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Prickly numb shaky feeling in arms, hands, other parts of body My bf says it’s all in my head. Is this anxiety or could it be physical? | self.Anxiety |
Please please I just need to die There's nothing for me here. No more family, no one that really cares or loves me. I really feel so alone and desperate for someone to talk to, to hug and to go have fun with.
I'm stuck in a cycle of work and sleep, and I don't do much else.
I'm so so tired all the time.
I want someone ... | self.SuicideWatch |
I have pets. They are adorable and helpful (I'll spare you the photo). I still feel like shit right now. Fuck. Navigating this life is fucking IMPOSSIBLE because the rules are constantly changing.
I love my partner, but fuck him for not playing fair. I'm not looking for 'oh, just leave him' advice; I genuinely want... | self.bipolar |
Should I just end it all? I am a married man (35) with 2 kids. My wife (40) had an affair with a man who is in his 20s. She found a better man, I’m a failure. I did everything and tried my hardest to keep her happily fufilled but I wasn’t hood enough. I bought a house so of I just leave they will have a roof over their... | self.SuicideWatch |
the only thing i enjoy in life is spending time with naked girls Having sex, cuddling, talking to eachother, finding things in common, learning from eachother, watching movies with my head rested on her breasts. It's the only thing I enjoy in life. Without escorts my life is empty. | self.depression |
I don't think I'll ever be free/New year's resolution Throwaway because people know my main acc.
Last week I started a new job. I thought working as a ski instructor would be different. I would be outside, doing something I like, with other people in a positive environment. Its not different at all though because I s... | self.depression |
I can see my mind go through a series of thoughts that leads to me feeling depressed, but I still allow it to happen and take over completely. There's a part of me that wants all of the dark and negative horrible thoughts to continue. I assume it's because I've gotten so used to them that they're kind of comforting? Th... | self.depression |
Parents divorced. Dad continuously asks me for info on my mom's life and her boyfriend It's driving me crazy. I'm too anxious to hang up on my dad or anything like that. I told him it bothers me when he does this but he continues it anyway.
Edit:
I told him on the phone I am not comfortable with anymore questions ab... | self.Anxiety |
Why do I beg all the time? It's crazy but my only friend is my ex. Let me type the story, I need to let it out too. After we broke up he kind of deserted me but he came back after a month. He was still in love with me and but to get over him I got into a relationship with another guy but I was already in too much love ... | self.depression |
Lost my personality years ago I have got bipolar but not so much the depression thing. It's just a mystery how I lost my personality from years ago. I was a bit of a ladies man and I could hold decent conversations and I was funnier and had more success in interviews. I feel completely different now. I would be known a... | self.bipolar |
Anyone else think most people have a better lives than your own? I could listen my reasons but honestly, I have so many.
Jealousy and being unable to satisfy my needs while watching others do so is a big reason for my depression. | self.depression |
My depression is creeping back. I guess it was stupid of me to ever think it'd be completely gone. [deleted] | self.depression |
(2nd attempt at reposting because life hates me) My boss abuses us and I think I may finally quit. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
How To Overcome Paranoid Delusions? Hey Reddit! Thought I'd reach out to some members of our community to see what coping strategies people use to overcome paranoid delusions. I have type 1 bipolar disorder, and really struggle with this. It's drastically affecting my performance at work, and it's disrupting my persona... | self.bipolar |
I am going to kill myself tonight. I am going to kill myself tonight. I have been making a plan for the past 3 years, and I have had enough.
I am telling you this because I am sorry. I am sorry for never seeing you, never talking to you, never touching you, never loving you. For unseen reasons, the world has never all... | self.SuicideWatch |
Fukkit I'm not actually suicidal. I'm just a parasite for someone to acknowledge that I exist. Please just tell me that living is worth it. | self.SuicideWatch |
Sad day, good reminders Today I sang at a funeral for a girl who died by suicide. She was only two years older than me. Her family did not release her manner of death in the obituary. When I was made aware, I was deeply saddened and also upset by the amount of theories about why she’d died.
