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Avoiding Mental Breakdowns
Posted Thursday July 14 2011, 12:43 am
How do you stop yourself from having a mental breakdown, All i want to do is cry. How do i harden up and deal with it. I can't do anything!!Please help. Thanks
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Does my mom have a mental illness?
Posted Tuesday July 12 2011, 2:57 pm
My mom is constantly writing people off in her life. I'm 36 years old and from as long as I can remember back my mom has been disowning family and friends. I always dreaded the day that it would be me. But, she wrote me off about a month ago, for nothing in my eyes. In addition to myself- in this episode (which is what I call these mood periods) she has alienated herself from me, my sister, her two sisters, her three nieces, and a nephew over a facebook comment one of her nieces wrote after she went on a verbal attack on facebook herself.
My mother is a very insecure person and always feels that family member or friend's actions are motivated by them wanting to upset her or make her look stupid or to directly hurt her.
She ...
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Could I be schizophrenic?
Posted Monday July 11 2011, 4:44 am
22/F
Ever since middle school, I have always made up friends. I always thought it was normal. I just wanted to show people that I had friends out of school. Then, I start creating fake Facebook and myspace pages for them. I know it's weird but it made me feel better. I would post things on my account, and with the fake accounts I would reply to myself. I am aware that this is really weird, but everytime I reply to myself I feel a lot better. I've been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and PTSD... So it's like I get comfort Through true fake accounts even though I know itself. Not only that, but I talk to myself. A lot. And many times I feel like I'm talking to another person, but I know it's myself.
Could I...
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Help me please! I am feeling like killing myself and I now have a gun
Posted Sunday July 10 2011, 1:03 am
I just feel like giving up. Every since me ex wife and I divorced she has made it her purpose in life to ruin me. I gave her the house in divorce and asked for nothing in return. She was ordered to get the house refinanced and has not. She wont even let me see my daughter by making excuses everytime I try to see my daughter. I really feel like killing myself. I have no money and am always stressed out. I cant take it anymore. I cant afford a lawyer, maybe I wasnt suppose to be here. I just bought a gun and st first I was scared to use it but I am losing that fear.
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Am I desensitized or something?
Posted Saturday July 9 2011, 7:51 pm
I'm M/16. For the past few years my mom and other family members are always asking why I don't hug & kiss them that much. When ever a family member hugs me or something, I feel uncomfortable. When certain things happen, I don't cry and they get mad. Its like they think I don't feel anything. But when they say stuff about me being like this I feel bad. They also get mad at how I don't call them often. It also feels uncomfortable when a friend puts their hand on my shoulder. But when it comes to girls that I like, I do hug them a lot & randomly. I remember feeling stuff too. But I haven't really had a gal in a while. My family always treated me well. Is this normal? They also say that I don't talk to them that much. Is there something wrong with me?
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i'm not being able to sleep well these days, woried about studies.
Posted Saturday July 9 2011, 1:23 pm
i'm actually starting university this year (in a few months), the problem is that i always wanted to study abroad but now my parents(now divorced) do not have the finance, so i am stuck in the local university, and this is really tormenting me, so much that i do not even sleep some days... :( please tel me how to live with it..thank you :)
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i think i'm having a mid life crisis-at 19
Posted Saturday July 9 2011, 2:03 am
18/f
I'm about to be 19 in a couple of weeks and i think i'm like having a mid life crisis for some reason. I have been watching shows I used to watch when I was like 10 and even looking at my old dolls, ones that i used to collect, i was even looking at the collector dolls considering buying them. I've been watching disney movies and just all sorts of kiddish stuff.
I'm just sad I guess because I know I'm not really a kid anymore. The next 6 years will be hard (i'm getting my masters degree.) and i just won't be a kid anymore. Pretty soon I'll be done with school, married, kids, and then i'm dead. It's just so depressing.
I've always acted older for my age, and grew up too fast. Is it normal to feel this way and act this way? at my age haha
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Need to get my life started again
Posted Friday July 8 2011, 10:41 am
I just recently finished a bunch of stressful exams, and a period of stress induced (and antibiotic induced) anxiety/melancholy. It's summer now and i feel much better, ready to get my life back on track, but i'm scared i'm still going to have the occasional 'black day', like a day where i fall into anxiety again and don't feel like doing anything. Any advice on how i can keep myself up beat and enjoy the awesome summer??
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Terrible memory...
Posted Wednesday July 6 2011, 3:11 am
So, like the title says, I have a terrible memory. It's really bad. I've just turned seventeen, and I'm a girl. Okay, so it's bad to the point of where someone will ask me a question, and 3 seconds later it will fade away, and I won't remember what they asked. Or, I'm in mid-sentence or story, and I'll forget what I was talking about. I also can't remember things from two or three years ago. It's all a fuzzy blur. I'll read a book and forget some of the plot. I'll get up to get something, and when I get there, I'll forget what on earth I was doing. Or, I'll put some water on the stove to boil, and a minute later I'll forget I'm cooking, and then in 10 minutes smell something weird and realize my water is all evaporated and burned. Or, "...
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Dealing with depression and a boyfriend
Posted Monday July 4 2011, 12:48 am
I've dealt with depression, self-injury, and eating disorders for a very long time now. I've kept the last two hidden since my mother completely dismissed any ideas of me having depression twice when I was not even 13. Since then I've "trained" myself to never let anyone know that I have any depressive thoughts nor have I ever let anyone "in" to my life.
Well, I met and have been together with this guy for 8 months now and I really do love him. I'm happier than I have ever been in years when I'm with him and he really appreciates me. He knows that the cuts on my legs are self-inflicted, but I've been careful to not let him know I still do cut occasionally and he knows nothing about how I hate my body and ...
