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ANA aka, anorexia.
Posted Tuesday November 3 2009, 12:26 pm
okay. so i am 15/f. i have been free from anorexia for 5 months now. but i think it is coming back. i am starting to act like i used to. anorexia is triggered when there is something bothering you and you use your anorexia to distract yourself from it..it is a coping mechanism. so my depression is coming back as well and i have really low self esteem. and as i am writing this i refuse to eat. i want to lose weight. i feel like i gained so much. not eating is the only way that will make me lose weight the quickest. i just don't care about myself. i feel lonely. i don't understand why i feel this way. i feel crazy sometimes. i feel like i want to be sad and i want to be weak and broken. i have problems.
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stress/anxiety
Posted Monday November 2 2009, 12:36 pm
16/f
'Symptoms of stress include, feeling anxious, feeling scared, irritable or moody. Stress affects thoughts. Thoughts of low self-esteem, fear of failure, inability to concentrate, worrying about the future, preoccupation with thoughts/tasks and forgetfulness can be present. Stress affects behavior.'
that pretty much describes how i have been feelin lately. im around 6 months pregnant, and i feel like im in a deep depression.
i feel like no one likes me anymore. i feel very socially awkward in situations that id never feel that way in normally. i feel worried about every single thing people might think about me. i feel like im always on the verge of a panic attack (which ive had one and totally scared...
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Does anyone know another way to help me instead of having to take meds
Posted Sunday November 1 2009, 3:29 pm
Sorry this may be long but Im in desperate need of advice! Im 18 years old in college and I'm secretly miserable. I feel like I dont fit in with a group even though I have I feel like the only reason why people hang out with me is because I'm very attractive and like to party. I feel that I never say the right thing which causes me to stay quiet in order to keep myself from saying something stupid. When I'm with a group I feel left out of the conversation. People usually dont give me eye contact when they are talking instead they always seem to be talking to someone else. I get nervous when I'm only with one other person becasue I'm not good at holding a conversation. I have struggled with this problem for a while. I see a therapist becasue...
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Scary Movies Still Bother Me
Posted Sunday November 1 2009, 2:53 pm
F/16 (almost 17)
Last night I spent Halloween at a friends house with a bunch of other friends, and I had a great time until everyone decided they wanted to watch Nightmare on Elm Street. Now I've never liked scary movies. Ever since I was little particular scary images would upset me and linger in my mind for several days or a couple of weeks. I barely was even watching the movie , I had my eyes covered almost the whole time. I don't care that I'm still afraid of scary movies, I hate them and I try not to see them at all. My problem is that certain images from the movie that I did see bothered me last night and I couldn't fall asleep. I slept on my parents bedroom floor last night, until 3 am when I woke up and decided...
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What's the best way to deal with a narcissistic, lying, manipulative man
Posted Saturday October 31 2009, 5:28 pm
The person i'm talking about is the father of my two kids, wich are 4 and 6. Ever since i left him, in 2006 he started stalking me, coming on my third floor balcony to spy on me and calling many times a day.
Our relationship started with a lie, he said he couldn't have children, we both got checked out for std and tests came out clean so we dropped the condom. Next thing i know i'm pregnant! Then i catch genital herpes(the ONE thing std testers don't test for unless you ask for it), wich he accused me of giving to him...i had him come with me to his family doctor to check his medical file, and guess what..he had it for 10 years already!Unfair, he has only mild and few crisis, total opposite of me! That's why i left him...no ...
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bipolar disorder
Posted Monday October 26 2009, 7:06 pm
I'm a 17 year old female in High School. I think I have bipolar disorder and I don't know what to do. I have a 4.0 GPA, I had a really caring boyfriend, and I'm (this sounds cocky) pretty popular. But, I'm not happy.
I dumped my boyfriend of almost 3 years last week because I thought it would let him be happier. The reason I did this was because I was always moody to him. I love him so much and he loves me, but I felt like our relationship was falling apart. I got sick of him too easily and fought with him alot. Sometimes we would go to a party, and we wouldn't even talk- for no reason. Two days after I broke up with him, I turned to alcohol to deal with my saddness. I ended up at his house(during a party) and physically fou...
