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How do i control my irritability? Sometimes i would start raging over small things and i just can't control the anger | self.depression |
I can't make myself do anything I've been dealing with horrible anxiety and depression for the better part of 2017. I'm on a decently high dose of antidepressants now, which helped for a few months, but now I just feel like my depression is overtaking my life. I have no motivation to do anything right now. I need to cl... | self.depression |
I'm having a really bad anxiety attack(bad compared to how they usually are for me, at least). What do I do? I started getting really anxious about halfway through my shift at work. The weight of the world, my problems, my mistakes, etc. just started suffocating me at all once. It got even worse when my boss asked me a... | self.depression |
Where oh Where has my Creativity Gone? Before meds, I was taking my children to the beach twice a week, gardening, cooking. All the fun things. Super excited about painting our new house and all that. My anxiety was at an all time high. I had been unmedicated for a year due to no insurance. Most of the time I was extre... | self.bipolar |
Pressure Is Building, And I Think I Have No Choice But To Escape Soon [deleted] | self.offmychest |
I'm just so tired To cut a long story short - I've been living with depression/anxiety for as long as I can remember, and I was actually pretty good at managing it for a while (minimal cutting, managed to maintain the appearance of a functional human being) until I tried to end my life when I was about 16. Since then I... | self.depression |
How the fuck do I relax I've recently realized that because of long term depression, anxiety and dissociation, i've developed severe general anxiety and health anxiety, which has prevented me from relaxing in months. I miss being able to relax, switch off my mind. Even when i'm doing something stimulating for the mind ... | self.depression |
Its most difficult when my friends aren't around When I'm alone nowadays my mind keeps racing with bad scenarios of my gf thats missing, I noticed I was only close to being happy when I was voice chatting with my friends on discord, and right now I rather just die because of how overwhelming my thoughts and feelings ar... | self.depression |
Crying while working the register at work I work at a convenience store and had a really rough morning. I'm been in a really bad depressive episode these past few weeks because the person I had feelings for cut me off. I walked into work today and immediately started crying in the break room and went to get on register... | self.depression |
Wish I could freeze time, Take a nap forever [deleted] | self.depression |
Bank account will most likely hit 0...another job interview where I'm not the primary candidate. Still very unsure of my future.. I'm plenty sick of living woth my family, and yet there's not much I can do about it. | self.depression |
Just lost.. I’m not one to post stuff on the interwebs like this - I apologize if I offend anyone but I always felt like it was just - humiliating and ridiculous but I’m just at that point of everything where I feel as if I’m staring down an endless pit, one foot above it.
I know I have a very complicated form of depr... | self.depression |
Do You Think Anything Will Make Surviving Worth The Pain of Living? [deleted] | self.depression |
Starting Uni please help About to start Science at Monash and I've definetely started worrying about wether I'll be able to make friends? I've had trouble during high school due to anxiety and none of my friends are going to Monash with me, is anyone else freaking out too? | self.Anxiety |
The weirdest feeling ever is when you just randomly stumble upon a photo of your ex getting proposed to in your news feed. I mean, I'm so happy for the both of them, but it feels really weird lol. Not in a sad or negative sort of way but rather just... weird. I don't know how else to put it LOL but congrats, you two! :... | self.offmychest |
I love being depressed. It’s so good. Not having a reason to go on and going to sleep every night wanting to die is all I’ve dreamed of. I really purposefully put this on myself. I love these feelings of emptiness :) | self.depression |
Turns out, I loved it I was feeling [blah](https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/7kh47t/blah/), but as it turns out, I am so glad I went to Star Wars with my partner!
I really enjoyed the story (and, of course, my partner's company), and my mood got way better :-) . And, yes, there was still time to play Wo... | self.offmychest |
I feel like the worst human being alive It's unbearable.
I think I'm the worst, ugliest, most terrible person existing. It makes me so suicidal and makes me justifiy anything bad that has happened to me.
But the thing is that a lot of people tell me I'm really sweet, nice and loving towards them.
Yet I get used, ... | self.depression |
Super sad and very depressed... Hi guys, i hope u guys will listen to this and help me... I'm Super depressed.
