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My girlfriend’s little sister (18) told me she’s bi. She doesn’t feel ready to tell her family. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
its new year and im just crying i dont feel good | self.depression |
I can't function anymore Am I depressed or is this anxiety?!
Here's my story:
I've recently been the victim of blackmail by an abuser who threatened to release some text messages if I didn't do what he wanted, I told him to go F*** himself and blocked him, immediately told my family and close friends about it, posted a... | self.depression |
Just needing help talking me back from ledge. Had strokes. Have left side paralysis. I'm 27. It rly fucked my brain over. Been with husband almost 9 years and I at first forgot my feelings for him.
They're back but slowly fading. I'm tired of flip flopping. I'm afraid of contuing. What if my feelings change for him? L... | self.SuicideWatch |
still suicidal I thought that if I started working I would be happier, but If anything working has made me more suicidal. I don't know what to do anymore because money doesn't make me happy, the only thing that made me happy was gaming but I don't even find that fun anymore. I only had one reason of staying alive whic... | self.SuicideWatch |
Is there a way to say this without being rude? My dad wants me to go to his family's place for a few days for thanksgiving, I know I should go because I haven't seen them in a long time and frankly, my grandmother is getting old. But I really don't think I can handle it, I can barely stand going to the store. It's just... | self.depression |
First panic attack of the season - trigger caution (anxiety) ''Tis the season...for anxiety! Yesterday, it happened. I was overstimulated, not rested, overwhelmed and a bit out of sorts from the depression I've been in for the last 2 months. Kids home for Thanksgiving break, looking to me for entertainment and an endle... | self.bipolar |
You're not good enough. Try better next time. Disclaimer: I'm from the United States. I am not nor affiliated with the educational system.
My friends daughter was qualified to participate in Duke Universities talent identification search for grades 4-6. Only the top 5% of students are eligible to join. The program wi... | self.offmychest |
This is one of the worst days I've had in a while [deleted] | self.bipolar |
I went to my doctor and got finally got prescribed antidepressants. I'm pretty excited to start taking them, I can only hope things will get better. The only thing I'm nervous of is that its coming down to the last few weeks of this semester, and I don't want the side effects of the drugs, (btw I was prescribed a low d... | self.depression |
Oh hi, depression. OH HI, MAD MANIC ENERGY I fucking swear I'm rapid cycling or some shit.
This morning I was feeling euthymic. Feeling OK. Then I started listening to some pumped up music, got feeling really good, but made myself stop because I don't want to get super worked up.
Small crash. Irritable, nauseous, cra... | self.bipolar |
Being called fat on the internet by a stranger hurts just as much as if someone said it to my face. I’m so tired of people attacking my body and immediately going for the “you’re fat.” I know I’m fat. I am working on it and it’s a slow process. Wish people would stop attacking my body. | self.offmychest |
Wake up anxious I wake up every morning feeling REALLY anxious. It didn’t used to happen but for the last few months the SECOND I’m awake I have crippling anxiety. I’m not sure why. Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know a way to stop it or at least lessen the effects? | self.Anxiety |
Lamictil I’ve decided to get back on meds for the first time in years. Has anyone had any experience with lamictil? Most of the meds I’ve taken make me feel weird and I give up I am trying to hold on hope for this because I need to get my life back. | self.bipolar |
I hate myself... So I smoke.
I drink Coke.
I don't sleep.
I hurt everything on the inside because the outside is too obvious. | self.offmychest |
Update: it’s officially psychosis After talking to my pdoc about the shadow people, he doesn’t think it’s my change in meds. He thinks I’m slipping into psychosis. He upped my Latuda and instructed me to up it even more if I’m still paranoid and seeing things in the next 48 hours. I have so many questions about what th... | self.bipolar |
Having extreme death anxiety the past few weeks and it's keeping me up. Will appreciate any advice for coping. The last few weeks my mind has been completely transfixed by thoughts about my inevitable death at some point in the future and my thoughts start spiraling out of control with fears about what it's going to be... | self.Anxiety |
Please. Help. Kill. Me. It's not getting better. Just please. Help me end it. | self.SuicideWatch |
I'm one disaster away from losing all sanity. Over the past year, I have felt my will to live continue to slip away. The drive I once had for a career and a will to make it in a world that constantly beat me down is not all but gone. I don't even spend time trying to have fun anymore.
