Emotional Support Forum: Discuss Mental Health, Anxiety, and Emotional Well-being

I've decided I'm going to begin a new thread here as I chronicle my latest problems, concerns, thoughts and victories. The timing seems right for a couple of reasons, even though it leaves my last thread fading off into oblivion... I guess the main reason is that I feel like I've reached some new chapter or threshold in my recent situations. At least, it feels a bit that way. I ...

Hello! Got many problems, but I'll begin with the one that led me to look for another advice forum (used to be on one back in the day that got bought, ruined and shut down by a major magazine publisher). Since at least my teens, I've had big problems with worrying myself sick over things I did. Sometimes, like last night, it's because I really made a mistake, someone told me ...

There was someone I liked very deeply, but I never told him. I always felt insecure and not good enough, and I used to wonder why someone like him would ever love someone like me. He already had a girlfriend at the time, and later, he married her. He always treated me kindly and helped me a lot, especially in a professional way. At first, I thought my feelings were just a crush, maybe because of h...

Hi all! I'm back again after a few months (Hi @soulmate!). Lately, I am feeling kinda down, perhaps in a depressive episode. I mentioned in my previous thread about the lack of dating and general socialization. I had been to my hometown recently. It is a very low stimulation chill kind of place and I generally pick up some new obsession while I am there. Last time I got very deep into a l...

I am a 29 year old man. I live in Europe.I am not a confident guy and I am quiet and shy. I first act, then get the result of my actions and after I have done it I get confident I can do something. Some people believe they will achieve things even before they have a plan of action. They talk about how they will do this and that while I just keep silent and work. I feel like people don't r...

I am someone who's good at studying, i know how to do it and i have the smarts to do it really well and yet i am wasting away my potential by being overwhelmed with emotions and reverting to just being on my phone instead of doing things that actually benefit. I'm just so frustrated about my feelings too like, at times i wish i didn't feel too much like i do at times and end up d...

Apologies for the long post. Nine months ago, my (27F) ex (25M) dumped through text while I was begging on the phone. Just hours before, he told me he loved me and couldn’t live without me. When I called for clarity, he refused to speak and kept typing while I cried. We met on Reddit and were long-distance for most of our nearly 1.5-year relationship. He first messaged me when I was struggling w...

I have a 2nd hand split AC which I purchased last year. That AC model is 13-14 years old. Since last 2-2.5 weeks, I am facing dangers from my AC. Even my AC technician (from whom I purchased this AC) is not doing much to help me. I cannot sleep at night properly due to being aware of potential threat. I know if I sleep, I won't be aware of danger and face some big danger. On May 30, I...

So, I go to a decent school for Computer Science. I'm not super passionate about CS, I enjoy coding and I can do decent on the math courses. I transferred from a small community college where I had a lot of support and only had a 1 hour commute by bus, to a 2 hour commute to my new school where I have no friends, have more work, less resources, have barely any support. So much shit happened t...

It’s been over a month since “P,” one of my best friends, crossed my boundary. I had opened up to him about painful things—abandonment issues and hyper-sexuality after my breakup, sexual trauma, self-harm, drug use, and the shame I carry from all of it. I rarely open up, but he and another close friend, “J,” always encouraged me to share instead of keeping it all in. Our friend grou...

Hello, I hope you're doing well. Here’s the situation: I’m 25 years old. I’m writing to you because I’ve been through a lot in the past few months and I need to talk about it. On January 21st, my maternal grandfather passed away from cardiac arrest at 68 years old. It was my first time experiencing grief, and I took it very badly. Then, on March 20th, my maternal grandmother passed...

I never thought I would be in this position, but here I am, trying to make sense of a silence that feels heavier than any spoken goodbye. Being ghosted is not just someone leaving. It is the slow fading of connection, the confusion that comes with unanswered messages, and the aching realization that someone you cared about chose to disappear without explanation. In my search for clarity, I u...

Hi, I’m a 17-year-old guy from Spain, currently in my first year of a tech baccalaureate. There are two guys in my class—let’s call them Denis and Ian—who constantly tease me about little things to make me uncomfortable. For example, they laugh if I stutter slightly when I speak or make fun of my dad’s name (“David”) just to get under my skin. It escalates beyond words: Denis pokes m...

