i’m seventeen years old and do not have any genuine friendships or family. it is incredibly lonely and isolating. i am doing all i can do at the moment, i have an in-person therapist, i talk to her once a week, i am now a part of a coping strategies group at my high school, i will be more involved with my schools theater community again for our spring musical ‘chicago’ which i will be returning as one of the running crew. i go to work, i have worked a lot lately. but i crave friends, i crave friendship and family. i am so very lonely. i have cried to counselors, i have reached out to endless helplines, i have tried to get out there. i am horribly limited, i am stuck in a damaging household with “family” members who worsen my mental health and who i do not consider my family at all. to me my house is a jail. i have tried everything to make it not be a jail but i hate my family. i have thought about running away, and recently i have thought endlessly about ending it all. please reach out if you live in the RVA area and you’re a teenager. if so that would mean the whole entire world, or if you live in like chesterfield, fredericksburg etc… or please reach out if you’re seventeen as well. i just want to feel connected, i want somebody whos like me to connect to.