All I think about is how the worl... | self.SuicideWatch |
Trileptal? in addition to lamotrigine (lamictal) (which has worked fantastic), my doctor JUST put me on trileptal. i was wondering what your experiences with it have been?! especially women in their early twenties. thank you so much. | self.bipolar |
I don't like where I am in life, but I don't even know where to begin to change it. [deleted] | self.depression |
Time is passing so quickly it scares me Christmas and New Year's were really nice, but I always get really anxious every new year's eve that time is passing so quickly. Seems like a few months ago it was 2013, what happened... It seems like there's no chance to fully appreciate the good moments. They pass by so quick, ... | self.depression |
Sex Drive Outweighs My Boyfriend's Hypersexuality is a big thing with me. The long and short of it is: I want sex almost all of the time when I'm in a high place, and my boyfriend has a pretty moderate sex drive on average. He can't keep up. I really do love him, but I also need sex just to help me feel like I'm not lo... | self.bipolar |
I take meds, i go in group therapy and i see my psychologist. But i still feel so damn lonely. [deleted] | self.depression |
Anyone have any reviews for seroquel? I’m just starting it and so far I feel like extremely drugged. I don’t know if I should continue to see if it gets better or just stop. When I took it last night I was fine for a bit and then suddenly major heat and panic set in. I calmed myself after an hour and fell asleep. Now I... | self.bipolar |
I touch myself in a non sexual way for no reason when i’m alone even holding my boobs! it’s just so comforting! | self.offmychest |
I’ve started to dread going to my college job and I don’t know what to do It’s a great job. Great hours, nice office, exciting work, kind bosses and coworkers.
But I feel so done with it. I feel like my work is never done and it just keeps coming. I feel like I can never perfect all my reviews and keep getting critic... | self.depression |
I tried killing myself last night and for the first time in months I feel alive [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
Thank you Reddit. You are the best. I love you all [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
It’s my birthday and I feel like cutting myself Yeah I’m born on Christmas, lucky or not, but all my life my birthdays haven’t been anything special, just celebrations with family and friends.
I’m 22 as of today, and my life has gone downhill this year. I spent some time with the girl I’ve had a crush on for the longe... | self.depression |
I don't know what I'm feeling right now. At the moment I'm typing this, I have an exam today. I'm in college going to be a third year, and going to switch to a new major because I can't science. Or at least, I just couldn't take the pressure people put on me. But at the moment, I just don't know what to feel or what to... | self.offmychest |
I am entirely, unambiguously alone. What do I do? [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
What defines a suicide attempt? A little while ago, I drove to a famous bridge near me at one a.m, stood on the edge, and considered jumping. But I wasn't crying. I was just calmly standing there, reading the notes people had left to please choose life. I was texting a friend of mine at the time too. They knew where I ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Distance I distance myself because no one deserves to put up with me, because my own mind tortures me to the point that I don't want to live, it's not that I want to die, not that I want to kill myself, just that more times than not I have no desire to continue living in this mental state of anguish, I distance myself ... | self.depression |
Idk My friends keep on teasing me and asking me to go out with them like watching movies and stuff. The thing is I have social anxiety and im always uncomfortable with 2 guys in the clique. I realise I am always not happy being with them. But they keep on asking me to go with them there was once where I revealed to the... | self.Anxiety |
I’m really manic and this is “they do” tell me what you think People think that they understand. However if they did, they would not want to talk about it or converse. We know that it is mean't to be personally enjoyed, not up for monotonous discussion. Cars are going by extremely slow and lights are blaring, streaking... | self.bipolar |