Basically,
I'm a Music university student. Next week, there is a week of orchestra, and there are 2 flutes. (My instrument). Last month, the school office told me that I was gonna get 1st flute (the more ... | self.offmychest |
My 2018 resolution is save money for a psychiatrist. I just have a panic atack, and after that i realize that i can't live like this no more or i'll end really bad. I hate myself so much guys. I have a decent life and can't enjoy because i don't know why i want to fucking die. So, in Spain psychiatrist are expensive, i... | self.depression |
My depression is ruining my relationship. 18 year old guy here. Ive been dating this girl for a year now (yesterday was our first anniversary) and today she just told me that my constant unhappiness is draining from her happiness. All I want is for her to be happy and I would do absolutely anything to put a smile on he... | self.depression |
I'm just so exhausted, all I want is to feel at peace. [deleted] | self.depression |
He warmed up the toilet seat for me This might seem stupid and ridiculous to most people, but I really hate how during the winter the toilet seat is freezing cold in the morning so when I wake up, and I always dread having to go to the bathroom.
Well this morning when I jokingly told my bf about my first world proble... | self.offmychest |
There is one thing I hate about programming and its philosophy By the way, there is one thing about the UNIX culture and philosophy that I actually really hate. It is the ``philosophy'' of not `reinventing the wheel'.
I'm completely shattered whenever someone says that to me (someone said that to me twice yesterday).... | self.offmychest |
Ruined my life over my horrible, disgraceful nationality and all the shit it’s done to me. Ah Pakistan, I may have been born and raised in America but the pain you’ve caused me has spiraled my life into a hole I don’t know how I’ll overcome. The depression, anxiety, and embarrassment you’ve caused for me the past 7-8 y... | self.offmychest |
I feel like I'm the biggest idiot on campus [deleted] | self.offmychest |
I don’t understand and I can’t explain I am a 21 year old male. Suicide crosses my mind when I wake up and when I go to sleep.
I hung a noose in my closet a couple weeks ago. Every night I glance at it and wonder if I should just get it over with.
I know I’m never going to get better. And I know that I’ll never be ab... | self.SuicideWatch |
I'm talking to my psych tomorrow about cutting back my meds Kinda nervous. I've been on mostly the same meds for ~2.5 years now. With stress management, they've kept me relatively happy, sane, and functional. It's been great pulling my life back together. But, I still feel brain fog, flatness, nausea, low sex drive, et... | self.bipolar |
I'm so behind in all my school work because of my stupidity and I'm so stressed. I haven't been able to sleep because I'm so stressed. I had a reading break and I'm still behind because I spent two days working on a lab that's 1% of my final grade when I should have been working on my essay that's worth 25%. I'm so bad... | self.offmychest |
Does anyone else wonder what type a life you would live if you weren't so anxious? | self.Anxiety |
Im not sure what disorder i have, looking for help First of all I know everyone deals with anxiety and not everyone has a disorder. However I would not be making this post if I did not think I actually had a condition.
I've never been diagnosed and hope my anxiety is not so severe that I need medication. What I expier... | self.Anxiety |
I don’t think I’d feel guilty about it... ...if I just decided to leave, though I’d make sure it’s somebody I don’t know likely to find me if I ended it violently. Otherwise I’d end it peacefully if the opportunity presented itself. I always found it interesting that, for alot of people, the only thing stopping them is... | self.SuicideWatch |
I'm a disappointment. And I know it.
I'm back to feeling like I should end it again, and i'm almost happy about it. It's not true happiness, of course. It's like, remembering someone you used to spend time with.
I feel like i'm in a haze all the time. My girlfriend is upset that I don't seem to retain the informatio... | self.depression |
I am pathetic and sad af for stupid reason and life in general isn't helping [deleted] | self.depression |
I just don’t care And it makes me seem like a horrible person.
We just got word today that my fiancé’s grandfather had cancer. Pancreatic this time. He previously had prostate cancer, but that was caught in the very early stages.
His grandfather has been estranged from everyone for almost 10 years. Almost the entire ... | self.offmychest |
What to do now? According to my Mom, I've always been bipolar. She said I would have periods where I'd be more irritable and agitated and periods where I'd sleep a lot and be apathetic. I wasn't fully aware of these changes, but it all came to a place where I couldn't function. I would be enraged, crying, or both over ... | self.bipolar |
Feeling super strange, don't know what to do Hello :) So I don't really know where to address it. Usually I have depressions and maybe it has something to do with it. I really need some advice, I feel like exploding :'D
The last week I was kinda happy. It felt a bit forced because I was super focused on keeping my moo... | self.depression |
I feel like i have been cursed and im just so depressed right now after a major life change. I am 12 years old and feel like i just have no reason to live anymore, ive left all my friends moved to a new school and all my family is going through some very major things. My mom is suffering from cancer and all this happen... | self.depression |
I don't think it's going to work Hey. So being with you in our casual, dating, not quite there relationship has been pretty great. You really are a nice guy, no matter what you think. You seriously have put me first when needed which I never really had in previous relationships. I like that, it's nice to actually be sh... | self.offmychest |
Circles & Vertigo Waking up makes me want to cry but I can't because I need to pull myself together to go to work, my family can't see me cry because they do not believe in mental illness and get mad at me for not being okay so I play along to the meaning of my name Abigail - fountain of joy, they refuse to believe... | self.SuicideWatch |
"Motivational" videos.... sorry for the rant but for fucks sake every time i see some sort of "don't kill yourself" or "if you think you are depressed watch this" video it's just the same fucking thing, like "THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE IT A LOT WORSE THAN YOU" or "JUST MAKE YOURSELF DO THINGS, LOOK AT ALL THESE PEOPLE ... | self.depression |
I wish I could stop waking up Every day starts with a feeling of dissapointment, because the dream world wasn't real, because I remember what my life's like, because I didn't die peacefully in my sleep.
