a lot of pain. She was the one I’d talk to about all this stress because she took my private lessons which was a great time to talk as no one else was in the gym but I’ll never have her as my coach again. - this ones a little crazy but my step mums dad got his leg amputated below the knee but I was just really sad for my step mum because they told her that they werent expecting him to wake up because he had open heart surgery 10 years ago. - then my pops wife’s mum (so my step grandma?) died and I was really sad for her (I still am) - then last week I woke up to my mum saying I need an ambulance on the phone. My pop was having a stroke. He had one earlier in the year and nearly died so it was very hard to see it happen again. So this is part of what’s been happening for me and I was wondering if I could get some coping strategies or ideas of what has helped you during tough times. I’m really struggling and don’t know what to do. I’ve had trouble sleeping, eating, my mood is very low and I have a really low self esteem. I was already underweight so now I am really underweight and I don’t know what to do about that because I can’t even make myself eat a whole meal. I really would appreciate your opinions and really need some help. thank you -A
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