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6 years of CBT. Results? Passivity in realtionships, locked down at home, fear, loose of all my creativity. There Is a big problem? See a psychiatrist. So meds and meds. And I was an artist. Fucking t…
How to soothe myself when they say they aren't upset. — I am very fortunate to have consistent, attentive, loving people in my adulthood. I haven't conquered my unhealthy habits that come from my attachment system, however. My husband is wonderful. He st…
42M. Do these things basically disqualify me entirely? — I'm 42, Male, home owner almost half way paying off the mortgage, university post-graduate education, full time job in retail middle management that I actually enjoy doing, a bunch of mostly solitary …
Coworker with anxiety simply stopped talking one day — I don't have anxiety disorder myself. But in Dec I randomly started talking to a coworker from another team (our work and teams are completely unrelated to each other) who does. Apologies in advance f…
I've Been Offered a New Job and I'm Torn (Hear Me Out) — About a year ago, I started a new job at an entry level position to get my foot in the door into my industry. The job has been good to me, I like the people and the work and overall feel super content…
How do I deal with a non-virtuous past that led to a good and comfortable present? — Hello everyone, In the past months I have been studying Stoicism (I have read the Discourses, Meditations, and now I’m on my way through the Seneca letters). I, however, wanted to have an opinion on s…
I got my psych report back today, and it’s damning. — Hello everyone after a few months of intense therapy including EMDR, I got my psych report back today and truthfully, it made me cry. It was 8 pages long of just the most negative stuff anyone would w…
BF of 3.5 years broke it off. I'm so happy and free. — Sooo these last couple of days were a lot. I (29M) have been with my boyfriend (27M) for 3.5 years. If you asked me a week ago, I'd say our relationship had its ups and downs, but we were generally ha…
am i overreacting or is she trying to drive me into suicide? — posting this feels a bit embarrassing and i feel like i might be overreacting. im 16, turning 17 this october and im afraid i wont make it till then. my mother’s a covert malignant narcissist. i’ve be…
mediation and depression and brain fog — hi, first time postin here and it’s late at night but so i just wanna dump a question because i got the idea to post here. i’ve been meditating min. 30 min every morning and evening for 10 years. …
I have tried almost everything — PSA- I’m not good at reddit so please tell me if i did this wrong I am 21, and I have had major depression and chronic suicidal thoughts and ideations since i was ten years old. I have made several a…
Where Did you Go to Find Your Therapist? — I am a very experienced clinical psychologist with a PhD from a very strong university. I have recently left an agency where I was pressured to do unethical things (for example: record things in the m…
Thoughts? Please be considerate, I’m really struggling — I(25F)’ve been living with my boyfriend of 5,5 years together during our whole relationship. It’s my first serious relationship where I live with someone. I moved to his country for studies, and met h…
Trauma snapped after 25 years - HELP — I’m not sure how to begin, except to say that I feel desperate, deeply lonely, unseen, and constantly afraid. About six weeks ago, after years of keeping this trauma buried, something triggered me an…
I [M23] am facing a decision that might cost me what I think is the love of my life [23F] — TL;DR: After a wonderful but complex 4.5 years, me and my partner separeted. We then kept spending a lot of time with each other and stayed exclusive, before completely ending our contact for a few mo…
i am scared that an old friend is sending me bad energy. — i am not sure if this is the right subreddit, i am not extremely knowledgeable in this realm, but i must talk about this to get other’s opinions. i do have an anxiety disorder, i overthink horribly, t…
I know why i’m depressed but how — I 23m have dealt with depression since a young age and also dealing with other things. I have been diagnosed with PTSD, OCD, major depression disorder, and an anxiety disorder. I am currently on medic…
I know the roots of the issues but where to go — 123m have dealt with depression since a young age and also dealing with other things. I have been diagnosed with PTSD, OCD, major depression disorder, and an anxiety disorder. 1 am currently on medica…
What’s wrong with me? — You guys :,((( I’ve been feeling so on the edge lately I feel empty so afraid and confused I have anxiety disorder and gerd and I feel like I’m not progressing to do better I feel like so Alone I don…
feeling discouraged and spiraling — i am really not in a good place right now. my boyfriend broke up with me before, learned manifestation, got him back in three months. three months of second relationship go by, first couple weeks …
Help my girlfriend. please. — Hey I’m writing this on my girlfriend’s behalf since she can’t. She (15) has been feeling awful lately and has been sort of needing a mental evaluation and this is the closest she can get to one since…
Does anyone w anxiety disorders get episodes of extreme confusion?? 😓
Does anyone w anxiety disorders get episodes of extreme confusion?? 😓
Does anyone w anxiety disorders get episodes of extreme confusion?? 😓
Question for y’all — I have been depressed my whole life being in therapy and antidepressants, few months ago i got diagnosed with bipolar(2), i also have anxiety disorder and cptsd .since last 4 months i haven’t taken my…
I Didn’t Know These Were Emotional Flashbacks Until Recently — I’m a 29F and I got diagnosed by the college therapist back in 2023. She diagnosed me with Major Depressive Disorder and CPTSD with anxious response (which I now believe is full blown Anxiety Disorder…
