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Ok. Curiousity has gotten the better of me.
I’ve got over 200 followers to this here blog. But I rarely hear from most of you. That makes me sad because I feel like I am missing out on getting to know all of you amazing bloggers and forming new friendships along the way also.
I try to comment on blogs as I can. I feel like its important that I do it, if I am following a persons journey, whatever their blog happens to be about. Most of the blogs I follow are peoples personal experiences with mental illness. I do follow a few other bloggers too who I find interesting and or inspiring.
So here is my question. To the people who are following silently, I’d like to get to know you, say hi, have some conversations going back and forth.
Please dont be shy. Introduce yourself and lets become friends. That would make me very happy.
Also it would let me know you are here, and you are real. Thanks guys.
Carol anne
Multi-Me 
I have slightly more than you…..the scenario is the same. It’s a silent world. Cheers
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I am glad you said hi. Its nice to meet you. I think many people prefer to silently read. It kinda unnerves me if I am honest. I like to leave comments to let people know I hear them and I care. XX
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Hello :). I’m Amy. I’m a 31 year old mother of three. Married for 15 years. I’ve been diagnosed with bipolar, anorexia. ocd, and anxiety. Ive been socially isolated for most of my life and am just starting to develop a sense of self and dreams and goals of my own. I’ve been in therapy for a year and seeing a psychiatrist for five months. Things are going mostly well. I’ve had a less than stellar childhood which I will eventually have to address. I love the blogging community and the interaction and motivation that I get from it. I appreciate the follow and comments and support. Xxxx
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Hi Amy! So nice to meet you. Sorry to hear you had a not so nice childhood. We struggle with much of the same things, an ED, anxiety, bipolar, it can be hard. It is nice to connect with like minded people and share our ups and downs. XX
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Hi Carol!! Hope you are having a blessed day!!
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Hi Secretangel! I had an ok day. It was quiet enough besides my doctors appointment. I hope you had a good day also! XX
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I pray that all is well with your health and many blessings be upon you, in Jesus’ Name.
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I’m glad you visited my blog–it reminds me that old friends are still there–sometimes if I don’t hear from people I lose track! I find that sometimes people I grow close to have similar issues and some have totally different issues–some don’t have issues at all–maybe they just share gardening photos. I love that balance. I hope we connect much more often ❤
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Mandie! How nice to hear from you and thanks for commenting. You always have great things to say on your blog. Like you I love my blogger friends both old and new. I’m always delighted when I get comments and can connect with people in the blogosphere. Its nice to feel like your not alone. Us old timers need to stick together as so many bloggers have left it would seem! XX
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I suspect I’ll be around for some time. I asked myself once if once I got all my crap together if I’d stop blogging. The little voice said, Lol, like THAT’S gonna happen. 😀
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Sometimes it takes you talking to us to get us to talk back. 🙂 Subscribing to a blog simply means we add you to the “reader.” From there it is up to you as the blogger to attract or catch our attention. Well done on this post! 🙂
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Thanks for the comment! I will try talking to my readers more! Asking their opinion I mean! Thanks again, xx
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I like getting to know people that are traveling a different journey and learn from their life:-) Hello to you + I will stop by again:-)
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Hi Robbie! I like getting to know new people also! I love learning about people and reading about their achievements and struggles too. XX
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Hey Carol Anne,
I know the feeling. I don’t think I have anywhere near as many followers as you do, but it’s very discouraging when I never get a single comment sometimes. I’m sorry I don’t comment on every post you and the others write, but I do try to comment on some. I hope you have a good day.
Sam
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Hi Sam! It can be discouraging. I am always glad when you do comment and so are the rest of us! It means a lot. I hope your having a good morning and day too. XX
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Hi Carol Anne, I read your posts, possibly silently a bit too often, but I am a real follower. I always hope that you are okay, and have seen you cope with tremendous courage on a difficult journey.
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Hi neechie! And thank you so much for your kind words. I try to cope as best as I can. Some days it can be difficult. But I keep trying anyway. I am glad you are a follower of my our blog. It means a lot. XX
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I think you know I’m Sarah! I suspect that sometimes, people are fearful of commenting because they don’t know what it’s like to cope with mental illness but they want to show their support. Perhaps they feel frightened of saying something which might unintentionally hurt you. I’m thinking out loud here. And then there’s the time factor. I don’t comment on as many blogs as I would wish to because of time, not to mention lack of energy.
By the way, I think you’all might be inspired by my latest post, a re-blog of a Maya Angelou poem that has put a spring in my step for sure!
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I love maya angelou Sarah! I’ll definitely love to read that! And I think your right about people not knowing what to say, but I hope people will be less fearful if I try to engage them more on my posts. As for reading blogs, I know the feeling of no time, and no energy. I had over six hundred posts to catch up on when I got home from my weekend away! I didn’t delete any. I’m saving them for when I’m awake during the night ha!
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Hi Carol Ann,
saying hi, (and still catching up!)
Paola
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Paola, you are like me, catching up forever and a day! Thats what I’ve been like since I got home on sunday.
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I’m almost there!! 🙂
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LoL, I’m not. I’m a long way from being caught up. Oh well, such is my life. XX
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Hello *waves shyly* I’m Elsa. You visited my blog and left a kind comment today. Thankyou so much. I didn’t realise when I started blogging about my mental health stuff how powerful the comments can be in terms of helping to validate my feelings and experiences. Last year I had a bad experience on a forum (a non mental health related forum) I’d been a well known long standing member of for over ten years, in response to something I posted (about my family and the effects of the past) another member suggested that “there are two sides to every story” and likened it to an minor incident she’d had that week with her teen daughter and the teenagers version being far more dramatic than the reality.
I left the forum the next day because her post caused me some kind of major melt down.
It’s made me nervous about sharing stuff now but supportive comments like yours are helping me to start to feel believed again (even though the narrative in my head constantly tells me no one will ever believe me except my husband because everyone is as disbelieving as that forum person was).
Thank you so much for that, your contribution to my blog probably means far more to me than you realised it would as you wrote it. X
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Elsa, I’m so sorry you had an awful experience like that. It really shows that some people have no understanding. That really sucks. I hope blogging has shown you that there are many out here in blogland who do care, want to hear you and understand where your coming from. So glad I was part of that. XX
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we do comment but still want to say hi! 😀
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Heyas Ty for all the nice comments! Much appreciated by us. xx
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I don’t know that I’ve ever given you my private site? It’s http://thecoleyheseeks.wordpress.com/ if you’re interested.
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Thanks, I’ll check it out! xX
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