Struggling with anxiety and depression and existential isolation. Constant fear of being rejected or loved. The feeling that there is nothing that can be done about it, some energy though to see it through. Comparing myself with everyone i knew, who had real lives and lived, made relationships etc and all that self pity bullshit.
8 years ago i moved to france where i could buy a ruined house for not much money and at least try to get something going and it worked. I made a small business in the same place, stayed off the alc and drugs for the most part and felt balanced. People helped me and i felt included in something. There was a big garden which i turned into a paradise, there were a couple of neighbours but it was peaceful. So it became my reason to exist, like a kind of surrogate relationship i expect. I didn't understand this at the time. Everything in that house i made myself. I bought a treetrunk, had it sawn up. kept it in the garden for 2 years and eventually made a kitchen from it. Every day i would go round the garden and look at how the things changed, like if new flowers had come up or for different insect coming and going, i started keeping bees.
18 months ago i got new neighbours 50 metres away. They left every day between 9 and 5 and their dogs 2 alsations, barked non fucking stop. I tried every possible way to get something done about it but it just went on and on for 5 months 5 days a week for 8 hours. After 2 weeks of it i was wearing ear defenders all day and it carried on like this for months while i finished the work on the house. Took to the alc and drugs again, got isolated etc etc
Turned out that my friends didn't really give a shit that i was having a breakdown and wanted above all to have juicy details to talk about amongst themselves.
Eventually i got someone to buy it who came round by luck when it was quiet a couple of times and sold it for nothing. Long story short, something that was already a bit broken got totally broken. These things are complicated and there's never a single reason. If it hadn't been this it would have been something else i expect but anyway, there's your answer the catalyst.