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I hate groupthink which implies summer is categorically better than winter People at work, around the internet, in life look at me like I'm Eeyore, so typically I bite my tongue. Weather's getting colder. Awesomeeeeee Days get darker earlier. Awesomeeeeee I'm not being cynical / deliberately depressing / sarcastic...
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Psychosis or extreme anxiety? I have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder. Lately, I've been very scared that someone, in particular, is out to get me. I told this person that I didn't want to have sex with him, and even though he said it was "totally cool", I'm afraid that he is ...
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What meds have worked for you? I’ll keep this brief but have any of you found success in meds other than benzos? Lamictal really helped me with depression but idk about anxiety.
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one of the five reasons my brains aren't on my bedroom wall yet died yesterday.. i feel like a deer caught in fucking headlights.. wish i was dead instead </3 rip ☆LiL PEEP☆ fuck..
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Anyone else feel constrained by their Medications? So yeah, each evening I take Latuda, which needs to be taken with 350kcals and Seroquel which I can't take anywhere but in my flat due to severe sedation. I feel sometimes like my meds constrict what I can and can't do in the evenings. It's my birthday today and I'd lo...
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JUST REALIZED THE ICON FOR THIS SUB CHANGES FROM SMILE TO FROWN WHEN YOU HOVER OVER IT. Life changed. That is all.
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Every time my boyfriend says goodnight or goodbye I get into a depressed mood [deleted]
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What kind of supportive texts would you like to receive While in your depressive state? [deleted]
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No motivation and I finally know why. I'm tired of people controlling my life. I'm tired of not doing what I want to do. **I'm too smart for the world to put it lightly.** No, that's not why I have no motivation, it's why I wont be able to mask it with any of your "suggestions." No offense to those who find happiness o...
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I'm still alive I don't want to be, but I am.
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[NAW] My therapist got arrested for child pornography I don't know what to say. I trusted him for four years now. I never made any other friends and every time I was having an episode my parents called him and got an appointment usually that day. He knew my pain. I'm not sad or suicidal I just feel hurt. I think I'm in...
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i feel fake do you ever feel like you're faking your depression? Like i see people here who really are in a horrible place and I feel invalidated or fake, like I'm a liar to myself and to others. I take meds and atm I feel absolutely nothing but I don't know if i'm faking or what i'm so confused. i've self harmed but w...
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If I were being completely rational I'd probably do it. I only have one reason left to live, my daughter. I don't want her to go through life saddled with the burden of her father abandoning her. I also don't want her to go through life saddled with the burden of having a father who is a broken shell of a man. I have s...
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I should have listened to my gut feeling and I should have never gone. Before I went, I kept thinking I shouldn't go. But I have anxiety. I know a lot of people in the world believe that there is no spiritual side to life. But I believe there is and sometimes I wonder if someone is trying to tell me something. But ho...
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Negative feelings associated to many places and situations Does anyone else have the problem that whenever something remotely negative/stressy/anxious happens in a certain situation or place, you put a big "bad feeling, must avoid" tag on it and even when the negative occurence doesn't repeat itself this place /situati...
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I feel myself sliding into depression again I'm not sure, but I feel rather depressed today and I can feel the depressive episode creeping in on me. I'm not sure what to do this time, because I feel so sad and I'm crying all the time. I want to keep myself occupied, but I can't focus on anything. What would you guys do...
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No one to talk to I think that all of my friends don't like me and my girlfriend's always trying to make me jealous. I don't know if it's true I just feel that way and I hate it. I can't talk to any of them about deep stuff really at all. I feel so alone. So I left the group chat and I feel really dramatic and like I s...
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I feel so much better when someone validates me, and tells me I’m a “good boy”, not exact words but some phrase with the same connotation. Thanksgiving was hard but I managed to get through it by honestly, minimizing my anxiety and kinda calling it a piece of shit when ever I started feeling myself thinking about anoth...
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My first psychologist appointment was yesterday Yesterday I went to my first appointment with a therapist, I was afraid because there was a lot of shame on my condition (depression and suicide attempts). Now I felt more confident and I’m going to be attending to next appointments. The doctor was a really nice woman a...
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I felt happy the other day, but now I feel terrible whenever I think of that. [deleted]
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i am making myself insane I want to rip my brain out of my head so maybe it can shut up for just a moment. I tell myself my depression is fake. Even saying that I go, "your depression? what depression?" My hatred for food, my hate for speaking, my misophonia, my anxiety. My hate for my 1 friend. What am doing with my ...
