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so basically I had a really scary nightmare a few weeks ago and it was of this creepy guy with a knife and he was tilting his head and smiling at me(I'm getting chilling and sweats just writing about this) anyways he just really scared me but I was talking to my mom and she think its because of what a family member di... | ptsd |
Im going through a dissociative episode and its making my symptoms worse since i have harm ocd/pocd.. anyone else? | OCD |
I’m on meds, I try tricks to prevent myself from procrastinating like being at the library and sitting my ass down. Trying to follow a calendar. Practicing mindfulness.
I feel like I’m always exhausted and never have time to do things I enjoy.
I’ve been making the same anxiety/ procrastination mistake all my life and... | ADHD |
Not too long ago I used to order things from selling websites like EBay, Depop, Mercari, Poshmark, and Etsy. After some recent events of having constant obsessive thoughts of order from those websites, I got too tired to use them and deactivated all those accounts. Whenever I look up other things unrelated to orders on... | OCD |
I'm in my mid 30s. I've only had a few brief casual romantic relationships. I'm unable to work. I don't even want kids. My physical health is poor and I'm reasonably sure I'll be dead in 5 to 10 years, at best.
I gave up on life years ago, in my late 20s, when I realized all of this was unlikely to change. And I wish ... | aspergers |
I was unconscious and have nothing more than flashes that I’m half-convinced I made up.
And yet some days I’m barely functional any more.
I don’t know that any of this is real. How do I know I didn’t make it all up?
Sorry, just a rant because I’m struggling. | ptsd |
Idk if this is just me or not I haven’t been diagnosed(I have a test in December) but I was wondering if a symptom is having the same few interests and just swap between them because I find I go through an interest quickly like trying to learn a language then go back to one I really enjoy like cars and everything to do... | ADHD |
I have PTSD stemming from horrid experiences and reputation in both high school and the year I went to college. Shit I don't want to even get into went on for years and it really screwed me up. Flash forward to today. 22 with no license, friends, or partner. No school, lost my job after being in the hospital recently. ... | ptsd |
first i would like to say thank you. im 18, female and getting tested next week. my whole life ive felt uncontrollably alone and alienated and finding this sub has really opened my eyes. thank you so, so much.
walking past people is something thats always been difficult for me. specifically outdoors or at a public pla... | aspergers |
I brushed my teeth twice, took 2 showers, ate good, healthy food that made me happy, I listened to my favorite music, put my heart into work, stayed up to date with coursework which is huge to me, gave myself time to relax, talked it out to my psychiatrist, took my meds.... and it isn't enough.
I still feel like pure ... | OCD |
Who wants to have a good, friendly scuffle, it ain’t really rules or nothing just no head stomping and when somebody drop chill. Lmk if ur interested I know a lot of us looking to just throw a few and chill out after | depression |
I recently was diagnosed with PTSD from emotional abuse and medical trauma. But I’m not sure it’s accurate? I don’t have flashbacks and have scarce nightmares. I definitely suffer from emotional numbing, depersonalization, intense anxiety, and guilt, but I think it’s weird I don’t have flashbacks or nightmares. Is this... | ptsd |
After years of trying to manage my ADHD without medicine, I finally had to break down and admit to myself that I needed medication. After a screening, I was prescribed 20mg of Adderall XR. I was already taking 150mg of Effexor XR in the morning and at night. After googling interactions between these two medicines, I st... | ADHD |
After a long time of consistently taking my meds, I become hyperaware of my heartbeat and develop tachycardia, random chest pains, and an impending sense of doom. I usually abstain from taking them for a week or so, then continue with no side effects. This time, is different. Instead of being in school, I now work a jo... | ADHD |
What have been you all’s experience with anafronil? I had been taking it at the lowest possible mg and my therapist is recommending me try it again.. worried that if I take a higher dose -once it get to that point- it will have some side affects. When I was taking it didn’t seem to have too many side effects... | OCD |
I feel so dumb about how I’ve been handling this, but I’m basically having an anxiety meltdown.
