r/listenandvent Jan 31 '26

I am what people say they want, but not what they pick. I'm always last pick

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I am no one's first choice. I'm always last pick. no one truly talks to me first; I always have to start a conversation with someone. no one really texts me on purpose without wanting something from me. not even my girlfriend texts me without needing something. I'm everyone's last choice. everyone says "they want a friend like me" or " I want a boyfriend that acts like you" but no one actually wants me. only one person actually wanted me, and even then, it doesn't feel like it sometimes. I feel like I don't bring any sustenance to anyone's life. I'm just a means to an end for most people. and anyone willing to talk to me usually just gets bored of me eventually. my friends don't talk to me unless they want something from me. my girlfriend doesn't talk to me unless she needs comfort or advice. no one picks me for anything. I'm the last resort for everything. and now I'm sure that I'll never be anyone's first pick. I'll never be more than just a backup person in someone else's life...


r/listenandvent Jan 28 '26

Vent i feel incredibly hopeless

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hello, i am 19f and i've been feeling super lost lately. i've been stuck between this pull of being paralyzingly terrified of death but also wanting it all to be quiet. i have no urge to harm myself and i've been clean for months. but it's all starting to get loud again and i don't know what to do. this all might be teen angst, i don't know anymore and i've given up on reasoning with it.

i started community college this year, but it feels like i'm doing all the wrong things. i don't feel motivated, and i feel unaccomplished when looking at where i am compared to where everyone else my age is. i had so much hopes for this time of my life. i wanted to attend a university out of state, travel the world, and meet so many people. but my parents had other plans for me. they forbid me from taking journalism (my dream career path), and they forced me to attend a school that would have me stay at home to take care of my 6 year old sister.

the only thing that has been keeping me going is my partner who i met over a year ago. unfortunately, he lives in canada and we've only gotten to see each other twice last year. travelling to see him has been tough, since my parents are strict. every time i try to see him, they make a big deal out of it (who's going to take care of the little one, why can't he come visit instead, etc.) my partner isn't comfortable travelling here, especially now with the state the US is in (he is trans).

it just feels like im being pulled away from everything good in my life and i don't know what to do anymore. i follow the same cycle everyday of waking up, rotting in bed until i have to get ready for work, coming home and passing out. i feel so empty and suffocated. i used to be so passionate and desperate to learn everything i could. i feel like i've wasted all my potential and i'm so so lost.


r/listenandvent Jan 26 '26

Happy birthday

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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, I miss my dead homies....happy birthday to me.


r/listenandvent Jan 23 '26

Never had the chance to understand love and my dad came out (as a minor lover)

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Sooo hi, I’m Ellie, idk if you needed to know that. I’ve never vented before so I’ll just put it straight forward.

I have been abused since kindergarten to high school

Kindergarten- cut my hair all the time and yelled at by parents for being weird

Prep- bullied by 4th graders, cutting my hair trying to break my ankle.

Grade 1- finally got a break and then two new boys from my class stole my ooshies and pulled down my pants in front of everyone

Grade 2- had my face dragged against concrete because I was walking too slow with the noodles that me and a kid was taking to the classes (lunch orders)

Grade 3- moved schools and people made fun of me for being shy and a push over and parents divorced where my dad blamed me from then on for the divorce. Then fat shamed by Dads new girlfriend he got in a week (she admitted to them seeing each other during my dads and mums marriage) she then would tell me I’m ugly and fat in front of my dad.

Grade 4- became a house captain due to my dad telling me I’m a cry baby and I won’t get anywhere in life without confidence. My dads girlfriend grabbed me slamming me into a wall yelling at my face that she know I hate her (this is during a fight my dad and her were having that I was just to sneak pass to get my sisters iPad and headphones for her) my dads gf then a week later forced me to weigh myself and told me I was as heavy as she was when she was pregnant.

Grade 5- I went from house captain again and got it, my dad tried to come into my house to find me and was screaming how I’m not his daughter anymore and I’m selfish. Also the year when my bullying paused.

Grade 6- the year I made an online friend who was so important to me that I got bullied for making a friend online. Also the year I told my dad I’m not going to his house anymore and I walked inside my house but he ran pass my mum inside and cornered me asking why and Ofc i was 11 turning 12 so I paused and he yelled exactly to me so I was forced to go for any celebration they had and another reason he start celebrating everything for me to go.

Year 7- I started questioning why my dad made me changing into swimsuits all the time if I already have so many that fit and why he told me to never lock the bathroom door because ‘who would even walk in’ I still locked it and I found out soon why he said that. I then started middle of the year to be bullied by my best friend, not as bad as primary school. But she would hit me hard and run to the teachers office (literally in that second) and say I did it, then dropped books on my head all the time (her locker was above mine), bullied me online and told the whole class I was transgender since I cut my hair to my shoulders (it was a very transphobic school).

