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Anyone else feel like they're mourning the loss of who they once were? I feel like that person is dead.
I'm not sure who I am anymore. I never thought I'd miss the old me. | self.bipolar |
Brody Brody, brody was a strange kid. He didn't have any friends at hiss school, sat alone in class, doesn't talk much, never went out. Nobody knew anything about him. No one wanted to talk to him. Brody hates everyone. Nobody would miss brody if he disappeared, nobody would notice. Why would anyone care about brody an... | self.SuicideWatch |
I won't stop scarring my skin Why should I ? It helps me in a way, "reset" my mental state for a few weeks, and the blood trickling down my sides is so fascinating.
Perhaps I should kill myself, but I don't have the guts to do so. Even though I live an empty life and can't find any appeal to get out of bed. I will sp... | self.SuicideWatch |
The "Classic" Egotistical + Low self esteem + anti-social teenager wombo combo. Started college this year. Failing 3/4 classes, that I picked specifically because I thought they would be easy. The group of friends I made were assholes who kicked me out of their group, so I have no cliche.
I am such a lazy fuck that ev... | self.SuicideWatch |
One chocolate bar was enough to derail all the progress made the past week. Fuck Depression [deleted] | self.depression |
I have a wonderful husband, and I want to honor him He loves me unconditionally dispute this disease. He fights for me when I can't fight for myself. He provides for me so that I dont have to work. He is willing to have children with me even if that means more work for him.
I just wanted to share with you all. I hope... | self.bipolar |
I'm reading this and it's as if I wrote it. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
i just punched a hole in my wall because... **Before you read this, I would like for you to know that I am NOT a typical "incel"**. For years, being a perpetually single lonely virgin has brought me nothing but endless mental torture and anger. I am living in constant agony because of the fact that I have always been s... | self.offmychest |
Cymbalta--any experiences? (XPost from r/bipolar) Just wanted to see if anyone has any experience with this AD? I just started today and it made me quite sick. Not sure if I want to give it a chance. (I'm calling my pdoc about it tomorrow) | self.bipolar |
Military spouse with separation anxiety Hi I'm Cristina, 22 years old, and im a military spouse.
I feel like right off the bat if anyone ends up reading this they'll think "Why would you marry someone in the military if you have separation anxiety issues?"
Here's some background if you're interested, if not you can s... | self.Anxiety |
Bipolar preteen maybe? My middle child (there are 5 of them) is 12. She has become an absolute nightmare! She goes from happy to complete rage in a minute. She's getting violent at times. Her school counselor thinks she may be bipolar and after doing some research myself it fits. All except the manic episodes, we're t... | self.bipolar |
Is it possible that I'm not really bipolar? Hey y'all I'm a 21 M who was diagnosed with bipolar I after a manic episode about a year and a half ago. It was a psychotic break with delusions of being the Buddha, controlling people, thinking I had telekinesis, finding the secret to life, etc just shit like that. it lasted... | self.bipolar |
My mom found out I cut A few months ago, my mom found out I cut. I tried to play it off and tell her that I fell but she obviously didn’t buy it. She pulled me into a room and asked why I felt like I had to do this. We talked and then that was it. I told her that she was part of the reason for it because she was consta... | self.depression |
Why don't people care about you dying until you're dead? My whole family knows I'm depressed and I was in therapy but i missed a couple of appointments so they closed my case and I'm not in therapy anymore. I'm about to not be able to get any access to meds anymore. I am invisible because I'm considered an unattractive... | self.offmychest |
i feel like am gonne lose something very immportant i feel like am gonne lose something very immportant every time i try to do staff like some one is gonne take it away from me its like doing any thing is wrong and theres this voice that feels like if i follow it i wount lose that immportant thing and it oftn tell me ... | self.Anxiety |
I don’t know. I wrote stuff. I erased it. I just want to die. | self.SuicideWatch |
i wanted to cut last night but i didn't just wanted to say thank you | self.bipolar |
I'm stressed as fuck: present and future and why cheating is never winning [deleted] | self.offmychest |
I have a dream job, but I hate it. I work as a full time wedding photographer. I shoot 40-55 weddings a year. I am employed by a company that turned me into a wedding photo slave. They taught me from the ground up. I didn’t do photography in the capacity that I do now. I went from second shooting for their photographer... | self.offmychest |
Does anyone like school and hate staying home? For me, my parents are not supportive at all but i have supportive friends at school. | self.depression |
Why does everyone call firefighters heroes? They are Not heroes! They all make incredible money for mostly working 9 days a month. Most if not all of them got into it for two reasons.