I bought a new pair of the really AirPod max over the ear headphones with my leftover stimulus money. As I was taking them out of the box they made a weird “clacking” noise, so I naturally started ruminating and thinking I ... | OCD |
Dam just watching the sky, trees, streetsand the sunset foggy rainy day get me depressed with strong emotions I don't why I feel like that? | depression |
Does everything have to be perfect to you? Are you not able to move on if there is a flaw in something? Have you ever had intrusive thoughts that wouldn't go away? I have struggled with intrusive thoughts and things having to be perfect. For instance, I have a toy collection from my childhood that is very important to ... | aspergers |
I have a pretty severe case of ADHD. I was prescribed 60 mg at one point in time but now to have any concentration I take 90mg. They say you know it's an addiction when the positive effects aren't there any more and you still take it. I feel tired all the time, I eat, still tired, I exercise, still tired. Take aderrall... | ADHD |
Yeah so the title is self explanatory.
Yeah so it's like I've opened a flood gate. All these repressed feelings are flowing out of it and it's intense. I had a sensory overload when I was out running yesterday.
Yesterday morning I looked out the window and it scared me. I've been thinking I shouldn't feel bad reall... | aspergers |
I like to cook (it takes an amount of effort to convince myself into the kitchen still), I LOVE to eat.
It's turning to Autumn here and the days are getting darker. This time of year always seems to have a pretty big impact on my mood, self organisation, self discipline, money management, etc, etc, etc.
I am complete... | ADHD |
Seriously music just immediately gets me in the mood to get things done. It feels like the part of my brain that can't do shit gets distracted just enough that I can just do the job I'm meant to do. We're talking things I haven't bothered doing the entire day immediately start being worked on the moment I wear my headp... | ADHD |
Or do you sometimes experience both at the same time? | aspergers |
I've been suffering from HOCD for a long time now, and after I've seen articles that POCD and Suicidal-OCD exists, my brain is trying to convince me to have these thoughts too and it's so depressing. GUYS I NEED HELP LIKE WHAT SHOULD I DO TO STOP IT IMMEDIATELY??? Like being gay is okay compared to being a pedophile or... | OCD |
Venting warning!
I’ve got everything going for me. I’m privileged, middle class, good partner and supportive friends & family. But I’m smoking again, more than ever, the dishes are piling up in my house, I am weeks behind work and people are taking notice, and I am not sleeping at all.
Anyone else stuck right now? A... | ADHD |
Edit: phrasing
Hi!
tl:dr - I'm wondering if anybody has some tips and strategies to help with the fun little rejection sensitivity that so often comes along with ADHD.
I'm a recent college grad with an even more recent ADHD-I diagnosis, and now that I'm in the workforce and actively working on breaking the habits I ... | ADHD |
Hello, so this is is my first post. I’ve been diagnosed with adhd for over a year now and I’m currently on Strattera, literally just started it this week. Currently my biggest problem is focusing on schoolwork, I’m killing it at work and my house is always tiptop clean but I’m really struggling doing my school work and... | ADHD |
I've tried everything. I've waited so long. I've been so patient. Yet, I can't get better. There is literally no hope for me. I don't enjoy anything anymore. Music I used to love with all my heart sounds like noise. Things i used to enjoy don't give me a single molecule of dopamine or serotonin. I am so fucking sick an... | depression |
I attempted suicidal this year twice, to actually die because I was so alone and felt like there was no way out, none of my family cared apart from my mum. My brother didn’t and I’ve told him how that made me feel and he still didn’t care. I have minimal friends, no close friends and I just don’t know what I’m doing wr... | aspergers |
Hey so I have CPTSD but all my most recent trauma is medical related and I'm struggling to cope. I'm in the process of trying to get some medical issues worked out with my doctor but in the meantime, I can't keep myself from spiraling when I have any little issue or weird feeling in my body. I just always feel like I'm... | ptsd |
Ive just recently been diagnosed with nicu related ptsd. My son was born at 25 weeks at 1lbs 15ozs and just 11 3/4 inches. We spent 97 days in the nicu between two different hospitals. During this time he contracted both meningitis and sepsis and a few times we truly thought we would lose him. During the time we were t... | ptsd |
It's so distracting, I'm trying to read an article but an ad at the bottom keeps scrolling or flashing or anything. I can't focus! Sometimes there are things loading or anything moving on the screen and I absolutely hate all of it. Sometimes I put a card in front of it so I don't see it in the corner of my eye but it's... | aspergers |
Hey.. is anyone willing to chat with me in private and listen to me vent? I just really need someone who will understand and wants to give advice because my ocd is getting so much worse and I’m just so overwhelmed and filled with self hatred. please message me and thank u so much in advance | OCD |
I have an abusive dad, a mother who can't emotionally support me but falls short (through no fault of her own, she tries, but she's had a very hard life), 2 sisters who have both said they can't be their for me emotionally, one of which ignored me for over a month when I asked her if she knew a good hospital too go to ... | depression |
I remember watching the original Achievement Hunter gang for their Let's Plays and them being dicks to each other during the videos and thinking that that was just how friends played games together, since they all seemed like friends.
