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Help coping with partner’s mood swings. I’ve posted here before, and you all were incredibly kind and helpful. I’m back again, this time asking for advice on how to handle my partner’s frequent mood swings.
She’s usually triggered by something small, like a small irritation. Before I know it she’s getting upset and a... | self.bipolar |
Moving home and losing my life I moved to the UK almost two years ago to teach. I wasn’t expecting much as I had never been away from home and figured I’d hate it and move back home right away. The problem is, is I ended up loving it. I made lots of friends and just a month from leaving I met someone that I really fel... | self.offmychest |
Just can't hold it in anymore, held it in for far too long. [deleted] | self.depression |
Im gonna try to stop playing videogames. I dont really know why but it seems like my last chance to change.
I hope it helps me become the person i want to be, if not, there is not much i can do but end it.
First and hopefully not last post, sorry for my english. | self.depression |
I lie to mental health professionals that I'm okay and don't have PALS. GP and therapist enablers and unhelpful. The only person who believed me was my new psychiatrist. Found mouse in tub and overwhelmed with hoarding. Trying to move out controlling parents house at 25. [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
I just wish someone loved me. I'm struggling. Last relationship lasted 4 amazing years until I was cheated on. Nobody else but her knows about my depression and self harm. Now that she's gone I'm completely alone. I don't want to talk about that stuff to my friends because I'm not that kind of person to them.
I just... | self.depression |
What is wrong with me Okay, i've been in this subreddit for the past few months, venting my problems with college abroad and getting aid. Faced culture shock, language barrier, and a whopping 9 classes in 1 sem. I couldn't change it or else i'll be considered irregular or some shit. handled depression for the past two ... | self.depression |
Does anyone else miss feeling the feeling of being loved? I don't mean just being cared about, like a parent. I mean the feeling of someone coming into your life and eventually loving every part of you, and making you feel wonderful and needed and right with the world.
Too many people have left me. That part of my bra... | self.depression |
I just know that the amount of time it's gonna take for me to fully get over my breakup is going to exceed the threshold of "normal." When I was 17, I went on one date with a guy. One date. It wasn't even a real "date" -- we went to Chipotle, and then walked around a toy store next door and messed around with toys. We ... | self.offmychest |
Has anyone tried magnesium supplement for there anxiety? This is day one of trying it out. I’m really hoping it works. It took a lot for me to take it. inside my head my anxiety took me to the verge of thinking everything that I take I’m gunna have a allergic reaction to. I took it about 5-10 mins ago. Kinda freaking o... | self.Anxiety |
Why cant i be happy... I try to find something... anything to make me happy... but it always ends up making me depressed or angry... I feel like I cannot be happy anymore... I end up hurting myself over things I thought I would enjoy... I been looking for years now to find just one thing in life to make me happy... but... | self.depression |
Ever have a lot of good things going for you, and yet you still want to die? [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
my girlfriend is the only thing that keeps me going [deleted] | self.depression |
Does anyone call you a hero? For dealing with bipolar disorder and mental illness? [Here's a quote](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7abfow/my_beautiful_granddaughter_fighting_a_brain_tumor/dp8rrtx/) from someone who called a young person with cancer a hero. Do we get this kind of recognition and support? I th... | self.bipolar |
I don’t know what to do with myself anymore - run away? [deleted] | self.depression |
Do you guys ever just zone out? I'll be doing something and feeling as good as I can, and in a matter of seconds my whole mood shifts and I go into this fog. Blankly staring at everything, barely speaking and not wanting to. When I get like this I wish I never see another human being. I wish I would just crawl in some ... | self.depression |
I just want to feel OK for 1 minute. I feel like my whole day is just a desperate rush to feel not terrible but I never quite get there. The only time I feel comfortable is when I am asleep. But I can't sleep becuase if I do I will fuck up my life even more. I think that if I only felt OK for part of the day I might be... | self.depression |