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A poem I can relate to (self written) A Poem about life Life is a rollercoaster with ups and downs, And one day you die no matter how hard this sounds, Your life is just another breeze in a windy autumn, You think you belong to the stars? But you are crawling in shit deep on the bottom, Sometimes it's easier to co...
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Is it possible to have a bad reputation in high school? [deleted]
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This thing where every day a new celebrity is getting accused of sexual assault is getting exhausting Every day there's a new celebrity case of sexual harassment, assault, or rape coming out of the woodwork. At this rate, within the next couple of weeks, every single movie or tv show will be canceled from all of the fi...
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Very unhealthy apathy I've been through a lot (death anxiety attacks mainly) of stress lately and now I became so apathetic about my responsibilities it's almost insane. I am tutoring a little and I can spend an entire week not preparing any lesson plans and come into class and well make something up maybe... It sucks...
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I'm a shitty boyfriend I've struggled with depression and self hatred for as long as I can remember, and it's starting to fuck with my first real relationship. I'm in love with a beautiful girl who loves me too, but whenever I'm alone, the constant barrage of negative thoughts always talks me out of believing that she ...
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Does anyone else hate having a friend that you feel like you're your true self around, because you hate yourself? Sorry if that didn't make much sense, but I have this one friend who's kind of my main source of happiness throughout the day. I'm feeling more isolated than I've ever been right now because I'm out of scho...
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I miss my new friends. Hello, my name is Jaren. I'm in 11th grade and I met all these wonderful people in 9th grade. After 9th grade I switched to virtual school and have been in that ever since. I stopped talking to my friends for a while but the past few months we have reunited, but I only get to see them once every ...
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I'm ruining my whole life because of stupidity and destructiveness. I just wanna die. Four months ago I moved from mainland Europe to England to live with my long-distance boyfriend for two years, destroying the relationship with my family (my father hates my bf) in the process. I went through trauma and loss in my ch...
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Thanks Your advice and experience are appreciated, thank you for sharing. My dilemma however persists, he is too unstable to have the kids alone which means a battle in court for custody which limits my divorce option until they are old enough to deal with him on their own, which now they are not. He has tried so man...
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There aren’t enough distractions I [21 F] can’t seem to say with one career idea before I switch entirely. I know that I’m just trying to be resourceful and find something that’s going to earn me money. But I just can’t focus now. For the past few weeks all of my debts, insecurities have been weighing so much on me, ...
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I feel like a dud. I feel like there was some point at which i should have started the thing i was supposed to do with my life, and i just didn't. I'm a 21 year old single guy, i work in a call center (both the highlight and low of my current situation.) i live in a single room. i dont have a car because i habitually w...
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16yrs student (M) outcast.. A life story with mobbing toxic environment depression and school So yeah, I'm 9th grade (failed it first year second and last chance to pass the grade) (german school idk how school works in US but it's something like highschool), and honestly, I'm doing kinda alright good marks in subjects...
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Just had to write my feelings down. So I'm a 14 year old boy how has been battling with self diagnosed depression for maby 7 months. I have felt more or less awful for as long as I remember but it all exploded last summer when my long-distance girlfriend left me whit a text telling me that it just didn't work because o...
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Anxiety and finding solutions Well, I had a depression a few years ago and despite being "cured" it left me some ills, namely anxiety, that has been fucking my life for the past 2 years. I am 20 years old and I am healthy, however I suffer from almost intolerable stomach problems derived from anxiety. Basically I tak...
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Sometimes I wish I had no friends or family so I could commit suicide without bothering anyone. By "sometimes", I mean "right now".
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can someone help me? I absolutely hate this mental illness. I sleep so much to numb myself. yesterday I broke down at my job crying because I kept messing up (i’m a food server) and I was doing a horrible job and I had to be left off early and I called in sick today. this depression is ruining me. I lost a lot of frien...
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Update about dogs and anxiety I posted earlier this week asking about dog owners with anxiety and I wanted to share my experience. I adopted this week! I wanted to rescue an adult dog 1) because adult dogs are rarely adopted 2) adult dog's temperament is evident when you meet them and usually doesn't change. I browse...