So I would play games with friends and do the kind of things AH would do to each oth... | aspergers |
(Hello, sorry for my grammar i'm not english so ill make sum mistakes.)
Hi i think im depressed i've been having suicidal thoughts for like a year, and im just too tired to do anything recently. So i think im depressed. What are the simptoms for depression if anyone is kind enough to help. | depression |
Her parent's had just gone through a divorce, and my other friends told me to sit with them throughout recess as an act of comfort, but I didn't want to sit with them. I would keep moving around and wandering off, after the fifth time of me doing it they (the friend group) called me insensitive, so I wanted to comfort ... | aspergers |
Hi all,
Does anyone else randomly fixate on the stupidest stuff? Like my rational brain is like "so what" but my irrational OCD brain is like "omg fixate fixate fixate" and I cant break the cycle. I get tunnel vision and cant rationalize myself out of doing compulsions until I do them all "evenly" and when it feels ju... | OCD |
My 9 year old has pretty severe adhd but won’t be formally diagnosed until the beginning of December. I also have adhd and just realized this and am mourning who I may have been if my parents had stepped up and helped or noticed. In the meantime, my child is making me miserable. He’s taking out my spark for life and my... | ADHD |
I've been playing guitar for 6 years and singing practically all my life, I can do them both separately without any issues, but for years I've never been able to do both at all. I was diagnosed earlier this year and it explained lots of my weird behaviours and my obsession with, but unfortunate failure of not being abl... | ADHD |
HELLO!, first time poster,,,I am 18 and unemployed and haven't got ANY experience I need a job but everything is just so PLEH! so many steps and things have sub steps and sub steps have sub steps. for example, writing a CV: I need to overcome procrastination to open my laptop, then, I write but what do I write? and wh... | ADHD |
Hello, a few days back my sister, that is a grown woman said to me that nobody likes me when i was trying to explain her about my needs has a autistic person and i was passing for a lot of stress at that moment. I was just trying to express how i was feeling said that she and the rest of my family never try to listen t... | aspergers |
I wanted to share my story. This is just
My experience of course and I am not trying to offend anyone.
https://medium.com/@zoeyilouz/this-season-i-am-grateful-for-my-anti-depressants-810750633549 | ptsd |
Im done. What a pathetic waste of life I am. My parents gave me everything I could need to succeed in life and I squandered it on weed and video games. Time to end it. | depression |
Hey y’all. I’m in early recovery (only a couple of days), and I’m learning that I’ve been so excited about learning, growing, and getting better that I’ve started pushing myself a little too far. I’m trying to learn how to trust the process and not try to do this all on my own. But it’s so hard because I just want my l... | OCD |
Anybody in here military/first responder? Need a battle buddy. | ptsd |
for as long as I remember, I am afraid of being given bad news verbally, or to go to funerals (I only went to one funeral and I didn't feel sad enough so I am too scared to go again even though I was about 16 at the time and its been 15 years since)
I don't find serious situations funny, or anything, its like my mind... | OCD |
TW: Self Harm
My trauma was self inflicted: a period where I was frequently self harming and admitted to hospital several times. I'll spare you the details, but my question is:
Does anyone else have PTSD from a similar trauma? I feel like my PTSD isn't really valid because of this, or that it isn't as bad as others. ... | ptsd |
Im kinda surprised I’m on this forum…but here goes nothing. I wouldn’t call myself depressed, but as the days go on I notice how I’m not really living my life..Like, I’m obviously alive, but I just go through the motions and do things in life because I feel like I have to in order to be considered normal. I go to schoo... | depression |
Anyone else struggles watching Videos and Film ?