I’m scared to go back to college. Not for the academic reasons. But my friends. I’ve been a lone wolf although highschool and before but when I went to college I found the best group of friends I thought I ever had. Well stuff happened and I took a semester off and i just seemingly disappeared from them. I live close t... | self.Anxiety |
It's my mom's 50th birthday today And I'm sitting in my bed, crying, and have been for the past 24 hours because I'm scared of going to her birthday party. I'm scared of doing anything. I feel like shit and I'm scared to look at people. I feel like such a failure. | self.Anxiety |
I doubt almost every social interaction I have. I’ve done it over the past 12 years (I’m 22 now) where I feel fine talking to people in the movement, but later at night - in bed - i constantly re run every conversation in my head in order to see if there is anything that I could have said that could have resulted in a ... | self.Anxiety |
Dos and donts of depakote? I'm being started on depakote in addition to ziprasidone from "ultra rapid cycling". Is there anything I should know? I'm scared | self.bipolar |
I am reaching a point of no return A few years ago I was driving home from work and I have been going through a rough time with losing family and no fulfillment in life. As I was driving I took my hi point 9 and put it to my head. I say there driving a few miles and thought to myself. "What reasons do I have to live?" ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Why is Christmas always such a fuckfest? You'd think it would make people happy, but I guess the "spirit of the season" is a scam. The family arguments get worse, obligatory spending gets everyone stressed, it's bad for everyone. I just stay in bed all day, ideally I should be out working so I don't drown in debt, but ... | self.depression |
why do i feel this way? i feel nothing yet i think about everything. I keep thinking about how shitty I am, how ugly I am, how nobody will ever worry about me, how my friends will leave me because I'm enclosing myself, how I don't want to ever leave my house (especially my bed), how I'd be better off dead.
I keep thin... | self.depression |
NEW TO LITHIUM Was prescribed lithium today starting at 300mg honestly im so scared i go up in dosage every week, either this will be my saving grace or my worst nightmare. I check in with my psychiatrist in two weeks. Lithium experiences? | self.bipolar |
Happy Freaking New Year I’ve been excited all week about tonight! Staying home, having a quit safe night at home. Heading to bed early....having some awesome sex!! All the hype was for nothing!!! Happy freaking new year!! | self.offmychest |
There are so many things going wrong. I can't take it anymore. For some context, I've been depressed and an addict since I was 15 or so. So four years, and never thought suicidal thoughts etc would be a problem for me. But hell, here they are continuing to crop up out of the blue. I never lead the best life and was nev... | self.SuicideWatch |
Life is hell I'm just an anomaly that should have been snuffed out. Now I can't even work up the courage to snuff myself out. Why was I only born to fail and suffer? I don't want a good life anymore, that's an impossibility. I just need to not exist. | self.depression |
I'm thinking of ending it all This was supposed to be a better year for me. I came out to some ppl. It was supposed to be exciting in the exploration of my newfound sexuality. Very FEW good things happened. Basically, all year I pretty much suffered. I suffered for 5 months over the loss of an ex who stopped talking to... | self.SuicideWatch |
15 years I've wanted to die. Recently I've moved closer to an actual plan. I'm ready. Im giving up and I needed to say it somewhere. I can't do this anymore and it calms me to know that at any moment I'm ready. | self.SuicideWatch |
Girls like confident guys. They hate shy incels It’s over for us shycels. Only chance to find love is through plastic surgery and becoming 9+\10. | self.depression |
I hate therapists. None of them actually care or help. They just want your money. | self.depression |
Precocious Intellectual Children Hmm. Wondering right now how many PICs (and former PICs) are out there in r/bipolarville. The *most* manic person I have *ever* known [fit the description](https://www.google.com/search?q=intellectually+precocious+child&oq=precocious+intellectual&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l5.5553j0j8&... | self.bipolar |
