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My son tragically was killed four days before his 21st birthday almost six months ago. I have not recovered.

OP please: LISTEN. TO. THIS. I don't care what you think about drugs, I don't care you're over 50 and therefore you have grown up convinced that hard drugs destroy people and cannot give any benefit…

r/selfhelpcomment4/13/2026
Cheated on after 10.5 years together, divorced at 11 years together.

Cheated on after 10.5 years together, divorced at 11 years together. — Hi Everyone, This is half venting and half hoping for advice or people to listen. I'm at a low point right now so I thought reaching out to a community might be beneficial as opposed to holding it…

r/survivinginfidelitypost3/11/2026
2 monts into breakup. Here's what I'd tell my younger self.

2 monts into breakup. Here's what I'd tell my younger self. — 1. **Zero Contact.** Unfollow her, and if necessary, unfollow people in her inner circle. I unfollowed her **close group of friends** and her sister. I have absolutely nothing against them; I just don…

r/BreakUpspost3/19/2026
My ex turned into a middle aged fuckboy

My ex turned into a middle aged fuckboy — Recently learned that my (40F) ex boyfriend (42M) of 6 years has been having picking up young (20s maybe early 30s) girls at the bar every weekend and having sex. There may be a more constant girl in…

r/BreakUpspost3/30/2026
What’s something you wish you could tell your parents but never will?

What’s something you wish you could tell your parents but never will? — I’ll start: I don’t exist to make you feel better about yourselves as people and as parents. I have achieved everything I have in life not because of you but despite you. If having children was going …

r/CPTSDpost4/4/2026
Their “Karma” doesn’t make you feel better.

Their “Karma” doesn’t make you feel better. — This last year has been so hard. We went to court for temporary orders in regard to our kids. Awful allegations made against me. Fighting to prove I’m not what he claims. But I finally got results a…

r/survivinginfidelitypost4/11/2026
Virtualization is hurting my mental state.

You could find a company to work for that has their own on prem servers still . Then you could do some datacenter visits from time to time and see the servers . Might make you feel better lol

r/DevOpscomment5/3/2025
Fellow DAs, do you sometimes experience people taking it personally when you need space to be by yourself?

Did leaving this comment make you feel better or stronger? Because I don’t really see a point in coming under a post where one DA asks other DAs about their experience. Your lack of empathy and knowle…

r/attachment_theorycomment5/10/2025
In an avoidant-anxious friendship, how much space should I be giving before I reach out?

I see you're posting again. No blame here- I am commending you for posting here instead of reaching out to your friend. Give her space. She is clearly nonverbally communicating that she needs it.  T…

r/attachment_theorycomment7/10/2025
Bi-Weekly Thread - Advice for Relationship/Friendship/Dating/Breakup

So much time has gone by and they abandoned themselves by not addressing the matter and instead probably making narratives in their own head about the whole thing. They sound like they felt slighted b…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment10/1/2025
I’m still a magnet to guys who need help. (I stopped rescuing).

I'm not the person you responded to, but in my opinion, insecure attachment patterns (like trauma dumping early on, keeping score, or obsessively seeking out your partner's time) create "faux-closenes…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment11/19/2025
Bi-Weekly Thread - Advice for Relationship/Friendship/Dating/Breakup

What does it serve you to hold onto this hurt? You are repeating the same narratives about the break up with you as the victim. You have not healed if you cannot reframe this break up without you as t…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment1/23/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! New? Start here!

Are you on the apps? Or in any hobby groups? Or go out socialising? I’m not saying it’s easy even if you do all those, but I guess the more you do those the better the chances. I do understand how y…

r/datingoverthirtycomment2/8/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! New? Start here!

I’m not talking about a conversation. You need to change your energy and be as comfortable as possible talking to people. I am saying walk around the city and say - cute dog. Cute kid. Make one perso…

r/datingoverthirtycomment2/17/2026
F**CKKKKKKKKK

I just got out of a very similar situation myself. Me and my bf broke up less than a week ago. Exactly what you described. The fun moments, drives, late night food trips, friends houses, all of it. I …

r/BreakUpscomment3/8/2026
Her body😫

Idk if this will make you feel better but here’s my personal experience: I used to feel this way about my ex; he was the “best I’d ever had”. But I met someone shortly after the break up who was 1000x…

r/BreakUpscomment3/8/2026
I (F18) am jealous of my boyfriend (M18) for the gpt chat

does he not realise chatgpt is designed to hype you up about the stuff you are telling it? its made to suck off your ego to make you feel better so you keep using it

r/relationship_advicecomment3/9/2026
The phrase "you're so strong" is pissing me off.