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Nearly died and I can't stop thinking about it [deleted]
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Hey guys, just need a little bit of advice [deleted]
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The severity of your mania precedes the severity of your depression I know we all love mania, but the thing we all need to keep in mind and continue reminding each other is that while the wave of mania might feel great, the exact inverse of that wave that we will eventually swing back toward, depression, deepens the hi...
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I wish I had the courage. I wish I had the courage to die. I’m just waiting for a freak accident or sickness to take me. Feeling alone is terrible.
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My sweet little dog is dead and it’s all my fault. I’m sorry for the length of this but I don’t know how to shorten it...About two weeks ago, I came home to find one of my two Jack Russells gone. This is very unlike her as she never escapes. As such, I don’t have her chipped and I don’t have a collar on her. I look all...
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How can I be so miserable that I want to die but at the same time be so afraid of death?
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How do you tell what feelings are normal? I can never tell if I'm feeling or doing something because I'm bipolar, or if it's something normal, that everyone does. Can you guys differentiate what's normal and what's not?
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I feel like a shell of my former self. Hi there folks. For ~2 years now I've been feeling real bad. I moved out of my parents house a little too soon at the age of 17, failed my study, and lost control of my life along the way. Stopped taking showers, experienced a feeling of exhaustion, while getting 11+ hours of slee...
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What am I supposed to expect? * I say I care about my family but have no contact with them * I say I want to help my parents financially but I don't care about money. I waste money. I am careless about money. I only make decisions that put a financial strain on them. I have done nothing for them. I don't even call my b...
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No Friends I have a LOT of trouble making and keeping friends. I've had so many friends in my life who have just bailed on me because they couldn't handle my bizarre behavior sometimes, and it's made me aftaid to open up my heart to anyone else. All my relationships with the people in my life are superficial because ...
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Ive always considered it the most selfish thing anyone not terminal could do..... Now im looking up ways to make it. Look accidental. And literally think about it multiple times a day. My lifes a mess. Partly medical partly my own self destructive nature. Im doing too many drugs and drink too much to escape just.... Ev...
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“friends” has anyone else had a friend that claims they care about you and will say stuff like “I’m here if you need to talk” but then ignore you? also when people that you’ve barely talked to seem to care more about and check up on you more than your so called “friend” ? does that make me a bad person for being a l...
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Waking up After years of being in a dark place, where I was scared of the world. Now at 18 I'm realizing something. As a kid I kept to myself because I had no guidance, and well basically sat in front of a tv. So no wander my attention span,emotions, and so on were never tapped. As the years went on I stayed in the sam...
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So it's been 3 years since I visited this sub [deleted]
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lamotrigine dose question I slowly worked up to 150 mg within a 3 months. At 150 mg I was starting to see a difference but not quite there yet. Dr bumped up to 200 mg about week and half ago. It seems it's going down hill since I moved to 200 mg. Each time I was bumped up i would feel depressed, irritated, etc for arou...
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Finished an outpatient program and feel hopeless My life has been falling apart since November, and I really don't think I can keep going much longer. I was in an adult partial hospitalization program for the last three weeks and felt like I was making a little progress, but now I'm out and I feel as terrible as ever. ...
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My best and only friend of 3/4 years left me. I don't think I can find anyone else [deleted]
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What can i do How do you cope with knowing you'll never have a happy family? How do you cope with knowing you'll just never have a group of people who you know love and care about no matter what, know you better than anyone else, and that you can come home to at the end of the day and tell all about your day, and eat d...
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Night Anxiety.... Part 2? As I've posted before I get bad night anxiety. However I have done something that I think can change that!! My night anxiety basically makes me believe that there is a monster or demon in my room and it scares me so much that I bought a night light. However, I always feel like its down by my...
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I just want to roll over and die There's nothing I want to do or say. There's nothing to inspire me because I can't be inspired. I don't care. I just want to die. My life is going to turn to shit because I'll let it. I don't want to have to put up a fight.
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I just googled "Miserable and Alone" Like literally thinking I could find some helpful advice. There are some articles but it's mostly stuff I've read or heard before. I was talking to this girl I work with for like a week... Constantly. Then she was over last night. We kissed, it seemed to be going well, but not past ...
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Often you are the only good thing in my dreams, and that is why I lurk your social media. [deleted]
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limiting my suicides impact my biggest dilemma when it comes to killing myself is that my only friend has told me many times that if i killed myself he would to. but i think ive found a solution, if i can pull it off. but i don't know if it will work. first, i'm waiting. they go to school in a different state. because ...