Remind Yourself This is my first post here in r/Anxiety and I just wanted to say that it's always good to take stock of your life and remind yourself how good you may have it. Take the time in 2018 to periodically stop and think of positive things in your life, then be grateful for them. It's so easy to get engulfed in... | self.Anxiety |
I'm scared of putting my weight back on I've lost 20kg in fat and put on about 10kg in muscle! But I'm having some issues and I think I'm going to put it all back on and it scares the fuck out of me | self.depression |
I could really use some thoughts on this I had a frustrating day. I'm going through med changes so that has to be why but I had a breakdown at school today. I'm a teacher. Long story short I had stuff to do through my planning period and lunch and I HAD to do the stuff THEN and there was no other chance. It wasn't in m... | self.bipolar |
I just tried to commit suicide and it didn't work help I need to commit suicide. I'm 15. I dont have a future. Im a disgusting trans, parents and siblings dont accept me and are hyper religious, I have no friends, not in school, bullied in my past, have anxiety to where i can talk to no one, not even my parents, depres... | self.SuicideWatch |
My sinus infection is giving me the worst anxiety I’ve ever had I’ve felt like a completely different person for the past month. I can’t stop googling symptoms and I’m worried I’m going to feel this way forever. I’ve never had bad anxiety at all until this happened. I just started meds to hopefully clear this up but I ... | self.Anxiety |
I am really lonely and I don't know what to do. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
I'm not even waiting for the new year. I'm going to kill myself today. Still working out the details, but I can't last another minute.
Worst case scenario, I'll do it by the strike of midnight on New Years
I'm going to torture myself and sabotage whatever I can until I'm pushed over the edge. I'm going to start by ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Depression is like an eternal flesh wound... Depression is like an eternal flesh wound in the sense that, it's not fatal on it's own, but you bleed. And boy do you bleed.
You can put bandage after bandage, gel after gel, treatment after treatment, yet; it refuses to cooperate, continuing to bleed.
Continuing to drai... | self.depression |
I've tried like 4 times to make a decent title and gave up each time, so fuck it. I feel alone and hopeless even though I rationally know I have a possibly bright future if I continue to try. I have a good relationship with my family and I have two very close friends, so why do I believe I deserve to die? I feel like I... | self.SuicideWatch |
Nostalgia hurts because I know it'll never be the same again I wish it were cold and raining/snowing outside and it was morning and I'd be inside cozily wrapped in my blanket and watching old cartoons like The Looney Tunes and Tom&Jerry without a care in the world, and it tears me up inside because it's never going... | self.depression |
Trying to understand where my depression comes from As a preface, I'd like to say that I am doing this as an alternative to therapy. I would like to go to therapy, but I don't have the money or the time.
I have always assumed that my depression came from within; that is to say that I have a chemical imbalance or unexp... | self.depression |
I hate how I feel..... Happy thanksgiving.... I moved with my cousins on the other side of the country. My family (dad sis and step mom) are currently making the turkey and food to get ready for tonight. This is my first Thnxsgiving away from home. Here with my cousins, no plans, they're going with their dad to a resta... | self.depression |
Fuck you brother Dude my bro who habitually uses drugs, just asked me to manipulate our mom into buying him as he said "200-300 dollars worth of grocery" and now he's fucking acting like I'm the fucking asshole when I told him that's both unrealistic and fucked up. Fuck head. He needs to OD already. | self.offmychest |
I Finally Understand Anxiety "Triggers." For context, I am about to graduate college (probably lol), and I am trying to complete my senior thesis which I am very behind on. Because of that, I have been facing some pretty severe academic anxiety.