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Eating Disorder Truths
Posted Monday October 26 2009, 2:23 pm
I've had an eating disorder for two years. everyone tells me I need to get help but I really don't want to. Please don't tell me I need to eat or I need to stop throwing up because I get that all the time. Is there any way I can get help for this WITHOUT going into a treatment center? I already have a therapist, but I don't think she takes me very seriously. What should I do?
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Feeling Down...
Posted Friday October 23 2009, 6:33 pm
I moved across the country to start a master's program- it was a big change for me. Friends always ask me how i like everything, and think that i am having the time of my life. The truth is that I am not. I don't have close friends here, hardly go out, and generally feel homesick and start having doubts about being here. To top things off, things at home are not going well at all, adding to my stress. I started to fall behind on my studies and totally bombed an important exam- since then i've felt like complete crap. I stay at home a lot, since i don't really have friends who want to go out (either out of town, studying, etc.). I started doing yoga a while ago with a friend- i swear she is the only one i feel is a true friend to me-- she is...
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Bored/restless with everything
Posted Thursday October 22 2009, 10:57 pm
Everything always seems so boring to me when it really shouldn't. It's like I always feel restless and bored no matter what. I don't know how to explain it. It's driving me CRAZY! I was diagnosed with ADHD and I don't take medicine for it if that means something. Does ADD make you feel like this? Or what?
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help plz i feel like i'm dying
Posted Tuesday October 20 2009, 8:07 pm
i'm in so much pain i don't know what to do.i just finished an anxiety disorder cause and for the first time in ages i felt like there was help.now i just feel myself going back to my lost self.i don't have any jobs or friends, and i don't have a reason to live.i've just got SO many problems.i just feel like giving up.
i'm sick of feeling this way, and i'm sick of feeling so crazy.i don't know if theres any hope for me.
some times i wonder if i'm a pedophile 2. i would NEVER act on these feelings, but their there all the same.i can't trust myself.
i have a partner i've been with for almost 5 years. i don't want to be with him but i feel trapped.i feel like hitting him soimetimes- he just dosn't get the message I DONT WQ...
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Happy Pills.
Posted Friday October 16 2009, 2:00 am
Okay, I want to get on some kind of antidepressants... But I want to do it behind my parents back.
I just don't want to tell my mother because she's going to ask me why I'm depressed, and I don't really know how to tell her. It's mostly because of her and Daddy... And a lot of other, screwed up shit.
But, it's becoming harder and harder to hide my depression, and I really need some help. So, if I can get on them, without my parents knowledge... That'd be fantastic.
I doubt this is possible, but if it is... please tell me how.
I'm so desperate.
15/f/AUSTRALIA
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Experience with psychiatric medication
Posted Thursday October 15 2009, 7:39 pm
I'm looking for people with experience taking psychiatric medication (for depression and other problems- Klonapin, Adderall, Seraquil, etc) that would be willing to be interviewed over email.
My email address is xokristabelle@yahoo.com.
It's for a paper I'm writing for psychology about the negative psychological and long-term effects of these medications. Any stories or information will be helpful. Thanks.
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Therapy or no?
Posted Wednesday October 14 2009, 10:51 pm
I am a college student and am having such a hard time now, but am afraid to start therapy. I have gotten through so many issues by myself, including self-injury and bulimia, but I feel that I shouldn’t have done it on my own. I feel like I can survive on my own, but I am not very happy.
I am afraid to start therapy because of the money too. I am under my parents’ insurance and I am unsure if they would find out. I don’t want them to find out, and I’m also not sure if I would have enough money to pay for it anyway.
What should I do? Should I try to keep doing things by myself or should I try to get therapy despite everything?
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I'm just in awe over the fact that the world isn't all about me
Posted Wednesday October 14 2009, 10:16 pm
I feel as though there's something wrong with me. I'm constantly hung over the fact that people are similar to me in the sense that they have feelings like I do, and that they're able to see the world like how I'm able to see it. It's difficult to explain. I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm just in awe over that fact that the world isn't all about me. I've been hung over thinking about this for more than a year now. Has anyone felt this way before? This can't be normal, is it?