Ssri or psilocybin — Hello, My doctor prescribed me Fluoxetine 20mg yesterday for generalised anxiety disorder. Now I'm thinking should I go down that road or start microdosing instead as I was planning? Has anyone been…
I need help and advice. — Hello, I am a 16-year-old male from Sweden who is struggling heavily with emotions, relationships, and school to the point where I often don’t feel like existing. I try to cover everything with a smil…
18m UK I don’t know what to do — Today my dad began screaming at me at dinner time because I wasn’t wearing slippers. The slippers I have don’t fit me, so obviously I’m not going to wear them. Because of this he took away my dinner a…
My bf is a gambler — My boyfriend (24M) and I (23F) were together for almost five years. We started dating when I was 17 and he was 18. Because of the war, we moved to another country together. About a year later, there …
Raised by a Covert Narcissist. — Hey Guys, I want to share my experience and hopefully get some useful advice as to how I can move on with my recovery. I am reading Pete Walker's book " From surviving to Thriving: Overcoming TEPC. …
I just don’t know — I feel like I’m at a point where I have no words to explain this feeling. I have somatisation and anxiety disorder. I just am scared always, almost all the time. I feel alone, misunderstood. I don’t k…
https://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?showgif&lang=e&gif=astro_2gw_jared_mcknight.75112.31364.png&res=100 This is the best I can do. As you can tell I’m not very good at this. Would you mind looking at…
Well, where do I start? I guess for me the foundation was based on 3 pillars. 1st was of course Mindfulness as ability to comprehend that neither thoughts or feelings are our true self, which is in fa…
Text of original post by u/DrawStringBag: I am very fortunate to have consistent, attentive, loving people in my adulthood. I haven't conquered my unhealthy habits that come from my attachment system,…
I think first you need to understand what inside of you is being triggered. Usually it is we are personalizing the other person’s emotions. Assuming it is about us or the relationship, even though the…
I’ve decided that I very likely have an undiagnosed anxiety disorder. I’m seeing a psychiatrist over the next couple weeks. I’ve had really bad anxiety my entire life but I’ve never done anything ab…
Anxious-preoccupied attachment patterns are distinct from an anxiety disorder, but there's definitely some overlapping gray areas. Questions to ask yourself: do you have underlying anxiety that af…
Yeah hypervigilance is very much an AA thing. Not just AA, I think, but anxiety or anxiety disorders in general. The thing about auto capitalisation is definitely a form of hypervigilance. There are m…
I think AA and hyper-vigilance, they are all coming from the same place. AA is hyper-vigilance regarding abandonment. You don't want to be abandoned by your partner. One or both of your care givers li…
Uh, it took me three years and I never properly got over him until I got all of the things he had given me and my daughter out of our house. And then it was kind of like a light switch. So if any of …
The only thing of 'hers' i have is actually just a trinket i got while we holidayed together. It's some sorta glass or china so might be fun to toss that into the sky or something. I have ocd like b…
Original copy of post by u/Bastard_of_Brunswick: I'm 42, Male, home owner almost half way paying off the mortgage, university post-graduate education, full time job in retail middle management that I…
I've recovered from social anxiety disorder and I've rebuilt my personality after suffering through avoidant personality disorder. Depression can be managed with creature comforts and escapism but the…
"you seem a bit...resigned to it" - true. "The avoidance...most people who are relational, or warm, or prize good communication and affection...will run screaming in the opposite direction from a se…
This isn't a good analogy. Exposure therapy should *never* feel like someone is pulling you out from safety by your legs. It's supposed to feel more like the caring, kind hand being offered for you to…
Autism is one of the conditions where doing exposure therapy is not really an effective treatment, so this makes sense. It's not like an anxiety disorder where behaviors are learned. You didn't learn …
This depends on what you mean. If you mean exposure won't treat being neurodivergent it's true. If you mean that neurodivergent people who have anxiety disorders don't benefit from exposure therapy th…
Honestly your fixes sound great for mild anxiety - as someone with an anxiety disorder, none of these ever helped or were ever capable of helping. Only things that worked for me: 1) Constant journali…
I totally agree u/Danger_Muffin28. I also have experience with folks with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and agree that's not a reason to fear someone. I don't want to villainize anyone for size, health…
I am a Cognitive Behavioral therapist specialized in anxiety disorders. Although Spanish is my native language, I have conducted online sessions in English. I can support you at a more affordable cost…
This sounds like a medical condition more than just standard hormonal changes during pregnancy. You might want to look up things like perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs). Any possible Medical…
My mom has depression that was diagnosed probably sometime in the late 00s, likely started as PPD that persisted long after she stopped having kids. It's definitely not managed correctly despite her t…
Yeah both of mine. Dad has a really bad anxiety disorder which he has self medicated by becoming an alcoholic. My mother is ADHD and raised by an Autistic woman so many of my mothers learned traits fr…
I am lucky that the meds work. Since I was a teenager I have been suffering. After 15 years I was diagnosed with OCD and anxiety disorder.
