Theraphy is so damn expensive and nobody is really talking about that. They want to see you once a week, which is 300$ per week for months. So I would work my salary only for theraphy. It's only listening to someone and giving advice for 40 minutes. It's crazy how expensive that is. I don't know how therapists feel comfortable with taking that much money for doing little work. I don't know how else i will get better without Therapy as I don't have any emotional support. How do you support your mental health?

Ik I sound like a bad friend but I can’t help but feel lonely and jealous when I see my friends having fun with other friends who are closer to them than me , keeping secrets and hanging out with them, even if it they dont have friends who are as close as I am to them I always see them very close with their families.

i find it very strange how they can just share their thoughts and what they are feeling with their families and friends.

i realized how disconnected I am from the people around I dont talk to my family much even if I did it wouldn’t be anything meaningful , my friends are the only people who I talk to the most but I still find it extremely hard to share anything about myself.

Would like to hear your stories :) because I'am currently hitting rock bottom and idk what to do beside scrolling on reddit...

Thanks.

I was having sex with my boyfriend today . But I don’t know why. I was crying a lot. I don’t know. Still I’m crying

Hello, I am autistic and in my thirties. It is painfully obvious by now that if I do not look for a girlfriend a relationship is never going to happen for me.

This is mostly a question for other autistic people, and I really am looking for some practical advice here. I have a hard time dealing with people both in real life and online after awhile. I get burnt out very quickly with both.

I am very fortunate in life that I am able to lead a very quiet and private life. Needless to say this lifestyle does not help with dating. I thought I would be alright if I confined my search for dates to the internet and to dating apps but even online, I am realizing how quickly I can get frustrated and burnt out reading and chatting online.

Maybe someday I will have to try more in person things to trying to get dates. But that scares me even more because in person I am often a wreck and have had panic attacks talking with new people.

So, like I said I really am looking for practical advice with how to keep up the mental strength of looking for dates when you get burnt out with people so very quickly.

Thank you.

Ive been on self-improvement for quite awhile now. Hitting the gym everyday, meditating, reading and recently started kickboxing. Right now also im learning a lot about day trading and i seem to progress in this too, but broo whenever i go on social media and see some 19 years old rich as hell like living life i get so fucked up about it. I mean i try not believe everything i see there, i say it to myself, but somewhere back in my mind its just staying making me feel im waaaaay too behind basically everyone. For reference im 17 years old still in high school. Most of these thoughts happen when im alone, but whenever im around friends and people with who i can interact they just disappear from my head, literally feeling like a normal person no negative thoughts.

I used to have a family YouTube kind of vlog account with over 30k subscribers when i was really young i was 6 when it started and ive only recently been allowed to stop filming videos as of like two years ago but i grew up my whole childhood was put all over the internet different countries and goodness know whats been done with the videos of me when i was really young considering the people that are out there i could be on fetish sites i could have been used as p0rn for creeps at the age of 6 everything i did was recorded and posted i was gifted things on birthdays and Christmas just to film i wasn’t allowed to open anything until like a week later infront of a camera in my conservatory i was 6 receiving hate comments about how i looked on videos and i was never ever given a penny im 16 now and they are trying to get me to do it again because they want money i quit because i was bullied for it buy my rapist and his friends. I feel so uneasy knowing thats just there on the internet forever for probably old men/ women to wank over.

(If you want more context read my previous post https://www.reddit.com/r/mentalhealth/s/s1ehHclwgk)

I'm feeling so bad. It's been almost two months I've been crying almost every day. I should be doing something else instead of whining, but I can't bring myself to do it. I'm wasting my time distracting myself from all the things that make me remember why I hate myself, and spend very little time doing stuff I should and I want to do.

I want to vent about how I feel with someone but talking about it with friends or family scares me. I feel so useless and I feel very disappointed in me for not trying hard enough.

I need to talk to someone.

