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Zoloft/seratraline/Short Menstrual Period I had sex around mid-cycle, he pulled out (I know, not BC, just a big mistake). Well, Sunday I started spotting, which isn't normal, but has happened before, and Monday I started bleeding as normal. Tuesday, bleeding was normal, then slowed that evening...then stopped... I usua...
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How do YOU cope with your anxiety and/ or depression? Not asking for advice, just curious. Hi guys, Not necessarily asking for ways to cope because I have my specific ways... I just was curious as to what yours are. Mine are simple things like watching makeup YouTube videos or just browsing YouTube altogether. I like...
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I'm completely worthless. No one cares about me. I've been sitting on the roof four stories up trying to build the courage to jump. Everything seems so pointless. [deleted]
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What is this and why? I'm nearing the end of my schooling. I'm working on networking, setting up my website, finishing my reel, and will shortly start the job hunt. But as those deadlines get closer and closer I feel less and less desire to involve myself in them. In fact, lately I have felt less of a drive to do AN...
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I don't want to die I want to live but considering the situation I see myself in, I am not really sure about that. Some context: I was born a curious child, always thinking about things around me. My father had died before I was born, so I guess I never missed him. My mother is a single mom and she is a police officer...
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Lamictal SJS do i go to the hospital Took meds includes seroquel 200mg lamictal Throat is red and slightly swollen yellow toung and rash/chafing on my arm What do i do? Do i go to the hospital?
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Tired of my mother (it's a really long story) [deleted]
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I'm seriously considering suicide at the age of 18 [deleted]
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New Years Resolutions For 2018 I want to finally do what I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I don’t necessarily want to cure my anxiety - I don’t think that is possible. However there are a few things I do want to try and do: 1. Feel less like the need to control all situations and have everything planned out all of...
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Year after year I’ve felt lonelier & lonelier now my mom is fading from my life too. [deleted]
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Terrorified of driving, trying to learn to drive again. Please help! Hello. I'm fucking terrorized of driving (used to have horriable panic attacks behind the wheel. Am now medicated, have not had bad panic attacks, the kind that feel like I am dying, in *years*, thought maybe it was time). I have PTSD (both from a shi...
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Eye opener (26F) I've been having issues with social anxiety for a long time now and I always avoid speaking up and saying how I feel. Well over the past two days I've lost my voice thanks to allergies. And it's the first time it's ever happened. But during this short time I realize I want to be heard. I do have import...
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I’m taking a sick day I’m so angry and crying. I really didn’t want to take my medicine but I did. I’m embarrassed by the way I acted in front of my son this morning before school. We were watching the news and it was talking about how a white suprematist gets to give a talk at a university in FL and then they went r...
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please help my heart is beating so fast and i feel so worried and anxious, i feel suffocated and feel that im so lonely and i have no one, i cant stop thinking. what is wrong with me, am i going to have mental illeness? or what is that?
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I think I might be chasing a pipe dream [deleted]
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I’m in grade nine and I’m battling with depression I have no confidence and no will to live and now my grades in school are going down which makes me feel horrible if I fail one subject the semester ends in 50 days I will kill myself 100% unless anybody can tell me otherwise and understand me
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I want to kill myself I am a complete and utter disappointment to my family and I’m only 14. I honestly would kill myself but I can’t get my hands on a gun. This is pathetic. Why am I even posting about this. I don’t know.
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i hate that my anxiety makes me doubt my boyfriend my boyfriend told me he is going to this ramen place we go to with one of his co-workers (a guy) on Friday and i trust him with my entire heart but my brain keeps telling me he is lying and he is going on a date with a girl but i know hes not and i feel like shit for b...
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Happening now: Heart palpitations from nowhere ...And I'm scared. They started around 6 last night after I had a frozen drink (and I finally realized that's one of my triggers), and while it's calmed down, my heart keeps pounding. My wife swears my heart beat sounds normal. I managed to sleep for three hours, but I'm r...
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For anyone completely alone, hell week is almost over! [removed]
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Disclosing to employer? I have BP2, and I was wondering if anyone discloses their condition to their employers in an attempt to get some leeway with the really bad days. How do y'all handle your work situations?
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I'm just tired of struggling everything takes so much effort, I can't keep up.