Ever since I was a child, I had this problem that I can not stay on one video for more than 5 minutes, even with my favorite shows.
When I am watching something, I keep backwarding the video back and forth because I have missed something out or because I did not unde... | ADHD |
Hi there,
I just got the diagnosis OCD and dissociation problems (i think the last one is more a symptom of the ocd) and I told my parents today that I finally understand that the f*ck is going on with my and my parents told me "everyone has this now and then, it will be over soon and you are not having it seriously.... | OCD |
Life is cyclical and I keep coming back to wanting to die. I ran out of weed and tonight is going to be a long night I can tell. I hate my life and everything about it. My circumstances always come right back. I’m poor, I’m sad, and that’s just that. There’s no way out. Except one way out. | depression |
I’m actually diagnosed with OCD and while I already knew the toll it has taken on me around the time of diagnosis, I keep gradually “realizing” that the extent of its impact is probably much worse than it looked at first.
Things like sensing irrational patterns, compulsively googling things I already know the answer f... | OCD |
Hello,
I recently discovered something new in regards to my OCD. The thing I observed is that I'm hyperaware of a lot of things I tend to do. Although I'm longer questioning my own motives (I have harm-OCD), I tend to analyze why I do or why I think in a certain way in a lot of social interactions. It can be any topic... | OCD |
21F. I am a medical student. I have ocd and am on meds for the same. I am worried about 2 things. So recently I developed a crush on an ortho professor and I flirted with him (not in a sexual way) just for fun. Obviously I dont wanna date him cuz he is like 10 years older maybe. Anyway, I have a growing mass in my wris... | OCD |
I’ve been really struggling with another obsession over the past few days and I really need some advice. I initially detailed it here - https://old.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/md15wd/how_far_does_no_ethical_consumption_go/
I know it’s a political subreddit, but please try not to be too inflammatory. It’s really s... | OCD |
I was diagnosed at 30, and I am now 33. While I am thankful for my diagnosis and that this year I started working with an ADHD specialized psychologist, I feel like it's made my depressive symptoms worse sometimes. Before, I always believed that with hard enough effort and self-training I will grow out of my stupid hab... | ADHD |
Does anyone have any advice for feeling overwhelmed?
I currently live in a over crowded home filled with junk due to my mother, to the point I can clean the home and in three days it be just as dirty because of her obsession of prepping, but never properly putting away or cleaning things to where it just immediately b... | ptsd |
I watched it all in one night. Well not necessarily night, i guess it was more of a morning. Anyway, last I slept was at 8-12 pm. Now it’s 7 am and I started at 4. Someone please help I hate myself. | depression |
I'm just really excited to have found this community and am looking forward to engaging and finding support as well. Thank you. | ptsd |
I left my abuser, came to terms with the trauma he gifted me, relocated to a different area to escape the daily triggers, endured a re-traumatizing, exhausting investigation and sentencing where he was charged with crimes that didn’t include the horrific things he had made me suffer. I still put him away for a year, an... | ptsd |
I’m not quite sure why I’m like this but I always do things to the extremes. I’m either working really hard or not at all. I’m either being extremely social or not at all. I never am in between. I become a completely different person constantly and it’s confusing. I’m either addicted to something or I won’t do it at al... | ADHD |
And if you are born on a time that I wont exist, do not be scared and you will find me either as a star when you are walking alone through the frozen night, either in the eyes of a child that will pass you by, ...................................................
you shall see my bright face shaping a constellation, to ... | OCD |
I’ve had two nightmares in the past two days and I’m so scared to fall asleep at night because I might have a nightmare. Moreover I already struggle with insomnia | ptsd |
how does everyone deal with people constantly making light of ptsd? how do i stop being so angry with people who don’t understand? | ptsd |
TW: Murder
I hate when people tell me to "move on" or "forgive myself". When people pretend they understand survivor's guilt at all, like they have any idea what it's like. Tell me "it's not that bad" and to "get over it". Acting like they're the ones who went skipping home from school, right past the house someone th... | ptsd |
How should i tell my friends that i'm suffering from depression? I thought something like 'you proberaly noticed a change in my behavoir and that's because i have depression. And even though you have nothing to do about it i just wanted to say that was the reason'. | depression |
So I think i have harmOCD and I'm scared I'm going to harm my brother whom I love so much. Basically I'm scared I'm gonna do something to him. We've been building some furniture recently and once I felt a compulsion to hold the hammer to see if I would get an urge to do something but I never caved in and did anything.... | OCD |
Is it considered "harm ocd" when one becomes so afraid of harming another person that they develop a fear of harming the other person in order to *neutralize* their fear of harming that person? They think, "I am afraid I will suddenly do it just to 'get it over with'." Is that harm OCD as well?
