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My depression and mood swings are destroying my LDR. [deleted] | self.depression |
Am I the only one when in social situations even around friends I just want to go home? [deleted] | self.depression |
Anyone else hate people romanticizing mental illness I hate seeing casual jokes about suicide, or depression, or anxiety, or OCD from subs like me_irl. It's really serious and I feel like people fake having mental illness just for fake ass internet points. I especially hate when people say things like "omg I'm so bipol... | self.Anxiety |
Tried to swim just to stay float I tried I really did but my emotions always seem to come back. My mom has told me that these are just "fake emotions" and if I press them down I wont even feel them. The problem is im not really sure what emotion is anymore. I hate my mom for trying to help me with shitty advise that ju... | self.depression |
Managing your emotions at work? Does anyone have any tips on how to successfully manage your emotions at work?
I started a new job 4 months ago but am struggling with stress induced anxiety as they expect me to perform at the same level as the previous emoloyee without providing training. I literally have no idea what... | self.Anxiety |
FUCK ANXIETY I hate my anxiety and no one gets it! Except for my therapist, thank God for her. It gets in the way of everything and I’m just so over it. I feel like I and crazy and losing my mind | self.Anxiety |
Stomach pain with Lamotrigine/lamictal I've been taking lamotrigine 200mg pm dose for a while now and it's been working well. Just wondering if anybody else has dealt with similar stomach pain issues below.
Sorry for the wall of text, hopefully it makes sense.
Over the last few months I've been getting really intense... | self.bipolar |
Is it not right to live for your own happiness? [deleted] | self.depression |
I need sympathy and no one gives a shit [deleted] | self.offmychest |
I found a really weird strategy for dealing with my severe anxiety ..laughing at it. Or making light of it.
It sounds really stupid probably, but it helps me to talk about it out loud and sort of joke about it.
I've had an extremely anxious day and I've been walking around talking about "my chakras" outloud and how I... | self.Anxiety |
A patient shot himself today. I'm a med student... starting the ER part of my IM core. And I dont think I want to do the ER bit anymore.
He wasn’t at the hospital because he shot himself. He was staying for a bit because he had sickle cell and was going through another pain crisis. At least that’s what the nurses said... | self.offmychest |
So the love of my life, who I thought killed herself a year and a half ago, is still alive, well and has blocked me since I tried contacting her for the first time in months. i mean fuck idk what you want me to say after that | self.SuicideWatch |
Fallout I just had a fallout with a sibling. She's 10 years older than me and we've lived apart for a long time until I moved in with her last year. Coincidentally, it happened just a few months after I'd started a treatment for a heavy depression that went undiagnosed for years for many reasons, most of all denying PT... | self.depression |
2003-2017 Im sick of everything, nobody wants to help me anymore. Everybody hates me and i have no more will to live. I will hang myself with my shoelaces or belt maybe, and hope for the best. | self.SuicideWatch |
I don't eat. The last 6 months or so i just don't eat right. I used to at least eat a granola bar for breakfast and if I didn't I would eat a snack. Now I don't even eat until lunch. Lunch is normally pretty unhealthy, and if I don't even feel like eating ill at least get a herbalife shake cause it has protein and some... | self.Anxiety |
How am I supposed to commemorate Christmas? So my parents are pretty much obligating me to go and commemorate Christmas with my family.
How am I supposed to do that, if I want to kill myself? Am I supposed to pretend that nothing is wrong? That I am not misarable? I can't laugh it out ffs.