I feel you. To me it's unhelpful because like you said A) the choice was between being strong and dying B) I don't want to have to be strong anymore C) being strong might cheer you up if you have a sm…

r/CPTSDcomment3/9/2026
I (21F) Am losing feelings for my (22M) boyfriend. Any advice?

Of course you are welcome!! If it helps rekindle other peoples relationship then glad to be here for you. Back to this: Hmmm interesting so you both have talked about it multiple times but he does…

r/relationshipscomment3/11/2026
Should I help repay my sister’s debt to protect my parents?

You keep acting as if your parents and your sister are your kids whom you should have managed better. They're not. You made a suggestion and they went along with it. If you hadn't made that suggestion…

r/relationshipscomment3/14/2026
"No one is coming to save you" Yeah, I know, because I saved myself.

Yeah I get you, we already done the job to survive, we need rest and peace. Best advice is to get on disability and to have a therapist if you can. If you cannot just rest and do things that make you…

r/CPTSDcomment3/14/2026
Got back with my ex: DON’T DO IT

Unfortunately, the reason why she went cold was because she probably lost respect for you based on your behavior. I know this because she told you she was going to talk to other guys and instead of yo…

r/BreakUpscomment3/15/2026
My last message to her

I wouldn’t send this. I’ve been there, it won’t make you feel better. It won’t make her consider coming back. It’s done. Let her go. It’s harsh but if she wanted to be with you she would. Have some se…

r/BreakUpscomment3/16/2026
My wife of 11 years cheated

First, don’t drink or use drugs. Stay clear headed. Go to the gym. You can work off your feelings and produce endorphins, which will make you feel better.  Get therapy if you can.  See a lawyer.  Kn…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/16/2026
My (M38) wife (F34) has been very quiet since a conversation we had of why I love her. Confused about her silence.

Dear Lord. So…you found her when you were looking for someone else to trauma dump on. You used the term “ghosted” you when you: 1. Never met 2. Were not in any kind of a relationship, you were intern…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/16/2026
My wife of 11 years cheated

If possible take a couple of days off, use the first days to mourn and acknowledge what you've been through. Then write down a list of all the problems you had in the marriage, these are things that y…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/16/2026
Just got some news.

That's a gut punch, and there is really nothing anyone can say to you to make you feel better. The only thing to do at the moment in grieve. It's the human thing to do. I don't know how long it's goi…

r/Divorcecomment3/17/2026
What are the “hacks” that made your life living with depression less difficult? Any and every tip welcome

And doing little things that make you feel better even for a moment, like some music or being outside.

r/DecidingToBeBettercomment3/18/2026
Dealing with an avoidant’s silent treatment/deactivation/no contact

I think so many people focus on supporting the avoidant person and being a healthy secure base that they forget to check in with themselves and ask, am I even ok with a relationship that looks like th…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment3/19/2026
I want to send this text so bad

Guys use google ai to make you feel better ask what are the chances and it will run it for you

r/BreakUpscomment3/19/2026
Husband left for reasons I won’t know

I have been through this, twice. Your husband is having an affair. He is retconning the story of your marriage to make you own to be the problem so he can justify his heinous behaviour. Please, liste…

r/Divorcecomment3/20/2026
My partner (f34) “quiet quit” our relationship and I (m37) need closure.

You make your own “closure” dude. Stop relying on a person that betrayed you to make YOU feel better about their shitty ways. Plus you said you neglected the relationship. There that’s your closure.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/22/2026
I (27F) keep getting mocked about my lack of friends by my boyfriend (32M)

“I keep getting mocked by my boyfriend…” No. Right there. The entire point of having a romantic partner is that they make you feel better and enjoy your life more. Why bother?

r/relationshipscomment3/22/2026
I (23F) was too nervous to finish a threesome and now my boyfriend (27M) seems to hate me

He’s using your embarrassment of being an “ex wife” against you babe… this is very manipulative. He said he needed something new and left it at that… just to come back a few weeks later with a 19 yo…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/22/2026
How do you guys manage?

A pet might make you feel better.

r/datingoverfortycomment3/23/2026
Met my ex after a year apart. It was the best day since our breakup. Here's what happend.

This is exactly what I needed to see today. When you're in the thick of a fresh breakup it genuinely feels impossible to imagine ever getting to a place like this — mutual closure, no bitterness, just…

r/BreakUpscomment3/24/2026
Why does it take years to realize you’re traumatized? And why does "standard" therapy often miss the point?