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Whenever I try to go to /r/de the URL autocompletes to /r/depression I guess that says something about me
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I don’t want you to hurt, I guess I just want you to somehow understand the pain that you put me through I still love you. So much. I would do anything to make you happy. I still check my phone compulsively when I wake up for the sweet “good morning” text I’ll never receive again. I still keep my ringer on while I slee...
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Weight gain So I had a mania episode years ago. I was down to 172 pounds. I am now up to 283 on medication. I believe that I will allways he a heavy person no because I have tried so many medications this is the only combination that works for me. I am a 26 year old male and 6 foot 3. Normal weight for my height is 220...
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Need some help. Lately, I've been extremely depressed. I just think I'm a failure. My BF yelled at me a month ago, for not having my license, (I know it's my fault, I pushed it off since I was 16, I'm 18 now) I had surgery in like August? I think on my eye for retinal detachment, it still effects my distance seeing a...
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Worried about adjusting to back to college life after winter break [deleted]
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Share Your Victories Large & Small! - Saturday, 11/25/2017 As I'm sure many of you already know first-hand it can be overwhelming even to do the "little" or "normal" things in life for those with anxiety issues. It's about time every one of us bragged about our triumphs big and small in our day to day life. This w...
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Do i sound like i have anxiety? I got an email from a place asking if I wanted to come in and apply for a job in person. I asked my boyfriend to show me where the place is. When we got into the parking lot he told me I should go in there now and apply. I told him I'll come back and do it tomorrow. He's like "geez are y...
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fuck this disease So long story short I was diagnosed BP type 2, ADHD, and OCD three years ago and I've tried most of the AP, AD, and some of MS out there. I was on a working mix of Lithium, prozac, wellbutrin, hydroxazine, thyroid med, and metformin but over the last 6 months i got more hypo-manic so doc put me on de...
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I am living in a constant state of regret and it's tearing me apart emotionally I am messed up emotionally and I don't know where to begin. Today at work I almost cried. I have these moments when I think about my past. A mix of nostalgia and things that I could have done better or changed. These usually come after sui...
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Considering ending it, feel like a burden on everyone... So what to say about my life. My parents split when I was 9. Usual drama ensues. I don't do well at school, get kicked to a 'bad kids school'. Years pass, want to live with dad. Nothing bad with my mum, I just felt it was unfair, wanted to be with both of them. L...
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No hope, gone Sunday January 28th Title says it all really. There’s no hope for this life. I was molested as a child by my aunt, developing a PTSD. Cause of that there’s no real hope for my life therefore no real purpose. It doesn’t get better. I’ve been told that for 4 fucking years and it’s only gotten worse. All my ...
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I should become an organ donor before I do it.
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bye that's it. just bye. nobody will give a shit. nobody will care. tomorrow morning i'll be gone. i'm a fucking failure. i'm sorry, but i need to fucking kill myself.
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disappointed but not surprised 2017 hasn’t been kind to me. i fucked up my first year of college because my dumb ass fell for a boy (let’s say not the ideal guy to fall for) for the first time in my life and didn’t know how to deal. so, in the summer holidays i started all over. i dropped my shitty friends for better o...
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Can't seem to stay on a job for more than six months Is it the same for you guys? I had 3 jobs since last year. I always end up resigning and I am planning to resign on my current job. EDIT: Hey guys, thank you all for sharing your experiences. It's comforting that there are people out there who understands how I fee...
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I needed to say this somewhere I'm probably having the worst times of my life ever since we broke up, nothing is going the way I'm trying to make it go, nothing is working the way i would want it to work. I think about you every-single-day, there's no day that's passed by without thinking about you, i deleted all my so...
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I just want to be alone I feel like a selfish prick sometimes. Im young, financially successful, but most of my problems are not my own. It's that my family's problems affect me, sometimes more than it affects the person themselves. My dad was hospitalized and his health deteriorating and so was mine. My dad passed aw...
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How long did it take for you to feel normal again after discontinuing Lamotrigine? I was in the titrating period of Lamictal and took it for a total of 7 weeks increasing by 25mg every two weeks. After a while I noticed that it totally wrecked my memory and my vocabulary so I stopped 2 weeks ago. I know how it feels li...
