Social and academic stress are pulling me back to depression. Everything I used to enjoy at school is starting to exhaust me, even art class. I feel like I'm drowning in quicksand, every time I think I find stable ground it gives way beneath me and I'm being pulled under again. I'm filled with so much longing, not to be normal, but to have a genuine connection with someone that actually lasts. I don't mean with a guy/boyfriend, I just want a friend, someone I can hug and cry with when I'm feeling like I'm simultaneously drowning in quicksand and falling through a million sheets of glass. I just want happiness and a desire to live that doesn't disappear when I get overwhelmed like this. I wish I could care about someone for more than a couple months. I don't think any of my friendships are very close, I can talk to them, but there are no tears or emotional hugs, there is no feeling. I blame myself for that, I try to keep my friendships somewhat distant because if I don't keep it that way I eventually stop caring for the friend or even begin to dislike them. At first it's amazing to have a friend I can confide the whole truth in, but eventually I grow unhappy and begin to feel trapped. The worst is when I think "this time will be different. I feel so strongly connected to this person, there's no way I'll stop feeling this way." because inevitably my feelings do change and I've once again screwed myself over. Even worse, someone else was caught in the crossfire. Every time that happens I'm forced to see that whatever part of me is causing these friendships to end will never let me be as close as I want to be with my friends. Sorry for that huge pity party, I know my problems are trivial in comparison to the things many people struggle with, I'm just hurting and I needed a way to talk personal stuff without worrying that I would lose a friend.