1. Great money for little work
2. For the glory
They mostly train for things that most people will never have happen to them. The vast... | self.offmychest |
I deserve to be depressed, but at the same time I don't. I deserve to be depressed in that I am an absolute piece of shit and a burden to others, but I don't in that I have nothing to be depressed about. | self.depression |
Is there nowhere online to talk about anxiety of aging and death? [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
Too excited to sleep (for no reason) It's 4 am where I live (US east coast) and I've been staring at the ceiling for hours- what do you guys do when you feel too amped to sleep? It feels like I'm 8 and it's Christmas eve and my thoughts are big and fluffy but disintegrate like cotten candy melting in the rain. Like I'm... | self.bipolar |
Would definition help ? Feeing happy or depressed is not literally feeling good or bad . I think they’re two sorts of feeling and every has it characters . Maybe feeling sad helps to know myself better and explore new ideas . Maybe I just tell myself that I’m normal creature who has decreased level of serotonin so it f... | self.depression |
Random Feelings of Anxiety? Does anyone else have this? I mean, majority of the time I am experiencing this weight on my chest, I cant breathe properly, and overall I just feel lethargic. It just tires me out, and I don't even have a reason to feel anxious! Can anyone relate? | self.Anxiety |
Can boredom cause anxiety? It has been the holiday break and I’m bored for almost a week, same as being anxious for a week. Can boredom be the cause of my anxiety? | self.Anxiety |
BF enjoys looking at porn, and idk how to feel about it. My boyfriend and I have been dating for about six months.
It's not a secret that most people look at porn in some way, shape, or form. However, I'm not most people. I rarely watch it or look at it myself. I am not an overly sexual person due to many personal re... | self.offmychest |
Zoloft causing lump in throat on day 2 I'm on day 2 taking 25 mg zoloft. And I have had real bad dry throat since day 1. But now I feel like there is a lump in my throat? Im pretty scared of my throat closing, I have health anxiety after all. Am I having that kind of reaction? Or is it dryness just reaching my throat? | self.Anxiety |
I CANNOT stop ruminating about past humiliations and failures and it's killing me I've always struggled with rumination, I have an inability to just let things go or forget them, but lately it's been ridiculous, they come every 10-20 seconds and I cannot get a moment's reprieve. Every time I start to almost enjoy somet... | self.SuicideWatch |
My life is literally fucked like none of this over dramatic teen shit, i mean FUCKED, if people only knew | self.depression |
Why do folks claim they're there for you when they're so obviously not? Does anybody else get annoyed/angry/bothered/insulted when people claim they're there for you? In my case it's only folks who absolutely refuse to follow through and/or random recent acquaintances I barely know.
I feel these folks are only putting... | self.depression |
I regret every meeting you people. The fault is not yours but mine. I knew I was too fucked to even associate with you individuals, yet I did and every second now brings me pain. I wish I could just forget it all and go back to my solitude for at least that pain was bearable. | self.depression |
Light therapy for bipolar with seasonal pattern? I have a clear seasonal pattern to my depressive episodes - I've only ever had major depression in the winter. I had depressive episodes every winter in high school, getting bad enough that I started medication for it junior year. I didn't get depressed last winter - my ... | self.bipolar |
Reached a new level of depression. I no longer even want to have a normal life, because I know it will never happen. I don’t even have a tiny bit of hope that things will get better anymore. I’m only 16 but I feel like I’ve messed everything up. And I’m angry at myself for that. That’s something I’ll never get over.
I ... | self.depression |
I was scared for a friend's safety and let his mother know I was concerned, now he despises me So to preface, we're all in high school, and this friend had been constantly sending messages to our group chat for about two days, telling myself and the others in chat about how much he hated his life, how he wanted to kill... | self.SuicideWatch |
Made a doctor's appointment for tomorrow First post here and new to this sub, but I feel like I've had anxiety for years. Every time I've been to the doctor in the past and they checked my blood pressure it was high, which I believe is due to my anxiety.
I made an appointment for myself tomorrow basically just to hav... | self.Anxiety |
I'm so weary of living. I don't know how I'll get through the next week much less the next year. I never wanted any of this. I care for nothing. I want nothing anymore. I'm just finished but won't let go. Why can't I die. Living to spite others doesn't work. Living for yourself doesn't work. Nothing works, nothing. Bur... | self.depression |
Not sure if this is the right sub for "breakups". [deleted] | self.depression |
I might seek help but any advice for coping? Not all of the time but sometimes when I get really very anxious about something usually out of my control I physically feel terrible. I feel dizzy, my chest feels tight, and I can't concentrate on things I just feel like I want to shut sown. However the past few weeks I've ... | self.Anxiety |
Worse and worse Ok so last time I posted here I was very set on ending things which I tried to the easiest way I could . over the counter pain killers .
