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OP, I'm going to cut right to the chase here and I frankly will skip the 10 pages of posts, so if someone has posted this (and I feel sure they have, or I hope so) sorry, but:

Many posts are totally missing the real and very serious issue here! It's this, in your first post:

[i]I've been struggling for a long time with feeling invisible and suicidal thoughts and just being a woman in my 40's, and this just adds to the depression, like people can't even be bothered to call me by the right name.[/i]

Are you getting help for your depression? Have you told anyone about your suicidal thoughts? Suicidal thoughts are reason for immediate intervention and help, and I hope you have already gotten that help. If not, please stop reading and call 800-273-8255, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. You do NOT have to be right on the verge that second to call and talk to them. They can help guide you to further help for the overall depression.

Maybe you've already come back to post here that you're getting help. If so, great, but if it's not working -- and your original post sounds as if it isn't -- please consider changing therapists and/or other doctors ASAP. I know, that's easy to say and not always easy to do, but if you have an Employee Assistance Program at your job, that's one place to start, as is the list of therapists your insurer has.

You are right to feel frustrated about the name issue. It's wrong and stupid of others. But the fact it looms so large for you is an indication of the bigger picture of depression and feelings of "I don't matter." I'm just leaping ahead here to post this to say, please, please talk to someone in your life today about your feelings and more importantly, talk to a professional ASAP. If you're already doing the latter, call that professional today and say you need to be seen today or tomorrow at the latest. Even if you feel you eventually will change therapists or whatever, call the one you have, if you have one, now. You can do this. You do matter. Other people's carelessness and jerkiness is not due to YOUR being unworthy, OP.

Again, if other posts already went here, sorry to repeat, but I saw the OP just now and felt that the posts I saw just below it were fixating on the name issue and missed the huge red flag you waved. Take care of yourself, OP. Update us. You are in this stranger's thoughts. [/quote]

The lighthearted responses are two fold - title of thread is focused on name only, not depression. I don't believe every poster actually bothers to read the OP. Secondly, it is posted if off topic, not health. So in a catch all, snatchy gossipy forum, not a serious one.[/quote]

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