It's the little things. Checking your email. Opening up a word document ... | self.Anxiety |
Hit rock bottom and the thoughts are intensified I recently broke up with my girlfriend, and it was my fault. I broke her heart. She can't be with me until she forgives but i dont know if that will happen. I am struggling to find a stable job. My dad's death last year still affects me. I went overseas on a whim over th... | self.SuicideWatch |
Anxiety sucks. I'm feeling anxious. Started thinking about the wedding I have to attend in a few weeks. My cousin, younger than me, is getting married, and my whole family is attending.Here, weddings are an all out event, you need to get new everything. Shoes, clothes, get your hair, nails done, the whole shabang, and ... | self.depression |
Want to curl up in my dark room when it gets closer to having to go to work. [deleted] | self.depression |
An Open Letter to Those Who Can't Handle Me at My Worst I have been so frustrated lately because I've had "friends" talk about me behind my back (or on social media) because I am "so negative" or because I have a "darkness" inside of me that they don't want to deal with. I have been in a pretty good mood lately and it ... | self.depression |
I feel like i haven’t fully developed (emotionally, physically, or mentally) I’ve been dealing with depression & anxiety symptoms for over 2 years now and I’ve searched trying to find help. I’m starting to think it was due to my childhood and not fully developing. I always felt different (gay guy, never liked my fa... | self.Anxiety |
Scared of myself I'm terrified of myself. I'm scared of where my thoughts take me and indulging on an impulse. My mind has become the most damaging thing to me and I don't know how to stop it.
Desperate for help to drown or combat my own mind!
| self.SuicideWatch |
no title The only words I have for myself are ones that are bitter, and sting. This supreme cloud is looming over me, hailing to my frequent and all-consuming inadequacy that I can't seem to escape for five minutes. I've grown so use to taking abuse in my life that I've begun to do it on their behalf with their harrowi... | self.offmychest |
I’m in a funk, and I’d like advice on how to cope Background: I have general anxiety disorder. Typically, I’d consider myself to have high-functioning anxiety, as it doesn’t interfere with my ability to live a (mostly) normal life. It mostly manifest itself in obsessive worrying and nervous ticks. For the past year and... | self.Anxiety |
Help.. please.. My whole life I've been a dick to my dad.. raising my voice, arguing, not wanting to talk to him but I've always loved him. TIL that he might have liver cancer and he's been puking up blood..
After an argument that I had with him today, it just hit me.. my father is going to die soon (if cancer) and no... | self.offmychest |
How can I tell someone I have depress without outright saying it? [deleted] | self.depression |
Strange feeling in head-anxiety and social media For the past one-two month, I have been feeling some kind of tension building up in my forehead. It in really in the centre of the forehead, where the third eye is said to be located. I also am experiencing some kind of movement in my crown spot in my head. I have shown ... | self.Anxiety |
After 20 years, I feel love from maybe 2 people. [deleted] | self.depression |
My friend was beaten up pretty badly, and I find it funny A few of us were in a bar on Tuesday, and he got talking to some girls
I'm not sure what happened, but they were telling him to go away, then shouted at him to leave
He kept trying to talk to them, and a guy just unleashed on him. It was like a fight from a co... | self.offmychest |
Need your help to fight depression Hello
I don’t know if anyone will take the time to read this but here I go
I’ve been reading posts from this “depression part” of reddit for a while now and I know that you guys are really kind and helpful with people who are struggling with life and I’d be happy to have your opinio... | self.depression |
My anxiety is going through the roof; I’m having to choose suffering through the worst pain I’ve experienced, or go completely broke. [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
I need answers If anyone here has successfully "beaten" depression, i just want to know if life ever gets that special quality back that depression seems to take away. (I don't really know what else to call it, but i figure that someone will know what i mean). I need to know if the whole feeling like a spectator in you... | self.depression |
Extremely lonely and single my whole life. Ladies, I’m really looking for help and advice, please [deleted] | self.depression |
should i kill myself? im just gonna keep this short because i can't be bothered. should i kill myself? im a big failure at life, shit grades, loser, barely any friends at school, i have never been in relationship and barely ever talk to girls because i have social anxiety and aspergers syndrome. i have a mild stutter, ... | self.depression |
Anyone else feel emotionless? First let me start out by saying I don't actually know if I have depression... I've never actually been formally diagnosed, I'm just looking for an answer and something to grasp onto to give me hope that my current condition can get better. For the past year now, my emotions have seemed to... | self.depression |
I refuse to drink alcohol because I don't know what'll happen Anybody else? Like, the thought of escaping for a while sounds great, but I don't know what I'll say or do. I know a lot of people who say things when they get drunk that they normally wouldn't say, and I don't want that to happen. I don't want to end up say... | self.depression |
I feel like i will always stay at this level of mediocrity. [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
I had another serious panic attack today I spent almost all of Christmas eve, hyperventilating, crying and wishing that I would die.