I have tried once before and they sent me into renal failure at 17 years old I played it off like I didn't know why it happened and because I waited so long to see a ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Antidepressants Hi
What medications can you overdose on
I am taking Pristiq? How much of that would o have to take to end up in hospital/ded | self.SuicideWatch |
I'm scared I'll kill myself So I have been suffering depression and social anxiety sense I was 8 (I'm 16). But lately it's been overwhelmingly very bad. It's to the point where I'm so scared that one day something will happen that will trigger me to commit suicide! I don't want to but it's like I know that something wi... | self.SuicideWatch |
I can never just be content and I need help I feel like I am always waiting for something. Waiting for the next episode of a show when I'm only halfway through the one I'm on. Waiting for my next shift of work. Waiting for that shift to be over. Waiting for dinner. Waiting for bed.
I'm never just...able to go with th... | self.offmychest |
Some shit I was thinking in my head: Help me make sense of it please [deleted] | self.depression |
I think myself into sadness I started to worry about something miniscule and an hour later I'm making it into a huge deal and it feels like the end of the world.
I feel sad and angry at myself that I'm like this. I'm suppose to go hang out w a friend tonite and I'm nervous I'll be in a terrible mood around him becaus... | self.depression |
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I.DONT.GIVE.A.FUCK
I.HAVE.NO.FUCKS.TO.GIVE
WHAT.P... | self.depression |
What is even the point anymore? My life isn't going anywhere. No one cares. I feel depressed or anxious 75% of the time, just completely empty another 20%, the 5% of happy isn't worth it because every time I'm happy, excited, or something good happens, its quickly wiped away by something bad/negative.
When I'm feelin... | self.SuicideWatch |
Work blues.. anyone relate or have advice? So at work today someone who works in my building ( I work in the school system) lied and said I watched a incident occur and said nothing and that I do absolutely nothing and just collect a paycheck to my supervisor. May I add, this man only comes in my building once or twice... | self.Anxiety |
there are few things I loathe more than requiring the help of others. But I've spent most of the last 20 years (just turned 38) incarcerated in so many long term, locked wards that I lost track of how many so long ago that I usually find it makes it easier if I just lie and make something up (like there's an entirely ... | self.bipolar |
I guess that connections and friends are just impossible for me I never really had any close friends. Or friends. The closest I had were people that would talk to me if I was there, they would never reach out to me or anything.
Then I met this person and they quickly became my best friend (not hard when there's lite... | self.depression |
late rant tonight was good until about 2:30am when i started to have a depressive and paranoid episode. hearing things and seeing things that aren't there isn't good to deal with. i was listening to music and playing video games because it helps keep me focused on something not negative for once and i started to thin... | self.depression |
I just need help. Please take the time to read. I'm going to try and be as brief as I can, but for me that means this will probably still be a very long post. If I'm unclear on anything just ask in the comments though.
EDIT: yep, ended up being super long.
#please do read it though, I'm afraid nobody will and I don... | self.offmychest |
I'm losing my mind and would like some help. [deleted] | self.depression |
What do you do when you actually feel what you're feeling for the first time in a long time? I felt sadness tonight and the emotion actually tore into me. I didn't cry but I really, felt it, y'know?
Anyone ever go thru this? | self.depression |
That empty feeling, like something is missing. I've actually been doing well as far as my mental health is concerned; however, when I lay in bed at night, or even when I zone out in class I get this empty feeling. I get deep into my thoughts and it just feels like something is missing. I'm not quite sure how to explain... | self.depression |
I really need to offload, can anyone offer me some support please? I'm just crying and can't handle it anymore. I feel so fucking done. It's almost been three years since I left University and I still can't hold down a full time job, I left my first one due to stress and moved back in with my parents. Then I got anothe... | self.depression |
I just don’t know what to do anymore... I don’t want to live. However, I don’t know if I have it in me to take my own life. I really wish I could. I just keep going from one bad situation to another and my feelings are continuously invalidated. No matter how my life changes or who comes and goes it’s like a constant. I... | self.SuicideWatch |
I noticed a lot of people post about the hardship of not having a S/O. I don't even want a girlfriend. Anyone else in the same boat? [deleted] | self.depression |
So hopeless I'm so heartbroken, hopeless, lost. Holy shit I want to die. But I don't. Jesus Christ | self.depression |
So this is that dark hole people refer to All my friends are gone. The guy I loved. I am tired, lonely and a little broke. I dread being at work and depressed, but as soos as I get home the silence makes the depression even more prominent. My future currently looks like a blur and I constantly have to remind myself why... | self.offmychest |
17 and in a bad place Ever since I wrote that first suicide note at age 12, everyday has just been focused on making it to the next one. My goal to survive till 13 turned to surviving till 13, 14, etc...