Sorry, I am not well e... | OCD |
Soon it'll be the annual "let's berate my attitude" gathering towards me. I just know, that if I ever open up my feelings to those fuckers, it'll be turned into an argument of how I should be grateful for being raised by a bunch of losers, who expect me to become a great person by yelling at me when I tell that I'm bei... | aspergers |
Does anybody after watching a porn video afraid that they are into something that they’re not. For example after watching a nsfw video with a mom in it, you think you have some fetish or you are into incest. Does this have to do with my ocd?? (Also the tag at the top of the video was labeled “fetish” which gives me eve... | OCD |
Today I lost my grandfather which has obviously been an emotional mess. However it solidified how much I use distractions to avoid feelings. I had to leave work abruptly today due to everything and the ride down there I kept talking about how I hated this to happen at work and how I couldn't get my work done or the mon... | ADHD |
I don’t go on this sub too much as I found it quite triggering in the past (scared of forming new obsessions :)), but I just wanted to share that I faced my biggest fear today after months of building up courage. I was going to build up slowly, but remembered what my therapist said and thought fuck it. I already feel s... | OCD |
So October is domestic violence awareness month and I was diagnosed a little over a year ago with PTSD from my abusive relationship with my ex. I openly posted on social media about my domestic violence experience the last day in October two years ago and this year I decided to take control of the month by posting a fa... | ptsd |
I have a ridiculous walk. I roll my hips like a stripper. And yes it is problematic and embarrassing and I keep putting off making a concerted effort at being aware of it and training myself to walk more normally. | aspergers |
So, first off, I have aspergers, and my mom still doesn't believe that it's actually an issue. She thinks that I can "grow out of it" and choose to be "more normal". Every time I am forced to be around anything that gives off a strong odor, my mom says I'm just being fussy and acting stupid.
I'm into some weird things... | aspergers |
I thought this shit would make things better, a change of scenery, forcing me to socialise etc. I take this stale education like I always have my whole life, but other guys here are actually PASSIONATE about what they’re learning? It’s insane how these guys are going to society’s and meet-ups and doing projects in thei... | depression |
I'm new to all this - I only began to truly consider the possibility of my having OCD very recently. Google was doing nothing to answer my question, so I thought this sub might be able to help. | OCD |
I have 0 problem with the other autistic traits but this is one is out of my reach. I am 15 so I don't think I can learn by myself if I could not learn in 15 years. Is there a way for me to learn any other way because I have never masked in my entire life and I have no idea on what social cues mean or how to engage in... | aspergers |
I'm fully aware that on the grand bell-curve of the global population's intellect, I'm probably smack dab in the middle. I don't think I'm particularly smart, but I get really tired of feeling dumb. I can be spacey, I can be oblivious, and worst of all my brain tends to take very strange approaches to concepts and prob... | ADHD |
I have this problem all the time especially when my ADHD symptoms are super bad. I also have PMDD so during my hormonal changes they get even worse. Anyone else struggle with this? For example I accidentally voided a transaction at work because a lady didn’t want her receipt. Normally I know just to print the receipt a... | ADHD |
I’m very proud of myself today, I finally successfully shared the details of my obsessions to my therapist after 7 years of keeping them to myself. I was so terrified he would write me off as a bad person but he did not. He was completely understanding and sympathetic and we started working on strategies to deal with m... | OCD |
I really need help I'm so confused and lost on what to do. I've been on elvanse for 6 weeks now and my chest pains are really bad BP and pulse are fine but its like this stressed anxious feeling that is worse than ever before. I told them I don't think this medication is for me but they literally just tell me to " go a... | ADHD |
I haven’t eaten in days. The thought of any form of food is making me feel sick. I feel alone. I’m scared. I can’t breathe. I’m in so much pain. Just touching my own skin hurts. Im at rock bottom and I haven’t even got the energy to even try to swim to the surface for air. My heart feels like it’s in a vice and every t... | depression |
So I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but right know every fiver in my body is screaming because I really want to play this game that I’m obsessed with but I should be studying really hard for my midterms. How can I get pass this ? Also does this happen to you guys ? Because if often happens to me and not ju... | ADHD |
i'll just come right out and say that i'm jealous when someone says that meds for adhd was an overnight success, like they suddenly were able to function and things were better. (not perfect, of course, i know that medication doesn't erase our disability.) but i've been trying for 2 years with various doctors to find s... | ADHD |
I’m always scared that I’m going crazy or developing a different serious mental disorder (such as schizophrenia or basically any other psychotic disorder). I’ve suffered from OCD my whole life and this past year has been the worst for me with it. However, this past week has suddenly been unbearable. I genuinely feel as... | OCD |
I submitted my application to graduate school today! Now here comes my real challenge: waiting.