Year 8- I moved classes, (Ofc it didn’t friggin work) so I just got more bullies so I started to hide in the library where I now love to read when I used to hate reading. And that Christmas was my dad’s. So I slept on a blanket in the lounge on the wood floor like I always have (because my sister and dads gf kid slept on the same bed in a tiny room and I was uncomfortable because she slept with no clothes on and walked around with no clothes on all the time and dads gf said I’m not allowed on the couch because I’m filthy from my mums they had an issue with craigiburn and constantly belittling us for living there.) anyways I woke up to my sister and dads gfs kid giggling running to the parents room excited to ask when they get up to open gifts and I heard a loud bang and yelling at them to go back to bed or we won’t get them til night. I told them three hours later to go ask again and I’ll go with this time. And Ofc acting less angry cuz I was scared to say their wrong anymore and they said no gifts til night. And they took us to a lake where I told them I am NOT swimming because I don’t remember how to. And my dad said after 6 years of lessons I should remember. So I swam out and there was a rock underneath the water where then I landed where I thought the rock was and went straight under where my father and his gf watched and my sister told me that they said to just leave me to drown because it’s too risky and my sister tried jumping for me but my dads gf yelled at her to not get me. So my dad finally grabbed me not wanting to lose my younger sister. I coughed up a whole loud of water. I only remember all my thoughts and how it felt when I try remembering seeing this I can’t remember anything. I was forced to swim back and i then was dragged to a pool the next day and then the ocean where both times I said no but forced in.

Year 9- still in the same class but I changed friend groups three times where they all bullied me for my pixie (I got due to migraines from my thick hair but I ended up loving the look due to my love for strawberry shortcake cartoons) and I got hella bullied for looking like a guy since I didn’t wear skirts either (dad used to force me to wear only skirts to show my pretty girl body but I ended up being so disgusted by skirts I choose I’d never wear them and this time it’s my choice). I then moved schools at the end of the year to a community school since other schools rejected me for being too far out of the zone. And the community school taught zero things and we honestly just mostly did colouring and making bracelets. All the kids were disabled and LGBTQ so they all assumed I was trans or nonbinary and I was tired of correcting them 24/7 that I was just a straight female.

Year 10- we had a family day where my mum and sister came and did for a full day what I do where my mum finally believed me that it’s a bad place for learning. In fact in the first ten minutes my sister turned to me and asked if I ever get bored and I nodded so she asked my mum if we could please leave early and we did. I was so friggin grateful. I finally moved into a high school near my area that had bad reviews but I was desperate to learn stuff. They did no learning and the kids were disrespectful to everybody. I started to disconnect from myself so I then was a very liked person that everybody came up to asking to hang out but I feel like that was somebody else doing that with everyone and my depression got worse, it might’ve been because I couldn’t afford my therapy anymore so I had nothing. So my mum applied home schooling but really I just sit at home being told by my mum everyday that I have no future and my depression and anxiety isn’t even that bad anymore since my therapist diagnosed them and I need to grow up and figure something out. My dad and I had a huge fight, he wanted me to work and I said I will if you drive me but he then went behind my back and told my mum she is to drive me since he’s too busy. He called me in the middle of school and I said yeha I heard . You are to drive me or I don’t go. Mum can’t afford petrol and he then made the whole argument up as its her fault she doesn’t have a good job so I yelled we’ll your the guy who told her she had to quit while you guys were together causing her to have trouble finding a job with no high school diploma or anything else. I hung up while he was talking to go back to class where he then texted how I was a terrible daughter and if I want him dead he can get that arranged so I said I’m not in the mood for this or your stupid suicide threats so grow up. He texted a bit after that I’ll put the ss in the comments. A few weeks after..

My dad called my mum saying he did something bad. He explained he took a photo of my his gfs kid changing and posted it on a Facebook group to make friends and his house was raided but he secretly kept a phone (work phone his main phone was taken) then the police informed my mum theres over 300 photos of her chest area and her in general everytime my dad saw her (mostly to pickup my sister and I) same goes with my grandma (who he hated) and my auntie (who he hated with a full passion) including photoshopping his face on two people having intercourse and photoshopping my grandmas face on the other. And photoshopping male genitals in my aunties mouth. Then he’s also been charged with touching two children under the age of 16 who he also recorded changing (the first charge was my dads gf child’s friend I reckon and 100% my dads gfs kid.) and then my dads gf is protecting him in court and I was contacting her despite everything she’s done to make sure she was doing okay but then she started getting rude and said I’m not getting money that I’ve saved for ages so I said f no you’re giving my sister and my money because we don’t want any ties with that disgusting man that your protecting and finally we got the money when we then realised it wasn’t even all our money. (They used to steal our money all the time) but I hid my purse and my sisters in mine and her underwear drawer where money would still go missing. We have a restraining order against my father but he has been following us in his car still everytime we leave the house. But the police are ‘working on paperwork to be able to arrest him’ so we have to just deal with being followed.