Christmas just became a rem... | self.SuicideWatch |
Need advice. So here is whats up with me i am overvaluing the life of a 10 year old girl i dont know on the internet and devaluing my life. That means i think someones life on the YouTube comment section is better than mine and this makes me feel like my life is shit and that makes me sad.I know what you are going to t... | self.depression |
Im supposed to be studying But I write this test tomorrow and I feel like Im missing so much information. I can't get myself to study, I don't know why I should but I dont want to get bad grades. Im not in danger of failing my class at all but if I would I would either seek help or kill myself. Not that thats a thing o... | self.depression |
I love my friend, but he is moving school I am gay and haven't told anyone. I love this person in school, but he is moving and wont be coming back. I am thinking of telling him I loved him have done for some time on Friday next week (his last day with me). what can I do? | self.offmychest |
I’m losing hope in I can’t say I struggled with depression at all in my early years, or even through my first years of college. I think my first encounter with depression is when I met my now fiancé who has prescribed medicine for her depression and bi-polar. She explained she had a hard time holding relationships beca... | self.depression |
I can't do this anymore No-one cares.
I thought I had friends in this world...but I don't.
Goodbye | self.SuicideWatch |
Honey, am I going hypo???? So today I did an hour long workout with my personal trainer (ie-best friend), made homemade foundation makeup from beeswax, shea butter, cocoa butter, zinc oxide, and cocoa powder/turmeric for color, my own powder makeup from the same dry ingredients, grapeseed oil and frankincense makeup re... | self.bipolar |
Manic Stress Reaction Recently, I ended up in the ER after being awake for 72 hours when I began to believe I was exhibiting symptoms of stroke.
My symptoms of (hypo?)mania:
I spent about $400 in about 36 hours, which is very uncharacteristic for me.
I wanted to be 'out', so I went to the mall when the building wa... | self.bipolar |
I feel like no one will ever love me romantically. So, I'm 16 and I've been feeling really bad these days. I never had a relationship in the past, I never held hands with a girl, nor kissed one. In fact, I don't think anyone ever thought I was slightly attractive. I'm underconfident, shy, ugly and I really feel like I'... | self.depression |
It feels like everyone has a fantastic life but me [deleted] | self.depression |
Can hypomania come back after only a month of stability? For most of last month, I was hypomanic. I came back down to stable after a med change sometime around the 21st, and I've been stable ever since.
One month later, I'm starting to feel that same restless positive energy feeling that precipitated that hypomanic e... | self.bipolar |
I have a problem with these kind of people I don't know how to feel anymore, anxiety is taking over for me now. About 8 months ago I had an online friend of mine just randomly send me inappropriate pictures and videos consisting of people taking advantage of their dogs. I was terrified and for some reason I just kept l... | self.offmychest |
I hate that I love you You told me what we had was special, you told me the connection and chemistry was real. You know how I'm like as a person, you know my history and everything I've been through.
I gave you support as best as I could, I made sacrifices for you including my sanity but again and again you hurt me wi... | self.offmychest |
2 stories I need off my chest. I THINK I have bad luck with women. Why?
Because each time I finally TALK to them (Aspergers) they leave,
This has happened multiple times in my past (Long term)
First in my childhood I would get dirty with a female friend of mine, no sex just heavy petting (is that the right word? Heav... | self.offmychest |
Drinking and lithium? Hi, this is my first post here but I've been lurking for a while. The other night I went out with some friends and I had three mixed drinks. I'm on lithium so my tolerance is shit but this was a new low, I blacked out, called people drunkenly and sent indecipherable drunk texts to my boyfriend. So... | self.bipolar |
Does Jetlag affect your anxiety Im going on a trip for the first time , to a far destination.
Was wondering how jetlag affects you, if it comparible with sleep depreviation. | self.Anxiety |
I can't do this med thing anymore Honestly every day I continue to take these meds I feel like my bodily autonomy has been violated. I didn't want to take them in the first place, but my psychiatrist during hospitalization basically coerced my into it. Now I can't get off and my current psychiatrist is totally unrespon... | self.bipolar |
I'm trying to get back on the road to success [deleted] | self.offmychest |
Question about what this would be For a while I’ve had panic attack paired with depression but not much on going anxiety. Recently a bad event happened and my anxiety has skyrocketed and I think about the even multiple times a day and has led to a lot of cutting and panic attacks. Would this just be ordinary anxiety or... | self.Anxiety |
I feel empty. I have been feeling disillusioned with life for the longest time. I’ve worked hard, graduated uni with top honors just to realise I hated my course and wasted my time studying, never exploring to find myself.