Tired of being inadequate I’m just tired of feeling like I’m constantly worthless. Two weeks ago I quit my job due to anxiety and today I got scammed on steam for almost 50 bucks. Everything in my life is complete and utter shit. I have no friends and my parents don’t understand me. I’ve just given up. I would give an... | self.depression |
Tips on defeating health related anxiety? Besides stop googling and taking medication ( I'm not trying to take, tried it for a bit and it made me more anxious) does anyone have advice on defeating health anxiety? I'm currently getting better as I take a great vitamin pack which includes b. Vitamins and a good quality m... | self.Anxiety |
Today i am alive Yes i am, i am fuctional and productive and i dont waste my time and money on stupid shit, today is a rare day, days like today comes once in a couple of months, but it still a great day, i am not depressed to the point i cant brush my teath or take a bath, and cant care about others, i still dont like... | self.bipolar |
I keep thinking i'm choking on everything and everything is out to kill me. it's hard even leaving the house :( My anxiety continues to grow worse and worse anything I eat if its crunchy I assume it's stuck in my throat and I will choke to death. I just can't deal with my brain anymore it's broken | self.Anxiety |
i failed for the first time i failed in love.i wanna die [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
"How are you?" What do neutral answers mean to you? I have this one good friend, we spend our time together since 3 or 4 years ago, but we never talk about ourselves, at least not about problems we might have and I really care about him so I often find myself wondering if he is okay, since he is kind of quiet, calm and... | self.depression |
I'm killing myself because of this system we're living in, thanks to whoever came up with it [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
contemplation I'm sitting here in my trailer (I'm living at a ski resort at the moment for my job). It should be my dream job but I feel so empty and alone.. even when I'm with people. I have been manic for the past 6 months and it was beautiful (except for the intermittent psychosis ofc). But fuck I want to be psychot... | self.bipolar |
I just want to find some peace I don’t know what do to with my life. I have to go to school like all my contemporaries but I just can’t. I’ve always been a pretty good student but nowadays I’m barely able to stand up so how can I possibly study, do exams and all that school related shit? I want to take one year break t... | self.depression |
I start feeling lonely and depressed if I am alone for just one hour [deleted] | self.depression |
I don't know what to do. I made this throw away account because I'm ashamed, and I couldn't bring myself to say anything on an account people might know me on. I'm scaring the hell out of myself, I don't want to be alive anymore. I feel like the movie should've ended a half hour ago and now I'm just wasting every ones ... | self.SuicideWatch |
I don’t want to die but not being alive sounds like such a wonderful option I have tethers here. I’m in love. I have a close friend and a good father. I have a future I want to see. But I’m in such a dark place and there’s this constant voice telling me just to give up even if it would hurt everyone I care about. I hat... | self.SuicideWatch |
I (f/26) just moved in with my boyfriend and am experiencing panic attacks in the new apartment [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
I'm currently on leave from being inpatient. When I go back I'm going to sneak in a razor blade and slit my throat. What will happen if I fail? Will they send me to a more secure unit? I really want to die but I'm scared that if I fail I'm going to get sent to a more secure unit and get put on 1-1 observations. | self.depression |
My mind won’t shut up Everything seems to constantly go wrong because of me. I push away everyone who cared about me by being a paranoid bitch. I keep spiralling down and down, but no one will take me seriously. No one cares. I’ve thrown away the pills I was taking and my razor blade, so that I can’t hurt myself any mo... | self.SuicideWatch |
I don't want anything anymore. I don't feel like living anymore. Nor do I feel like commiting suicide.
The very concept of wanting something feels meaningless. Nothing feels important and/or better than something else. The value system became nonexistent.
I am no longer sure what made me depressed in the beginning. I ... | self.depression |
I honestly think that if school didn't exist, I would be much happier. [removed] | self.depression |
I need help to deal with my traumas (long post) I'm male and i born in 1996, i was a wonderful, innocent and pure child.