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My ship is sinking Hey guys, so a little update on my life and hopefully some support from you guys. This week I withdrew from my PhD program because of a few reasons, the main one being that I did not enjoy my subject to the point of wanting to kill myself to get out of it. So, for my health and my marriage I withdre...
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I just overslept and missed a final exam I'm so numb and apathetic right now. I knew what it felt to be an anxious mess because of an exam you didn't study for or crying it out after not doing my best. This? This I studied for, this I sacrificed for, I didn't think I could feel like I didn't want to exist anymore but n...
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I'm so tired, but scared of nightmares when I go to sleep. (Trigger warning) [deleted]
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NOT a spender when manic? Hey! Is there anyone out there who **doesn't** spend money when manic or hypomanic? I have only really had one major, intense hypomania episode that I know of (have probably been hypomanic and didn't known it), but I didn't want to spend money at all. I'm pretty much a cheapo thrifty penny pin...
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Thought I was enlightened, gifted, etc. turns out I’m just Bipolar. My church, DBT, and how well my life has been going had me convinced that I have the emotional gift of Empathy, not a mental illness. Cue me not taking my meds because they “interfere with my gift” and having a really fucking foul couple days. Back on ...
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I'm very worried about my health right now :( In the last few days, I have being worried about my health. For more than a year, I have felt this discomfort around my stomach. I also feel some kind of pressure in my stomach, neck and teeth. It's quite scary and I don't know what to do. I feel this pressure when I'm eati...
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After 4 years of unsuccessful BiPolar treatment I am finally heading to in patient program tomorrow for 60 days and wanted to see if anyone that has gone through one could give some helpful tips. I know what your allowed to bring into these facilities is limited but we're there any items you were glad you brought or su...
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I have constant fantasies of being hospitalized All the time I get fantasies of how nice it would be to get into a horrible accident or become horribly ill and be stuck in a hospital and removed from society for a while. Does anybody else get this?
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Chronic illness and suicidal thoughts A lifetime of horrific pain with no chance of being cured, can anyone else (not depression) relate? I get really low sometimes, right now it’s looking bleak.
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kill me nothing brings me happiness anymore, my grades are shit (might have to retake 2nd semester geometry next year. also i live in the US, 16, male), father died in 2011 and i don't feel like my mother really loves me (like she cares, but if given the opportunity she'd probably sell me off for some $. but would have...
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My friend introduced me to his group of friends and I have bad anxiety - I went in for a handshake and this guy went in for some combo shit and our hands danced around each other for about 3 long seconds. I cramp up thinking about it for days now.
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Idk I visited my brother (15) in the psych ward, which I had been in two years ago. I can't stop thinking about it now, and I've been struggling with some pretty intense suicidal ideation. I want to tell someone but I don't want to stress out my mom even more. She already told me that if I lost control she would lose i...
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Explaining BP to SO I'm going to try and make this as concise as possible and not let my emotions on the situation run rampant, so bare with me. My SO and I split in Late October of last year because of my erratic and hurtful behavior. I wasn't diagnosed with BP until late September but when I was it shed light on many...
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Today I found out my Ex moved on. Me and my girlfriend broke up about a month ago after dating for a year. I've always been depressed but it's gotten worse since we broke up. She always told me she wasn't gonna move on. Today i found out she did. and this dude has kissed her. It's got me all sorts of messed up, I haven...
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People hate me because I was shitty in my behaviour I was living in a place with tons of other people bc job,we lived in the same building in 2/3 or more people in rooms and my depression and anxiety were hitting hard bc was my first real job (like i was so stressed i forgot things) and it was hard and i worked badly a...
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never been as resolute in my sadness as i have been today. [deleted]
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Anxiety from parents dismissing your feelings? For as long as I can remember I’ve been a sensitive person. Not so much that I get angry or emotional, but that I seem to think and have bodily reactions that are maybe stronger than the average person. It worked out well in school when I could analyze subjects, and then l...
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Having doubts about identity, reality. I'm diagnosed schizoaffective, type: bipolar. I've been beset by doubts, feelings of worthlessness, feelings of depression. I don't know what's going on. I'm supposed to be going manic, not depressive. I don't even know why the fuck I'm posting here, I have a team on my case. I ...
