Good morning @Lula.  Sorry it's another one you're struggling with.  I was chatting with someone the other day about all the technology young people have these days and how much harder it can makes life harder to deal with mentally.  In our day, if you had a hard time at school, then it was only at school.  I don't mean struggling with the work, but trouble with other students being... 'less than kind'.  We could go home from school every day and get a break from it.  With all this social media everywhere, there can be no break from it whatsoever!  At the other end of the age scale, Ive seen older people upset with hospital staff because they're having issues with appointment times because everything is mobile phones and the internet now and they don't understand how to use it and it stresses them out because they're missing appointments and important information.  So Mr Dawkins probably makes some good points.  I think for at lot of people, the internet brings a lot of improvements to life, it's just a shame that there is a lot of toxicity on it these days, especially with social media which tends to promote it to a certain extend.  Exactly as you pointed out with Facebook.  Now i'm a nice guy... i'm respectful and polite, but even I managed to get myself banned from a facebook group for merely pointing out that a lot of people join a cancer support group when they're distressed and want support... not a friendly 'chit-chat' and a bit of a laugh.  The word 'support' in your group name should provide a clue that I'm right.  But god forbid we can have a polite respectful discussion when one person has the power to remove you at the click of a button.

I know the first time (i've mentioned this before, but not sure if it was with you) I reached out to other people was on an online forum like this one, but specifically for lonely people.  They had a chat room where people who were online could chat to each other in real time.  There was a bunch of us that used it quite a bit... possibly too much time, but that's not the point.  But it was a great way for us to get to know each other a bit and support each other.  I remember that and sometimes wish they had a similar one here.  But the internet is such a different place now from back 14 or 15 years ago, an unmoderated chat room is probably a recipe for disaster these days, especially for people struggling so much mentally.

Again, sorry to hear your having another bad day Lula.  Are there no social groups or something around where you are that you could go to and spend an hour or two with people to talk to?  The local community centre I used to work at had a few groups like that each week which it's members really enjoyed.