@vanessaframed: I arrived in Germany in 2015 with dreams, and the hope of building a better future. But reality felt very different. Because of the language barrier, I couldn’t work in my career. I started working in a Kita instead, while trying to rebuild my life from zero. Then came the weather. The endless grey skies, the cold, the darkness that seemed to last forever. At first I thought I was just homesick, but over time I realized how deeply it was affecting my mental health. And then COVID happened. The isolation became even heavier. The loneliness became louder. The depressive atmosphere, the lack of sun, being far away from family, feeling stuck professionally… it all started breaking me little by little. People often romanticize moving abroad, but they rarely talk about the grief of losing yourself while trying to survive in a country that never fully feels like home. I survived it. But there were years where I truly forgot what happiness felt like. #LifeAbroad #MovingAbroad #GermanyLife #ExpatLife #LivingInGermany (moving abroad alone, life in germany, germany reality, expat life germany, immigrant struggles, living abroad loneliness, mental health abroad, germany weather depression)

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