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Does anyone else struggle with free time? When I'm busy on a day-to-day basis (usually classes and work), my anxiety is pretty high, and I'm yearning for more free time. When I have plenty of free time on a day-to-day basis, my anxiety is at it's absolute worst, yet I'm yearning even more for more free time. Why? Does ...
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I think I could maybe use a little bit of help [deleted]
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Has anyone experienced not thinking as a symptom of depression? I’m wondering if anyone else experiences thoughtlessness as a symptom of depression. I have bipolar 1 and have been mildly depressed for months now and haven’t been able to think of things to say to other people. I’m a writer and I barely written anything....
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gonna rope it tonight see you later. cant wait to "ruin" everyones lives for a solid couple of months.
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Truth hurts, but easier to deal with than lies [deleted]
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I made some money in Poker. I lost it all last night I've been playing online poker as a hobby for about 4 years. I've had some bad moments, but recently started winning and was up to 10k. Way more than I have ever been up, in fact up enough that if I cashed out then and there, it would have been like I never gambled. ...
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I feel like my boyfriend is losing interest in me and it's a horrible feeling I've been trying my best to pretend that everything is fine for the past few days, but I just feel empty. I feel absolutely nothing. Everything feels hopeless and I have no one to talk to.
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I just feel numb; like something is missing Shitty things have happened in my life. My dad died when I was 13 and I was sent to a children’s mental health service. They said I didn’t have depression. But fuck, I feel so numb and subdued from everything. I have great friends but don’t want to go into detail with them ...
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Anxiety attacks/general sense of overwhelming fear Any time I think more than a few days in the future, I get crushed with the uncertainty of it all. My gf of 3 yrs and I just split because we're both mentally unhealthy and need to figure ourselves out. I'm freaking out that she may not want a manic, anxious, bipolar s...
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Thank you person on the Bus Had a real shitty day You the stranger pressed that button before i did but you did not walk out, you saw that i was getting off so you did it for me. Thank you
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this past year happened just as i thought it would [deleted]
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2 weeks of xanax, is it safe to quit cold turkey? Hey, just a little background before I ask the main question, I've been diagnosed with a CNS disorder about 1-2 months ago on paper, in practice I have GAD, panic disorder and had massive agoraphobia before my blood tests. My GP prescribed me Xanax 0.5mg tabs 2-3 times ...
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going into first depressive state at new job, exhausted and can't work, advice/vent So i have been feeling really good, enough energy, not really any paranoid thought or suicidal, sleeping pretty well, until like a week ago. the problem now is that i have a job that i have to go to everyday. i am so exhausted all day ...
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Woke up wanting to die Well, I woke up and drove to the city I live to grab clothes because I'm staying at my, now dead, friend parents house trying to confort them and myself. If you want to know more about my friends death and how it is affecting me and averyone he loves i posted here https://redd.it/7pcl54 . So, ...
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University is kicking my ass I always heard that moving away for University is like the ideal breeding ground for mental health issues, but I really wasn't expecting it to become this bad. I'm so up and down these days. One day I'll be perfectly fine, and then the next I'm lying on my floor with my thoughts flying out ...
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Being slowly stripped of support. What if something goes wrong? I won't have anybody... My parents don't trust me anymore, because I "cheated" on a homework assignment. My best friend is having serious emotional problems after the death of his mother. And the only other person I feel comfortable confiding in, an office...
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I’m just starting on my mood stabilizer, mild antidepressant and insomnia medication. I smoke pot to feel better in my depressive state. Has anyone had a bad experience with their medication? [deleted]
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How to deal with regret and the past? I always try to convince myself that things are meant to be the way they are. I've read that you must forgive your mistakes from the past but not forget them so you won't do them again. How do you guys deal with the feeling that something would've been better if you made a differen...
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I'm sick of being lonely Sometimes this feeling is too much to bear, too much to overcome. Everyone I've loved has abandoned me at this point in my life and no matter how hard I try I can't get anyone in my family or any of my limited friends to see my pain and if they do see my pain they're too busy with their own liv...
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I can’t live with my parents for 4 more years [deleted]
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I hate hospitals I've spent a lot of time in hospitals. My grandad was in and out with various illnesses and passed away whilst having his gall bladder removed. My grandma went into hospital and never came back out. Now my partner had spinal surgery, and I'm visiting every day. I hate seeing people in pain, and I don'...