My mom expects so much of me. I hate it... my parents were never there for me emotionally when I... | self.depression |
I sung in front of a crowd for the first time tonight I’m at a resort with my friends and their parents (I’m 17). So it’s just us and my friends and the bar crowd at this disco area in the resort and my friend pushes me to sing karaoke with him in front of an audience.
It was fucking awful
My voice was already rasp... | self.Anxiety |
Coming off sSRIs - side effects? Hey all,
I'm currently tapering off my Escitalopram and have found I'm feeling a bit shaky and keep getting these sort of 'zaps'.
The best way to describe the sensation is that it's like when you're lying in bed about to sleep and suddenly imagine falling and your body jerks? Feels l... | self.Anxiety |
Currently off meds for 11 more days since I was allergic to the last one but now my emotions and moods and life are all over the place [deleted] | self.bipolar |
Just waiting to die I'm not actually living, I'm just on auto pilot going through the motions in this shitty life, I feel like I'm just waiting to die. I wake up in the morning anxiously waiting for night to come so I can leave this shit reality, then, the cycle repeats. | self.depression |
I don’t want to give up I know that inside there’s still much more to give. I feel like I haven’t given anything. I was born with turbulent emotions. And then I was labeled “Sick” and I’ve been sick and I’ve never been me.
I have fallen in love with this world. In spectacular buildings, in foreign countries. On sleds... | self.bipolar |
My memory is garbage, and it hurts to live. I can’t deal with my anxiety anymore and I’ve tried everything
* Meditation
* Light therapy, melatonin
* CBT
* Desensitization
*probably something else who knows
I have no anxiety meds for attacks because the doc is afraid is abuse them, fair point. I can no longer function... | self.SuicideWatch |
Sleep Aid / SSRI Hello! I've been meaning to ask this:
I have been on zoloft for about a week now, and before this I was taking about 200mg of 5HTP a day. I have been told I can't take 5HTP and Zoloft together because of Seratonin Syndrome.
I have a sleep aid that I have taken, called Super Sleep. It is three things,... | self.Anxiety |
Really got nothing left to give For the last couple of years I've had difficulty caring about anything at all for more than a few days. I had a girlfriend who was basically my shelter from the downpour of depression that follows me around but she broke up with me a couple of months ago.
I had to withdraw from uni for... | self.SuicideWatch |
I dont see the point anymore. I am tired. Physically tired yes; but im talking about mentally tired. The tired that cripples me and captures me. I am tired of being ignored. I am tired of being a burden of making others lives shit.
Every day i wake up, go to college, come home and sleep. Nothong special happens. Noon... | self.depression |
Glimpse of my thoughts Long time lurker, first time poster.
I apologize in advance for 1) the wall of text that you may or may not read (worry not dear redditor, there is a tl;dr at the end of this post) and 2) for posting this in the wrong subreddit. I felt like letting others know what I am thinking and what better ... | self.depression |
Sometimes after I talk I wonder why the hell I just said anything at all. I feel as if nobody is truly listening and what I said was stupid. I'm not talking about me crying out for help or anything. Just in general. | self.bipolar |
Has anyone else's depression/social anxiety gotten so bad that you can't even ask for ketchup Or anything like that. Asking for directions, talking in class, etc. My mind just tells me "it'll be easier this way don't make a fool out of yourself and walk away." | self.depression |
Doc thinks I'm Bipolar 2... I'm not so sure Hello everyone!
First off, I want to say that I know this sub is not a place to ask for medical advice. That being said, I would really appreciate y'alls *non-professional* insights into my situation.
