I’m a 21 year old guy who’s been struggling with depression and a lot of self hatred. When my brother abandoned me, I felt completely alone, and things got really dark. Around that time, I started talking to a girl online. I was in a pretty bad place honestly, I was dealing with suicidal thoughts and somehow, she helped pull me through it.

It still feels strange to say that someone on the other side of a screen could save my life, but she did. She gave me something to hold onto when I didn’t have much else.

Eventually, I got an internship in the same place where she lived. When I told her, something changed. She started pulling away slowly at first, then more and more until our conversations became just one short message a day.

It stayed like that for six months. And today, I finally blocked her. Not out of anger, but because holding onto something that meant so much, while feeling it slip away like that, was hurting me more than I could handle.