Hey /adv/!
You helped me out a lot in the past, thanks for that and here I am again.
So I suffer from depression and wanted to try to get better without meds. I followed my docs advice, which was working on stuff and be productive a lot, and it actually works for me. It's not like I am cured, but I feel better and I hope I will improve more and more over time. With that being said, here's what I need advice for.
I tried to ignore girls and not fall for one too hard, since I realized that it's not healthy to start relationships in the state I was in, especially after I got used by some girl last year, which told me she loves me, we basically had a relationship without being official (sounds stupid I know), and then she fucked some other dude and made out with multiple dudes at some party. You could say I got "cucked".
So I met another girl a while back. I didn't know her, but she recognized me from my youtube channel (I'm not famous mostly people from around where I live know about my channel) and she walked up to me at a party and told me that she really enjoys my content and my sense of humor, and then had to leave. Weeks later I go through my subs, found her name and messaged her on fb thanking her again but stopped to text her more since I had the concerns stated above.
Now I can't get this girl out of my head for weeks. She always watches my videos and likes the posts I make, which doesn't mean much but I know she acknowledges me.
Here I am, feeling better and better, still thinking about this girl and I wonder if I should message her again and maybe meet up with her some time? Or should I not until I feel 100% good again (if that even happens at some point)
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From my experience, relationships helped me a lot through my depression (depending on the person) and of course I don't want to say that I use relationships for emotional support but you get the idea. On the other hand I know how damaging girls can be but she seems like a genuinely nice person.
Basically I'm insecure about being ready to get hurt again. I can't let my love life go down the drain just because of this stupid depression. Should I hit her up or better not?
I talked to friends about it and they all said "You have to decide that for yourself.", but I would really really appreciate some helpful advice.
Not sure about the love life stuff, perhaps wait until you're much more confident to take that on, but one thing that will help for sure for the depression and keeping it away id the Mindful way Through Depression course, which I've slapped up here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/stl5ctg1ptogszt/MWTD.zip