I'm adopted since i'm 1 month yo, but i know my biological family, so, it's ok.
With my "adopted" family, i was created freely, i could have fun whatever i want, i grow up playing a Atari console,S... | self.depression |
I know we're just friends, but... For the purposes of this, post (a very long one) the ending is what I'd like to get off my chest to the girl that this is the subject of. I've been told that telling her this would be less than ideal (to say the least), but...
So, a few points of background info. "Winnie" is a cowor... | self.offmychest |
Happy manic-versary to me! Does anyone else remember the precise dates their episodes started? I remember the beginnings and ends really clearly and then in between gets real fuzzy.
A year ago today I was a huge mess and was planning on killing myself in under 24 hours but for some miraculous reason my mood decided to... | self.bipolar |
I feel like I'm two different people. One that loves life and is going to conquer the world, and one that wants nothing to with anything and cant bring himself to get out of bed.
It makes getting any work done nearly impossible. Any time I feel the motivation to get it done, either Im not in a position to do it, or by... | self.depression |
You tell me to be me, but you still act like I'm fake. | self.depression |
When I get depressed or stressed out I dream about a girl I was with 24 years ago, which leaves me even more depressed. Anyone has a similar situation? [deleted] | self.depression |
I have accepted I need help and have some questions Ive been dealing with anxiety or depression for two years now and im fed up. The reason I say Depression or Anxiety is because I dont have a actual diagnosis I refuse to feel this way and just accept it. I want to get some kinds of medication and i just wanted to kn... | self.Anxiety |
Recently diagnosed with bipolar and I'm confused. My psychiatrist re-diagnosed me with Bipolar NOS. I was misdiagnosed for four years. I'm still questioning if I actually have bipolar though because anxiety is my main problem. I haven't really experienced full on mania(atleast I don't think), I only get very irritable ... | self.bipolar |
I'm fucked I had a threesome tonight; after both girls were hysterically crying
Uber fucked up and I ended up drunk driving them home
Got caught by the parents and now I'm dead
I lost 20 grand this week day trading
I found out I won't be graduating college because I can't get a class I need
I fucked things up with the ... | self.SuicideWatch |
What do you do when your "friends" are just using you? As in, they're so obvious about it that they'll ignore every message asking to hang out but freak out if I'm a bit late to get their weed. Most of them just want weed, although one of them I think enjoys straight up psychologically fucking people, and she's great a... | self.SuicideWatch |
How depression feels like. (For me) I've been dealing with depression (aka. Ignoring it and hope for the best.) for nearly three years now and went into suicidal thoughts after the first year. Today I felt like talking about how it feels living with it.
Depression is a sickness that affects your body as much as your m... | self.SuicideWatch |
I’m on meds but I keep getting panic attacks Sometimes during the day but mostly when I’m trying to sleep. If I try to distract myself I don’t get to sleep for a long time. If I leave it alone then it gets worse. What can I do to help it | self.Anxiety |
I might commit suicide soon, but I'm scared of the consequences for my family [deleted] | self.depression |
Screw This I don;t even know why I'm posting this, I pass hoping for someone to reach out, or maybe there;s still [art of me that wishes that someone would undersyand. I ended up going hosptal aftermy last post, and each day sincethen ithas been worse and worse. Finallt got myself some whisky and wine tonight, a few cu... | self.depression |
feeling like an anxiety imposter I deal with a lot of confusing symptoms that I can't be sure are anxiety symptoms or just me being a bad person. I feel emotionally distant when someone is upset, I freeze completely up and feel the urge to lash out, run away, or I just become mute. My partner is super frustrated with i... | self.Anxiety |
DAE get annoyed when people say "well you should be better in a couple months right?" Okay so I used to work night shift and it was easy for me to go to my appointments because I would just go after work. Now it's a bit harder because I work days now. I asked my boss if they could possibly extend my lunch or request FM... | self.Anxiety |
Can't eat since starting new job I just got a new job baking at Tim Horton's at the start of the week. I thought I had my anxiety under control before, but after the first day I started having horrible prolonged panic attacks.
