My whole life I've felt like I simply don't fit in.  I have several friends, but it seems that absolutely no one understands me. Does anyone else feel this way all the time?
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The best thing is being happy.  If you are happy with yourself it is a GREAT thing.  The sooner in life you find what makes you happy the happier you will be.
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Misery,\nI'm also very introverted, but I'm really a very nice person. The only problem I ever have is people think that I'm unfriendly, and it's just not true. When they get to know me they are always so surprised how nice I am. I have tried everything to change, but I'm just a real quiet and layed back kind of person. Also I'm very shy and I guess that goes along with being introverted.\nTDCWH
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Kiara, no.  You are not alone in your feeling.  But may I make a suggestion?\n\nI grew up in a family where people routinely stabbed each other in the back.  It was a very unhappy place, and for most of our lives, certain people within the family came to resent others....this has lasted a lifetime in some instances.\n\nBut you have a choice to make, and let me tell you how I made mine; I came to know the love of Jesus Christ.  So no longer is my life about, who did what to me.  My life is about how to learn to love others unconditionally, as God loves me.\n\nYou have a choice to make too; which end of the pencil do you wish to use in your life?  The one that is continally writing down the offenses people give you...or the one that is continually erasing offenses, always forgiving, showing kindness with no expectation of return?  I can tell you one thing for sure; the second choice above will bring a life of peace and fulfillment; the first a life of bitterness and resentment.  The choice is yours to make.
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yea alot of people have ...i have been suffering from depression for quite a few years now and i have felt like that about everyone in my life ..through 2 pregnancies and a whole lot of depression... i honestly believe it is because you figure (as i do) if you don't love yourself how can anyone else love you ...its gonna be hard but for the most part and to help you get over feeling this way you HAVE to i repeat HAVE to learn to love yourself
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i know EXACTLY what ur going through,im going through it right now.i just feel like im not needed,like it would be better if i were gone,u even hate urself cause u feel ur not good enough.i have felt like this a lot for a while and i still do,i cant help it.i cry for no reason at all,i get mad over the littlest things,and i just feel like even when i try to do something right it gets fucked up or just makes things worse.maybe we can talk sometime.cause i am going through the same exact thing.cause i dont even know what to do myself,maybe it takes just one person to talk to about anything.cause i need it and it seems like u do too.
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Dear Rebecca,\n           Take heart and know that you are not alone in your struggle with depression. I have the same problem too and understand how you feel. Please know that you are okay and sound like a very likable young girl. If your "friend" can't accept you with your problems as you are, then I'd say she isn't much of a friend and perhaps you should try for other friends who will appreciate you for all that you are. I am sorry that you have to be hurt this way and my thoughts go with you but also realize that there are people who really will like you as you, Rebecca! Take care of yourself and stay sweet!
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I have exactly the same problem.   I was teased because we were poor and I had buck teeth and wierd hair.  My last job, I worked with a young man and a woman about 8 years younger than me and they completely ignored me.  They didn't even include me in job-related conversations.  I have never fit in anywhere.  Are you straight and religious?  I have found that a lot of places where I go, people are mostly talking about bars and sports and stupid things so I don't talk to them and they don't talk to me either!  I was told I have social anxiety and I believe that our problems lie somewhere in not really caring if we talk to anybody, but yet we want attention.  We don't have the confidence that people will be interested in what we say.  I always figure how many people would be interested in somebody like me who is a bookworm, does not do anything but think about how to decorate my kitchen or where to plant my next rosebush.        I don't know.  I think we need to find happiness in ourselves and be happy who we are.  Sometimes you have to just push yourself in to other people's cliques at least just for a moment to let them know you are not stuck up (maybe that's what they think).  If people cannot look past another person's looks or have empathy for a quiet person, then they are not worth having as a friend anyway.  By the way, I am also the person left sitting alone during breaks when I am taking a class or whatever.  It is what we choose or we wouldn't be sitting there.  I just don't like to go outside where everybody else is smoking, etc.
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I hear you-- sometimes it feels like no one understands you or has a personality that matches yours.  You may have ended up with friends that chose you to be friends with them, trying meeting friends in new ways and picking your friends instead of them picking you.
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I have been that lonely.  I know exactly how you feel.  Don't you wish you were in a tent were nobody could enter.  I have anxiety attacks therefore hated being with people.  Im depressed.  I thought everyone was talking about me or laughing at me.  I still hate big places and stay out of them.  I went to a doctor and am on medication.  Now I even drive.   I still get lonely sometimes but i could get out and can stand being in a party for a while.  you may have anxiety disorder with panic attacks.  good luck
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I ask the questions, but no one answers. I feel left out.
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You're not alone at all. There's lots of people who feel exactly the same way you do. I've destroyed my life countless times and been in the hospital a few times as well. I've been on loads of different meds as well and am now hopefully on the right ones.
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Honey, I often wondered the same thing...but then I realized that while we all live in our own realties, we are linked by our own human existance.  Things don't dissappear into dark nothingness simply because you have left that area.  How do I know this?  Because I am sitting here in Cleveland right now smoking a cigarette (not gange like you are), living in my own little reality.  Also, I think it is important to realize for yourself that you are just a small fragment of a whole.  You need to get over yourself, and I don't mean that in a snotty way, I mean that you are dealing with your id, which is a common human experience, and one needs to give of their selves in order to conquer his or her feelings of isolation.
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I think everybody who is lonely feels that way.  Get out and meet people instead of sitting there feeling sorry for yourself.
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I think that what ever you feel is normal for you.\n\nand all  your friends wont agree or feel the same as you do.  \nSome might want or ask you to act a way that doesnt feel normal to you.  But don't ask them to do it.\n\nJust be yourself and you will see who your true friends are later.  good luck\n\nstef
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don't worry you will fit in someday.... that's a question only you can answer. So ask yourself and if you still can't find the answer then just forget it... it will come to you one day
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I think it goes alot deeper than you just getting bored with different people....Have you ever thought maybe its your problem???  People always want to blame others for whats really going on within themselves...Take a good look in the mirror, you'll figure it out eventually....
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Hey, people are not destined to be alone. There is someone out there in this world who is destined for you. Sometimes, they are just right infront of you but you didn't see them! \n\nWe have to meet the wrong persons before meeting the right one. Apperance doesn't count. Its better to read a book than to judge it.\n\nI feel empty, too, at times, but come to think of it again, I have my family and friends who loves me as much. A few of them are also people I could confide it.\n\nSo feel blessed, and don't feel empty.