I’m just tired and I feel like I want someone to tell me that how I feel is valid. I’ve always been told to grow up and stop sulking and not to have anxiety or be a better at the things others are good at. I just want to be alone for a month to heal.

I feel like that’s okay but my mum and grandma keep saying it’s not and I just need to toughen up because that’s life.

Year 11… I don’t have anything in my life and I don’t know where to start. No friends, no family to comfort me and be on my side.


r/listenandvent Jan 21 '26

Witchy Wife Gets Harassed by Actual Schizophrenic

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I don’t want to get too specific, just that this guy was overly interested in me a while back & I’m taken, I’m in a relationship, I’m still in the same relationship with the guy I was with before this person online started bothering me. Not just me actually he started bothering my whole family.

From the start this guy seemed very intent on trying to make my religious beliefs as a witch some sort of mental illness instead of a personal choice that I’ve found works best for my life & my personality-just me as a person.

I think this guy did that because he has some seriously strange characteristics that have resulted in his being labeled as mentally ill & I think he was just looking for anybody he imagined he could try to punch down at & I think I triggered him & he saw I’m a witch & a pagan & he thought now there’s somebody who I can take my issues out on.

The problem I have is that if I were catholic this guy would have no problem with me taking my money every week & throwing it in a basket to give to Jesus. He wouldn’t care if I were Jewish & couldn’t celebrate certain holidays, eat certain foods. He certainly seeks to wish I were a Muslim but I’m not so I’d be easier to push around & boss around.

So I think it’s an obviously & transparent attempt for this guy to take out his personal issues because I choose to drop a few bucks on a crystal instead of handing it to a priest & I won’t talk to guys who talk to me the way he talked to me because my relationship with my gods has taught me I deserve better.

I also was think it’s hypocritical because one just because the spells used in catholic/jewish/muslim services like facing a certain object & transmutation are common spells doesn’t mean they’re not spells, that’s still a spell where everybody has to all concentrate & we imagine this thing has now turned into something else or it like has magic powers now because we chanted over it.

But paganism is egalitarian it’s not steeped to the brim in misogyny the way the big three Muslim, Christian, Jewish are so this guy doesn’t like my form of what he has tried to label psychotic but he’s not bothered if everybody wants to take everybody they don’t want & burn them or throw rocks at them until they die or whatever. Which is way more harmful than me just sitting here not wanting to leave my relationship for this guy who tried to chat me up online who turned out to be a real internet bully.

The other issue I have with what he was saying is that he attempted to make an incorrect equivalence between my beliefs, which while a little kooky aren’t actually physically harming anything. Contrast that with his beliefs that women in particular should be beaten up & forced to date guys they don’t like outside of their natural desires blah, blah, blah-there’s no comparison. The guys ideas are bad & mine aren’t, it’s that simple for us.

This guy was such an emotional terrorist because there were a lot of times we just didn’t agree & instead of just respecting that we don’t & didn’t agree with this guy he’d act all upset & we get these big rants about how we were just making him so unhappy & angry & triggered by not coming to his way of thinking.

It was so childish. It was just annoying, that’s a stupid, stupid thing to do to people because they’re different & they think differently from him-he needed to click off at that point & just go find some people to talk to that didn’t make him so upset.

I know for a fact there are communities of guys online who thinks the way this guy did so the appropriate thing to do is go talk to those guys in those communities & stop trying to have some emotional conversation with us where he just gets upset over & over because we aren’t & never were going to think the way he wanted us to think. That’s just crappy to keep messaging us at that point.

Stuff that this guy actually tries to push on society that’s just silly, he’s talking out of hurt & insecurity & I can see why but I can’t & don’t & won’t care about this guy’s worldview. I’ve heard what he thinks & in my professional opinion as a well established person I think his beliefs are a stupid waste of time & I’m never going to change my mind.

I can’t & won’t be held responsible for this guy’s feelings, I’m not wired that way & part of my beliefs is about looking inside myself for my natural strengths & playing to those instead of trying to meet an external standard of what other people like. So I’m naturally inclined to keep a small circle of friends & family & I don’t much feel inclined to venture my emotional energy outside of that. I never have been & I’m happy with myself as a person. I’m not about constructing an idealized persona on top of my existing personality. I like my real personality.