I cannot fathom what it would be like to wake up and be happy to be alive. | self.depression |
Partner is ridiculously affected by my moods and his inability to "fix" me? (x-post /r/bipolar) [deleted] | self.bipolar |
Day 6 - Celexa to Lexapro * No morning vomit! Let's hope this continues.
* Still waking up to cold sweats
* I think once I go up to 15mg it'll really start to help. | self.Anxiety |
Unconditional love "I love you unconditionally" people say that all the time but I don't think they know what that means because after saying that,they ask to be loved back as much,they ask for marriage,they ask for sex.they ask the other person to stay with them forever...but for me I love her unconditionally and I k... | self.offmychest |
A piece of a discussion I heard today Today I was waiting for my class to start. I was just standing there. There was a sofa roughly 10 meters away from me and there was (what I assume) a couple sitting on it. The boy said: "I'm so tired. Can I use you as a pillow?" The girl agreed and they were just sitting there and ... | self.depression |
The reason I can't stop Sometimes I remember that this happy facade I put up for everyone else is fake. I convince myself that I'm doing it for them, because it would make them sad to know how often I think about ending it all. However, I know that its really for me. I know that the real reason I do it is because I can... | self.depression |
Shout-out to all fellow Anxiety sufferers.. ..white knuckling through family Thanksgiving dinners today.
You got this. | self.Anxiety |
Maybe there's nothing wrong with me I do all the wrong things- I don't leave my comfort zone and stay in my house, I don't talk to friends, so I've isolated myself, I stay in bed and browse reddit all day...
And then I can feel happy, but there's always an underlying nervousness beneath it all.
I can't stop analysing... | self.depression |
I’m scared of myself, and that makes this worse I’m afraid of my own depression. I️ don’t think I️ am suicidal because I️ am afraid of death as I️ am an atheist and personally think once you die that is I️t, done-zo. On that note, I️ think my depression is making me more prone to considering really risky thoughts i hav... | self.depression |
Writing a paper on depression and it's making me want to kill myself [deleted] | self.offmychest |
So, I just had a vasectomy! Take that future manic me; the consequences of poor sexual behavior will be greatly limited henceforth and in perpetuity. Now, time for some ibuprofen. | self.bipolar |
Anyone hear about that 19000 lb space station projected to uncontrollably fall to Earth? I hope it spares innocent souls when it lands right on top of me. | self.SuicideWatch |
Is it normal to feel just generally down at all time? I feel like I can be happy, live a normal life, go to the gym, school and meet friends but I'm just sad at the end of the day. It's wierd because I've had depression and anxiety BAD in the past but depression was more of not really feeling anything and because of it... | self.offmychest |
I just want to ignore all my responsibilities and anxieties and go home to my parents and break down and be cared for... | self.Anxiety |
No rumination allowed, move on, get over it. Because living in America means it's frowned upon to actually look back and see where it all went wrong. Awesome culture we live in, real good for depression. | self.depression |
I think I'm too far gone to ever live normally, medicine and therapy hasn't helped. Is there anything else? Every day of my life is just agony. Physical and emotional agony. I always feel like I'm suffocating, I always want to throw up, my back and neck are fucked up from an accident and none of my family cares. I've g... | self.SuicideWatch |
New here! I'm never going to be able to get a job outside of my home. [deleted] | self.Anxiety |
the day has come where theres no return I never knew what to be when I grew up, everyone had their dreams to become lawyers, police officers, doctors etc, not me, all I ever wanted was to have something of my own, work for my self and be able to live my life on my terms. God gave me that oppertunity but I threw it away... | self.SuicideWatch |
How do i help my grand parents when im sick too Lately more so then ever my mental health has taken a massive turn for the dumps i feel like im going competely insane my mother couldn't handle me staying up all night not doing anything so she kicked me out and my grand parents graciously took me in and i feel like im m... | self.offmychest |
