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[Ziggy and Angelbaby]

A while back, he tried to help me with my anxiety and depression.
He eventually stopped all together and even stopped talking to me.
He then said I was "unhelpable" and kicked me out and now I'm really struggling...

Your old roommate sounds like a quitter. Just because they weren't able to help you - or weren't willing to keep trying - doesn't mean you can't be helped. Maybe they just sucked at it.

People like your roommate bug me. They bug me because it's so damned easy to bring someone down when they're already struggling with emotional problems. People don't appreciate the amount of effort, mental and otherwise, it can take for a sufferer of anxiety and / or depression to get even to a neutral place. The amount of effort it takes to just get through the day. That doesn't make you weak, mind you; it makes you stronger than you realize.

When my condition was at its worst, I used to wish that I could subject some people to just a month of living with severe OCD. So they could learn, firsthand, what it meant to endure that sort of stress and internal conflict on a nigh constant basis. I imagined that some people would simply crumple onto the floor.

Nowadays, I think a little compassion - if not understanding - goes a long way. If you look around [in this topic], it seems to me that you have just that.