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losing efficiency
Posted Wednesday October 14 2009, 10:08 am
hi im from pakistan
im 18 years girl..
i was in relationship with a boy who was very mean nd insecure about me and tease me a lot . . he alwys black mail me emotionally thus driving me mad...
sumhow we brok up but i m facing lots of problems in my life after it so i need ur help !!!
my problems are :
1) major problems is that i have become lazy nd absent minded
2)i feel like dumbest girl in world
3) i m losing my beauty ,wit, senses nd efficiency
4)i respond to others late bcoz my mind take lot ov time to think an answer
i hv lots of goals nd i need to study nd socialize bt i cant there is no wayi ll call him back so i need ur advice to become better
plz i need long and sincere answers
THANKS IN ADVANCE
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Why do I not have any ambition?
Posted Wednesday October 14 2009, 12:25 am
I'm 19 and female, by the way.
I simply don't care about going to college or having a good job (now or in the future). I'm sure I can make due plenty well enough with any job. I don't have a "dream job" or any sort of future goal on what I'd like to do with my life.
I keep blowing my money on make-up and new clothes. I don't ever really see anything that I absolutely need and I realize that. I just keep doing the same thing over and over. I mean, I get by and that's just fine with me.
I don't care if I live with my parents or not. They've suggested getting me an apartment so I could start my life apart from them and I don't really care either way. I'm just sort-of waiting on them to mak...
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Molested and remembering
Posted Sunday October 11 2009, 11:20 pm
I went to the doctor cause I thought I had a UTI (urinary tract infection) and they were supposed to do an examination of my, uh, area down there. When they told me that, I totally freaked out. I started crying and begged them not to. I had no idea where that even came from. Then I saw something in the room and somehow it triggered this really weird flashback. I KNOW it was real too. Apparently, I was molested when I was kid. That's great. Anyway, I can only remember this one part and I can't remember the person. I would have been 4 or 5 at the time I think. I know I was at a friend's house who had 2 older brothers, so I'm guessing it was one of them. I don't wanna assume anything though. This is just so frustrating! Ever since I had that f...
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Help? Anyone had this happen?
Posted Sunday October 11 2009, 12:54 am
So this might not make much sense, but here it goes. There's always been a blank period in my life. I can remember absolutely nothing no matter how hard I try. For some reason when they would talk about sexual abuse and all that in health, I would always have a feeling I had been abused. I can't explain it any other way than I somehow just knew, but I always pushed it aside & refuse to think about it. That's what I do now actually--when something bad happens, my mind just instinctively blocks it out; it's weird. Anyway, I keep thinking and it's like I'm on the verge of remembering something, but I can't. I just have this very faint memory but I can't put any of it into words. I just really want to figure this out because it would explai...
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socially awkward while pregnant
Posted Saturday October 10 2009, 5:42 pm
16/f
usually, im the girl thats very outgoin, funny, and easy to get along with. when i go to a party or concert i meet a ton of people and im really comfortable with myself.
now that ive been pregnant, im reeallly self-conscious and awkward/anxious when i meet new people and stuff. im not visibly pregnant unless you knew me before (im 4 1/2 months) so its not because people know im pregnant.
its all me, and i dont know what to do ! i still want to go to parties and social gatherings, not drinking ofcourse, without feeling so awkward.
how can i help myself when im out and start feelin anxious or awkward ?
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Does this get anybetter? I don't know what to do
Posted Tuesday October 6 2009, 10:16 pm
Hello,
I'm Ann and well two years ago sister came home one night and we found out that she was being raped and abused by a boy in her class for 6 months and a couple days later my brother got his second DWI and took off completely no where to be found and my dad was sent to the hosptial for depression he didn't want to live anymore and my boyfriend dumped me for being too emotional thats when i started cutting myself I wanted to relieve the hurt and pain that i nearly lost myself.
I tried so hard to stay for my mother who i have to take care of and now about 5 months ago my brother almost died in a car accident under the influence and recieved yet another DWI now he has to spend a couple of years in prison and...
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