It's been a little since I've been on here, hello. I made dandelion root tea for the first time, because I do practice witchcraft and I heard it has both medicinal and spiritual benefits. My family didn't like the smell (the recipe said to charcoal the roots and it gave the kitchen a bit of an I made something I was really proud of but I showed my family and they don't like ...

we have empaths beyond what's normal per capita posting for help on our forums. i've been giving the empathic genre extra thought and i have an insight i'd share which may help to understand thus helping the healing process. empaths are thoughtful and caring and forever looking out for other people. our ability to sense and adapt to complex emotional situations sets us apar...

i have a terminal prognosis and ~a year to live. i'm 46 and so my story starts even earlier and is complicated. me and my twin sister were born 4.5 months premature into incubators after our mom had partied and done the irresponsible (drugs, booze). immediately no immune system. which never really developed, and clinging to life. mom having done these things and me being first born my hea...

I feel so stuck. I want to be decent at art so badly, and while I have improved, I’m just not where I want to be. I’m terrified I’m gonna wake up one day and not have my passion to keep trying despite it all. I just had surgery a few days ago and am anxious to get back into drawing but I guess a silly part of me thinks I will have regressed my skill in the few days I haven’t created. Up...

I feel guilty, yet also abused. It ruined my relationship with him and my family. It's something I've been thinking about and needing to get off my chest for a good while. His name was Christopher. We aren't friends anymore. He cut me off because "we" were starting to feel like too much for him to handle. It's all my fault. I just wanted him to be happy, to stay wi...

In 2014, I came late to a class. Teacher made me sit on the floor. After a while, he said "Your father has paid fees. Move this side so you can see the board and take value of the fees." There was no room to move, so I said "Sir, it's okay." He said "Its okay if you dont take value of the fees?" And entire class laughed. I am not able to sleep and live my life. T...

Hi! I got very upset with what might seem not a big issue for the most of the people, but however it seems that it was big enough to me to make me ask for advice. In March this year I have had a high school reunion after many years and it happened that several of us wanted to keep seeing each other so we started going out once or twice a month eversince. By now we met each other about 15 t...

I have a strange mentall illness. If I don't resolve this, it will affect my daily life. There are certain places in my city which are very crowded, chaotic, heavily jammed, noisy and congested. I get really mentally disturbed when I go through that area. I feel impatient, irritable and agitated. Others seem to be more calm and patient in those areas. If I keep on having issues with s...

I was 16. I am a male. It was summer vacation, and I was so lonely that I wasn't happy. I decided to install multiple friend-making apps in the style of Tinder, where you swipe left or right on people. This specific app has a chat room where people of all ages who are registered can chat. I clicked through the profiles of whoever was chatting and found a girl with the same nationality as me, ...

I'm feeling rather hurt. My only Sister just totally lost it with me. I support her constantly. I bite my tongue often. I reached out to her just to vent my concerns. I felt worried about my relationship with my daughter. I have nobody else to turn to. Both of us being Mothers with a daughter I was hoping for some emotional support and a shoulder to cry on. I was hoping ...

I’m confused. I don’t know what’s real or in my head. I’m realising so much recently. I used to think my anxieties were my issues but I’m finally thinking actually , my anxiety is only about one person , no one else , maybe she has made me this way. I’d really appreciate advice, opinions. This goes back years and years. My children are grown up now and ive had anxiety regar...

I am writing this with a heavy heart, living each day in fear, knowing that my voice could be silenced at any moment. In Venezuela, speaking the truth has become a crime. I have risked everything to expose the brutal reality of forced detentions and the mass killings of innocent civilians, and now, the regime is coming for me and my family. We are trapped in a country that no longer respects hu...

i am totally in pain right as my boyfriend of almost 2 years decides to hangout with my best friend behind my back. i mean how can you be in love with someone and go about sleeping with their friend does that even make any sense at all? now i lost a boyfriend and a friend all to greed i don't even know how people live with such. i just feel so alone right now and don't know what else lif...

Not used to writing things down like this instead of just worrying inside my head so I'm sorry if this sounds (reads) convoluted. The title says a lot I suppose but for the sake of clarity I want to explain some things from the beginning. paint a clear picture if you will. My sister, who I'll call Anais, now 24, was in a relationship with a man I'll refer to as George from the age...