My mum and husband b... | self.bipolar |
I'd rather be asleep Being asleep, even with only the slight chance there is of actually remembering my dreams, is the best part of my life. I don't have dreams about my everyday life, they are usually fantastic and wild adventures. Even the ones that could be considered nightmares are great. I just don't get that s... | self.offmychest |
Am I experiencing hypomania? Idk where else to go. Sorry not sure where to post and I don't know who else to ask.
I started taking 75mg of Effexor almost six months ago. When I first started it, I didn't feel much as far as emotions go. It was like I was shell. Steadily my mood improved and I became confident, motivat... | self.bipolar |
What "helps"? Backstory: In a relationship with an amazing 20 year old girl for almost 5 months now but known each other for the better half of a year. She's told me about the hard things from her past and home life but was ALWAYS a good sport about it and would say "but it's fine". I'm naturally a "fixer" because that... | self.depression |
I thought knowing that I was in an abusive relationship would make me feel better but now I just feel worse than I did before. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
Communication with uni professor? Hey guys, i'm posting here tonight bc i am in a very dire situation (here i'll explain a bit of this situation but i'm mostly venting so please skip to the tldr if you wish): i have some sort of oral examination tomorrow morning (and its 8 for me here) and i have absolutely nothing pre... | self.Anxiety |
Anxious about work 1 week in Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster.
I've been dealing with anxiety for years now and have recently been doing better. I went back to studying and got a qualification. I got a full time job. These are things that a year or two ago I would have thought were impossible. I had a bit... | self.Anxiety |
Extremely anxious alone. I hate going anywhere alone. I hate people seeing me alone even if its in my own home or anywhere. I immediately think they think "god what a fucking loser/loner" I was raised in a very isolated cultish family so I never socialized or learned how. Growing up I was basically told no one really w... | self.Anxiety |
Intense anxiety of making some sort of mistake while "adulting" [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
disappointment i had promised my boyfriend and my mother and my sister and my father that I'd never self harm again, that i'd never do it.
Today I cut my legs so so so many times and they found out. I disappointed all of them, I'm a failure. I can't even control my self harming shit and I'm sitting here writing this ... | self.depression |
I’m freakin our and need to calm down So I come home after a night out with some friends and my sister has her friend over. My sister falls asleep and her friend says she wants to have sex with me. She comes to my room and then she tells me that she is drunk and high and is off her shit. Since she was under the influen... | self.offmychest |
Guess I'm still just a lazy piece of crap [deleted] | self.depression |
I hate every aspect of who I am as a person. Just all of it. It's all awful. | self.depression |
My only motivation in life is fear. I can't bring myself to do anything. [deleted] | self.depression |
What Exactly constitutes "xanax addiction / Xanax abuse" ? TLDR: Basically I randomly started having episodes of panic attacks for the last couple of months and I'm really tired of them. I honestly don't feel like I live a really stressful life and so I don't know exactly what it stems from. I've tried Setraline but qu... | self.Anxiety |
Trileptal Heads Up In very rare cases, Trileptal can make your bone marrow stop functioning. I found that out the hard way over these last couple days. Figured I’d let everyone else know about this ridiculously dangerous side effect no one talks about before anyone else is bedridden with myelosuppression like I am righ... | self.bipolar |
I Don’t Want To Lie Anymore I’m a college student at a prestigious engineering school. My entire career here has just been one downhill slide. I started so strong, great grades, great friends, but things fell apart so fast. Last semester was bad, 2 Ds and I could easily have failed both classes if my professors weren’t... | self.depression |
I'm ready to give up. Everything is coming back and I can't do this again. I've tried everything and I'm untreatable. Nothing helps at all, and since this will be my entire life I might as well just when it now. What's the fucking point anymore. Sorry for this rant. | self.SuicideWatch |
Advice for inpatient My coworker's sister was admitted to the hospital on Friday after trying to commit suicide. It's likely she will be diagnosed bipolar as she has clear signs of mania (as well as depression) and it runs in their family.