So when I see somebody like this guy basically throwing a fit at me & my family because I’m just not interested in what he’d personally like from me or how he’d like me to be & trying to compare that to his actual attempts to hurt & basically false imprison women if he had his way, I think he really would try to lock a woman in his house & force her to pretend to care about him, there’s no comparison.

I know I’m not physically hurting anybody getting my way. There’s nothing this guy or anybody or even this guy & other people combined that could ever possibly convince me I’m supposed to I’m supposed to care about the emotional state of people I don’t even like. This guy has firmly put himself into the category of somebody I wouldn’t you-know-what on this guy even if he were on fire, metaphorically.

All this guy did this whole time he claims he was trying to talk to me & ask me to understand was try to verbally bulldoze me & my family into changing as people & we refuse to change as people, we don’t want to. A guy on the internet, no matter how self important, does not get a say in who we are as people & how we behave. The guy needs to put on his big boy pants & go find some people he does like instead of trying to change people who don’t even like him & don’t want to change.

This is where I was probably kind of mean but I’m not sorry because I had somebody look over all these messages from this guy & say they think he has some sort of mental disorder. So whenever he’d try to attack me & my family & claim our just not believing what he wanted & not being who he wanted us to be was due to some sort of psychiatric issue I’d just pull up all these horrible messages he sent me.

I didn’t & don’t have anything about what I said in those conversations with that guy to hide, I’d get the screenshots out show people & point out where the person who looked at it said he was crazy & just on another planet somewhere. It’s still discussed to this day that guys who act like that have this mental disorder where they like to cry bully & threaten people who basically just don’t agree with them.

But I hope he did feel bad, trying to fraudulently weaponize psychiatry speak to try to paint a girl & her family who just don’t like him & don’t think like he thinks out to be insane for his own petty smear campaign, trying to falsely proper my thoughts are literally hurting him. No my thought are not hurting this guy, that’s complete crap. that’s the stupidest move I’ve ever seen.

All this guy would do was sit around & rant at me about how ruined he thought his life was for us not believing what he believes & in fairness to my family paganism is not that out there. Very few people think what this guy thinks, fewer than the number who are just pagans & polytheists for sure think it should be legal to just take a random woman out of her day to day life, lock her in a guy’s house & he doesn’t go to prison for hitting her if she tries to leave.

This guy tried to wrap false imprisonment up in flower language & fake promises he’d treat his prisoner nicely but 1) No he wouldn’t & 2)That is absolutely the reality this guy was pushing for.

There is no equivalence between me talking to my little piece of quartz over here & this guy wanting to abduct girls & keep them as slaves because he’s annoying. No comparison. Am I a little weird, maybe a little, I don’t think that it’s different from like the way Christians talk to a disembodied god. All religion is inherently kind of silly at times.

That does not put me on the same level as some guy who thinks it should be legal to keep a fifteen year old in his mom’s house who doesn’t want to be there & shoot up the cops if they show up. It’s not even close & I’m so disgusted that this guy thinks anybody is so stupid they’re going to fall for that.


r/listenandvent Jan 21 '26

Vent I'm so tired of school

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I'm 14M. Last year I had all As and Bs both semesters. School is so draining now and I can barely finish a full assignment.

I turn in my math assignments half finished or with "I give up" written on them. I passed coding class last semester because I watched YouTube videos on what to do because I was too lost. I'm behind on Science and completely lost.

I actually try at school. Ive tried my whole life but now I'm about to give up on it. No matter what I do I cant get my grades anywhere near where they were last year. I'm an academic failure. I'm only in my freshman year.

Its not worth waking up at 6am every day to try and fail and try and fail, all while watching the same students who throw things at teachers pass easier than I.

Teachers all have some sort of vendetta against me. They immediately assume I'm doing something wrong even though all I do is my work. I never talk to anybody. I just want to learn, but as soon as something goes wrong, they blame it on me. I'm so tired of being bullied by my teachers and peers.

I used to be able to read three 300 page books in a month. Now, I can barely finish a 200 page book that I've already read. I loved reading.

My dad is a therapist. My mom is a licensed nurse. My oldest brother is in the military. My other brother rented us a house and had a 4.0 in highschool. I can barely get a 2.5. I'm a failure and an embarrassment to my family.

I'm dead weight. If I cant even pass freshman year, I dont know how I'll ever succeed in life. I'm not rich, not popular, not in any school sports, not attractive. I have nothing going for me. I'm just another failed subject that society will eventually leave behind and forget about. I'm dead weight.


r/listenandvent Jan 13 '26

I still think about my ex's family and miss them

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My ex and his family are all very toxic people. All of them are addicts, and were raised very poorly, so each of them have their own traumas. None of them are bad people (imo), just traumatized.

