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My fantasies are hurting me?
Posted Monday February 15 2016, 12:01 am
I've never really told anybody about this, but, it's getting out of hand and I don't know what to do. I have a fantasy world inside of my head that I want to be my actual life. I have multiple characters that I made up. I have different family and friends inside my own world that I sometimes love more than my real world ones. When the people in my world are happy, I'm happy, when they are sad, I'm sad. They are so real to me that sometimes, I just get lost inside my head and actually think I'm living there. I love this world so much that I want to spend all my time there, and when I finally realize that I can't, I'll cry or just get really angry. I think this is getting out of hand, I've had this world since I was around 5. I'm 13 now. I re...
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My mom is an alcoholic and now I'm 21
Posted Tuesday February 2 2016, 5:41 pm
My mom was an active alcoholic for years and it ruined a lot of my childhood - especially high school. It was hard to watch and difficult to deal with an addict. The good news is, she's been sober for 4 years.
I'm really proud of her and am so happy, but now I'm 21. I want to have a drink now and then or just have some alcoholic beverage laying around for if I feel like drinking, but I'm so terrified to keep alcohol in the house.
How do I continue the occasional drink at 21 without making her feel bad or go down the wrong path again?
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Posted Tuesday January 26 2016, 1:30 am
I want to know what will happen of I admit to hearing Hods voice communicate with me in my head and that I have psychic dreams about people's death before they happen. I want to know what will happen when I explain that this is a huge part of why I don't feel comfortable around people and why I have such bad anxiety I never want to leave my room. I'm not crazy. Should I keep it to myself? Will the response be worse than what I am suffering with now?
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Tactile Sensory Issues with Mom but not Friends
Posted Friday January 22 2016, 12:10 am
so i have sensory processing disorder (age 15, trans male) and my relationship with my mother is HORRIBLE. for the sake of the length of this question i won't go into detail, but basically it kills me to be around her or in the same building as her at all. when i was younger (like, up until maybe 10 at the very oldest) i used to love hugging her and all that, but now it makes me want to (and sometimes really do) literally scream and can even cause a sensory meltdown if/when she tries to force me to hug her. (i'm getting immensely uncomfortable just thinking about it) but the thing she always brings up is that i hug my friends with no problem, and it's true. i love to hug my friends and be physically affectionate with them, most of the time ...
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OCD nothing or something completely different?
Posted Monday January 18 2016, 1:14 pm
So i'm an early teen (f) and for a couple of years now I've noticed that I have kind of... been telling myself to do stuff that I don't want to. It's nothing life threatening or anything like that but it's really starting to bug me for instance; I could just be playing with a tennis ball, bouncing it against the wall or whatever but then all of a sudden, I'll just say in my head "if you don't catch the ball now, your whole family will die," and this will happen moments before or whilst I'm (still e.g.) throwing the ball and it's just the most random and unexpected thing. And if I "fail" to do whatever I'm impulsively instructed to do I will become very agitated and maybe angry. I have looked into this in the past but not...
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lonely
Posted Saturday January 16 2016, 9:53 pm
I am lonely. I guess you probably figured that out from the subject.
I don't really get why I'm lonely though.
I am 17, F.
I have great friends. I have my 4 BFFs, and I see them 5 days a week at school, and some of them on Sundays at church. We talk about all kinds of things, but I don't always say much... Recently most of them have been doing homework at lunch and not wanting to talk a lot...we eat lunch in the art room at our school because it is quiet so we can hear ourselves talk and occasionally do homework (and we are all introverts so sometimes an entire day at school with lots of people gets tiring). I never like doing homework at lunch, I feel like doing schoolwork for the whole day is ...
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Personality.
Posted Wednesday January 13 2016, 3:45 pm
Okay, I've already asked this, but I feel as if I have not given enough information.
1) I am NOT selfish. I am very nice and caring and I aim to help people/ animals as much as I possibly can. I have a big heart and I am not a sociopath. When I say something extremely rude, I will feel bad. Sometimes I might cry.
Personality problems...?
Please do not just say it's because I'm a teen, or because it's a phase.
I'm 16 years old, and I don't know if this would quite classify as a personality disorder as I have not done much research.
Everyone I know would describe me as quick witted and majorly sarcastic. I would describe my sarcasm as rude... Whenever someone...
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Personality Disorder???
Posted Wednesday January 13 2016, 4:56 am
(I guess this would go with mental health?)
Please do not just say it's because I'm a teen, or because it's a phase.
I'm 16 years old, and I don't know if this would quite classify as a personality disorder as I have not done much research.
Everyone I know would describe me as quick witted and majorly sarcastic. I would describe my sarcasm as rude... Whenever someone says something, I'm immediately coming up with something to say back, inappropriate or not, I will say it. And I will not hold back what I have to say. Impulsivity maybe.
The people around me laugh, and say, "Wow I wish I could do that." Almost thinking that being rude is a gift or something.
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Same Clothes Everyday
Posted Tuesday January 12 2016, 7:00 pm
Hi! I'm a high school girl in need of some advice. For whatever reason, I wear basically the same thing everyday. Every single day, I wear the same black leggings and my jacket, alternating between two or three different t-shirts. The thing is, I physically CANNOT wear anything else. I've tried wearing jeans, and I always end up putting my leggings on first period (I bring them for gym) because it's too stressful for me to wear anything other than my set clothes. Recently, I tore a hole in the leggings, and I was so depressed for that whole week until I went to the exact same store and bought the exact same leggings. If I wear anything else, I have mental breakdowns beacause I feel like I look ridiculous. It's really wearing away at me.
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loneliness + boredom
Posted Saturday December 26 2015, 8:29 pm
so i'm currently on Christmas break from school, and I'm just lonely and listless...I don't want to do anything...