I've been inpatient 4 times, but I was wondering what tips you guys might have ... | self.bipolar |
Fireworks Don't get me wrong, if you enjoy fireworks, that's ok, but go to an organised display for goodness sake. How can anyone be so stupid that they find flashing lights in the sky so fascinating that they need to set them off in their back gardens when it's not even a holiday. Fireworks constantly, every night fro... | self.offmychest |
Yesterday I had my suicide attempt scars from 2004 covered with a new tattoo. I've posted recently about being in a partial program and how much of a life saver it was for me. The last time I had an actual suicide attempt, the results were pretty brutal. I required surgery to repair a tendon that was 85% severed. The ... | self.bipolar |
Overwhelming loneliness and darkness Idk why I'm posting honestly. I guess I don't have another outlet and simply crying at work isn't a good idea. Might even get me fired. Who knows.
I've been feeling this overwhelming darkness and loneliness coming for a few days. Thought it might pass. Of course it fucking didn't. ... | self.depression |
I’m scared my insecurities and obsessive thoughts and self loathing are going to keep me alone forever. I really like my bf and I just feel like it’s a ticking time bomb until he realizes how empty and sad I am inside. I need help. | self.depression |
Anxiety triggered after anti-depressants and won't stop? I want to be normal again!
Backstory:
In the beginning of October I went to my primary care to discuss my SAD, or seasonal depression. Super low surgery/lack of caring and I felt like it was getting worse the older I got. I was put on Wellbutrin. 3 weeks into th... | self.Anxiety |
Bad decision. Afraid now there is only one way out. Due to the events [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/7veqgv/had_sex_with_a_married_woman_saturday_night/) I'm thinking of ending my life. She casually contacted me on a messaging app yesterday and it drudged up my anxiety and depression a hundred fold... | self.SuicideWatch |
My father is morbidly obese, doesn't work, and watches tv all day [deleted] | self.offmychest |
How do people cope with this planet? There are so many things in this world I have trouble accepting. Our government is owned by corporations who only want uneducated subservient workers, backed by a full on fiat monetary system that is not backed by any form of credit, and to top that all off the money in circulation ... | self.depression |
Anxiety is taking my life away It really hit me today how serious my anxiety is. It causes me to lose track of many things during the day, and is interfering with my job. I think my bosses might just notice a slight decrease in productivity, but for me it’s a constant struggle. I often break down during times of high s... | self.Anxiety |
Family + Holidays upcoming = anxiety and depression Long story short: I felt super comfortable and nurtured as a kid, but I've felt like I'm on my own since my parents divorced a few years ago. I was in college and was totally blindsided by it; I knew my parents weren't in love but I thought they were comfortable and s... | self.depression |
Being in love is both great and terrible. I’m in love and I feel like shit. He’s perfect and I’m not. I love him so much. I want to be perfect for him and gosh I don’t know. | self.depression |
Two years out of college, working a job I hate, and it's time to think seriously about what direction to take my life. And yet, I'm scared to make decisions because I always make them alone, in a bad state of mind. Do I go back to school and try to get an actually useful degree in STEM, even though I fucking failed cal... | self.depression |
Eating anxiety. Fear of choking Hey reddit I need help on this one. I have never shared this with anyone except for here for the first time. Obviously I suffer from extreme anxiety. It’s controlled my whole life. I am an alcoholic. I went a year and a half sober until I had my first relapse this November. Been sober s... | self.Anxiety |
Today just isn't my day My anxiety has been horrendous this past week. I keep worrying that the guy I'm seeing is talking to and/or seeing his ex that he told me about. Our "thing" is relatively new and its freaking me out because they've been liking each others fb and Instagram posts and he's barely texting me. Which ... | self.offmychest |
Light greenish color around my cut. I have a light greenish color around one of my cuts. I put rubbing alcohol on it but it's still there. I use a blade but sanitized It before. Probably gonna do it again. Please tell me what this is. | self.SuicideWatch |
Creating a crisis plan, wondering about disability benefits in Canada Since I'm in college and living with my boyfriend, I thought I should make some sort of guide for what to do if Depression/hypomania.... "take the wheel". So I've been on Pinterest, Google etc looking for tips and things to add. I came across a few t... | self.bipolar |