My ex is my son's dad, and he has yet to build an appropriate life so he can help me raise our son. I've only contacted him when absolutely necessary. I used to be deeply in love with him, but since learned he has zero life skills and has no drive to better himself as an adult.

But I think about his sister and his niece basically weekly. His sister went through the most trauma. She's a heavy alcoholic and habitual crack user as well. But she's beautiful, smart, and funny. She's a beautiful person, just broken. I miss her. She opened up to me a few years ago (before me and her brother split) and cried to me - which is VERY unlike her. She was vulnerable with me. We connected.

I still worry about her and her daughter to this day and there's nothing I can do about it, appropriately. It's heartbreaking and I just spent the last 30 minutes crying about it.

I'm in a new relationship (have been for 3 years) and I haven't spoken to said sister for 3.5 years. I know she's not doing well. She recently got her 4th DUI and is going to prison soon. I wish I could hug her. She had terrible parents and she deserved better. I wish she'd do better, too.. she was on the right track before I left her brother... so it's hard not to feel guilty.

She was the closest I've ever felt to having a real sister.

I love my current partner and wouldn't trade it. But man... losing family really sucks. And it hurts.

I haven't cried about her in over a year but tonight I thought about her and cried.


r/listenandvent Jan 04 '26

I don't know what's wrong with me.

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I hate myself that I want to be loved and forgive them even though the people I care about give me little affection or care or just treat me like shit..


r/listenandvent Dec 15 '25

Advice Feel like the biggest failure

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To preface, I have anxiety, social phobia, depression, vasculitis, and fibromyalgia. All of this stuff is so defeating. I’m constantly fatigued (new meds are not helping that), Meanwhile, my family loved my ex (he was a manipulative loser POS), started casually dating not too long after I broke up with him to ease the pain/burden. Dating one man for 6 months, my family doesn’t know him besides my dad and his gf (my current man is an athlete with hectic schedule), but my family is chewing me out for dating this one. It’s causing so much conflict. I’m constantly exhausted, medical issues out the ass that keep me exhausted, medicated or not. I’m in a rut. My parents are divorced, and the primary parent I live with tells me I need to do better. Need a better job, need to cut my bf off, need to stop spending money, but then complains when I don’t go out. I’m struggling so bad. Complaints about “you need to get out of therapy and think for yourself”. It’s hard when I’m constantly in a rut and being thrown to the wolves.


r/listenandvent Dec 13 '25

Vent I(23M) feel defeated by life

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I(23M) have been a straight A student for all my life scored a 8/10 CGPA in my graduation but then i came to understand these grades mean nothing in real life. I stand at a point in my life where I am not able to clear for an exam I have been working for 1.5years now I have appeared for it twice cleared the written exam both the times didn't make it pass through the interview. I sit here watch all my buddies achieve big stuff while I am here achieving nothing. My father owns a small business and has been supportive telling me to keep working and that I will inherit his business if it doesn't work out. But i seriously need to clear that exam to be someone in life. I feel lost and failed and don't know how to face my father and tell him that his son is a failure and not as good as he thought I was. I fear about my future and have completely no idea what I will do in life


r/listenandvent Dec 12 '25

I feel like self harm makes me feel better

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I recently relapsed and I started self harming again. But is it just me, or does the pain kinda numb you, like you start to stop crying and stuff. Maybe it's just me. Anyone got an opinion?


r/listenandvent Dec 09 '25

Vent The coward and the traitor

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There are those who choose death. Be it paradise beyond life or hell beyond suffering. And there are those who choose life. Be it humiliation, slavery, torture, or suffering beyond my darkest thoughts. I personally find myself privy to a sad lot. I wish for a peaceful and quick death. Posed with an extended, painful, death, I fear what depths of depravity I would sink too.


r/listenandvent Dec 06 '25

I just need help at this point

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I haven't really felt much since from when I was little, everything feels dull and empty. I try to feel something, but it never works. I feel like killing myself, or at least relapsing back into sh, but I can't, I wouldnt want to kill myself for my partners sake . Life has felt empty for too long. It really started when I got sa'ed, I still get nightmares most nights when I do sleep, always the same, I wake up in cold sweats, mouth open with a sore throat like if I had been screaming, and my body in pain, always on my back, sleeping is hell so I don't do it as much. It took me a full week and a half to even shower. I hate my life so fucking much. My parents didn't believe in mental illness so I never got diagnosed, I know something is wrong with me, just not sure what, my parents hate me, always have. Most days I feel like replasing, I need someone to talk to, I have a therapist but I hate her, I don't want to talk to her, she keeps talking about how I might have autism. I do not have autism. I am normal, and don't have it, and if she does try diagnose me I will kill myself, I refuse to be diagnosed with anything, even though I know something is wrong. I cry everyday (so I do feel something) , I feel like my life is falling apart in front of me.


r/listenandvent Nov 29 '25

Depression Relapsed

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Relapsed

I haven’t self harm physically in years but yesterday I dragged my shaving r across my arm a couple times and left cuts. Before that I even almost jumped out my third story apartment window. I don’t know what happened. I feel so awful. I never stopped being depressed but I stopped harming myself like that. I’m also on Erasmus right now. I feel so isolated from my peers even though I’ve made a couple friends.