I'm 25, diagnosed with depression, general anxiety and social anxiety. When I was 17 I got a weed tattoo on my leg, i have a lot of normal tats not drug releated. I used to smoke in my teens but I stoped. My anxiety is really bad, I don't leave my house at all anymore, antidepresants don't work, I take them and benzos. My pschatrist says I should think about going to a mental hospital but I have never been. I read that they strip you and take a note of your tattoos, scars. Will they label me as a drug addict when they see my tattoo? They treat people bad enough, i'm scared i'm going to be treated really badly and not taken seriously. Will they believe me if I say I don't have addiction problems?

I'm just so scared.

This is for you, who is struggling to find the words to express yourself. 🌸 I too want to keep it short and sweet. I see you, I understand, and I send you plenty of hugs and good vibes. We can do this! 🌸😊

If you're still here, I do this because I know that at times we want to seek support but our mind won't let us. Either we can't focus enough to say what we need too, or we have negative thoughts like "nobody cares", or "what I'm saying is stupid". Sometimes we just can't even describe what we feel, all I know is it feels "bleh" and I don't like it. I'm struggling myself! But I see you, I know you might be struggling too, I don't have the answers but I wish you happiness.

does everyone felt like this or this isn't normal I've been having suspicion if I had quiet BPD but I haven't talk to a therapist about it

Outside of work, I need to cut down on my tech use.

Feel numb after scrolling through social media/YouTube.

Does anyone feel as such?

Set your intentions for the day

It's been exactly one year today. I feel very lonely. I feel devastated and tired everyday. I feel like no one will ever understand how I feel. The amount of time that has passed makes me feel like I should be over it after one whole year but I’m not. I just need everything to stop. I need a break. I just hate myself so much. Every time I look at myself I feel disgusted, dirty like there is no point to anything anymore.

Hi, i'm in a difficult situation right now. And need some advice from someone who's maybe been in the same situation, from either side. My best friend just started self harming again. I wasn't friends with her, when she used to self harm, which i believe was like 2 years ago. She's been more depressed than usual, but when she's with me she seems so happy. We laugh and have a good time. We are together most of time too. But when i'm not there with her, she seems off. She'll go hours without her phone, just completely shutting it down. She'll go on drives alone, without her phone. She'll stay up all hours and she'll not text me as much. Just this past week, I noticed cuts on her wrist. They didn't seem too new and were only about two or three, so I decided to not talk about it. But now she has multiple on her wrist and thigh that are clearly new. When she's around me she wears shorts and short sleeves. I don't know what to do, should i bring it up and talk to her about it? Should I offer support or just be around her? She was around when I would self harm, and there would be fresh cuts. She never said anything which personally I wouldn't want her too. So I don't know if I should just do the same. But I would bring it up causally like in a jokingly manner, or would cover it up so she didn't know. I just want her to be ok and am scared this might escalate into something worse

I’ve been struggling with my mental health for years, but right now feels like one of the worst episodes I’ve ever had. I think I’m in the middle of a major depressive episode, and everything feels unbearably heavy.

Recently, I accepted a loan because I was trying to make ends meet—but I ended up defaulting on it. The shame and guilt I feel about that has been eating me alive. I feel like I’ve failed at something that shouldn’t have been that hard, and it's making me feel like the worst person in the world.

On top of that, I’m withdrawing from Prozac, and the emotional swings are brutal. One minute I’m numb, the next I’m sobbing, and then it’s just… emptiness. I don’t feel like I’m handling any of this. Financially, I’m completely in a ditch, and I don’t know how to climb out.

Honestly, it feels like it would be easier to just not be here. I’m not saying that to be dramatic—I’m saying it because that’s where my head has been lately. I know deep down that I want to find a way through this, but right now, I’m struggling to see how.

I’m not looking for pity—I just need to be real and say that I’m not okay. If anyone else has been here and made it through, I’d love to know how. Or if you’re going through something similar, maybe we can just not feel so alone in it together.

This is effecting me in all works of life. I jyst want to find someone. On top of that i feel so horny all the time. I masturbate. But then after i feel worse. I hate myself and everything. I am so done with life. Pls help anyone

I’d like to know thank you