I feel lonely, but my family is around all the time..normally I am happy to be around them but right now the only people I want to see are my friends and my crush but they are all busy right now...I haven't even received any emails from my friends since last weekend (and i don't have a phone so I can't text)...not even responses to emails that I sent...My brothers just irritate me, and my parents are around but too busy to talk or hang out...even when we got together with extended family, I didn't really feel like being with them...
I normally enjoy reading books and playing computer games, but com...
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Crying
Posted Tuesday December 15 2015, 9:34 pm
I'm not totally sure if this is in the right category, but here goes....oh and btw I am 17/F
I often find myself starting to cry at times when logically I shouldn't be crying. It's not like I'm crying out of the blue randomly, but in situations that should not be upsetting enough to make me cry. For example, a few weeks ago at work, I was told I had to do an online training thing. I sat down to start it, and then my supervisor told me that I actually wouldn't have enough time to do it and I would have to do it the next time I came in to work. It wasn't really a big deal, but I started crying, and every time I looked at my supervisor or thought about it for the next hour, I started crying again.
I also often have diffic...
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How to change my monotone voice?
Posted Monday December 7 2015, 3:32 pm
I've probably asked this question before but I really don't care, I'm a 16 year old girl and I'm tired of people commenting on my voice. In grade 6 a group of guys made fun of me saying my voice was too deep mind you they've never hit puberty yet so their voices still sounded like little girls. Now it's not a problem anymore but now that I'm in highschool people keep saying I'm too soft spoken while others say that my voice is so monotone there's no emotion in my voice. This was news to me cause my family never complained about it but everyday someone new would comment on my voice and if they didn't comment they would mimic it and the way they would mimic it would be in this monotone dull voice. I've had depression from grade 5 to probably ...
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healthy excercise
Posted Saturday December 5 2015, 11:38 pm
I am in recovery (4 years) from substance abuse. When I stopped using I replaced it with eating. Now I am 50 pounds overweight. I want to be healthy and lose weight but i have no discipline! I'm always telling myself...tomorrow. How can I teach myself discipline?
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What True Depression ACTUALLY Feels Like
Posted Saturday December 5 2015, 11:21 am
Do you want to know what true depression feels like? Then, read on...
If there's one thing I've felt myself, and, in talking with the people that have depression (a diagnosable depression), it's that we feel SO incredibly misunderstood. I can't emphasize or stress that enough. We feel that nobody, absolutely NOBODY understands what we're actually feeling like and going through. Then, that in-turn makes us feel more isolated and incredibly alone. Those two feelings then in turn revert back to making the depression even worse. Trust me, it's a vicious cycle. This compelled me to, as best I could, to attempt to describe what depression feels like when in an actual depression…
Please realize when you tell a depre...
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How To Deal With Anxiety?
Posted Monday November 30 2015, 12:17 pm
When I was around the age of 10 I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, but I'd say I've had it all my life. Every year it got worse, when I was 12 I had my first panic attack and ever since I've had them badly. I am now 16 and I can't leave the house because of my anxiety and panic attacks. I just feel so alone and hopeless and I don't know what to do, I was wondering if anyone had any tips or advice for how to get through anxiety. Thanks in advance!!
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How can I overcome social anxiety when visiting a college campus alone?
Posted Friday November 20 2015, 12:19 am
Long story short, I'm going alone to visit a college that I plan to start attending in the Spring. I originally planned to bring a boy I was dating, but that didn't work out so he won't be going. Then I planned to bring one of my female friends with me, but she can't get anybody to watch her baby and he's too young to bring outside the home. I also invited another boy I'm dating now, but he doesn't want to go because it's too early in the morning.
I don't want to bring either of my parents because I feel like that would make me look immature. I also don't want them embarrassing me or complaining about something (which I know they would).
The thing is, I get somewhat bad social anxiety when I go alone to somew...
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talking to myself
Posted Monday November 16 2015, 9:09 pm
Is it normal to talk to myself?
Sometimes when I am doing homework, particularly when I am just starting a task, I talk to myself...just little things like "so how shall we start?" or "what's next" or "okay, let's.....".
Also, a lot of times if I am doing math, I talk myself through each and every step: "now we multiply by two" "oh look! that works!" "how do we go on from here?...." One of my friends described it like I have a bunch of little men in my head telling me what to do. I don't feel that way, I don't feel like my head is messed up. She didn't mean it that way either, just to clarify.
Anyways, I am wondering, is it normal for ...
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teen boys crying
Posted Monday November 16 2015, 7:21 pm
Is it okay for teen boys to cry? How serious does something have to be for a guy to cry? Is it okay for guys to cry in public(like at school) or only at home/alone?
That's a lot of questions at once, sorry, just want to know what people think....
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What next?
Posted Monday November 9 2015, 8:47 pm
During my last year of school, when everyone else was revising for their exams and preparing for university, I was spending all of my time reading fanfiction. Suddenly, it's August 2014 and I've managed to get into university despite intentionally sabotaging three of my exams because I didn't have the guts to tell my parents I had no desire to go to uni in September.
For six months I dragged myself to uni everyday to go to classes for a degree I didn't want to do. Whilst my classmates were making notes and asking questions, I was doodling (despite my total lack of artistic prowess) and staring blankly out of the window. Eventually I started willing myself to be sick so I had an excuse not to show up for class. Slowly, I stopped atte...
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taking my own life
Posted Thursday November 5 2015, 4:42 am
I've come to this because. The pain is greater then what's causing it ,I just WAnt some happiness not what she is doing. To me fuck it I got 12 hours before. I start the next chapter. Sorry. I just had to vent see u on the other side
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