These attacks are a regular thing for me.
I know they stem from my self hatred. I hate my ethnic background, and can't stand my skin color.
I had to call the suicide prevention lifelin... | self.offmychest |
Gave a kidney to my mom Is there anyone here who has donated an organ to someone and has feelings of loss and depression from it. A little backstory. I've been depressed for about 6 years now and just recently my mom got sick and needed a kidney. Out of my sister and I, I decided that I would be the one to donate. I th... | self.depression |
my girlfriend wants me to spend every waking moment with her [deleted] | self.offmychest |
Has anyone tried Modafinil/Provigil There have been studies that it works well for bipolar depression. It is also a stimulant that doesn't cause mania.
With all the drugs I am on I am so exhausted, and because of bipolar I had to go off stimulants for my ADD(they sent me into mania). My pdoc also recently added Zolof... | self.bipolar |
I revisited my first almost suicide attempt Probably this was the first attempt. I was in 5th grade, so probably I was 9 or 10 years old. I was bunking a class and sitting on the ceiling which was very high (in the school). I don’t remember what I was feeling emotionally at that time but there was a friend sitting with... | self.SuicideWatch |
Poem Titled The End to All Days (I hope you enjoy it its the first poem I've made in years) Perpetual darkness, lights yet to be seen
The winds howling echoing my screams
Skies crying bellowing out their shards
Each strike and cut like a knife
Walking on beds of clear crystal ice
Its so cold it stings
Seeing my r... | self.bipolar |
Having severe depression is like being in the army [deleted] | self.depression |
Sick and tired of being taken advantage of I'm sorry but I'm about to rant like hell.
I've always been the person that's there for everyone else. No matter what kind of crazy shit I'm going through I've always been the first person to drop everything I'm doing to help a friend. I've put my mental health on the back bu... | self.bipolar |
I made the best recordings tonight of my life The stuff you dream about. A family session, ages 25 to 70. It was so beautiful. These rare occasions when I happen upon a spiritual, musical family and get to record them it's amazing. This was like.....guster meets simon and garfunkle? But with the most beautiful lyrics. ... | self.depression |
Just got a bill for the hospital stay I was forced into Im being forced to pay for the worst experience of my life, and they still refuse to call it suicide watch. What the actual fuck. I was literally physically forced into the ambulance and to the hospital and im being forced to pay for it. | self.depression |
I made a dozen shallow cuts to my wrist while taking a bath earlier. I think I'm ready to do it today. | self.SuicideWatch |
Anyone feel like depression made them selfish? Hello guys and girls, this is a throwaway account for obvious reasons!
I really have no idea if this is the best way to put it. I have no regard whatsoever for anybody but myself. Ever-since, I've become depressed.
In the past when I was 'normal'. I was caring, kind and... | self.depression |
Which direction am I going? Something happened today. I am not sure how to handle it. This feeling I had was brewing for awhile and it has been a problem for any attempt of relationships.
A friend of mine, she sent me a gif of a really busty woman popping out her breasts, she was in a a christmas get up. It was someth... | self.offmychest |
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