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Boundary issues. Does anyone else hyperventilate when people refuse to respect your space? I am sitting here in my bathroom breathing, crying while people mill about in my room, cleaning it. Can't go into more reasons because no one understands. No one cares. Having multiple issues with self witth self worth and my ins...
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What to do when someone else is triggering your anxiety? So I’m posting on this eye forum. Probably spending too much time there. I’m worried about my eyesight. The problem I have is that there’s this user on there who makes me more anxious. Mainly because her anxiety is worse than mine in many ways. She think she’s he...
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Yet another sad guy? Idk Where do i start? I just turned 18 a month ago. My medical condition is not the best(to say the least)(dont actually want to go deeper on that). My grandpa died 2 months ago and my father decided to cheat on my mom 1.5 months ago. I dont have friends other than a few fakes. I never get invited ...
self.depression
I'm pushing my Friends Away and I don't know How to Stop I'm very scared of people leaving me. And I think in order for me to protect myself, I feel like I have to leave a relationship before I get left. I start to ignore people, don't text them back or do so in a non-fun manner, I start look at all the bad things abou...
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want to understand around this time last year my best friend took his own lif and i cant help but think its somewhat my fault. before he killed himself he called all his close friends and all of them answered well except for me. i was just playing on the computer when he called and i ignored the call thinking i can jus...
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Low blood pressure = anxiety? When I'm angry i feel great, my anxieties burn away like it was never there, I'm much sharper and a hell of a lot more confident, I'm even as smart as i usually am when anxiety isn't eating me alive. I walk faster, this increases my blood pressure and i feel amazing, most of my 'anxiety' p...
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my uncle told me he wished he had gifted me a gun when i was suicidal and i cannot snap out of dissociating I'm literally at work for 20 more minutes as I type this and can hardly function. Tonight is my best friend's last night in town, he's been staying with me for a week, he lives across the country. I was excited t...
self.Anxiety
I'm too socially anxious to call a suicide hotline [deleted]
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DAE feel like this? I'm 'stable' at the moment after a breakdown and meds increase over the Christmas break. I feel ok now... most of the time. I was wondering if anyone has those times where they're pretty much stable, but still have lingering symptoms? I'd been really positive over the past several days but in work f...
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I want this to end, but I'm too afraid [deleted]
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What's wrong with me I don't know about my mental condition. I've never been to a theraspist or a doctor and my mom strongly suggests it for me right now. I keep getting all those nightmares and bad thoughts. Since before I can remember I used to be nervous about everything to a level that made the people around me sa...
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My little brother has been off heroin for a year... [deleted]
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Not in the right frame of mind I have a good life. Great friends, great family and a girlfriend. Even with all this, my mind just..I don't know. I am a year 11 at high school and school is really fucking me over. Almost all day I feel down due to school, I am almost ready to just give up with school because I can't han...
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I don't know what to do My wife and I have both been severely depressed, to the point of suicidality. I'm 29, she's 26. I learned about two years ago that I am transgender. So I feel like I have found a way to "cure" my depression, but my cure is to transition and it is making her more depressed. I haven't started any...
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Just cried cause I felt touch. Haven't had friends in a year. As I was leaving school in my car, a dog jumped into my lap. The instance that happened, I started crying. It felt like I had someone with me.
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In the last few months since my ex-gf broke up with me, I have been in a downhill spiral of depression ever since and I see no end to my misery and unhappiness. [deleted]
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BLACKSHEEP ROUND UP GET IN HERE Who else is the black sheep of their family? Ever since my manic episode in 2012 i went from everyones favorite cousin to #1 person to cast sideways glances at. It tore me to pieces initially but now Im content with it. Anyone else go through this?
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Can anyone serious help me out with any ideas? Foolproof, I'm-not-gonna-fuck-up-anymore-ideas? [deleted]
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My attitude/outlook is bringing me down I think I have noticed my attitude towards people to be low. In short I just find people to be stupid, well not just stupid but entrenched in their own realities. In short I am not thinking positively. Couple this with having moved to a city where I know few people, don’t have a ...
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Do it for her. Every mistake I made will not matter in the end, so what's the point? Sometimes I ask to me why I don't just forget my depressed girlfriend. She just wants to die and I stop her everytime. She's so young and she has so much pain and suffering inside. If I weren't so selfish, I would let her go. Seriously...
