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I feel overwhelmed and lost and I think being the only and eldest daughter plays a role — I am 25 years old and the eldest and only daughter with four younger brothers. After spending the last few days with my family, I feel completely unimportant, like I don’t matter. Growing up, I was al…

I (21M) have survived two decades of severe physical, emotional, and financial abuse from my Indian parents. I'm finally exhausted and need to tell my story. I am not free yet. — # TL;DR: I'm a 20-year-old only child in India who has endured severe physical, verbal, emotional, and financial abuse from my parents since toddlerhood. They have beaten me, medically neglected me, …

What kind of lucid dreaming is this? — When I was a kid, I used to tell my siblings that I knew I was dreaming while I was in a dream, that’s why I could do whatever I wanted. They thought I was lying. But Many times, I would just ignore …

The way i am raised affect the way i do everything and its so annoying — I can't tell people im busy sometimes. I remember the first time I said "mom, im busy i got to finish homework. I can do it after I read" my mom hit me so hard i bled. I can't stand up to for myself…

Someone I saw a future with shattered my view of relationships for the rest of my life. — I no longer can see relationships the same and I used to find myself resentful of woman sometimes(I know not every woman is a cheater or a liar but it builds up and need to find someone to blame). T…

needing help on what to do with a narcissistic mom who controls the situation with cps. — Hello so im 15 (F) only child. this is really more of a rant and important need for advice from adults. So basically I just have a mom, no other family member. my dad is a alcoholic who abused my mo…

My aunt always makes excuses for my dad when I try to tell her what bothers me. — My dad was always violent. Not excessively violent, but he did hit me, pull my hair, drag my head against the table when I didn't want to read something (the Bible). I'm the youngest sister, so there …

Suicidal in an abusive family (what to do) — (This is really long and I tried to include as much as I can, it’s also rushed so this isn’t the fully story.) I’m also not really sure which community this was supposed to go in but since this mainl…

After years of emotional abuse and control at home, I ran away, but now I am torn because my father is sick and I want to help him without going back into that environment. — ​ It’s not that they haven’t done anything for me. They have done a lot for me, but most of the time I have faced mental harassment from them. When I lived there for about six and a half years…

Please help and offer your much needed advice — I’m 27F had recently separated from my ex of 7 years (30M) for about 3 months now and I’m struggling to cope. Should I go see a therapist? Probably but here I am writing on Reddit. We share two beauti…

zero productivity, high brainfog — I have been suffering through "brainfog" which causes me to feel super sleepy and dizzy, my breath feels weird when i feel fogged and i just keep sighing, i can barely keep my eyes open. Its very frus…

Ok, so this is a little tricky but doable, idk if it's the same for you but for me asking for help meant that people could say no, so that would hit me like rejection, and I wanted to avoid rejection …

Totally. I'm doing a lot better these days. It wasn't even really about hurting them physically it was about scaring and unsettling them. Usually when they would hit me I would be scared and crying …

You just reminded me of something my dad used to say to me growing up. He didn’t trust me at ALL as a kid or into my teens. Not sure what I did to have him be that way, but whenever I spoke up about …

My mother is very similar to yours, and in my experience, people like them don’t get better with age. Growing up, she would hit me and call me stupid whenever I struggled in school. I tried to explain…

The most painful part for me is she went back to her previous ex's, and talks to them and her babies father frequently. But me, the guy who treated her better than all of them (I spoke with a large am…

Yeah I have a very similar experience. One night I was laying in bed I got hit with this spontaneous vision of being in clouds and these eyes were looking at me. When I awoke, from then on I had pre-…

I really understand why you feel this way. I grew up with cognitive and learning challenges, and school was incredibly hard for me. I didn’t get good grades, and my mom would hit me when my report car…

I knew this person since for 10 years and he would hit me up every so often just texting. he would text me saying he wanted to go to rave then go to out of the country to see our favorite artist. we t…

I'd thought about that (I have a friend who gets it) but it's always this time of year specifically. I'd think that if it were purely reverse SAD, it would hit me harder in summer. There's some theori…

Wow, that is a different dynamic cause your siblings seem nice; either this, either you are too kind when talking about them. What made me go no contact with 2 of my siblings was based on empathy an…

Oh! Hello! I have not lost someone to their brain injury, but boy do I know what living in those conditions is like. When I was eleven years old, my older brother had a near-fatal frontal lobe injur…

I have a similar story. While no one got on me for the loudness of my joints popping, my dad refused to believe I was in pain despite my pleading. If I was lucky and my mom was deciding, I got sent t…

Huh, i didn't knew that would hit me very hard even though i always knew this fact.

I was expected to get straight As, but if I questioned my neglecter she would hit me with “oh you think you’re so smart, you’re not smart, stop acting like it” I was also put in charge of my younger …

I'm sorry you had such a miserable childhood bc of some awful people. I was bullied a lot too in elementary school and middle school. Kids would hit me, put gum in my hair, and steal my stuff. It took…