I'm a 31 year old female. I recently began seeing a new psychiatrist who... | self.bipolar |
Would anyone care? Would anyone notice if I lifted my foot on the ledge of a highway bridge? Would anyone care? Would they all just drive past and leave me to make my choice, a good riddance statement? Care or not, I just want to fall off. | self.SuicideWatch |
On the edge Overwhelmed at work and not getting enough sleep. I hate this routine and this life i live. Like i say in all my posts, lack of motivation for myself. I don’t know what is wrong with me. Constantly surrounded by this darkness in my mind and its eating away at me. I want love and loyalty. Is that to much to ... | self.SuicideWatch |
I hate how what is normal and routine for most people is such a challenge for me. Getting out of bed, showering and brushing my teeth, saving money, doing homework, communicating with other people. I just wish I knew where and when it all started to go wrong. :( | self.depression |
How do I stop my family from pitying me? [deleted] | self.depression |
Can you give me reasons why I shouldn't kill myself? I can't think of any right now. | self.SuicideWatch |
Anxiety and trust issues Ever since I can remember I could never fully trust anyone. I grew up not having family just my single mom who worked her ass off but also dealt with her own demons. When I first realized my issues with trust I saw it as a good thing. This way I was always prepared for the worst to be let down ... | self.offmychest |
I wonder what people would say about me after finding out I killed myself [deleted] | self.depression |
Anxiety with an unfortunate/Embarrassing effect Throwaway here Male, 24.
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this.
So recently I have been having a problem with anxiety, mainly performance anxiety when getting aroused. For some reason I just have this mental block, and intrusive thoughts that will just make ... | self.Anxiety |
Struggling with Motivation I know I have things to do but I cant seem to stay motivated or focused enough to do anything but lay on my floor. Dont know what I expect from posting this, I just wanted to see my feelings put out there. | self.depression |
The ending.. I’m 17 and I’m done with life. I have nothing more to offer on the table. Nothing interests me, or makes me excited in life anymore. I just want to leave now. | self.SuicideWatch |
Life has become so overwhelming, I’m just going to off myself. Between my anxiety and depression, being behind on bills, trying to figure out ways to take care of my family, not being allowed back in school due to my mental issues, feeling like a failure and feeling as if God doesn’t give a fuck about me, I’m just drin... | self.SuicideWatch |
I have so much to do, but zero motivation for any of it. As many of you may know, finals and the end of the semester are coming up. I have 50+ pages to write (I'm a senior, so I have some upper level classes), several projects, and a final all coming up within the next week. I know I need to do it... But I've been layi... | self.depression |
Has anyone felt they lost interest in hobbies? Before I got diagnosed as bipolar type 2 my diagnosis at the time was clinical depression. I didn't have a lot of energy to do things but I heavily enjoyed writing, doing origami, reading, and sometimes drawing. Around the time that my depression started evolving to bipola... | self.bipolar |
can't talk to that girl. just take another cup of coffe and get over it. You're a failure. Everyone knows it. Between chronicle pain, anxiety and depression, those are the only things you will truly feel, because that keeps you alive. You don't seem to like it, take meds trying to solve it all, but deep inside, you wan... | self.depression |
This past week has been absolutely horrible and stressful. First off. I'm a graduate student at Uni. I turned in an assignment yesterday evening, that was mostly unfinished due to complications. Had to interview a person that stopped answering me and I had to get an exemption from my teacher. I've been working on that ... | self.offmychest |
How do you with the suicidal thoughts when they come back? [deleted] | self.bipolar |
I want to do something with my life, but don't know where to start? I really want to do something with my life. For a long while I wanted to do film/music/or art as a career, but as I grow older and more mature I've realised it isn't really a viable career path.
So, recently I've been thinking about getting into teach... | self.Anxiety |
Did Zoloft alleviate your social anxiety? Hello everyone. Just wanted to say that this subreddit is great and have found a lot of inspiration/ information through r/Anxiety.
