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My Toxic First Love: Psychosis, Drugs, And Heartbreak
Content Warning: This post contains sensitive topics including emotional abuse, mental illness (psychosis and suicidal ideation), underage sexual activity, drug use, and emotional distress. Please read with care and take a break if anything feels overwhelming. Note: This is a personal story about my first relationship. It’s something I’ve been processing for a while, and […] More
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I Want To End It All But My Wife’s Drama Holds Me Back
In spite of my desire to kill myself, I know it would destroy my wife if I did. At the same time, a big part of me doesn’t care that it would. When I tell her something three or more times before she listens, I have to regularly say it three or more times before […] More
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My Mind Keeps Drifting To Thoughts Of Death And It Terrifies Me
I keep thinking about wanting to die. I know I would never do it, but it scares me that my mind keeps going that direction. I don’t want to admit that this could mean I’m suicidal. More
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Unemployed At 24, Trapped By Toxic Family And Self-doubt After Quitting Job
Hi. I’m a 24 year old unemployed girl. I said that I will do MBA to escape from the toxic job. I really don’t have any interest and energy to do another masters. I already have a master’s degree in Nutrition. But my dad is not encouraging me to do any jobs related to my […] More
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Does My White Privilege Self-hate Oppress Others?
Not on me, truthfully I couldn’t care less about myself. But does my self hate oppress others? For very personal, traumatic, mentally ill reasons, I… hate myself, basically. While I like to think I was never a terrible bigot, a few years ago I started to actively teach myself about privilege/oppression. However, alot of that […] More
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Sob Story to My Core
I used to pray at night that my father and mother would divorce. I was only 5. I used to pray and sob for hours on end, so if my mom were to die, she would be an angel and be with God. I was 6. That year, she was admitted to a hospital three […] More
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Forced into Marriage: The Heartbreaking Story of Zoya’s Struggle for Happiness
My friend (let’s call her Zoya) was forcibly married by her parents, who threatened to commit suicide if she refused. She lived with a large joint family and was studying engineering when she was married to one of her relatives. Poor Zoya was not in a position to refuse the marriage because of her parents’ […] More
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Dealing with a Classmate I Despise
ok so there is this one girl in my class and i hate her so much she is such a copycat that she copies my every action and ive told my mom about her so many times and my mom says that she is just jealous and that you will meet so many people like […] More
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Dealing with Intense Emotions Alone
Sometimes I just random gushes of such intense emotions. Right now it is anger, and I have no one to be angry at. I am home alone and I just got so angry I am visibly shaking. I hate these feelings so much, especially when they are so intense. I can’t do anything about them […] More