Im 24 male from Africa (Please excuse my english), and a first year medical student. I've never really felt like i belonged anywhere and I always seem to be the odd one out and believe me, I have tried to fit in. It's literally been this since I could remember. I do have friends but I take much longer to make them and my social circle is miniscule. I live at a boarding house, everyone ge...

I used to be very shy but I overcame it and got myself a big social life. It comprised several sets of friends, my college friends from the 1990s to whom I've been Best Man at a wedding of two of them and I'm Godfather to the children of two of the couples. I shall refer to them as the Old group. One day, we met a DJ at my local pub and we used to go to another town to his gigs and th...

I'm lucky in that I leave for university in the UK this September, but still, she's honestly heightened my anxiety. Ever since we got back from a family visit to our cousins, she's been trying to implement Catholicism in me and my siblings' lives more (signed us to catechism classes and all, even tho I won't even finish it) and holy crap it's hell. Catholicism as a...

I 22f recently discovered that my mother has been cheating on my father for over a year. This hasn't been the first time it's happened. When I was 15 I discovered my mother sexting someone who wasn't my father. I couldn't figure who it was at the time so I didn't say anything. However eventually I looked at my mother's phone and saw all the messages gone but her c...

I’ve gone through a lot this past 5 years. My youngest daughter had 3 babies starting at 16. She had issues with the baby daddy so had to foster them with my sister. Now I have one grandbaby living with me. I was ready to be an empty nester. In the last 5 years I have stopped hanging out with all of my friends and family. I stay alone at home all day and never leave my house. It’s really takin...

I have low-self esteem and slowly it has gotten better. Lately, I just feel like no one likes me. For example, there is a group chat for college and when I ask questions they do not answer them or they dismiss what I have to say. I have been trying to get a job and it feels like they do not like me. I do not know if I am not well presented or if I say or do something that makes them dislike me. If...

I have a severe social anxiety even though I have been to therapy for 4 years now. I am still in school and my grades are going down because of it (I can't participate in class at all) I have only 2 friends. One goes to a different school, the other I don't like anymore. I want good grades so bad and a lot of friends and I just want to have fun. But all of this I can't have and I ...

Hi everyone, I am new on here. Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I am looking for advice to help my husband. I will try to make it as short as possible. My husband and I have been together for 7 years and are very happy together. The thing is he has a lot of childhood trauma. It is one of those situations where his brother was the golden boy and anything my husband ever did was wr...

As the title says, I'm just lost and very alone. I can't make friends, I don't have anyone to talk to and noone is willing to give me a chance, even though I try my best. I'm used to drown in despair and sadness, but it's getting to a point that it's not ok anymore, even for me. I just,... I don't know if I'm even worth it. What did I do to deserve this? I...

I just turned 18 a few months ago. I didn’t even think I’d make it that far. I deal with a debilitating mental illness and I was denied any treatment for it my entire childhood.I now have access to medication, but I can’t afford it. I was supposed to go completely blind a few years ago,I haven’t, but I just lost vision in one of my eyes. There was a chance for me to have some recovery, but...

I live with my family. But they have become toxic and they just can't be happy with anything. I am being restricted to go out of my house. Each time I go out I have to give them an excuse or a complete explanation. I can't speak freely while I am at my home. I am 25 and I don't have a room of my own. All of my belongings are kept in different places and I have to move my things when...

I, female 18, always cry at confrontations, especially with teachers. I'm not even feeling bad or anything but I just start tearing up and I don't how to control it. Today a teacher catched me on my phone and wanted to talk to me after the lesson. And I immediately started tearing up and couldn't even properly speak because my lips were trembling and my voice was cracking. Like I...

Ok so im 18 years old and recently my best friend- or my only friend moved away. I stayed at our hometown with my parents even though i wanted to leave but we couldn't afford that. I was initially jealous because of that but i got over it quickly. Anyways, my main concern right now is that i feel like i am missing out on life. I go to uni but i havent really met anyone i like. I have people ...

I don't have the words to express my pain as I have lost my female best friend recently. I don't know how to describe the situation. I need someone to share my inner!...