I finally made an appointment with a psychiatrist and was prescribed 50mg Zoloft for my GAD and (very) mild depression.
Was wondering if anyon... | self.Anxiety |
Am i the only one having hard time believing a compliment? [deleted] | self.depression |
I can't. I just can't take it anymore. I tried, I don't know maybe it wasn't enough, but I used to think it's worth keep on going. It's just not possible, not possible for me at all. The last person, the only one single human being I thought for whom it might be worth living - misunderstands me most of the time. I feel... | self.depression |
How to not be scared when being confronted? I’ve been noticing that my body tends to enter this flight or fight response but instead of being brave and stepping up to confrontations, i get scared shitless. I really wanna step out of this endless fear and step up for myself. | self.Anxiety |
Recently diagnosed and seeking support New to the sub, seeing advice/support/ words of wisdom from others who have gone through this.
I recently started seeing a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with "bipolar depression". Its nice to have a name for my behavior, but I feel like I lost who I thought I was.
I always tho... | self.bipolar |
Having an anxiety spiral over recent accident I don't even know if this is really the right place to put this, but I really just need to write something down right now. So on my way home from work today, I was stopped at a stoplight. I look in my rear-view mirror, and I see a woman RAPIDLY approaching, who is clearly l... | self.depression |
I used to do things I've been sitting in front of a computer for four years staring at columns of numbers.
I am depressed and trapped and desperate.
I used to have a life that didn't sound like something that would make you want to kill yourself and now I am not even one whole step above a not-especially-clever AI. | self.offmychest |
I'm too lazy to plan my own suicide. If I couldn't hate myself more, I'm even too indecisive and lazy to plan my own fucking death.
It's got to the point where I'm just making bets to myself like "if I get less than a C on this exam, I'll commit suicide before the end of the year" and shit like that. Sadly enough, I'v... | self.SuicideWatch |
Revenge I am going to beat your face in next time I see you Anthony Fagot. | self.offmychest |
Feeling like I’m losing my voice figuratively & literally I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder about 10 years ago and find that it manifests itself in different ways. Currently I’m on this kick about not being able to express myself in anything and it just seems to be getting worse. My life has been de... | self.Anxiety |
Eating So I'm officially obese. Gained 50lbs in the past 6 months and I want to die badly. | self.depression |
Almost had a panic attack a few minutes ago while on the train Anxiety sucks. I've been having financial issues, since I've been helping my family go through a tough patch while studying and working full time.
I haven't been sleeping properly, and my neck is all sore from this. Everytime this happens, my anxiety kick... | self.Anxiety |
Shame: Thoughts on Letting Your Family Love You When You Can't [deleted] | self.offmychest |
There is nothing of great value that I can add to humanity I am a waste of flesh who isn't brave enough to cut an artery or two.
Why was I born so stupid. The only thing I have ever wished for is to not be average. Turns out I am below average.
| self.SuicideWatch |
Please help Last night I felt my heart pop and it just feels very light in weight tonight I can just feel it be very light. Nothing else hurts my arms are ok and there’s no numbness but I just need to know that I’m ok. Please help if anyone else feels this | self.Anxiety |
Sleeping is the only time I’m not depressed I sleep so much because I can avoid depression but it leads to me being more depressed because I never get anything done sleeping. | self.depression |
My overly convoluted and weird opinion of my best friend [deleted] | self.offmychest |
i wish i could be loved by someone I just feel so unlovable. family, friends patronize me i think. they dont really want me around, they just pity me. i wish i was worth it to someone to actually love.
i hate never being the first choice. always a replacement or fifth option. i just want to mean something.
