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My life is veering way off-course, and I need help getting back on track.
Posted Monday September 8 2008, 4:05 pm
15/female/sophomore in high school
Lately I feel so stressed to the max, like I'm to the point of breaking. The new school year just started a few weeks ago, and I already feel like I'm drowning in most all of my classes. I've always thought of myself as smart, but it just seems that my new classes (which are all either Honors or AP) are just too hard for me- basically impossible. I can hardly ever focus on my work, and if I even try I don't understand what to do- which prompts me to lose focus again.
I've missed four days of school already, all of which have been because of working so late into the night (it takes forever for me to complete my work, since it's so difficult for me) that I either don't get it a...
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always crying
Posted Sunday September 7 2008, 1:55 pm
i have a problem...i ALWAYS cry. i can cry whenever i want too. i just think cry, and i start crying. sometimes i cry when i'm not even sad, and i don't want too. it's actually really embarassing. idk why, i told my mom about this and she told me that something must be wrong and that i must be sad about something, because i told her that sometimes i started crying when i wasn't even sad. i think it's just like a stress release for me, but i'm ALWAYS stressed, and there's no way to change that, so it's really annoying. i mean i HAVE kind of been sad lately, but i've felt like this my whole life, and although i've always been an easy crier, i never cryed for no reason like i do now. i can make myself cry whenever i want, and sometimes i just ...
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living in the wrong time
Posted Sunday September 7 2008, 1:15 pm
ever since i can remember i've felt like i'm living in the wrong time..like i feel like i shoud live in the 80's or 70's. i am obsessed with everything from back in those times and always wish so hard that i could live then instead of now. i feel like back then everything was much easier and relaxed and there wasn't as many world problems and stuff as there is now. all of my favorite movies, music, and actors are from back then but then it sucks becuase the actors are older now so it's weird since i'm just a teen..i just feel like iwas meant to live back then. sometimes i even get depressed about this and people ask me what would make you happy? and really what would make me happy is living in the 70's or 80's but i know that's impossible n...
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biting my lips???
Posted Friday September 5 2008, 10:07 pm
14/f i really dnt know y but im always bitting the inside of my lips like when ever im nervous or sad or mad or wen ever i cant cut cuz theres people around
i usually dnt even notice tht im doing it but wen i do i dnt get y i do?????
yeah ik its wierd
any comments or thoughts or whtever is appreciated thanks
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Flcikers in my vision
Posted Thursday September 4 2008, 4:55 pm
I've been under an unusual amount of stress in the past month, I had to move back from Utah to Texas due to me and my best friend having issues, we are no longer friends, I had to move away from my boyfriend, and now I'm back at home with my parents, and they're going through a tough divorce right now, and my mom has been very uncooperative. In the past week or two I started to get flickering lights in my peripheral vision, and it's usually triggered whenever I'm anxious. I'm not sure if it's just from all the stress or anxiety or if it might be drug related. I have done mushrooms once, lsd once (a low dose), ecstasy twice, and I used to smoke weed regularly.
Also, my dad has been giving me low doses of Lorazapam (Ativan) to help me...
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Posted Thursday September 4 2008, 8:58 am
i don't know what's wrong with me!! i went to a doctor and she prescribed anxiety pills (2wice! 2 different types!) but one makes me depressed and hopeless the other makes my bite on my teeth and loose control over my muscles and sleep alot... i am really depressed! and i am panicking so much but i am very bad at showing my emotions.. and because of that i rely on "Telling" it so my family thinks i am faking... but it really hurts inside! i don't know what to do anymore and the doctor is not helping... i feel so alone when there is a million people around me ! :'(
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emotions
Posted Wednesday September 3 2008, 4:36 pm
how do you like control your emotions, because when i get angry or when i am hurt, i like say things i don't really mean and it hurts the people i love, like my boyfriend, i always hurt him by saying mean things, that i feel at that very moment, but not like always... if you get what i mean. so how do i control it, i just like burst into some hysterical frenzy and he calls me crazy and stuff, i don't know what to do.
16/f
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Depression??
Posted Tuesday September 2 2008, 11:54 pm
well does this sound like depression? im going to get checked by a doctor but im just wondering. and i thought i had depression last winter..i dont think it ever really went away..
i just CANT get myself motivated
im easily distracted and cant stay focused
im very easily upset and always have anger building up inside me
i hate myself
i dont feel good enough and dont have much of a self worth
i feel like i cant change and cant get better even though i really really want to
and i feel like im in this circle of not being motivated so i dont do anything and then get even more mad at myself when i dissapoint everyone(mostly my parents) by not doing whatever i was supposed to do. cutting fe...