It's not just therapy, it's also medication. Someone close to me has an anxiety disorder with cleaning OCD as one of the major issues, along with what I would call "clean hoarding." They are on medica…
1. Pisces rising 2. Saturn Taurus 3 degree (whole sign) 3. 11th- Capricorn and 12- Aquarius. (Moon 15 degree and uranus retrograde 9 degree) 4. Saturn trine Virgo sun (11 degree) , trine mercury…
Chances are you're dealing with the symptoms of your boyfriend's depression. He's not not fucking you because he's out of shape and stressed out. He's not fucking you because he's depressed and he's…
Father is an alcoholic, my mother a hoarder with anxiety disorder. If the topic "mental health" comes up, they have two modes, either "I should have gone to therapy in my youth, but it's just too late…
---Please read this all--- They are angry. Uhh, I love my dad, and I notice he becomes a nitpicky narcissist--when he is unhappy with his life, and almost afraid of life, or insecure about life. I…
Lol, their anxiety does make them look empty like no other, despite wanting a good self-image. This is because they have fixed mindsets of themselves instead of growth mindsets... They focus on nega…
Hi! Thanks for the reply! I can understand why you agree with her, I’ve recently understood that space might be the only option. It only scares me because when she makes a decision it is usually final…
But you won’t eventually have that label. For example I had a breakdown 10 plus years ago where I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I have been on medication since and no longer have cl…
Yes, I had a similar mother. Now that I have some distance I have been able to analyze her behavior better. She is so extremely anxious of any and all interactions that she freaks out, exits or lies t…
Yesterday I had the first (and I am sure the last) date with one guy. I didn't feel any romantic connection. Which is fine. But something weird happened. I don't know why but he was asking me so so so…
I have a narc mum verbally abused over the phone for 30 years now I have anxiety disorder and cptsd sounds about right . I hear you Anxiety is terrible .
Yes indeed, thank you for sharing! I have recommended breathing excercises to my clients for years. As a hypnotherapist I treat anxiety disorders regularly, as it is something I chose to specialize in…
I just want to start by saying that I'm so sorry that you went through that and continue to have to deal with it. Sorting through everything can be such an all-encompasing, indentity-shaking experienc…
We just went to the other extreme over a generation, from therapy being something to be embarrassed about to therapy being advertised to people who don't have actual mental health problems. If you hav…
Eating my dinner. When I get about half way through a meal, my body will reflexively start to panic, I’ll get really hot all of a sudden, my heart will start to race and I’ll feel very dizzy, my bloo…
Anxiety disorder is rough. But we have to figure it out on our own. My experience was a couple months of mental breakdown with me figuring out my meds and the proper dosage. It sounds like he needs a …
I know! I don’t like feeling odd or weird too. Ironically I’m taking 2 medications that make me feel like that. I almost rather have anxiety with a brain that’s not altered by meds than be in the meds…
oh don’t worry, he absolutely got to raging and violence as well. when i first started talking to my mom about my anxiety disorder and what may have happened in my childhood that could have gotten me …
Agree 100%. CBT does nothing for people with complex trauma, if anything it makes you feel worse since it’s so invalidating. I tried CBT almost a decade ago when I developed an anxiety disorder whIle …
I get these a lot where your body is freaking out (heart rate going up, shaking, sweating, ect) and there is no "logical" reason as to why its happening and why its happening now. What I do as so…
Cptsd + audhd + anxiety disorder. You dont see my disability, but its there. 😭 The world changes too fast for me to keep up.
Generalized anxiety disorder yes Anxious attachment style with huge affective dependency
Personally for me it feels more like a looming dread. It starts off as physically symptoms and then beacause my body "feels" anxious i start to spiral. Usually though after putting on a youtube video,…
I can’t work jobs due to the level of cptsd and anxiety I have. I was forced to start working for myself because every job I got made me physically ill. I would get severe diarrhea and pass out before…
Research indicates that **roughly 4 out of 10 patients with severe psychiatric disorders have experienced misdiagnosis at some point**. The incidence varies significantly depending on the specific con…
When none of my requests were taken seriously. When it was my job to make him happy because I was his wife but yet that wasn't reciprocated. When I was bullied into not telling anyone he was unfaithfu…