Good night Sleep well everyone, hopefully your tomorrow is better than your today. You are strong and resilient, everyday you live is another day of bravery and strength. It may seem like its unappreciated but it's not. Someone out there cares, regardless if they don't even know you exist or not. Maybe they will finall... | self.depression |
I don’t even know if I’m considered depressed anymore. Having been on this sub for a long time, it always seem like others have it worse. Depression actually affects their daily life. It makes me feel like I’m just using depression as an excuse. I’ve never been diagnosed either so it makes me feel like I made it up mys... | self.depression |
I am a 26 year old man and I have never kissed anyone, gone on a date, or ever had sex. I'm pretty good at talking to women, I was voted biggest flirt my senior year lol, but I rarely attempt to make it past flirting. And when I decide to act on a crush they are never interested. Probably because I have been obese most... | self.bipolar |
Due to recent events, I seem to have given up on school because what's the point? My life is REALLY fucked right now and I've started to notice that it's affecting my work ethic hardcore. I haven't done any important work at all the last couple days because I think I've lowkey decided there's no point in life anymore. ... | self.SuicideWatch |
I wish everything was different I wish my parents hadn't gotten divorced when I was 7
I wish my mom hadn't moved me across the country when I was 8
I wish my dad had come to visit me (or even called) after that
I wish I had gotten braces as an adolescent
I wish the US had universal healthcare, including dental, so... | self.depression |
Confused about life So, my question is, if you were not suppose to be born, does that mean you're doomed for life?
My mother had me at 28, against her Dr wishes because she had heart disease. Well, she wanted a child, and thus had me! At 3yrs old, I lost my mother to her battle of heart disease and have lived a shitty ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Something I need to get off my chest. Been years but I sometimes think about the girl who I lost my virginity with. She wasn’t but I was. She was my first kiss and everything. I was 22 and she was 23. I was shy and scared and nervous and she took it slow and made it into a special moment. She i later found out only wan... | self.offmychest |
Its Late Its late as hell yet I just cant bring myself to put my computer down. Like dang I should really just fuckin sleep but I am just stuck in an endless loop of using this computer. Its one of the only things that gives me motivation because im so fucking lame that I shove texts posts up my ass to try to find some... | self.depression |
Does anyone know a quick and painless way to kill yourself? [Serious] I'm failing Algebra 2, I can't learn it for shit. I don't have any tutors and I'm a useless cripple who'll likely never amount to anything. I just learned from my mom that I'm a whiney brat who avoids problems so does anyone who a quick and painless ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Can some one just please listen to me?.. I don't know if this is even the right place for this. I'm 20, I live with my father and step mother. I pay 200-150 a month to live here. I'm so depressed. A boy I loved died 5 months ago. And I'm sick and tired of my dad screaming in my face every single day. At first when my ... | self.offmychest |
Is poverty really no reason for suicide? I think i will be dirt poor in the future, i have zero education, i am disabled, i will be poor in the future. And welfare isn't really that much in my country of course, and a low paying job isnt a future either. Maybe i will even be so poor that i can't even afford internet. A... | self.SuicideWatch |
nothing interests me the last year or so I have been struggling with depression. I thought I had found the love of my life, but she kept using me to feel better about herself and left me devastated. it happened multiple times. it got so bad that I didn't even want to be alive anymore. everything has been so hard since ... | self.depression |
My wife's boyfriend told me to kill myself My wife left me in September after 8 years of marriage. This last Saturday, I received a phone call from my wife's number. When I picked up, there was a man's voice on the other end. The first question he asked was why I hadn't already killed myself. I was taken aback at first... | self.SuicideWatch |
I dont know what happened I woke up today at 3 am. I had a strange dream about taking all kinds of medication against my amxiety (even though i am heavily against using it myself) the dream was so vivid it woke me up.