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Scared of my own body.
Posted Tuesday September 2 2008, 4:48 pm
I have a fear of VEINS. Even my own. This is irrational...please give me ways to get over this!
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Social Anxiety / Social Phobia
Posted Saturday August 30 2008, 2:39 am
18/f.
I have social anxiety, or social phobia.
What can I do about it, I am always worried about what other people think of me and I am always so uncomfortable and try to avoid social things and eye contact. It has been much worse for me lately.
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wht is?
Posted Friday August 29 2008, 7:12 pm
wht is social anxiety?
thakns:)
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Physical
Posted Thursday August 28 2008, 7:19 pm
What is a physical because i have to take one to be in basketball
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Ophidiophobia
Posted Thursday August 28 2008, 3:39 am
I think theres something wrong with me.
I don't usually have intense fears of things, like everyone i have those little things like heights but i overcome it.
The problem is i have this really intense phobia-like fear of snakes.
Even the thought of them makes me cringe and i feel really sick, sometimes i even shake.
My boyfriend one time when i told him about how i feel about them he wasn't being mean but he started saying that he doesn't think they're that fast, he was more trying to tell me they arent something to worry about, but it was just awful. I said okay and shook off the thought and then he said that the black mambo is the fastest and i said i didnt want to know and he st...
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Agoraphobia.
Posted Wednesday August 27 2008, 7:40 pm
fifteen/ female
My mother suffered from agoraphobia (fear of wide open spaces) for years. That was in her twenties and thirties, but she had me after that when she was forty-one. She was afraid to leave her house and talk on the phone, and she had social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, she was bipolar, depressed..all of these different illnesses.
Ive inherited some things from her, but not all of them. And I have a sleep disorder.
Well school starts in a bit less than a week for me and Ill be in high school. I LOVE to go to amusement parks, shopping, the mall, carnivals..you name it. Well not carnivals theyre icky x]
But when Im in my house, I get nervous. Really really nervous. I might shake a b...
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i keep having mini panick atacks
Posted Monday August 25 2008, 7:18 am
I think this should come under 'mental health', but i'm not too sure.
I keep getting mini panic attacks. At night i get all scared, shivery and just start crying uncontrollabley. This has been going on for about a week and a half now, sometimes worse than others. I found that for some reason wrapping my hand around one of my teddies arms calms me down, but i was just wondering if there is anything i can do to help with it, or stop it from happening
Thanks
PS 13/f if it helps
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please help me, i dont know what to do.
Posted Monday August 25 2008, 12:11 am
14/f
Last year I started cutting myself. My friend told me why she cut, and after I was extremely depressed and so I decided to try it. To my surprise it actually calmed me and felt good. And for the next year it was a coping mechanism for me. But I stopped three months ago and vowed never to hurt myself again. But it is so hard not to. Sometimes its all I think about. what can I do to keep me from cutting again?? Please help me.
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something is wrong
Posted Sunday August 24 2008, 11:39 pm
i don't know what it is... i've tried virtually everything .... went to a counselor and all....
but yeah i am not sure what is wrong with me......... i am having difficulties describing what i am feeling... depression anxiety fear paranoia panic loneliness claustrophobia phobia of being alone! i don't know i am mixed up! its all together... please can anyone help?
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psych ward
Posted Sunday August 24 2008, 12:36 pm
im going to a psych ward tomorrow
because i tried to kill myself
can somebody tell me what its going to be like there
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I laugh.
Posted Saturday August 23 2008, 2:16 pm
I didn't know what category this would go into so I guessed, hope I got it right.
Anyways, I have a problem, atleast I think I do.
I ughh laugh to much. It doesn't sound that bad, just a happy kid. The thing is, I'm not happy :|.
If I fail a test, I laugh. I was about to fail math, I laughed. If someone shows me alot of emotion and starts to cry, I laugh.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not mean. It seems like it buut, I can't help it, I laugh to cover up things/feelings.
My friends if they cry infront of me they know by know that I don't do it to be mean, they understand.
Just, I don't. And, neither would other people.
I don't find when people are upset funny, espically the people close to me. It's ...
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laying around
Posted Saturday August 23 2008, 9:48 am
For some reason all i want to do is eat and sleep what is wrong with me?
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