Let me start by saying I'm in no means a good person; I have my dirt, done my wrongs but I try to better myself. I'm not looking for validation, sympathy or pity, just honest opinions. I'll be the first to tell you that I'm a miserable bastard, a paranoid pessimistic dick with mild trust issues (for reasons I'll explain later) but I don't generally hate anyone/anythin...

Hi, thank you for reading. I'd love to connect/hear from some of you who can share some of their own experiences with social anxiety. I have it all my life and while I have never sought therapy for it, I know exactly where it comes from: my childhood. In my opinion, my parents tried their best but they took every bit of trust and confidence from me. This is not to blame them, as I've ove...

My partner of 8 years went to prison almost 8 months ago. I am struggling with loneliness and trying my best to survive financially. I had found a roommate to help but that fell through in spectacular fashion. I really need someone to talk to. The alone is starting to weigh on me....

I am very lonely. I am 23 years old and I have no one to talk to. My best friend is in college and is busy. She never has time to talk to me. I can't afford college so I'm kinda stuck. I just want someone to talk to me....

Recently, we purchased a car. We purchased a car because we don't want to remain dependent on taxis to reach a destination and also the hassle of finding a public transport gets eliminated. Owning a car means you can go anywhere you want which is far from your home whenever you want. Unfortunately, owning a car also comes with side effects like petrol expenses, maintainence and repairing and ...

Hi everyone, i’m really struggling at the moment and just need some advice. A bit of info about me is i’m 14 years old and i have a severe anxiety disorder and agoraphobia due to past bullying (i was the quiet fat kid in school) and family experiences (i have a horrible relationship with my father, he’s emotionally and verbally abusive and him and my mother get into arguments a lot). This ha...

I don’t really know how to put all I’m feeling into words. Every time I want to explain my thinking whether when I’m speaking to someone I know or typing it up, I always begin to doubt myself. I don’t think it’s bad to doubt your own doubts, but I know if I don’t express what I really feel I won’t be getting better any time soon. Today is one of those especially down days. I’m u...

Hi, I am new here. I am 38 yrs. old. On 07/19 I found out I have brain cancer. Most of the tumor was removed and what is left I'm on a research drug that has kept it from growing so far. I was married for 12 years and have two kids, one 7, and one 4. My wife started doing meth/drugs in 2022 and there was another Man/meth head involved. In December I filed for a divorce, and she was given the ...

Have you ever wondered what is your purpose in life? Are you satisfied with whatever you are doing daily? I find myself getting tired/ bored after a while and look for another something ‘interesting’ thing to do which would keep me going. It feels like I’m searching for something constantly and have not found it. I start some thing new (like a job, or being a homemaker or an instrument lesso...

Have you ever felt like you're completely detached from everything and everyone in your life, while you still do all the same things with the same people? Lately I feel like I'm so in my head (thinking about how nothing is the way it's supposed to be and that I'm doing everything wrong) that I've started to become terrible company and to subsequently push people away. I th...

Hello, hope all is well with you. I'm writing to you because I feel hopeless and ready to give up on everything. A little background story. I had my first job experience a year after graduating but that didn't work out as well as I wanted it to. I got depressed but then my older sister encouraged me to become a certified teacher. I did it and worked hard on my internships until I l...

yeah so here's the thing i am a 25 years old guy, I am single, vergin, and I have never dated any girl and I am doing PhD in physics from last one year..... So the thing is that there's one girl with me in my lab she's also persuing PhD physics and she joined at same time as me, we also studied together during MSc but that time were weren't that close so we didn't talk...

I'm now in my mid 30s, I have spent most of my life trying to fit in, trying to be somebody, going along to get along, I have no direction it feels like I am stuck in a hole and I just want to not have to be here anymore. I don't even know what to say, I feel like I would be better equipped to fit into society If I wasn't me. I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder a...

I will try to keep this as short as possible! Thank you for reading. Backstory: I (35) am a healthy, successful, happily married woman with good friends and good relationships with my birth family (mom, dad, bro). I also have a sister who was abusive towards me as a child. We got along fairly ok for a short period in my early twenties. As an adult I attempted to maintain a relationship with her...

I've been struggling with hope sometimes as doubt regular comes often ...

