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I feel very sad tonight, but tears won't fall as much as I want them to. I guess I have a 'lot going on', but at the same time I just feel numb. If it wasn't for my voices bothering me, I feel like I'd lose connection altogether.
Hi everyone! Lately, I've been having a super rough patch with my anxiety, which has left me either avoiding family functions or not coping well during them e.g. shutting down. Which, unfortunately, people misread as me being rude. After b
I just don't know what to do anymore. I try to fight the black dog everyday but feel it's a losing battle. Today I went to a funeral for my adopted family and everyone walked out together except me. I felt lost. I'm trying to work out what I could contrib
Hi so I'm going to cut to the basic points of my behaviour that are distressing me to a very depressive state. Firstly my dad is a classic NPD I was abused physically and severely emotionally as a child to the point where now at 19 I hold my breathing in
Well i have not posted much of late as i have been hiding from myself.I just cant get rid of the terrible darkness within me i try to hide it ignore it tell myself its not real.But it is always there has been for some time i walked around to try and show
Ive been crook for a few years now and something I can't seem to work out! It's wanting to be alone but feeling really lonely! Have been away camping by myself etc with the dog thinking it would be great to take time out by myself and then feeling lonely!
I can see the darkness within and without, the sepia tone weeping through the ever bleakening reality, would that my mind would or could create the world I wish could be real even if that meant being locked in a room for the rest of my days, like it would
I am in a mixed episode (schizoaffective bipolar) and have spent the last 5 days manic and am now on the 'come down' ....... I did some out of character stuff (luckily nothing damaging to my ethics or morals) but all pretty out there and enough for my GP
I'm scared, I'm always scared, I hate life I hate everything. I'm not good enough I don't have anything. Why and I a burden and and waste of space. Why do I feel so shit. I have know friends everyone hates me. I'm just not good enough. why do
I don't I know who i am anymore... Here's what I've really been thinking...I believe every personn is either inertly suicidal or homicidal. They have the capacity to be/do the other but the first and foremost act is part of them. In many of us
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Help us push aside the stigma and discrimination surrounding complex mental health and change the way people talk about, and care for, mental illness.
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