And now I'm here. At 17 I'm so exhausted and tired of battling this. I feel so pathetic, but I don't know how much ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Odd Health Anxiety symptom disappeared after talk Hello all,
I recently have been going through a very stressful and anxious period.
During this time, I developed muscle twitched in my pectoral muscle. It was really bothering me for a month, and I obviously catastrophized it to be a crazy disease of some sort.
Somet... | self.Anxiety |
Can't talk my way out of it. Every time I avoid, I rebound back to suicidal thoughts. I don't know what to do, but I'm always running away from suicidal ideations from the time I wake up to the time I force myself to sleep. Falling asleep is impossible, I have to literally try to fall asleep because the pain is so much... | self.SuicideWatch |
What do ya think about being on lamictal, Topamax, and Wellbutrin at the same time? Anyone with the same med combo? Cross post on r/Bipolar [deleted] | self.bipolar |
I can't stop crying I've been crying for the last three days over every half unpleasant thought. My mind wanders onto something unpleasant for a second and then my eyes start to burn and water and I can't stop. I dont know if this is anxiety, hypo or depression I have no idea. It feels like depression because I just wa... | self.bipolar |
My lack of motivation is disturbing. Hey guys, I'm new around these parts. Hope you're all doing well. I've got so much on my mind, I thought this would be the place to vent. Sorry for the long, perhaps uninteresting read.
My motivation has reached an all time low, better yet, it has seemingly completely disappeared. ... | self.offmychest |
I wish I could tell people I wanna kill myself and they'd accept it I just had this vision where I tell my family that I'm done with my life I don't wanna live anymore and that on such and such a date I'm gonna end my life. Then instead of them freaking out, and trying to talk me out of it, and going through all the aw... | self.depression |
Summer makes me feel even worse. A lot of people seem to get worse around winter, for me its the other way around. The sun, the constant barbecuing, watching everyone else enjoying themselves in the sun, its all so tiring.
| self.depression |
I feel like I’m flowing through life with a huge elephant on my back | self.Anxiety |
Read a news article about heart attacks and thought I was having one an hour later I felt my heart race, light-headed, thought I was able to collapse. Chest was painful (still is now). Rushed out of a meeting room at work to be in the common area in case I actually collapse (better to have people around uh?).
I am sli... | self.Anxiety |
Meds man. What a thing. I've been on Latuda for about a month and some change now and my life has literally done taken a 180. I can't describe what it's like to feel entirely normal and whole for once. I'm without the need for risky behavior or obseessive new hobbies and it's amazing. Plus my fiance and I are doing so ... | self.bipolar |
Went to counselling on Tuesday: It was really different this time round. Have a male counsellor for the first time, I walked past him without realising at first. Been to counselling twice before and they were both women in these early 60’s. He’s young, swears, makes jokes & says everyone experiences depression at s... | self.depression |
How do you stop your panic attacks? I am a 21 year old college senior. I have started having panic attacks recently and have recently been diagnosed with an unspecified anxiety disorder. Almost every day I end up with pressure, numbness, or pain in my temples along with feeling like it's harder to breathe, like I have ... | self.Anxiety |
feeling tingly - a sign of something coming? The past few days I've been feeling funny, like my head is tingling/buzzing in a weird way. So do my hands, insides of my arms, and soles of my feet. Sex drive has also been way up. I can pretty well say I haven't been acting manic, maybe just in a good mood, but I'm wonderi... | self.bipolar |
Anyone who has gone through treatment, what is it like? [deleted] | self.depression |
My Soul Hurts Sorry in advance, this is probably going to be a long rant. I just need to put the words out there to help process my feelings. I have a boyfriend who I have been dating for 9 years. We have had a few fights, but overall our relationship has been pretty good. We started dating our jr year of highschool. I... | self.offmychest |
Wish I could escape from Christmas Another disappointing family Christmas party.
My sister and her dirtbag husband arrived late yesterday, had every excuse imaginable not to attend church with us this morning. My mom had to miss services to attend to them. I’m not disappointed that they left early.