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Will they ever forget the Past?
Posted Saturday July 2 2011, 10:28 pm
I'm 15 and I'm going into 10th grade I've been in high school for a year now and I go to a VERY small school...and everyone except for 3 people hate me because of one mistake I made 2 years ago. And I can't really apologize to someone because its everyone who hates me because of it. I don't want to go another 3 years with everyone hating me..I know there's always gonna be someone that hates me but I don't know what to do. I've always had very low self esteem and I've always thought I was really ugly and I don't know how to change it. I've gone to councilors and they haven't helped at all. I go in my room almost everyday I think about that mistake and I often cry about it.I don't know how to fix it and I don't know if I even can fix it!?!
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Feeling disconnected, alone and hopeless
Posted Friday July 1 2011, 3:13 am
I have just been feeling disconnected, alone, frustrated, and hopeless lately. I feel like I can not do anything right. I feel like no one cares about me. When I talk to my friends and they say that I am just being too emotional or too dramatic. I just feel that way and I feel like no one understands. I just want to disappear most days. I have also been thinking about cutting again. It just makes me feel less bad. I just do not know what to do. What should I do?
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Friend is majorly obssesed with the one girl
Posted Thursday June 30 2011, 3:22 am
think my friend needs some serious help he has an obsession with a girl he hangs about with but she's not interested but he won't give up he insists on trying to make her love him which isn't going to happen she told him this last time they were out and he took 60 paracetemol so I was told.
He tends to lie about things as well and exaggerates on the truth to make himself look better I'm not sure what to do and he's becoming a danger to himself. The girls already cut all ties with him and isn't hanging out with him now but now he's even more obsessed.
They have never dated or had any sexual expereince what so ever with each other.
any advice would be appreciated or the name of the conditio...
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Starting to feel really burned out.....
Posted Wednesday June 29 2011, 4:00 am
Okay here's the scoop. Ever since I've gotten done with my last class, I've been working nonstop basically ever since.. Pick up a couple hrs here with this client, a few here.. Before I know it, forty hours a wk here, and after that fifty.. Now I got a second job over the summer, for some occasions. Well that lady is upset because I can't work work forth of july weekend. However she asked me to work for her! I told her I'd help her when I could.. Then the lady I take care of right now asked me to be there friday and monday when i work for the other one on wednesday... Easily this will amount to about 48 hours since the shifts are usually about 12 hours or more long. Now, my aunt has this other man with Alzheimer's she wants me to pick up a ...
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suicied
Posted Tuesday June 28 2011, 10:34 pm
I really want to die please can you help me find a fast painless way to do so I have been thinking about this for 2months and I am very sure.
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my lack of self esteem/confidence is driving me crazy and I don't want to be anorexic again! Help!
Posted Tuesday June 28 2011, 6:10 pm
As a young kid, I was always fat. It never really bothered me until I starting going to public school in 5th grade. I wanted to do something about it, but I never ended up doing anything until 7th grade. That year, I was battling depression (I know it seems like a young age but I get upset really easily) and I started to skip breakfast and eventually lunch. I would eat a snack when I would get home and then a large dinner. Despite what health specialists say, I lost most of my stomach fat. A few months later, I stopped all of that. Recently (I just finished 8th grade), I started to feel fat again because I started gaining more weight even though all of my friends assured me that I'm not. I don't consider myself to be vain, but I jus...
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anxiety problems, panic attacks and freaking out! :(
Posted Monday June 27 2011, 3:46 pm
17/f
so i've had this problem for as long as i can remember. i over think EVERYTHING and always make things a bigger deal than they really are, or even make up things and convince myself that they're real- mostly health related. sometimes i'll over think things SO much that ill have like a panic attack and just start freaking out. i'm so sick of freaking out about things and being anxious, i want to enjoy life and get this under control, especially cause ill be going to college in the fall. also if anyone knows of any simple stress relievers that would help too. thank you!!
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Am I depressed or Bi-polar?
Posted Sunday June 26 2011, 6:59 am
Hi, I am 17 and female, and this is kinda long...
I get this feeling which I am sure is being depressed, but it doesn't last long like it should if I had depression.
For example, I read that if you have depression, the depressed periods usually last for at least 2 weeks. I am never depressed for very long, and definately never two weeks or more. Mine lasts maybe a day, or sometimes in a cycle that includes being sad for a half a day, then being normal or happy for the other parts of the day, and then the same the next day and so on for a while.
Also, I think that this may be caused by bi-polar disorder or cyclothymia, rather than depression, because I sometimes go into these really happy, hyperactive states when I am ...
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How Do I Develop Good character?
Posted Saturday June 25 2011, 7:29 am
What are the best ways to better your personality? I don't like myself and my habits, style, and actions sending a message I never intend to send. I want people to be turned on by my personality, and not turned off because I'm not self aware enough of my actions and their message. I want to understand others more and respond with true intentions sending a message I want to be read. I want to win people over because I know how to approach them. I want to be likingly unique; not unique where society doesnt find me acceptable. I want to know if my style turn heads away and to turn them my way. I want to change being weird in distasteful ways. I want to be confident in myself instead of focused on my disgust of my exterior appearance. It not be...
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Depressed and unhappy
Posted Friday June 24 2011, 7:06 pm
I'm always crying and my eyes are usually swollen, I've had a rough year, constantly getting bullied. My teachers just pretended that they cared what was going on in my life. My face is usually greasy + pimply, and I have a crush on a guy who will probably never like me back. I hate being 12.
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