As i woke up i felt really nervous and it was like the dream continued even though i was awake, thou... | self.Anxiety |
How to tell my employer/should I I work for a big store chain. Lately, I've found it hard to even get up in the morning. One day I had to call in because my self harm got so bad the previous night that I couldn't stop crying and I couldn't go into work with these obvious scars (I might be able to wear long sleeves unde... | self.depression |
i wish someone could tell me that everything will be alright i'm so scared and i'm scared to tell anyone. once i open up they all just run away. it's hard to be awake while i'm in such big pain. i'm so scared i wish i could go back in time. 2018 already fucking sucks but it doesn't really even matter because time is a ... | self.depression |
Having a hard time getting out of bed lately My depression is kicking my ass. I can barely get out of bed. I don't even want to leave the house. I can't find any motivation to pursue any of the hobbies I used to love. I just want to stay in bed, watch TV, and pretend the universe doesn't exist. Going to work and school... | self.depression |
I have never felt so suicidal before I often threatened suicide as a way to manipulate people. I've also threatened suicide with some intention to kill myself but up until the last month I always told people who were worried, that I don't think I would actually really kill myself and my threats were barely an impulse. ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Best friend dating girl of dreams making me slip back into that mindset [deleted] | self.depression |
i m scared some while back i took 5htp and cbd as an attempt to contain my anxiety.i dont what happened but i seriously fcked my stomach. i m now getting treated for gastritis. in addition to this though. i m getting huge spikes of anxiety in mornings and during the day. i dont know wtf is going on. i m scared and my h... | self.Anxiety |
What do you do to relax by yourself? I spend most of my time either working or failing at working, and it's only recently that I've learned to start scheduling time to relax properly without feeling guilty about it.
The problem is that I get to my relaxation time I don't know what to do next. Unless I have a friend or... | self.Anxiety |
Everyone hates me All my freinds hate me because i anyoing and creepy.they all don’t want me to talk to me i fell lonley every one in school thinks i am creepy. I have no positve perosality trats and i want to die | self.depression |
So not only am I Bipolar, I guess I had been diagnosed as borderline too. I went to the doctor and I brought a notebook with the symptoms I have been experiencing last month and she said my borderline traits were surfacing. And I was like do you mean the Personality Disorder? And she was like yes, and then I asked does... | self.bipolar |
Hypo or hyper glycerin that presents without increased blood sugar? [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
I cant stop thinking i’m a horrible friend and that i’m weird and everyone thinks i’m stuck up :( how do I navigate these thoughts they are haunting me! [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
Lamictal and Stomach Issues I've been taking 25Mg Lamictal and have been experiencing some Stomach pain in the upper part, I Wonder if it's the Lamictal or the fact that I'm also starting a diet(I used to eat very trashy food almost everyday) same day as Lamictal.
Just wondering if any of you had any related symptom an... | self.bipolar |
This might be the last thing anyone ever sees from me. Where to begin, I'm some 20 something Hispanic guy that lives in the New York New Jersey area.
I grew up rather poor.
I grew up somewhat alone. I mean I had friends but I never had much of a family to speak of. My mom is a very cold and damaged woman. She was a... | self.SuicideWatch |
DAE drink too much alcohol on a regular basis? Let me preface this by saying I know it's bad to abuse alcohol ever, let alone abuse it with bipolar and while taking meds for bipolar.