One issue that surfaced from this is the smell of food brings up this anxiety. I can only ea... | self.Anxiety |
I've been hanging on by an emotional thread this entire holiday season And it all culminated into me finally breaking down today.
Fuck Christmas
Fuck people
Fuck depression | self.depression |
What was your diagnosis process like? Hi guys. I was hospitalised for 3 months last year due to a severe psychotic episode. I had one in the past as well although it was shorter and mainly involved hallucinations rather than a full break from reality. My doctor/psychiatrist prescribed me lamotragine-a mood stabiliser a... | self.bipolar |
How do I get help? I'm 21 years old, and a junior in college. When I first started school, I had already been anxious and depressed for a while, but it got much worse after the first few weeks of freshman year. Since then, it's been getting progressively worse every semester. I used to have perfect attendance, except f... | self.Anxiety |
Had to get off the gym because two dudes were grunting like pigs and moaning like they were fucking. Why does the staff not do something about this? I'm just a scrawny guy, those dudes were ripped as fuck. There is no way I could just politely go there and ask them to keep it down. God fucking damn it. | self.offmychest |
TW: Childhood Sexual Abuse. Again, TW: Childhood Sexual Abuse. Please be safe.
So here’s my situation. I come from a tight-knit, highly functional, loving and supportive, average suburban family. Two loving parents, two kids; no dog or minivan or picket fence, but the rest is a postcard. And no one has ever known that... | self.depression |
I wish I was with her instead, and I feel like shit [deleted] | self.offmychest |
I don’t open up to anyone because I’d rather keep the mystery than they finding out how uninteresting I am. | self.depression |
I've been dead for I cant even remember how long at this point I just haven't gotten to the point yet. Xanax makes times not exist. Quit everything hardly leave bed just bought a metric ton of xanax and I've been floating through time and life somehow for i dont even know how long. I couldnt handle the pain everyday. I... | self.SuicideWatch |
I wish I just never met her Well this is going to be very long but here goes. I started talking to my now ex girlfriend November of last year. I had had a crush on her for quite some time before then. We started talking and hanging out, and it was really great. We then started dating in January, I just had really stron... | self.offmychest |
no motivation/passion for anything anymore back in middle school, I had dreams and aspirations and I wanted to become someone amazing, but now it's just all disappeared, and it fucking sucks. | self.depression |
I find poetry can express how I feel better than anything else. [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
Is anyone else starting to freak out a little over the upcoming work Christmas party season? I know it’s only November but ours is one month away, compulsory, I don’t know anyone and find it impossible to socialise :( [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
I feel as it i'll never have friends, anyone to comfort, help again.. how to handle the rough phase I have went through? 2017 has been hard on me and I could use a consistent wise type to help me get past troubles, shame etc.. I'm bored, nervous, can't enjoy hobbies even because of my own issues e.g. health concerns, n... | self.Anxiety |
Mixed episode/ PTSD (possible trigger warning) - I am struggling to cope with losing relationship with best friend and psychologist I don't know if this is the right sub but I am so worked up right now I don't know where to turn.
I just saw my psychologist and we established I am probably having a mixed episode (paran... | self.bipolar |
The loop Seriously stuck in depression and self attacking loop. Everyone please say a prayer for me. I'm going to try to change this week | self.depression |
I wish i wouldn't have to worry about being lonely and just enjoying school. So,I'm in the 11th grade now,repeating it because of just pure fucking laziness and being stupid.But there's nothing that can be done now.