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Life feels worthless and I don't know what to do There are times I have optimism and hope for the future, but it never lasts longer than a few days. After my recent suicide attempt I've started exercising, started doing more around the house, put in a claim for benefits and I've gotten refferred to a couple more mental...
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5 yrs without cutting and I finally gave in [deleted]
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I have Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and I want to tell you about Zoloft [deleted]
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I feel like everyone eventually hates me Hi guys I've never been very good at making friends, and when I do, they seem to eventually hate me and stop talking to me. My parents and the few friends I have from childhood all tell me it could be due to many reasons, and that maybe they are jealous because im pretty or suc...
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I'm pregnant and depressed and I just can't handle this I'm stuck in this rut and I can't stop crying it's so hard to type and I'm in so much pain and I can't do this anymore I can't
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Does anyone else have trouble finding/holding onto jobs? I have had 3 jobs where I lasted less than 3 weeks in service sector (serving food/making food). I graduated from a grad program last year (somehow) and I have been looking for a job in my field. I lost a service job yesterday because I was panicking and could no...
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Alright I'm done I can't take it anymore. I've lost all hope of getting better, there's nothing realistic that would make anything better. I've posted here like 5 times in the past 2 months. I'm in a mental hospital and I LITERALLY CAN'T LIVE. I would give fucking anything for a button which would instantly kill me. I ...
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I hate how society revolves around attractiveness It’s sad that no matter how hard you work, if you’re ugly then no one gives a shit. You could cure cancer and still be forced to look away from women in case they think you’re a creep. It sucks for me because I have a lot of guy friends and get invited to their partie...
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I need to vent. I posted this yesterday but I ended up deleting it because I got kind of scared. I'm sorry if there are any grammar mistakes, English is not my first language. I have been struggling with anxiety and depression ever since I was a teenager, but it has been getting a lot worse lately. 2017 was supposed t...
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Lonely pathetic drunk Feeling so worthless right now. What is the point? I gave up school, gave up my job(s)... If anyone wants to talk to me, I can only do so through WhatsApp. Send me a PM and I will send you my number. I feel like I could use a chatting partner. Will listen to you as well.
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My Parents' brain farts are bumming me out My parents' are both ~65 years old, and it's kinda shitty to see them be less sharp than they used to be. They'll do small things like say the wrong word, forget a task, or lose their train of thought. Ofc these things that happen to everybody but recently I realised that they...
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I feel like my friends don't care about me anymore, but if I let them go, I'll truly be alone. lol I have no friends to rant to so I guess so this goes here. :( I graduated high school five years ago. All of my friend group went to other schools, so I only maintain contact with two of them. I've not made any friends i...
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Just wanna vent a bit! So, I'm 16, have been going through depression for around 3 years now. This year it's gotten really bad. I'm failing school and classes because I end up breaking down and crying or not paying attention at all by all the thoughts in my head. I feel constantly dissociated, like my body and mind ar...
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Netflix’s ‘Bright’ gets shit on by movie critics but ‘The Last Jedi’ is considered one of the best Star Wars movie. Are you kidding me? I don’t mind it when movies touch on subjects like discrimination especially since I’ve been discriminated many times growing up. If you don’t like to see it at all in movies I unders...
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I’m debating weather to do it or not My fiancée split up with me 2 weeks back but she never gave me a reasons why apart from that I was in the army. Now she’s treating me like I’ve done wrong and saying I need to give her money that I owe but I don’t owe her nothing and everytime she messages me I get an urge to end it...
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Feeling the absolute worst I've felt after a Six-Year relationship. Yesterday was the day I was told by a friend to visit this sub in hoping it would help. I just got out of a six-year relationship, and the aftermath of it all has given me the worst anxiety I've felt in a very long time. Its been giving me this dread...
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Can I call suicide hotline if I'm not doing it immediately? [deleted]
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I'm honestly sick of seeing all this sexual harassment bull shit all the time. I get it, sexual harassment/assault is wrong. I find it reprehensible. But the problem I have with it being blasted over every media outlet is it begins to trivialize real claims of it. Every time some new incident is brought up the number o...
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Health anxiety Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone here shared my experience with health related anxiety. I don't think I am a hypochondriac, everything I worry about is real and actually affects me. But recently I was diagnosed with a condition that will pretty much ruin my life in a few years. I have never had anx...