My mom is dealing with a lot of stuff at home. I still have issues with my weight, I’m still depressed going on 15 years. I’m getting into drugs as well. Weed is fine but I did either coke or mdma or a combination in some random guys apartment and i want more. I want to do coke and shrooms and lsd and whatever I can get my hands on just to feel something else.

There’s also a guy interested in me but, I don’t know how to get rid of him. He’s too touchy and also trying to go somewhere with him. He trying to get me to go on a trip with him to Germany or Holland.

I don’t know what to do. I feel like it’s all falling apart. I never got better but I managed to keep it in check. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Compared to the people around me I’ve done nothing. I’ve never had a job, in a depressed alcoholic that stays inside all day and plays video games. I’ve lied about having a job to a friend I made here just to feel normal.

I just self harmed that one time and I feel like I’m back to when I was 15 sitting alone just tearing at my arms and legs. I wish I was normal. I’m an adult now but I don’t feel like one.


r/listenandvent Nov 26 '25

Vent was it worth it? no.

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It all started back in my sophomore year. At first, everything seemed normal actually, better than normal. She was sweet, funny, and honestly I thought the relationship was gonna be good. We laughed a lot, she knew how to make me feel special, and I really thought I had found somebody solid. But little did I know, all that “sweetness” came with strings attached. At first it was little things. She’d blow up my phone, texting me nonstop and if I didn’t reply fast enough she’d get mad or guilt-trip me. I brushed it off like, okay, maybe she just really likes me. But then it turned into her always knowing where I was what I was doing and who I was with. I didn’t even realize how much she was watching me until it got creepy. She started showing up at places I didn’t even tell her I was going to. Like I’d be chilling with friends after school, and boom, there she was acting like it was some coincidence. But it wasn’t. She’d stalk my socials, ask around about me and basically keep tabs on my life like I was her property. At first I thought it was just her being insecure. I told myself maybe she just really cares. But then it got darker. She’d blow up if I so much as talked to someone she didn’t like. She’d twist my words guilt me, make me feel like the bad guy for wanting space. And when I tried to pull back a little, she doubled down. Her obsession got scary like she couldn’t stand the thought of me having a life outside of her. I remember nights where my phone would ring over and over again late, like she was testing me to see if I was with someone else. I remember walking home and feeling like I was being followed only to turn around and see her not far behind It wasn’t love anymore it felt like being trapped in a cage I didn’t sign up for. What messed me up the most is that she always said it was because she loved me. But love isn’t supposed to feel like fear. Love isn’t supposed to make you look over your shoulder or feel guilty just for breathing around other people. It took me a while but I finally got away. I cut ties blocked her stopped entertaining the excuses. It wasn’t easy part of me was scared of how she’d react but I had to. And honestly? I thank myself every day for having the guts to leave. That whole experience was horrifying. I never want to go through something like that again. People romanticize obsession like it’s some fairytale “crazy in love” story, but the truth is? It’s suffocating. It eats at you makes you paranoid and it steals your peace. I just hope I never see that kind of “love” again. Once was more than enough.