So I have a problem where sometimes I'll talk to people in class and have conversations and then other ... | self.bipolar |
My body feels scared most of the time. I'd never experienced intense anxiety before, but after a really rough patch of depression suddenly it's hitting me like a train. Even if my thoughts are relatively calm and together my stomach is in knots and my heart rate is elevated from pretty much the moment I wake up. It's s... | self.Anxiety |
I have been planning it for so long it seems surreal Many would say my problems are of the kind that is often labelled to belong to first world. I am a relatively well-off girl in her twenties, fluent in English in addition to her two native languages; I've got a good science degree from abroad, have worked at nice cle... | self.SuicideWatch |
I was going to kill myself tonight but as I made the noose I chickened out [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
I don't know what to do I'm going to post this in two sub reddits, because I don't know what kind of answer I'm looking for. I'm also not going to use a throwaway.
I guess this really started about 15 years ago, but what has prompted me to write this happened about a week ago. I will start with the back story, which i... | self.SuicideWatch |
I saw her again, she looks happy My ex broke up with me 4 years ago. Ever since then my optimism has never came back. I tried everything to make her happy even at the expense of my own happiness. I didn't see it coming she broke up with me out of the blue to chase other guys and girls and rubbed them in my face like ev... | self.depression |
The worst night of every year Halloween is bad because you get to see how much of a loser you are and how lonely you are. You get watch all night in agony, the stories and post of others having fun that you will literally never experience.
Birthdays are bad because no one cares enough to remember. Not as lonely necess... | self.depression |
Please read this 17, male I'm asking is anyone here like me. I have no friends, when Im in school I always sit alone and no one ever talks to me. I feel like im a ghost. I don't talk to anyone either. I always wear all black clothes and a black jacket, long crazy hair. I know people look at me like I'm juliet sykes fro... | self.SuicideWatch |
My coworker is oblivious to the reality of an active shooter situation. I'm frustrated and I think her attitude could get her killed. I work at a government library in a courthouse, and yesterday we had building-wide training for an active shooter situation. Being that we are a publicly accessible part of the building,... | self.offmychest |
Not a new idea, but I'm up till midnight most nights anyway so if anyone needs to chat I will be here probably. I like hockey, computers, gaming of every kind, music, dogs, and I love helping people. I have had anxiety all my life and I've seen a few doctors and therapists so hopefully I'll be able to help. Although I'... | self.Anxiety |
Despite the fact that i want to get help, i'm terrified of the outcome. (Random thought in the night, so bear with me.)
I've had anxiety all of my life. This means that if I went to therapy and/or if I got on medication, I'd start to live in a way that I've never experienced fully. This thought scares the living shit ... | self.Anxiety |
I feel really awful on putting my body through such severe anxiety It has to be very awful | self.Anxiety |
Today is one of the harder ones Hello everyone..
Today is just one of those days I can’t see the hope or the “light at the end of the tunnel.” I just keep replaying the same negative thoughts, the same self hatred, but today I feel powerless to stop it, or distract myself.
I feel so boring: none of my old hobbies ... | self.depression |
Anyone else have a flakey therapist? My therapist is always canceling or needing to reschedule. She’s needed to do this 3 out of the last 4 appointments and countless times before. This reallly triggers me as it throws a kink in the whole rest of my schedule. Sorry, just pissed and have nobody else to vent to then stra... | self.depression |
Are these reliable generics? Now I have had terrible generics that are basically just sugar pills, and I have had great generics that work like an absolute charm. For example, I was on Mylan diazepam and it didn't do anything at all to relieve my anxiety, then when I got Teva diazepam I felt calm and way less on edge.
... | self.bipolar |
Has anybody had a hypomanic episode where they watch porn non stop? [deleted] | self.bipolar |
I just carved Unhappy into my thigh. I don't even really know why, I've never self harmed before. | self.depression |
I miss you like crazy. This is really stupid, I used to only read these but here I am writing one this time.
A few weeks we broke up. It's okay. I'm okay. Everything's okay.
