Dear Brayden:

It reads to me that you feel very much alone, even in the company of friends who are supportive of you. You feel alone in the context of your family, in school, anywhere and everywhere.

We humans are social beings, we need times of togetherness with others. It is impossible to experience mental well-being alone all the time. Looking at the title of your thread: “I don’t know why I am like this”- the answer could be: because you experience too much aloneness, anywhere and everywhere.

Comforting togetherness with another person, with whom you feel visible, audible, seen and heard and understood, then accepted, allowed to be as you are, that kind of connection, I am thinking, will make it possible for you to feel connected inside, no longer a kind-of-a stranger to yourself. What do you think?

anita