My son was suppo... | self.depression |
I get depressed so much to see people in relationships while you've never had one. I just want a gf badly but no one thinks I'm datable or even human [removed] | self.depression |
Experiences with Antipsychotica (Quetiapin / Seroquel) Hi, I was prescribed this med for restless/spiralling thoughts at night.
How did you feel when taking it? What were your thoughts when you took it? Did you have issues when taking it? | self.Anxiety |
Pride keeps me from getting help Asking for help is declaring you're broken. Sure--be quick to say "no it doesn't!" But yes it does.
Why bother to go on being broken? That's reason enough to be done.
There's no "fixing" it. It'll always be that mug with the cracks in the handle. The sign misspelled. The board cut too... | self.SuicideWatch |
I'm done I'm just done. I'm trying not too eat,drink or sleep. Until it hits next year. Then try to drink bleach lil by lil everyday. I wonder if I die by then. | self.SuicideWatch |
I want to die, but I don't want to hurt my mother [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
school is starting tomorrow and I'm scared I have no one to talk to no real friends no one likes me and I have social anxiety. | self.depression |
I hate my life I just wanna die... like I have no energy or enthusiasm left in me...... I lost everyone, girlfriend dumped me... all I have is my friends from school... I need someone to hear me out and I don’t have anyone I can trust irl so idk what to do...... I need help
Edit: girlfriend didn’t dump me, I just thou... | self.depression |
How do you know if your feelings are real or not? I feel like this is a weird question, but how do you distinguish from having a normal emotional range, and having just a surface level experience of day-to-day life?
What is the difference between being okay, having moved (or begun to move) out of what may have been ... | self.depression |
Toughed out 2 major panic attacks at the dentist today... [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
I just need somone to talk to. I really can't do it anymore. I'm sitting here crying in my room on my own. I'm a complete failure. It feels like I'm trying to walk upstream in a river. I'm 17 addicted to drugs. Owe money for drugs, failing school. Everyone thinks I'm a complete loser and takes advantage of me. I know t... | self.SuicideWatch |
I made a post here about a week ago... The post told my story to the fullest.
TL;DR: I was molested as a child and told basically no one. Decided to tell my mom on Friday.
When I told my mom, she told me she would have to back both me and my sister. This felt like an ultimate betrayal, to be completely honest and I... | self.SuicideWatch |
Please help. This is a throwaway.
I am not bipolar, but my wife is.
She is currently 34 weeks pregnant, and she is (bipolar).
Doc took her off meds when we found out about the pregnancy, and it's been a bumpy ride so far, but considering... it has been relatively okay.
I'm an expat, living in a foreign country, her c... | self.bipolar |
Just tried hanging myself. Did not work! I'm behind in school real fuckin bad among other various issues, and man if I didn't just try to fuckin hang myself. Once I started passing out I thrashed and thrashed until it was off my neck and now I'm just real fuckin glum. I don't think I'm gonna attempt again, or atleast I... | self.SuicideWatch |
When every day becomes a a nasty battle with depression, is it worth living anymore? I keep posting on this sub, hoping that by externalizing what I feel will somehow make it easier, I will feel less insane..
But every day it's getting harder and harder, and suicide keeps looking like good, safe option to check out, b... | self.SuicideWatch |
The only relationship I’ve ever had just ended after 7 months. I don’t know what to do anymore. [deleted] | self.depression |
Gonna do it soon I don't even know wh I'm posting this. Attention, probably
Anyway, I already ordered some highly toxic seeds on ebay (colchicum autumnale, aka meadow saffron) that should arrive in 5 or 6 days. Soon this will all be over. I'll make a final post once I recieve and consume them.
Until then, do what tho... | self.SuicideWatch |
Alone during holiday bipolar squad check-in! Hey all, hope you have some wonderful days during the holidays! | self.bipolar |
How do people with social anxiety cope at uni? [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
Do I tell my girlfriend I am going to kill myself tomorrow night (today is my mothers birthday and I want to be considerate and wait a day) and I currently have a girldfriend who knows how sad and miserable I feel. Should I:
1) have the decency to tell her and breakup with her then kill my self
2) just kill myself ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Intrusive thoughts have successfully convinced me that i am a fucking psychopath [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
Money's running out, haven't worked in over a year - please help Last job I worked, I ended up quitting. Didn't know the exact reason, I just knew the stress was mounting on me. After months of therapy and after finally getting on pills, it's become apparent that I couldn't stand people. I didn't like being forced to w... | self.depression |
I need help, was almost raped, fear of PTSD [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
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