So my mom and dad have been arguing a lot lately. My dad has also been getting more and more aggressive. He's been saying stuff about not being respected as a man or husband. Today I really thought he was going to hurt me because he was walking towards me and screaming about how he needs me to see how bad their marriage is. I don't know what to do. On one hand, I'm kinda scared. But...

I'm glad I found this forum, and I HOPE someone can help me. First, I want to apologize if I choose the wrong category or something. This is emotional on so many levels, but I need to know if I'm in the wrong. I have a daughter who is 27. She has an 8-year-old son who I've taken care of since he was 11 months. She left him with me while she chased men and drugs. 2.5 years ago, s...

I'm still a teen so I guess this can come off as a little dramatic but I still feel like it needs to be said for me at least. A year ago, I had it all regarding my mentality, I was the 3rd top student in my entire school. I am now a year ahead in high school I graduate this year & I'm staying back for extra courses just cause I can but last February, over a year ago now, I had a huge...

Hi every im new to this, but feelings distracted with my circumstance, please be honest to help me what’s the morally right thing to do. Do I have been with my girlfriend now for almost two years and she is the love of my life. We unfortunately split up for a few months, then got together to try again. We have been communicated but have a road block on two subjects which may make me look l...

The reason why I hate my family is because they ruined my life. The reason why I hate my life is because my family ruined it. I was born to black parents in a first world country in North America, but since my parents were born and raised in a third world shithole before coming here, they had neither money nor knowledge to pass down to me. On top of that, I was born with ASD and circumcised sho...

Struggling mentally lately, getting older and seem to be stuck in a rut and struggling to cope with life in general. Seem to be drinking & gambling more to try & cope with things....

Hello, Im writing because I dont know what to do,or how to deal with this situation At the present Im a young adult going to university.Back 4 years ago, I was in high school, and only had 1 friend, at that time, I was pretty shy , insecure and I was battling my own demons, so I highly validated the friend I had. From the side of my friend, she used to put me down a lot of times about my physi...

There's some background here that I'll briefly touch on, I'll try to keep it short. So I find myself struggling with a lot of complex trauma that stems from my teenage years. At age 16, I started drinking pretty heavily and my mother, concerned for me as a mother should be, decided together with my father that they would sign me up for a "wilderness therapy" program to &qu...

I am so worried about my dad and don’t know how to help him for the best. My dad lives alone and I know he gets very lonely and is depressed. He had an accident at work many years ago and shattered his leg from the kneecap down which still has not healed properly to this day and he is in pain with it every day. Since then my dad has gone downhill, he doesn’t take care of himself he looks very...

Hi guys, newbie here. Wasn't sure where else to post this. So, thought I would give here a good try and starting point. To make a long story really short of a 24 year old daughter who is recently engaged for about 6 months.. at first your fiance was very charming very accommodating very kind almost to a ridiculous degree fast forward 6 months we now know he's obviously a covert narcissis...

Recently, I left my summer job because I was heading back to college. My best friend K was going through a rough time and had never worked before, so I let her take my position while I was gone. I’ve since returned for winter break, and we’ve been working together again. However, my workplace is downtown which is roughly a two mile walk back and forth, as our light rail is currently down. Afte...

I have a female friend who I think is making a serious mistake and Im not sure what to do. She is a convicted felon, which in and of itself isnt the issue. The problem is that she has another convicted felon freequenting her home and while she is friends with this person she doesnt want to ask this personto leave for fear of losing the friendship. She has children and if this association is discov...

so recently i got admitted to a new college and on the admission date i saw a boy . it was my first sight love . he was so cute . of course somehow i got to know his name and that he had a gf . he doesn't know me and i feel very shy to talk to him . i have no clue to make excuses to talk to him so i am not able to befriend him till now.so will it be ok if i go straight to him and tell him i l...

To expand my question, my father were serving me raw chicken and they want me to eat it. It usually happens all the time. My father won't even allow me to go outside and made me stay in the house for 2 years. Even if I badly needed a haircut they won't even let me outside. They say demeaning words to me saying that I wouldn't be successful in the future. They even put something on...