High-functioning in need of help. I recently moved to a new city for a job. Over the last 4-5 months, Ive assimilated, gotten in and out of a relationship, and I’m beginning to flatline. I’ve always dealt with confidence and esteem issues, but I’m at my wits end. My days are monotonous and I feel very lonely. Any inkli... | self.depression |
I'm Tired of This Endless Cycle Between Hope and Despair [deleted] | self.depression |
I’m 16 and for 5 years I’ve tried and wanted to kill myself but I’m just to scared to go through with it I’m scared of the pain [deleted] | self.SuicideWatch |
I just want it to stop. I'm a 28 year old gay guy with no job. The only thing that keeps me here is my family and my online gaming friends. I wish I was straight and that I was someone else. I feel like I dont fit in and that everyone in my life would be better off without me. I just feel so lonely and depressed. I hav... | self.SuicideWatch |
There’s a chance I won’t be able to graduate high school because I’m too stupid to pass math. I feel like shit not being able to do what millions of other people can. I don’t feel like my life is finished but I want it to be over. | self.depression |
Does anyone else have a "list of passable excuses" For example, you agree to go somewhere with friends. Then when that day comes, depression hits and you feel too crippled to even get out of bed so you use a passable excuse just so you don't have to explain your depression to them because you think they won't understan... | self.depression |
Burning/Sweating when there is no background noise? I'm 99% sure this problem is caused by anxiety but I may as well post here to try to figure out a solution, if there is an easy one in this case.
Whenever a room goes silent or even right now, when I paused my music, my body instantly starts feeling like it is 80°f i... | self.Anxiety |
Question about conquering fears.. I know this is going to sound ridiculous because everything is situational and everything effects people differently, but I just wanted to use you guys as a sounding board for a theory I've had that I've wanted to test, and I wanted to get your take on it before hand. I am diagnosed wi... | self.Anxiety |
Mom going through mania again. My sister and I want out. [deleted] | self.bipolar |
Family time is bad for my depression The holidays mean tons of family time! Unfortunately, I don't enjoy family time. My family isn't, terrible and abusive, but they also aren't enjoyable to be around. I'm not out to most of them and I feel uncomfortable being around them. They're very conservative and I'm very progres... | self.depression |
I just stopped caring I'm always frustrated and stressed out at work.
No matter how hard I try or how many times I check my work I always make a mistake.
And when I make a mistake my boss flips out.
On more than one occasion he has sat me down and gone over my construction documents page by page and asked me why I made... | self.offmychest |
Prozac? Zoloft made me go batshit manic crazy this time last year. Now we're trying Prozac and I'm understandably nervous. My pdoc swears people can have totally different reactions to drugs in the same class.
Any experiences with Prozac? I'm worried all SSRIs will affect me the same. Anyone tried more than one SSRI ... | self.bipolar |
Best friend doesn't want to be my friend anymore I am trans. He is also trans. He had been ignoring me for a week and a half. I really, really liked him for a large chunk of our friendship, and I handled it poorly. He did not like me back. He's been drifting further and further from me, and then he had a moment of sile... | self.depression |
Once again I have ruined my relationships and hurt those I love for nothing. I need help moving on. I need someone to talk to. I cant get into detail on here. But the woman I love I cant win back. I am what I hate. I cant escape pain. I am pain. I am what I hate. | self.bipolar |
I'm having a really hard time finding a full time job At this point I must have been rejected by 30 companies by now. I am getting tips from friends on my resume and what to say during an interview and I don't know if I'm making some big mistake or it's the fact that I don't have any relevant experience. I am teaching ... | self.bipolar |
It feels sad... ... to not help people.
I can't help them. They're just there, they have that crippling depression. I know that feeling, but I can't put it into words. Or any visual form.