Any tips on how to not hyperfixate on things like this? I find myself obsessively checking results for exams and whatnot, and I am probably going to do the same with my email waiting to see my acceptance/denial letter, whic... | ADHD |
You know what bugs me everyone go out have fun chat with girls ask a girl out but i cant do that because i have 0 experience in life | aspergers |
I recently deleted an old comment of mine on another account and now I feel afraid that someone might get angry or something that it's gone and decide to research me and hack me, which could impact my real life. I'm also now afraid that someone will do the same to this new account because for whatever reason especially... | OCD |
How do you deal with those moments where you just all of a sudden feel drained and want too sleep? Medication has definitely helped me, these moments are less common, but I've had to go a couple days without any and just can't seem to do anything but nap.
It's so frustrating because I want to paint, go outside etc, b... | ADHD |
I'm not a person with malicious intent and I would never harm anyone, but I keep thinking for whatever reason I'll lose it and end up doing something stupid. I've been blacked out on alcohol dozens of times and have never drove or done any ridiculous shit, but I fear going crazy or breaking the law.
I'm extremely par... | OCD |
I can see why only a handful of people even care about me. I suppose that makes me lucky, but really they’re just holding me back from ending it all.
I’ll never be anyone’s first choice for anything. No one wants to give a gay ugly loser the time of day. Just fuck uuggggh
Don’t know if this is the right sub for thi... | depression |
I knew it was a massive and difficult step, from not letting anyone in the room for more than a few minutes to letting someone sleep in my own bed. Even though I changed the sheets and cleaned the whole room before and after because the intrusive thoughts were getting bad, I am proud of myself. She is coming to sle... | OCD |
I don’t really remember a time in my life where I was able to. | aspergers |
My thoughts are getting more harder to handle I’m starting to get confused on if it’s me or not and it freaks me out. I can’t take it anymore it’s so exhausting. I just feel like complete ish because of these thoughts, it’s not like here and there is literally every second even when I’m just doing random stuff that doe... | OCD |
A lot of things are real and they go beyond our headspace. Not everything is done because of some weird psychological belief we have of ourselves. I think we also tend to overanalyze human behaviors and put psychological emphasis on them
One example I can think of
“Looking down is a sign of low self confidence”
Or i... | aspergers |
I don't know where if ever it's appropriate to express this thought.
I have to take care of my parents, they need me so if I go now it'll harm them. But when I'm done with taking care of them, I'll go too.
I don't want to make any plans, meet anyone, continue this vicious cycle. I don't see any reason to stick arou... | depression |
I feel so alone. Even when I'm with others I feel like I don't belong. Part of me wants to be close with others. Part of me wants, no, hopes, to find that person that will stick around until the end. But at the same time I'm scared. I'm scared to let anyone in. I'm scared to be myself because everyone leaves once I ope... | depression |
Am I alone in this opinion? I've never seen an actual autistic character on popular media who acts like the autistic people I know. Not one.
I've seen characters we, as a community, embrace and identify as autistic. And they're promptly declared by the shows creators as absolutely NOT autistic. 😠😒
Every character... | aspergers |
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