I broke up with a long term partner last year but he kept finding different ways to contact me and after months of talking we got back together after Christmas,the relationship has soon been the same as before we broke up,it has always been platonic because he has always had erectile dysfunction but now we are a lot older its no longer a problem.Recently he said a sranger phoned him at work asking...

I've been out of school for the past few years and not done anything else, I really want to start college. I live with my family and always have been. I live in a country outside of my home country for almost 15 years. The problem is that my family and I are unable to make our way back to our home country because of financial difficulties. We barely get by as only one parent has a job. I r...

Hello, as the title of this thread says i just started dating someone a few months ago (6 aprox). this person is one of a kind to me. ive never met someone like this and that fact is making me very happy and scares me aswell. But i want to make it short, so since i know myself and have been doing therapy for quite a while i know whats happening to me right now. So basically im a very insecure ...

I am a 51 year old white male and am suffering from a little self-inflicted mind game. I am also currently living with my current girlfriend in a common-law partnership in a country in the EU. I have been here 1 month and need to start working soon and have to stay 5 years to get the EU passport. I also have the opportunity to live and work in BALI. I am so drawn to the different lifestyle ...

Hi all. Brief background. Im M (31) 2 Kids as well. When i was 8yo my parents separated which didnt effect me. They were not good together anyway. But at 9yo my mother bought in the man who would go on to be a special part of my life. I always looked up to this man, still do and love him like a father. We would spend a lot of time together as he would drive me to school which was an ho...

Im lost in life right now. I graduated high school in May of 2019. I've only been able to get 1 job and it didn't last long. It ended good but now i don't know what's next for me. I have a family that doesn't tolerate failure. All I've done is fail them. I want to make something out of myself and i want to make them proud of me but i don't know where to start....

Hello Everyone, I would really appreciate some advice and I don't feel I can talk to my friends and family about this because I feel silly. It all sounds a bit petty but I have been struggling with this problem and it is on my mind at the moment 24-7 so perhaps writing on here and hearing others ideas and thoughts would help. I was with my boyfriend for two years, we met just before ...

So I'm 34 married for 9 years. No kids. Love my husband, but we are no longer sexually intimate or affectionate. I deal with all the housework, bills, appointments etc. He will do the dishes or the bins occasionally. He wants children yet won't have sex with me unless it's near my fertile time otherwise I get told he's too tired or can't be bothered. Been this way for a...

Hi, there is a lot of background to this story so I am going to try to do everyone justice in telling it so I apologize if it's a bit long. So My fiance (B) (24) and I (23) moved into our apartment on December 1st in a different state two hours away. We were expecting help from his family to move since we have helped with similar things in the past, his brother (A) (22) moved from his old ...

I’d just like to say Thankyou to anybody who has the time to read this and possibly give any advice! I just need to get 8 years worth of heartache off my chest and just to hear that hopefully it wasn’t my fault. Trust me when I say I am getting professional help for this, but I’d just like some REAL opinions from real people! Hello everybody, I’m not really sure where to start real...

Hi there Well today i had the unfortunate experience of bumping into some old bullies who obviously haven't grown up any as they were saying unkind things to me. I felt bad as I never said anything as it just brought back feelings of inadequacy and fear especially since one is from a family who for want of a better word are just nasty a**holes. Her sister is a b*tch and her brother is a wo...

I had a longtime friend that I trusted with my deepest secret that I was sexually abused when I was younger. A couple of years ago, I was working a full time job and he become someone I hung out with a lot and I grew to rely on him more. So much so, that I began to consider a future together. I loved him, he was a friend first. He was a goofy guy, but one that didn't respect women and wh...

Hii,I have been married for an year now.Things look fine sometimes and sometimes not. My husband belongs to a practising conservative muslim family and I am too,And no cultural differences. ,post marriage , we are in a different city and not staying with the family . Now my issue starts here: My husband doesnt seem to appreciate any of my efforts.,my thinking.,my outfits which are mostly wester...

I am currently in a long distance relationship, he lives and works in a remote area with limited cell service. It is temporary, and the kids and I will be moving up there by the new year. It sucks because even though I don't have long, every day away from him is like a week. I love him and he loves me but I need more. Some days i want a friend other days i want a special friend. I feel fo...