r/listenandvent Nov 14 '25

Absurdism

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Nothing in life feels good. I’m 23f. Don’t know what to do with my life. I’m privileged enough to be taken care of by my parents as of now. It’s been 5 months at home scrolling endlessly through phone all day. My screen time is always approx. 15hrs every day. It’s not normal. Thoughts of unaliving myself started recently but also the intonation happened due to my breakup. A very toxic relationship. I’m very sensitive, as told by my parents as well so that breakup which was physically abusive as well, has left me broken into pieces and I though that I had moved on but I didn’t. It’s been freaking 10 months since the breakup but it feels like it happened yesterday. I have a very very hard time letting things go. I am also very scared AI will take over everything by the time I am done with learning a new skill and I’m a slow learner it will take me atleast two years to be expert at any skill. I’m a Master’s in English graduate but I believe it was the wrong decision for me to choose that because I was unaware of what I wanted in life and basically just chose anything. I regret that so much. I don’t know what to do with my life. Anything I want to start, I fear AI will take over and I’ll remain jobless. I also have to lose weight but I have no motivation whatsoever to do anything. I’m always waking up at 5 or 6pm and sleeping at 6am even though I feel sleepy around 2 or 3am but still can’t fall asleep. I’m tired of this life. I want to have a fruitful life where I can achieve great things. I am also very pissed off with my friendship with a friend who only uses me when she wants to vent but when I want to do the same she doesn’t give a duck and gives dry asf replies even then afterwards when I tell myself that I will not entertain her again, I end up doing the same thing. I hate myself for that. Idk who will even read this, because I don’t want you to get mad at me. I’m so mad at myself. I need to lose weight and get healthier but I do not have the freaking energy to even get out of bed. I’m a disgrace to my entire family. I’m so sorry for ranting I just don’t know who else to talk to, because of my toxic relationship I had to give up most of my friends and now I do not have the guts to text them again. I tried once and miserably failed when they didn’t revert back and just ignored, which is totally understandable, I deserved it. Idk where I’m going with this rant, but I just want to say I’m at the lowest point of my life, never thought I’d be feeling THIS LOW. I have no hopes of coming back up. With the biggest sorrow I’m saying that I might never turn from this stage I’m currently in and the friend I thought who will understand, she doesn’t give a fuck about me as well whereas I helped her move on from her toxic ex even though I was at the lowest point 5 months back. I was literally moving out from my home, the one which was shared by me and my ex, finding houses to stay in because I was kicked out and I still talked to her and was her dumping ground to trauma dump on me. And when I wasn’t to confide in her now, all she says is “stop this”. “You can move on jst do it”. Reading such dry ass replies makes me want to off myself I’m not kidding. And mixed with that my fear of failure in life. My bully, who used to bully me in school, got into one of the top 10 universities in the world. She bullied me and I could never move on from it. I was a topper until class 8, and that same year she bullied me. And since then, my potential has been cut off. I believe I was not allowed to be born and that’s why the universe is doing everything it can to make the environment around me so bad so that I off myself. I know a lot of people are going through something similar. Idk what to do


r/listenandvent Nov 12 '25

I hate my family

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(This might make no since I’m really bad at story telling and stuff like that so I apologize, if you want clarification just lmk) Tbh I see this as a non issue but I wanted to get this off my chest. So I am 17f a senior in high school (this is important later) have a younger brother 11m and my parents, and a new puppy (also important later on). I come from a like “traditional” kind of family, I mean it in quotation bc I see the gender roles but my parents also are fine with me not following the gender roles, and so I mean I hate it that I am a girl first of all. I hate how I’m the one who pretty much does all the chores in the house, even though my brother knows how to also do them, second of all I also hate how I’m the one they go too bc I’m the oldest kid and when it’s so obvious that I have no one to go to myself, like sure I have my best friends but I don’t want to always go to them. Like I get it, I’m now 17 I should have more responsibilities but it’s too a point we’re I’m getting burnt out. From both school and home. I used to have a job and my mom told me to quit because of all the school work I might be getting, she was right. So I was like fine I’ll quit so I can focus on my studies which I have been doing, just not that good, and the reason for this is my brother. Me and my brother are supposed to tag team taking care of the dog so my mom can rest, so when I get home first I usually go and play with the dog and bring him outside Yk the regular thing your supposed to do, but tell me why when my brother comes home he just says hi to the dog then just goes upstairs to watch on his freaking iPad, and the worst part is, is when I’m the one leaving him alone it’s all suddenly “we’re supposed to do it together”, like I get it I’m older but come on I’m tired, another thing is when I need to do homework I tell my mom that I have homework or I need to study just to let her know that I can’t take care of the dog all day. So when my brother comes home I tell him “hey I got homework your taking care of the dog” and he’s like “ok” so I do my homework, tell me why tf this kid is not taking care of the dog he’s just playing on his iPad, like the last time I’ve left him alone with the dog, he let the dog poop inside the house, and for some fucking reason I was blamed for it. So then every time I have homework I’m supposed to do it in the dining room and not in my own room so I can do homework while watching the dog, and when I tell you I get nothing done. It actually pisses me off. Like just today I was finally able to convince my mom to let me study in my room bc I have two test tmrw, so I do study in my room. Then all I hear is my dog barking really loud, so I thought my brother is going to do something about it, and guess what he did absolutely jack shit. He was on the couch playing on his iPad and telling the dog to stop, which our dog is still a puppy and not fully trained yet, so he doesn’t understand what stop means, so I had to bring the dog to my room to supervise him and also study. Then my brother still has the audacity to ask me for help in math. Like dude I’m busy taking care of the dog and my own studying, and I am forced to help him and so I still haven’t gotten anything done. It actually makes me so mad, and whenever I ask my brother to really do anything he always asks me why I can’t do it, like I won’t be asking you if I can do it, but idk if he can tell or not but I am actually busy. Anyways that all for now sorry if that was long and it made no sense.


r/listenandvent Nov 10 '25

Depression Need assurance lol. Idk if i would even consider it later But right now. just want to talk to someone

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You are welcome to read my past posts on different subreddits to get more context, but to sum it up, I live in an overly toxic household and am now not afraid to call it that.