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going off antidepressants for anxiety i hate the side effects i get from antidepressants. especially the sexual side effects. i feel flat and unmotivated. however, i know that i still have anxiety and this will most likely worsen if i go off antidepressants. i really want to stop taking them. is there any other medicat...
self.Anxiety
For the first time a friend asked ME to go somewhere with them. [deleted]
self.offmychest
So i am an 18 year old from germany and i dont have my driving license yet, even though i had my birthday 3 months ago. I Didn't Attend The Driving School That Often Because There Are Many Girls My Age And Sometimes The Students There Have To Stand Up In Front Of The Others And Answer Questions. Now A Lot Of People A...
self.Anxiety
I’ve had this feeling of pretty intense self-loathing for over a month now, and I want to stop but I don’t know how. [deleted]
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Sorry Hi there! How’s your day going? Thanks for giving my post your time. I intend to pour my heart out, but I don’t have much time. I have no one/where else I can vent out. First, a little about me. I am twenty one years old from a third world country. I was born into a wealthy family. ~*Fuck that!*~ I was born into ...
self.depression
Manic but don't feel manic? This past month has been a rollercoaster of apathetic depression morphing into apathetic mixed episode into anxiety ridden mixed episode into what I thought was stable but people are telling me I'm behaving manic. I'm sleeping though- I mean, I know I can't sleep without seroquel and that s...
self.bipolar
How can i help someone i am not very close to with their anxiety? So I am moving in with my girlfriend and her family in a week. It is her, her mom, and her sister. My girlfriend and her mom work most days, all day. And her sister stays at home and does her thing. While I am looking for a job, I will be with her sist...
self.Anxiety
The fact that always I am the one that seeks to initiate contact makes me feel like unworthy and unloved.
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My relationship with my wife ending has led me to a depression 5 years ago, I met my ex. We were both dating someone (well she was dating, I was sleeping with someone, but the label doesn’t really matter I don’t think), and we met on vacation, and hooked up. Came back home, broke up with our significant others, and p...
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Am I fucked up? 1. I never meet my father. 1 night stand for my mother. 1a 7 to 8 years old I was sexually abused by my grandfather. 2 when I was 13 I found him dead in his room. 3. When i was 15. My mother got pregnant by a guy just out of prison. She tried to abort herself. It didn't work . Then she got an abortion. ...
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Since quitting Coffee My Anxiety Has Gone Whenever I would read things about how seemingly harmless everyday habits can cause anxiety I would always roll my eyes and ignore it. One example was coffee, how could a simple hot drink be causing intense panic attacks? I didn't believe that something so simple as my morning ...
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L-Theanine is amazing One of the worst things about my anxiety is when it flares up when I take stimulants, but as someone who get really bad sleep and a university student, I need caffeine / adderall or adhd meds to wake up in the morning or study (yes bad to abuse these but I control myself) I was beginning to feel...
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Why continue? I just turned 27 and my girlfriend of 2 years broke up with me yesterday, the day before my birthday. I feel like I have a dead end job, it's just second tier tech support. That girl pretty much lived with me from the get go and we've spent so much time together. I feel betrayed because my parents didn't ...
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I know that someone will miss me, but that doesn't stop me from wanting it Every time I open up my feelings for my best friend she tells me: "What about me? Do you know that I will miss you so much that I may join you". But, somehow, that doesn't change my mind. I have (since I was 11/12 years old) considered trying ...
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The Life I Never Asked For - A Christmas Special [deleted]
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In need of some conversation I’m going through a really hard time I don’t want to explain this through the chat please pm me
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So I was 'voted out of my friend group'. Well at least I think I was. [deleted]
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Do you feel terrible (or sick) at the end of a typical work day due to anxiety? If so, describe it and explain how you know it is caused by anxiety.
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I can't remember my dreams, but I go through the same nightmare everytime, right before I close my eyes It doesn't matter how well did the day go, how much I enjoyed it. The lights turn off, the door closes and I won't be able to fall asleep until 3 or 4 am, haunting thoughts keeping me awake. It's that crushing fee...
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I'm being dumb As a preface I have issues with suicidal ideation and depression in general. I've gotten to the point with the help of therapy of where I can usually tell myself that this isn't me and I can preserver. At the moment though I'm having trouble. I just feel helpless with what's been going on not just in my...