I met Sarah in a group dinner at the end of July. We were definitely flirting but there was no obvious physical contact. She went on holiday to Spain and her child got covid so she got stuck in Spain. I sent her a message...

I have a friend that I met about a year ago who lives several states away, but has reason to visit my area a few times a year. We interacted on social media here and there for six or seven months. Sometime in April, we began messaging almost everyday for hours. He shared some really intimate information about his past experiences and how they affected him including that he had several relations...

I don’t know how to start off or even where to start. To state things simply, I believe I have severe depression, but I refuse to tell anyone. I like to believe I’m a good person, but whenever I do something nice for someone, it feels like they attack me or despise me afterwards. Most nights I feel like giving up and not waking in the morning, and I stay up until 3-4 AM. I sit at my desk chair...

About 9 years ago a woman punched me. She only punched me once but she knocked me unconscious for 10-15 minutes. It was such a long time ago but I’m still struggling with it. How do I get over it? ...

this is a very long story, and im going to try my best to condense it. basically, around last winter i was applying to colleges in my home state (va). i got into the same university as my best friend (ill call her X) however, my brother in michigan told my mom and i that he was lonely and wanted us to come up with him- especially since he has children now. at first, i was a little hesitant. a...

basically I have strict asian dad who has my location on however I was going out with my friends one night and I decided to do the stupidest thing and turn off my location cos I didn’t want him to get worried or check to see where I am.And he immediately got a notification and now he doesn’t trust me anymore and when he came to pick me up he’s so mad that he’s taking my phone for the whole...

I have just turned 39 I moved back home recently (I am embarrassed about it) In the past when I was looking at places to move into my parents would scaremonger me or try to block it saying: you won’t cope you will lose your job renting is dead money etc. Then when I moved in with a mate it was you can’t trust him etc. Then with my ex it’s you can’t trust her etc. They only want me to l...

CW: SH, mental illness, potential emotional ab*se Ok I don’t know how long this is gonna be, so if it’s like an eternity I’m sorry. So I (M, 20) met this guy (M, 23) on tinder in about March of 2020. He was in another city and we really hit it off. We were talking about fun things we were gonna do when we met, sex, interests, hobbies, all that fun stuff. Then covid hit and we were stuck i...

Yesterday i had sex with my best friend and now all i can think about is him we definitely have talked to each other but not on yesterday's sex....

Occasionally I have posted issues here and the advice has been excellent. I'm not sure this is actually a problem but it bothers me. A family member was in a romantic relationship for three years. This was a long distance relationship where they barely ever saw each other. They pretty much stopped seeing each other at the beginning of 2020. At some point in early March of 2021 the two had ...

So you could describe this as a mental health sort of things as well. But anyway I’ve got something that I’ve never truly been able to deal with for a really long time and I need some help to do so. A little backstory: I am the one who is at fault for causing what I will get into to happen in the first place. Please understand this and know that I understand why thoughts/feelings weren’...

HI all. thanks in advance for any replies..I have been married for over 20 years. We have 3 kids, and my youngest child, who is 19 years old, has severe autism. It's been a very difficult situation, and I've dealt with it mostly on my own..My husband and I both work, and he does help with my son as much as he can when he is home. My older kids have also been a blessing,and help with t...

I have been finding my relationship with my dad frustrating for sometime now. My mom passed away when I was In my mid twenties and dad remarried some years later . He and his wife always made it clear, they would move back to her home country when my dad reached retirement age. They made the move early and now it feels like he cant be bothered with me anymore. I put all the effort into our ...

I feel numb, empty. Today I found out that my grandfather molested my mother and aunt when they were 13. Until today I would have said he was a good man. He is a little overbearing, and talks down to just about everyone but not a horrible person by most standards. We are close, the whole family is. We do weekly dinners at my husband and I's house. My mom has never seemed to get along with...

My daughter is about to turn 2 this June and I decided to book an outdoor pavillion for her bday party. I was able to book it on a Saturday but my hubby's brother's girlfriend's birthday is that day . Now before I booked the pavillion, I did have her in mind but I was thinking that since my daughter is younger, we can celebrate her during the day and if she wanted to do anything,...

im having trouble finding purpose in life. all the little things are piling up and i dont see the point in doing it all when i dont think i want to live much longer. advice is welcome...