art5607:

This. This is the feeling you get when someone who told you they loved you changes their mind. This is how invisible and inadequate you feel when they tell you they fell in love with the idea of you, but not the real you. This is what the little voice inside of you cries out when it feels so hurt and morose and inadequate and unworthy that you drown in this feeling for years on end. The feeling of rejection, inadequacy, unreliability, pain, sorrow, loneliness, and fear all wrapped into one. This is the feeling I hope you never experience.

But if you have ever felt this way, please know you are not alone. We see you.

Thank you, Doctor.