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I guess normal looking guys will do for a relationship [deleted]
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why not? have spent the past 4 years of my life trying to turn things around. Just when I thought that I've really started to make progress, it all comes crashing down. I feel like existence is cruel and deterministic. I don't really know what else to do.
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It's been years but I'm not over it My brother is 3 years older than me. One of my first memories, I was 2, maybe 3 years old, and he told me to put my hand on a brick and hold it really still. He dropped another brick on top of it. My parents thought it was "sibling rivalry", told us over and over we needed to stop ...
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My parents are too smart I’ve had two failed suicide attempts and now my parents have ‘suicide proofed’ the whole house. All blades and pointy objects are hidden either out of site or on top shelves that I can’t reach. All electrical sockets have plastic covers on them. All the big windows are locked forever and the ke...
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My friends are tearing themselves apart and I don't know what to do, please help [deleted]
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Bitter towards life The title. I just feel such a bitter hatred of everything in life now. Tired of the same feelings ,same actions day after day. Nothing feels rewarding anymore. Recently it went from numbness to total hatred. Anyone else ever feel this way? I've talked to people. They all say "It'll get better" "W...
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I like to think of myself as a supernatural creature. Like being a vampire or a werewolf. It sucks. Balls. It could very well lead to my demise. But ... I have a mind which makes you hide this condition really well, cares more about suffering and not letting others feel this way, make every trivial positive moment fe...
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Depression effecting my education I just don’t feel like going on anymore in college. I’m backed up on work and just want to either drop classes or drop out entirely. I’m not happy there, but I know that if I drop out or fail a class I’ll be a disappointment to my parents and my friends. I just feel too bummed out to d...
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Anxiety meds (and yes I'll be talking to my pdoc too). So I'm on klonopin...which should never be long term and I have had substance abuse issues in my past....so no more benzos please. I can't do SSRIs and am sort of afraid of any antidepressants....because I also have bipolar which sort of throws a wrench into things...
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Anyone else feel bad when they look back to when were were a kid? The hopes and dreams we had as a child are the worst to think about. Sometimes i wish i could go back in time to say sorry to the that happy bubbly child. From what i was and what i have become is just a sad site. Anyways Happy new year and i hope this y...
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F**k she is sorely missed. Viva Carrie Fisher! (For anyone needing encouragement tonight) “One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremend...
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How to explain how I feel to my bf [deleted]
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The title doesn’t suggest it, but this poster in /r/tax needs help the community there can’t offer I don’t frequent this sub but would appreciate if someone would reach out in the below thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/tax/comments/7ewtj0/1099_c_student_loan_forgiveness_tax_estimate/?st=JABZ8FT8&sh=0afca256
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my last year classmates ask me to go out with them this sturday.. if i go out with them my depression won't let me have fun. I already said no but i'm sure that i gonna regret it. What do you think guys?
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Alone and unfulfilled When I was 22, I was at a very low point in my life. I was obese, had failed out of college by never attending class, and was alternating between being unemployed and working terrible jobs like being a dishwasher. I'm still unsure of where I got the strength but I turned everything around. I lost...
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Please give me a tangible reason I just want to be valued and liked like everyone else around me is. But I don't have anything to prove it. I'm alone again and again. I'm tired of the cognitive dissonance please give me something
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Driving Test! So my driving test is on the 12th, its my second one and it been 2 months since my first test and ive lost confidence so much and my driving instructor isnt helping! I feel like im not ready at all but i dont wanna dissapoint anyone and change the date, Ive got 3 days till my test and right now my anxiety...
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I give up I'm 27 years old, just got dumped by my fiance just as we were starting to really plain out joining our lives together. We had been planing this for 3 and a half years. I have been struggling with depression and anxiety for a long time but this relationship was the first thing that made me feel hope and motiv...
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(Advice) Constantly Hungry, Stomach Always feels Empty I'm not on medication but I feel constantly hungry and even when I eat until I'm sick I still want to eat more. Eating Ice seems to help some days but others I just have to everything I can to stay away from food. Is there anything any one does that can help me. ...
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Message I want to send to my boyfriend but I cant I feel like such a horrible person. I don’t want to meet your best friend because I am so scared of her and she makes me so anxious because I know shes better than me in a million ways. I feel like I will never be anything compared to her. I will never mean anything com...
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