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The ipad commercial with "Whats a computer girl?" Is so annoying That is all. I hate that commercial Edit: I meant to put the second " after the computer, not girl and the ? After computer too
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Any over the counter medication for anxiety? I recently bought Melatonin so I can sleep better, and yesterday was an amazing nights sleep, but I often have anxiety to the point I feel sick to my stomach, currently writing this I feel it, and I was curious if there is anything I can buy at CVS or something for anxiety. ...
self.Anxiety
Anyone involuntarily itch? When my anxiety flares up really bad, I start to scratch my thighs and (tmi) genital area pretty hard. It's totally involuntary and I don't realize I'm doing it. It's embarrassing though, I've had people ask why I'm straight up groping myself in public at random times. My therapist says it's ...
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Sister Sexual Abuse Allegations Its about about 3 years ago now that my sister ripped a bandage off an old wound that I've been reflecting much on lately. Please bare with my story as it is very important leading up to my situation. I was a kid who was abused by my stepfather and my mom just looked the other way. I ...
self.offmychest
This line by Nine Inch Nails I started living by "Nothing can stop me now cause I don't care anymore" I uses to be afraid of heights and anything physical. Well not anymore! Sometimes I slam my head to the wall out of boredom.
self.depression
An assortment of thoughts I've been meaning to scream Did you know I think about you so much during the day? Did you know I am buying you medication you need to function? Did you know I hold down the pain from silence to the point of cracking? Do you want to see me and hear about my achievements? Would you prefer m...
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Sickness and sleeplessness First time back after a while.. I just wanted to say to you guys to look after yourself when you're sick - I've got a nasty cold at the moment - might need to see my doc as the coughing and sputum is getting worse and it may not be viral (TMI lol). Naturally it's difficult for me to fall asl...
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Ya know, despite things going a lot better now, there’s still that one part of me that wants to explore my options rather than stick with only one person my whole life. I’ve literally only dated 2 people and I don’t want to go through my whole life thinking “what if” [deleted]
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Being lonely and single is making me suicidal I’ve been single for almost three years, I’ve been on dates in these three years with a handful of girls but they’ve always found that someone better. I’m gay, femme, consider myself caring, loyal, funny, good looking, in good shape, reasonable intelligence, always up for ...
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Too Scared To Talk To Suicide Hotline Operators Essentially I called suicide hotline, and I waited for about 10 minutes, listening to the looped elevator/jazz music, and slowly getting more and more anxious until I hear "Hello this is-" BEEP BEEP BEEP. My heart was racing so I hung up the phone and yeah, Iv called prob...
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I want to be more than what we are! [deleted]
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If I ever won the lotto... If I ever won the lotto I would be moving all the U.S members of this subreddit to Australia. What the hell kind of country fails everyone like this? I can't even imagine the struggle a lot of you must go through to get basic care. I mean, Australia isn't great (it's full of snakes and racist...
self.depression
A huge win for me today For a really long time I've had pretty bad anxiety and depression, to the point where it affected my school work so badly I went from the top 5% in most classes to basically the bottom. I finished high school about four years ago and have been focusing on my mental health ever since with therapy...
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There's no point. I've felt inadequate every day for years. All I do day in and day out is go to work for the health insurance I need and smoke pot to forget how useless I am when I'm not at work. I'll be stuck in this unbearable cycle forever. I'm probably too chickenshit to do anything but I fantasize about dying ev...
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I was going to jump off a bridge but instead I wrote this. Still feel like shit. [deleted]
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Play this Game If you have the time to kill, try [this game](http://cursors.io) It doesn't take very long, but i think the experience is worth it. I don't want to spoil it for you, so if you intend to play the game, do so before you read the rest of this please. . . . . . . I found that game by accident, but ...
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My only friend is a lowlife & I don't know an easy way to tell him/her that unless they get their crap together I no longer want to be friends. It seems there is literally no way to tell them this without coming off as extremely rude. [deleted]
self.offmychest
Depression is slavery: no potential for reward, only punishment No wonder we struggle to feel motivation. Effort yields no satisfaction whatsoever.
self.depression
I DID IT! (Huge Step) Well, everyone, I conquered about the toughest thing I have ever had to do related to my anxiety. I haven't had really *bad* anxiety attacks in a few years now, but I had to face the dentist to have teeth extracted last week. This is one of my biggest triggers. Not because of pain, pain I can do....
self.Anxiety
I know people like to say weed helps anxiety but I’m definitely proof that it makes me worse And it is so crazy how once I’m not high anymore, I only have positive memories of it. That’s what makes me think it is such a good idea. It really just makes me feel very confined. I think that people are talking about me an...