Any advice on what to say to them? Besides going to a therapist, because that's all I can say, actually. | self.SuicideWatch |
I've fucked up all aspects of my life and I don't know what to do [deleted] | self.depression |
Tired of being terrified. I've been homeless since my baby was three weeks old. He's never had somewhere to call his home, or his own room, or anything. My SO I were living with his mother when she was evicted and moved without us. We've been bouncing around since then, and I cannot take looking my son in the face anym... | self.SuicideWatch |
Failure in life is starting to take a toll [deleted] | self.depression |
I wish someone would just shoot me in the head while I sleep. Bleh. | self.SuicideWatch |
Taking a psychology class with bad anxiety So my spring semester starts tomorrow for college and I have a psychology class. I have very bad anxiety and i’m afraid if I take the class it might be bad for my anxiety learning about all the crazy things about the mind and become self aware and all those kinds of things. An... | self.Anxiety |
Gabapentin I get a lot of muscle twitches when I’m anxious, so it increases my anxiety a bit because I don’t want people thinking out tweaking out lol but I was wondering would Gabapentin be a good medication for this issue? | self.Anxiety |
First time posting. The last time I can remember being this suicidal was in high school, 5-ish years ago. Living at home was hard. I was always sure I grew up in an abusive home, fights turned physical way too often, everyone hated each other, but I felt uncomfortable labeling myself as abused when it was caused by fig... | self.SuicideWatch |
Help plz I hadn't had much panic attacks in a while but then tonight I've been having them on and off and it's rlly bad now plz tell me how to calm downnnn | self.Anxiety |
Friends eliminated me from the group it doesn’t make any sense. can figure out what i may have done to trigger it, but 5 of my closest friends from high school have stopped responding to my calls or texts. i thought it was just a phone issue at first, but it is too unlikely of just coincidence. i don’t know what i did ... | self.depression |
Always Feeling alone I feel alone. The point is, I would say I have a few good friends, but I have The Feeling Nobody understands ne and Really feels me.
I cant talk to them about my suicide thoughts.
What should I do? | self.SuicideWatch |
I would literally kill someone to be able to afford my own apartment [deleted] | self.depression |
I let myself slip and now I'm too unmotivated to take my medication. I'm not really sure why my depression has relapsed. Possibly just the stress of my high school senior year. But in any case, I'm worse now than I've been since my parents' divorce--the difference is that now I'm better at hiding it. I should be taking... | self.depression |
I need the best way to kill my self That will actually work. I don't have access to a firearm. I'm considering driving my car at full speed into a wall, not traffic I don't want to hurt anyone else. I've thought about hanging, considering going to get rope in the morning when Home Depot opens. I sat in a bath tub with ... | self.SuicideWatch |
I think my depression may be gone? Or almost? But I still do jack shit and sit at home all day doing nothing... Like I've realized that recovering from depression isn't instant. It will take a while for me to get back into the swing of things. I wish I was high functioning depressed at times because I'd at least DO stu... | self.depression |
i just want to quit for once in my life [deleted] | self.offmychest |
Boyfriend of 4 years, who'd been my rock, broke up with me over text [deleted] | self.bipolar |
Pain management for a temporary bout of illness? If I had to classify my risk of suicide on average from 1 to 10 (1 being not a thought, to 10 at a verge.) o would say 3 occasional thoughts, with the rare serious contemplation. However I got some bad food poisoning that comes with waves of pain that push me to an 8 for... | self.SuicideWatch |
Kind of lost New to the sub, decided to post on a throwaway.
Since the start of my second semester of college I’ve realized I feel 100x more tired and unmotivated to do anything. I don’t have suicidal thoughts or any desire to hurt myself but I can’t help from thinking about how useless I am. To be honest, I just hav... | self.depression |
mini Stroke or just anxiety? hello
I'm 25yrs old, suffering from anxiety and panic attacks since 17
it has been days that I'm having problems at my work and I'm somehow angry, yesterday when i was at work, i got angry so bad and my colleague told me to calm down or you'll have a stroke
several minutes later, the right ... | self.Anxiety |
Job interview I have a job interview on Monday and I've been trying to keep my anxiety under control and not obsess too much about it, cause when I do I can easily go into a spiral. I've started to overthink little things like whether wearing my glasses or my contacts make me look more suited for the job (I know it pre... | self.Anxiety |
My anxiety is my downfall and it's driving me crazy I'm just not the same anymore. As of 2nd year in medicine my thinking and learning process has mutated into something else entirely.
Recently I've been having anxiety which stems from my weak memory and forgetfulness. I'm so afraid I'll forget even the simple most ea... | self.Anxiety |
Don't even know if I should post So today is officially the 2 year anniversary of my sister's suicide, as well as the 1 year anniversary of my brother's suicide (he did it on her anniversary, nobody was ready for that. They were really close...)
I'm not feeling good today. I really don't know if there's a point in con... | self.SuicideWatch |
Does anybody else feel unmotivated on lamictal? I've been taking Lamictal/Lamotrigine for almost 2 years after my diagnosis was switched to bipolar, and it changed my life for the better with regards to mood. However, I feel like while it's made me happier and more stable it makes me so lazy. I'd always been efficient ... | self.bipolar |
There is light at the end of the tunnel [deleted] | self.offmychest |
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