Idk if this will make you feel better, but my abuse was often physical, I was under no delusions that I wasn't abused, but I could not access therapy for many years because of financial reasons. Now a…

r/CPTSDcomment3/24/2026
Coming to terms with the fact that I am a stalker, and I'm not sure where to go from here

At least you’ve recognized that your desire for answers has strayed into an unhealthy place. So — chalk it up to some people are just like that - they will go fast with such intensity that it looks a…

r/DecidingToBeBettercomment3/24/2026
I 20M broke up with my 21F girlfriend after she proposed to open up our relationship and now everyone is telling me to get back with her basically

This is super raw for you, trust me, don't say any of this to her. Not a word. It will never make you feel better. Ghost her. 100% ghost her. Trust me.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/25/2026
my 22M bf says he will leave me 22F if i get breast surgery

So. Let’s be clear. He wants you to not do something that will make you feel better about yourself because? Many men love little boobs. That’s irrelevant. What matters is what you want. My guess is h…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/25/2026
I’m confused about what “happiness” really means

yeah i’ve felt that before, and i don’t think most people are acting from one clear place like i’m happy or i’m not, it’s usually a mix depending on the moment, sometimes you chase things hoping they’…

r/selfhelpcomment3/26/2026
Miss her so much I don’t know what to do is there a chance she can come back?

find out if he has a S O and if he does send her the texts. it’ll make you feel better

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/27/2026
The best things I did to stop me ruminating and wishing my ex would come back (After wishing she would for more than a year)

I know man, a terrible experience..sometimes you just wish things were different. So far what’s been helping the most is talking to friends about it who don’t mind hearing it over and over when you fe…

r/BreakUpscomment3/28/2026
Read this!!! you need it.

Hey, block her. Delete everything that has to do with her. Block her number and her socials. Throw out all the gifts. Don't believe her words, don't keep replaying her promises. Focus on her actions a…

r/BreakUpscomment3/28/2026
I (32m) found out my partner (32f) cheated on me while she was away on holiday. She doesn’t know that I know. How do I navigate this?

You don’t have to explain. Tell her that you know, tell her what you know if she keeps denying it, but you don’t have to tell her how you found out. Tell her you’re done and she has <insert appropr…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/29/2026
How is it her loss when im the one suffering

The whole "it's her loss" thing is just something people say to try and make you feel better, but it doesn't help when you're the one falling apart. You need to eat something though - even if it's jus…

r/BreakUpscomment3/30/2026
My ex turned into a middle aged fuckboy

Q: Does this behavior really make you feel better about yourself in a sustaining way? A: "sustaining" is leading, consider your ideal outcome, what you wish to believe about someone you are still at…

r/BreakUpscomment3/31/2026
UPDATE: My (23F) Boyfriend (24M) got really jacked and now I’m no longer attracted to him

Doesn't sound like anything was truly resolved, it sounds like you hurt your boyfriend's feelings and then he tried to make you feel better.  If roles were reversed, I feel like a lot more people woul…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/31/2026
Spiralling please help me

Being blocked is torture. It is designed to make you feel how you're feeling. I will never ever forget how that feels. I wish I had something that would make you feel better. None of this was your fau…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment3/31/2026
My husband(35M)wants me to quit job because I(36F)make more than him.I don’t know what to do?

Funny how he's the one with the problem and not doing boo to work on it.  I wonder if this theme carries over to other parts of your marriage? This man is sabatoging your marriage because he feels i…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/31/2026
Why do they hate seeing you relaxing

Control is the biggest. But coming from a former eldest daughter (I’m no contact now), the why doesn’t really matter. It won’t make you feel better. Make your moves in silence and set yourself up to b…

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment4/1/2026
Struggling with comparison and self-worth in a new relationship (35M)

All I’ll say is, the more you focus on her ex the less focus you can put on yourself. The more you refuse to believe your current partner when she tells you what she thinks, the more dysfunctional the…

r/datingoverthirtycomment4/2/2026
My 5 year relationship ended a month ago, feel free to ask me questions

I understand that finance and family problems can be hard but you always have to put yourself first. I always went out my way to help out my ex when she had problems with her family or financial situa…

r/BreakUpscomment4/2/2026
I wanna break no contact so mad

i felt the same a month ago but i promise it gets better once you let time passes and have your thoughts processed! i was in the same situation and he looks as if he was doing well w/o me and i was ho…

r/BreakUpscomment4/2/2026
Have you regretted not exposing the person who left you for someone else?

If you still have people in your life that know both of you it's not necessarily too late, especially if it will make you feel better. Maybe that's bad advice, idk, but it's not yours to carry. Are y…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment4/2/2026
How do you actually become a better version of yourself without overcomplicating it?

I know mediation is a game-changer, and I experienced that firsthand for a while. But I couldn't continue that for a long time, and I feel there's nothing that comes closer to meditation when you want…

r/DecidingToBeBettercomment4/2/2026