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Tumblr just terminated my blog and i am devastated [deleted]
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Every one of my interests, will never be equivalent to those around me. [deleted]
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I love my job but hate what it does to people [deleted]
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Sudden anxiety for first time. I'm sure this is a better question to ask a doctor but I don't have insurance at the moment and don't feel like dealing with crippling debt. I'm 23, always been very social. I've never had anxiety issues in my life. But then suddenly a few hours ago my heart started pounding and I got s...
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Started Zoloft. So. Many. Side. Effects. I have a panic disorder with generalized anxiety and was recently discharged from a psychiatric unit and they gave me 12.5mg of zoloft and worked me up to 50mg as of... I think Thursday? I have constant headaches, diarrhea, no appetite, the feeling of constant unused energy, I s...
self.Anxiety
I'm scratching myself.. ..because I'm too much of a pussy to actually cut.
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My Maintenance Guy Is Making Me Manic So, our AC has been broken for two weeks. The leasing agent and property manager have told him to get out here and fix it and he just won’t show up... To any job, really. Our apartment is sweltering hot, over 80 degrees on a good day.. And I like it about 65 degrees. So I can’t sl...
self.bipolar
How has depression affected your most intimate relationships? A little backstory. I’ve [23F] been on Celexa for anxiety since I was 17. It’s been adjusted once, recently, at age 22. I met my current partner [27F] about a year ago, but we have only been together just shy of 6 months. Everything was good until my old fri...
self.depression
The rope is running out, don't think I can even end 2018 Please appreciate the fact that I am saying this with not much words to say. I think you can understand the pain and unbearable feelings, we are all depressed right? Death is nearing,get comfy, this is long. And if you have advice for this 16 yrs old, then please...
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I keep on pushing my girlfriend away. I know I'm making things hard for her because of my condition. Pushing her away makes me feel horrible, but I know it's better for her to not be associated with someone like me.
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When I'm feeling fine, I feel as if I have always been feeling this way. As if I haven't experienced anxiety before. As if it's not a big issue in my life. This keeps me away from getting help. I know that I have anxiety, but when I'm feeling fine, I almost forget it exists.
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born depressed? It’s been hard to accept the fact that i’ve been depressed since i can remember my first thoughts. there's no way to describe how i feel, my brain is sick and diseased, i carry constant anger and hate towards the world. i am alone in this giant giant place, and i don't want to be here anymore. i have 0 ...
self.depression
Just breathing every day is painful Hi, I'm writing this because I'm fucking hopeless. I can't go through a single day without wanting to die and there's this pain that oppresses me and chokes me and doesn't let me think straight. I have anxiety and depression and probably borderline too, the friends I used to have jus...
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Roommate's coworker committed suicide, having to listen to him talk about it is triggering my self-harm habits. My university is currently going through what may become a suicide epidemic - there have been three heavily publicized suicides in the past two months, and the school is notoriously bad for not having any men...
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My experience after telling people in public healthcare that I want to die. They are just doing their job, they don't give a shit, it doens't look like they actually cared in the slightest. I am just another suicide, my life means nothing. They expect you to "overcome" your "feelings" and continue to do the same thing ...
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a poem for you because why not, ya know? [removed]
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I have an open invitation to my crushes house, but my depression makes me not want to go There's this girl I've been digging hard. No one's home at her house tonight and she said I should come over to smoke and "cuddle". But my depression keeps wringing my brain for excuses not to go. When I smoke it's even worse. It's...
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Drowning in depression and possible PTSD any advice is appreciated! [deleted]
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"I Want to Die" is All I Can Think [deleted]
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No mania? No depression? Here, have an anxiety attack! Had a lovely weekend, I’ve been on a nice stable trajectory for a while now, and then BOOM: wake up with slight unease. Which turns to dread. Impending doom. Weak muscles. Can’t sit still. Fidgeting. Jaw clenching. Cmon, brain. Give me a break!
