I lost somebody close last year and since then feel very depressed and prefer keeping to myself all the time. Please help me.
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Losing someone very close is a very traumatic experience. It takes time to first understand and accept that your beloved person is no more going to be with you hereafter. And this becomes a source of lot of pain and sadness. A void is created because of this loss. You must be very attached to this person. Along with this you might have been physically, emotionally, and socially dependent on this person for certain things. Now that this person is no more in your life, it has created uncertainty and insecurity for you. Hence you are feeling depressed and are trying to avoid others and are mainly keeping to yourself. It appears that you have lost interest in life. Please understand the pain and allow yourself to" feel" this pain. Then try to express your feelings by sharing it with someone you trust or just cry if you feel like crying. By doing this you are giving a outlet to your feelings. Emotional wound is to be treated like a physical wound. When a physically wounded person undergoes dressing and draining the pus out of the physical wound, he/she has to bear lot of pain till the wound starts healing. But the person cannot say I will not get dressing done for my wound, because if he/she does so the wound will become worse and create further complications. Same is the case with emotional wounds. You will be able to heal this wound by talking to someone or crying. And it will take you some time before you start thinking rationally. Otherwise you might start feeling dysfunctional and/or inadequate. Please don't force yourself to distract or don't try to push away the memories, instead, understand the loss by experiencing the pain. This process is painful, but finally it will help you to function normally in future and move on and reinvest in your life again. Please take care of yourself.
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