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Cannabis and depression I'm actually legitimately fucking terrified and depressed that the US is ending marijuana legalization. That was my last pleasure in life and Jeff Sessions is taking it away from me. I know it might not seem like a big deal to a lot of people but it's the only thing that helped...
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The last 3 days felt like the first days of my life. Today feels like the beginning of the last days. I have been having depression since Senior Year. I have been fighting non stop for 5 years. I took gap years to fight depression. Until last October, I thought depression has gone cause i felt totally normal at that ti...
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Haven't taken meds in about a week...think I am experiencing Discontinuation Syndrome. Hey guys, just a quick background I went to my primary care doctor back in June when my anxiety was really bad and she prescribed me lexapro. Ever since June I have been taking 20mg everyday up until I ran out of refills last week or...
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Confronted with the harsh truth once more I'm so fucking tired of being me. Nobody will ever like me for who I am. I'm in my late 20s and have never had a girlfriend. I always struggled with relations but never having someone like me is starting to become too much to bear. I've only have had one date in my life. And ...
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My depression is powered by my home, but the more I stay here the better for my future business [deleted]
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Took 5,200 mg of ibuprofen 13 pills of 400mg of ibuprofen I just really want to die. I know I have people that care about me in my life but I don’t care about that. I don’t know what will happen after death. None of us know actually. I like to believe it’ll be like how it it was before you were conceived. You just simp...
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How do you know who's real online? I started going on okcupid a while ago. I made my profile in a way that I dont get many one-night-stand type of people (by stating that I'm not interested, putting that I'm looking for friends, etc). However I'm always worried if I start talking to someone that they might be lying or ...
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Confessing My Feelings On New Years Hey guys. So my names AJ and on New Years I'm going to tell this girl that I love her. Shes super shy and has never been in a committed relationship before. She's admitted that she likes me and that I like her. We both met from mutual friends through an ex-girlfriend of mine. I swear...
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I'm Just Tired Honestly. Honestly I'm just tired of living a meaningless life. I graduated college with a degree in a field I could give a shit about now, even have a job interview but dont want to go. My parents are no help. I talked to them about my Depression and it always ends up in some Conversation about how its ...
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Help Im 20 years old and im a uni drop out and I feel like im worthless. Ive been suicidal for the past couple weeks and just feel like im nothing
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Hatred Its not that i hate myself, its that i absolutely despise my existence. My life has only been detrimental to everyone who has gotten involved with me. I hate myself because of the things i feel. I hate myself because of the things ive done. I hate that ive gotten people involved with my life. I hate myself. I h...
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I really wish exiting this world wouldn’t leave my family devastated and traumatized [removed]
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Big rant about how 2017 was the worst year for me. [deleted]
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I think i convinced my self i had anxiety but i dont please read [deleted]
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I think im gonna kill myself before the end of january [deleted]
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Is it because I'm high? This scares me a little bit and i can only admit it to myself whilst I'm high. Once I type it here i know it's real. I like keeping to myself. i've always ended relationships early. i just want sex not the emotional attachment. i've ended it with girls because they want to be more serious but ...
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Having hearing problems and dealing with people that get upset words mixed up is pushing me to the edge. It hurts when people get mad at me fo anything I say or don't. Distancing myself from NParents and toxic coworkers is the best I can do. [deleted]
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father just passed away My dad passed away just last week and I cant handle living without him. Ive been so so so close to him my whole life and since I've moved out (im 22 almost 23) I only saw him about 2 weeks before he died and didnt really get a chance to say goodbye or anything. It came on really sudden. I dont h...
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Don’t even know anymore I’ve been depressed as long as I can remember. Every day feel like I’m just waking up to wait around to go back to sleep again. Nothing feels fulfilling. Going on and off anti depressants has been hell. Being prescribed over 250 mg of Zoloft has ruined any energy or will to live I had before. ...
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Tomorrow's the day Things are gonna stay shitty and nothing's gonna change. No more hopes. No more dreams. It's gonna be peaceful. I'm finally at peace.
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Threw up all over myself just as soon as the girl I love was getting interested in me [deleted]
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