With that out of the way, here's what I mean by "abusing alcohol":
I drink anywhere from 0 to 5 beers + sipping a tequila neat on any... | self.bipolar |
It’s never a fix. We just choose to look away and pretend it’s okay. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
I (M19) don’t know how to get over my ex (F18) My ex of nearly 3 years broke up with me about 2 months ago because she said I had become her crutch, and that she needed to grow on her own. While it hurt a lot, I was initially pretty stoic about it and saw the validity in her decision. We said that maybe somewhere down ... | self.offmychest |
Any reason to get up this morning? Oh and if it's afternoon or anything in a far-away country, I'm in Australia so... yeah | self.SuicideWatch |
‘Permanent solution to a momentary problem’ But no. It isn’t. It’s not momentary. This is life. I’m going to be like this my entire life. Il feel this way when I’m 30 and being an adult. Il feel this way when I’m 60 and starting to retire. Il feel like this when I’m 80 and on my deathbed. This is my life; an endless st... | self.SuicideWatch |
Didn't even get to stepping outside before it started to get dark Woke up at 12. Bath. Coffee. Fallout until I work up the energy to by some beer or weed. I think I'm starting to develope heart issues but I'm irresponsible and can't afford to go to see a doctor even at the cheapest available pricings. I just try not to... | self.depression |
I don't know what to do and it's killing me [deleted] | self.offmychest |
Apparently a B is a failing grade According to someone I know I waste my life on so much and I should do more with school. I'm sorry that my lowest grade is a B while not trying, is that not good enough, last time I checked it was. I'm just so done with life in general. Especially the people in life. | self.depression |
I don't think I can deal with this anymore [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
Verbal diarrhea I feel like I’m going to explode from a need to talk. Do you guys ever feel like that? I’m starting to feel a lot of my eccentricities are tied to my illness. I used to just think I’m different from other people in that manner. I’m currently sitting in a waiting room to see my G.P. and I’m just dying to... | self.bipolar |
Does anyone have panic attacks from working out too hard? I hear exercise treats anxiety by a very large amount so in the past month I have been trying to go to the gym maybe 5 to 6 days a week and doing hard cardio (I have a bad neck injury and haven't done upper body lifting for a year). In the past I never worked ou... | self.Anxiety |
I told my best friend I had feelings for him and now I’m anxious to know his final decision. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
General melancholy/not right/guilty feeling. I’ve had bouts of anxiety and depression in and off since 2011, with a particularly serious incident in 2013. But I was able to deal with each at the time and had never considered in an ongoing disorder. However, for the past 10 months I’ve been going through a bout that jus... | self.depression |
My body is resilient I've been in the shadows for the last two months. I make sure to review posts and discuss issues with the other moderators. But I have not been fully present. On this sub, at work, or with life.
At the end of March I was hospitalized for four days. I was severely iron deficient anemic, which requ... | self.bipolar |
ive lost everything. im leaving soon. thank you to everyone and goodbye hey all its me the obnoxious depressed loser again. bad shit keeps happening to me. im finally done. excersisng is the last thing i have left that makes me happy. oh wait, ive lost that now too. now i cant physically force my brain to release the f... | self.SuicideWatch |
How do I deal with toxic parents better? I'm a nutjob, and I get it from my parents. I had issues with bipolar to the point that I had to withdraw from classes. My parents said I was a failure and told me I was getting kicked out the house. Well yesterday I'm able to bring my first girlfriend to thanksgiving dinner, an... | self.bipolar |
Goodbye If you're reading this, I'm gone. Gone from this world more specifically. I'm posting this online because no-one in the real world really cares about me. I know this now. I've been abused both physically and emotionally practically my whole life as well as neglected. Ignored by everyone around me, it's as if I'... | self.SuicideWatch |
Does anyone have such bad brainfog that it feels like you can't think? I feel like an absolute shell of a person. I can't seem to focus at all on any of my university work, nor care about it. As we speak, I'm very behind on an essay that's due tomorrow but I just can't focus at all. It takes me forever to get even a li... | self.depression |
How do you deal with a terrible sleep schedule? What do you do? I woke up at 9pm after falling asleep after 12pm. I’m exhausted a lot and can’t get my life back on track because I have no energy to do anything by the time things are open. I have already:
* Stopped drinking alcohol
* Limited my caffeine intake
* Start... | self.bipolar |
I just want the suicidal feelings to be over! Totally unwanted, torturing mind! I cant do this anymore, my mind is so unbelievably destructive and I am severely depressed. Everything is as it used to be except for my mind. It is so worn out because the 6 months of DP were too much I guess. It is so worn out that I coul... | self.SuicideWatch |
To anyone who gets huffy about babies crying on airplanes: please check yourself. I don't even know where to post this, but I'm still mad about it so here it goes.
My partner and I were recently on a 6 hour flight home from NY, and we found ourself seated behind an infant, and in front of a second, unrelated baby. Th... | self.offmychest |
Anyone with schizoaffective Disorder / Bipolar with schizoaffective features? Kinda feeling a bit lost at the moment, and could use some insight into what it's like after being diagnosed, medications, therapy, etc. I know what living with voices is like, but apart from that - not much. I've not formally had my diagnosi... | self.bipolar |
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