i hate tha... | self.depression |
I feel like we guided our friend to breaking up with her boyfriend and now we feel terrible. We are a group of 5-6 friends and one of our friends, Amy, always used to tell us of her boyfriend who goes to another college. They live in the same area and met in the senior year of high school before she went to college and... | self.offmychest |
High on cocaine, feeling lost and sick I'm a former philosophy and english major. Whatever academic aspirations I had are long gone. My body is deteriorating. My hair slipping away, but body crashing from drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. I'm in a pit I can't seem to escape. Tried a few times to die but all the attempts ... | self.SuicideWatch |
Just sitting in my car alone. I can feel myself slipping and getting worse. This week I have noticed changes in myself and I hate it. I just want to avoid it all I don't want to deal with it. I don't want to go home i don't want to do anything. I'm scared of getting like this. I don't want to feel like this and I'm sca... | self.depression |
Why are other people important to you but you're not important to them? [deleted] | self.offmychest |
Working 60 hours a week and a $37 insufficient funds fee put my account into the negatives today (F, 24) The bank won’t forgive the insufficient funds fee so I’m out $37 that I desperately need.
I’m working two jobs and still can’t get ahead, despite budgeting out all my paychecks. If anything unexpected comes up, I’m... | self.offmychest |
I get nauseous when I go out Every time I stay at a friend's house or visit them I get nauseous. Sometimes I throw up as well. I never know if I just *happened* to get sick or if it's caused by my anxiety. I've been a hermit for the last 7 months, I barely leave my house and I don't usually go out alone.
Does anyone r... | self.Anxiety |
Anyone have experiences with celexa? Did it work? If so how long did it take to work? | self.Anxiety |
Teacher taking Class Out for dinner as end of semester treat. trying to stop myself from freaking out and bailing. I haven't done anything social like this in years, if ever. [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
I'm going to kill myself in 4 years if I can't find a partner to face life with I'm currently 21 and I haven't had much sucess so far finding a partner or any friends. I'm trying but I'm not doing a very good job of it, I'm not the kind of guy that can juat walk up to women and say "Hey! Hows it goin? want to go out so... | self.SuicideWatch |
The Passing of Time I get anxiety about time passing, I’ll be in the middle of hanging out with people and immediately imagine myself at a point a few hours in the future already thinking back to the situation.
It makes me anxious cause I feel like I’m never living in the moment and it makes it harder to appreciate li... | self.Anxiety |
Bad day (warning: talking about suicide and being melodramatic) Disclaimer: I talk about suicidal thoughts but I'm not suicidal in the "gonna do it" sense.
I woke up and felt it. Today is a bad day. Today is a day where I try to think positively but can't help but try to figure out how old my kids need to be before m... | self.bipolar |
I use Mind tricks to overcome my anxiety for a day Its been almost 9 years since I first noticed that I can sometimes use what I call "Mind Tricks" to overcome my non-stop anxiety, albeit very temporarily. In the beginning, the trick's effects only lasted for a moment, so I had to constantly repeat them - it was more l... | self.Anxiety |
I tried reaching out to my school counselor and ended up having the police involved. [deleted] | self.depression |
How do you avoid self medicating? I have a lot of anxiety and I'm at a point in my life where i need to get sober. However, I've always masked my anxiety by smoking weed/drinking/taking xanax. I was hooked on xanax for 6 months with a script from a doctor, and I'm scared to take it again because of how bad the withdraw... | self.Anxiety |
Kidney Disease Does anyone else here have kidney disease? I was diagnosed about a year ago after taking lithium for 5 years. I just went to the nephrologist today and I came home so depressed. I hate that place. I'm already in stage 3 and the doc said I'll probably need a kidney transplant.
I feel like this brain dis... | self.bipolar |
Bipolar w ADHD question I have a definite diagnosis of ADHD and a questionable diagnosis of bipolar. Backstory: I got the diagnosis of ADHD a few years ago, was put on Adderall, and proceeded to ruin my life - bad financial decisions, bad personal decisions, no regard for consequences, etc. stopped the Adderall and de... | self.bipolar |
Thinking about pain is a trigger for me. Does anyone who can relate tell me how to beat it? [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
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