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Ruined my career path in a field I love. Depression isn't fair. This is going to be a long, rambling post and I’m terrible at getting my thoughts out onto a page in a coherent order, but fuck it. My insomnia is back on it’s bullshit and I have nothing better to do at this hour. I’m in my early twenties, live in the UK...
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My one and only New Years resolution. Isolation. I mean complete isolation. (With the exception of interacting with co-workers at my job and when I have to go grocery shopping of course.) This year my depression was at it's worst. It caused me to drink non-stop and I just got worse and worse. And I just can't be around...
self.depression
had an unsuccessful suicide attempt sunday. don’t know how to cope w it and just feeling very lost. [deleted]
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I wanna go Im so happy i met all my friends. everyone in my life. but its time for me to go. to go. i keep hearing mysself repeat it. just go. do it. i wanna go. im tired. i love my friends so so much. i hope they remember me. im so tired.
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I don't think I'll go on forever like this I've been sad, even when I have my friends supporting me. I can't get past the feeling of uselessness in the universe. I don't believe in life after death and believe the world would be better off without people on it anyway. I want to do things with my life, I want to be h...
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Angry over social isolation It bothers me so much that I don't belong to any community, nor have I had any long-lasting relationships. I've worked so hard to check all the boxes: I am kind, independent, and attractive. I am also stable on my meds. Yet here I am. By myself. I work in a small office with much older peo...
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I don't feel like it's all going to be okay. [deleted]
self.offmychest
Man I am so fuckin mentally ill lol. I cant be kind to ppl even tho I know doing do will benefit my career, social life, give me opportunities etc. I just hate people (especially women) so much and get off on psychologically and emotionally abusing them lol. Its like when im around ppl a demon takes over my body and t...
self.offmychest
Been having a lot of on/off days lately. Or half good/half bad days. Like waiting for the other shoe to drop... I'm also trying to get into some subs to help me, but I need comment karma. So if you could throw me some comment karma I will return the favor and talk to anyone who needs help or relates to title of post.
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I forgot my own mother's birthday It was Valentine's Day, easiest thing in the world to remember. I still forgot. I'm the closest person in her life. I still forgot. I wish I wasn't around to fuck everything up for everyone around me.
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Im tired Why isnt it ok to end your suffering? I wish I had the balls to do it now.
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Will my gp prescribe anti-depressants? I am 20 and am in a really bad depressive episode since September. I can't go to a psychiatrist because I with my parents and they don't believe in depression. So my plan is to go to my GP after telling my parents I have anxiety and get prescribed an SSRI med and tell them it's ...
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I’m 13. I️ don’t expect anyone to take me seriously, but I️ honestly do wish everything could end. [deleted]
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Tired I don't have the words just feel awful awful awful Take one step forward maybe two more back It all just feels empty
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I got a gun for Christmas... It's all I got actually, from my ex. She was so done with me that she didn't care if I killed myself. (No, I'm not offing myself because of the relationship, whole mess of other stuff..) She's known how self-destructive and suicidal I've been lately.... I don't know what to say anymore. Si...
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Small achievements I just wanted to share some of the coping mechanisms I’ve started to employ over the past few weeks. I bought a bunch of puzzles from Target and sat through building a 1000-piece puzzle, just played an entire game of Minesweeper, have been doing Sudoku, and have a book full of crosswords, etc. All ...
self.Anxiety
i dont think i'll even have to kill myself anymore, one of these days i'll close my eyes and everything will just give up [deleted]
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Anyone else get an anxious feeling when doing any activity? Like you have a feeling in your gut that could/should/would be doing something better/different than what you’re currently doing? If I’m relaxing I feel like I should be studying. If I’m studying I want to be playing video games or relaxing. If I’m doing yar...
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I started my new job... ...and it's kind of terrifying. First off, it's a totally new setting since its more office/paper work after having worked in the food industry for so long. But the bigger issues is I'm responsible for giving people medication, and that amount of responsibility is scary. But I guess what I wan...
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i don't know to be honest. In the past 6 months my dog died, dad moved out, grades starting dropping a lot, and I realized that I didn't like cross country. I can't find a job, my relationship with my mom is a mess because we just get into a arguement every time I come home. I don't think im depressed, I have friends, ...
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