I'm tired of pretending everything is fine. I'm broken inside. There are memories of you, everywhere I go, everything I do. Is it like that for... | self.offmychest |
I'm bottling everything inside for X months and i'm hoping to snap, instead it's eating me | self.depression |
Depressed friend is my depression trigger both me and my friend have struggled with depression since we were young and recently ive been able to move in a positive direction with my depression, i know how to manage it and ive had less down days.but everytime i see my friend they talk non stop about suicide and their de... | self.depression |
The Frick'n Holidays are here! Dammit!! Time to grease up the roof and barb-wire the chimney. Santa ain't landin here I tell ya.
There should be a place that can just put people in suspended-animation until the holidays are over. Your relatives can even come see you if they want. All happy in your sleep chamber. | self.bipolar |
My friends are excluding me from their group We meet each other every day and we all have the same classes. We used to be so close with each other but then it all kind of changed because I got mad at one of them and they thought I was mad at all of them. We got along and eveything and I thought we were okay, but then I... | self.Anxiety |
Not married, no kids, no presents for me. Ever, apparently, I'm almost 50 and fat and ugly. The marriage/kids thing is not going to happen.
I'm a teacher and I like seeing my students succeed. I bought my own house and paid off my own car.
Over the years, I have spent thousands on showers and wedding gifts and ... | self.offmychest |
I saw a cat get killed by other dogs. [deleted] | self.offmychest |
My sister committed suicide, and I don't know how to stop blaming myself. Throwaway.
I didn't want to be messaging her, checking up on her, making sure she was okay, all the time, because I didn't want to drive her away. I sent her links and shared stories to know that I was thinking of her, but I didn't pry about wha... | self.depression |
Wondering who can relate. Lately I think I've been able to put into words something I have felt for a long time.
I don't like to accept help about my depression.
I'm fine with help lifting, help navigating, help with work or social life. I'm fine leaning on others for support most of the time too. That said, I get an... | self.depression |
I don't want it to be 2018. Because my friend will never experience it. He already hasn't experienced a lot. He missed summer, and fall, and winter. He missed Star Wars and video games he was dying to play when they came out. He never got to pursue a welding career. He missed his 25th birthday. He'll never be older tha... | self.offmychest |
My own delusions When I'm in an extreme manic or depressive state, I think ridiculous things about myself.
When I'm manic, I think that anything is possible for me. I have thought things like being able to join the Air Force and become a pilot after improving my vision, getting into an elite college easily, competing... | self.bipolar |
I want someone to care about me. I have this constant feeling that I am invisible to everyone else. When someone talks to me directly I feel so strange, in a good way though.
I feel extremely conceited for saying this, but I want someone, anyone, to tell me to my face that they think I have some kind of redeeming qua... | self.depression |
I cheated. My wife never found out. I feel so guilty... Sure at the time it was a thrill, totally seemed to be a harmless instance too... But as time progressed it really started eating away at me. I should have told her! At one point I was almost certain she caught on when she noticed me looking at property in another... | self.offmychest |
First ever 22 year old who feels lost, what do? For the last year or so I've just felt like I don't really care about anything anymore, and I feel like I'm in a giant rut so to speak and I can't break out of it. I'm not really enthusiastic about anything anymore, and my grades (I'm in college) are dropping again and in... | self.offmychest |
Newly diagnosed, really afraid. Was just diagnosed to Bipolar 2 with psychotic features after my third hospitalization this year (thanks VA). Looking back and reading about this disorder it makes a lot of since, however I have destroyed my once promising life to get here.
I have lost my wife and children. I have had t... | self.bipolar |
My schedule is overflowing right now. Don't really know what to do anymore. I wasn't getting enough hours at my last job, so I picked up a second one, and I am working both. Together, they amount to about 20-25 hours a week. This week I am working 30 hours, I have 27 hours of class and student teaching on top of that, ... | self.Anxiety |
Part of me wants to do it either today or sometime this week I'm done with life. I'm failing school (dropped a class and getting a D in an important class). Every semester I tell my family I'll do better, but that's been going on for about 2 years now, and my motivation to succeed is long gone. I'm tired of being a bur... | self.SuicideWatch |
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