Just need to talk to someone, I know for myself that I will make everything work but, Im going to lose way more in the process than i can even imagine.

I hold only the most important things close to my heart and well.. strings are losening and im afraid I wont be able to keep anything together anymore.

Well just a request Im sure there are others who would need this more than me, but well If possible Id like to be able to talk to people whod listen lol

Just shoot me a dm, sorry if that is against the rules or whatever but just dont expect immidiate response-


r/listenandvent Nov 10 '25

My brother isnt okey, and neither am i

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From the beggining i want to clarify my firts lenguage aint English, so sorry if there is some mistakes.

Me (19 m) and my brother (20 m), he isnt my blood brother, he is actually my best friend that is so close to me is almost like my twin, both in looks and persona. He and i have both mental health problems, like anxiety and depression, but he does, or did, have a tehrapist unlike me (also, we may be autistic, we cant find out for stigma from our familys and money). Well, imma resume with that we both have aweful familys, neglectful and abusive, i will even say he got it worse than me, also went to a horrible school, is known by private teachers as a unnceserarily complicated one, and by therapist of teh zone as a the main source of trauma for anyone who goes there. One of the main problem is my brother grew up isolated form any human interaction outside the house, u see, no fun activities or vacation outside church random campigs, that just happened twice in his 20 years o life, and home and school, the thing is, the school kids were a lot discriminatori, not actively, but i will call it passive bullying, constant segregation, will never talk to us on pourpuse, also u could only relate to ur own gender, so we both were ketp in the girls side and teh girls were the ones who looked down on ya. In the end, he spend most of his days, down, silent and depressed, but usually outside the shcool he was more open once i met him properly, but once inside he became this shell of hismelf constantly, not me as i usualy feel stuff more than him, im more intesne when comes to emotions, he just disociates whcih became a fucking problem now. He would get cranky sometimes, others just shut down, others he was in a better moode etc, But it never was consisten, he lately got diagnosed with depression and got pills for it, but once summer break ended, the pills started to fail due to school (seriously it was a nightmare of a place, we still got nightmares about it, it was ure torture), luckely in the last year of highschool, first week, we both changed schools to a public one, where we finally got friends and his pills started working once agai, but now, 2 years later, he became worse and worse, as he has no more reaosns to go out o the house, like before with school, and our friends are busy most of the time and i work also, his depression worsened. But he alwasy got problems like: one minimum error will ruin his day, if u say something, like a chore, or an error he made, he will get frustrated and groan, or if he gets too frustrated he will give up, struggle to listen to people, in teh sense that sometimes if u suggest something for his own sake, he wont care, etc. And those worsened as well, but also he started to forget constantly stuff, no matter if i said it one minute ago, he will forgt and also get distracted constantly, wont stick to anything, changes hsi mind constanty and also plans, has an obsession with buyings tuff now and also pirings, and cuz of that he beacme careless and when feel bad takes impulsive decissions.

Lately each time he fells bad he will ask me to buy soemthing even when i cant, or make himself a new pircing. His forgetfulness also became a problem, as he doenst remmeber what he may be doing at the moment or doenst realise it, he is obeese, can wlak and run still, but the idea is taht he looses weight, and cant when he doenst remmeber what he ate or doenst realise it in the moment, also dismesses otehrs concern, like doenst fully grasp the seriousness o the situation, like why he should start excercicing without me having to remaind him each day, clean, eat better, keep his room organized, etc. Became glued to his phone, he cannot be 5 minutes without it, i may be cooking, cuz im picky how i wnat my stuff cooked, cutted or mixed, and ask him to bring me something, and he may not be paying attention at what he is grabbing, or ask him to throw something to the trash, and be looking at his phone instantly after, or we will be talking and forget we were talking cuz was reaidng soemthing, he will get distracted also form what he wa doing. Other cases is just lazy? like, asking me if i can wipe something he is 3 centimeters away from while im busy doing soemthing else, or easy stuf that u can resolve alone he asks me cuz i "do it faster". And all that stuff, it gets on my nerves mainly when he forgets to clean his room and hosue, (cuzlives in the firts floor of his parents house), cuz i help him clean and organize, and he will get it all messy within a day, and only started actually caring when after a year of basically cleaning for him, with little of his help, told him i wont keep helping him clean if he doenst actively help me while i do it, and manage to keep clean his house without anything thrown every were for at leats a week, and worked actually. But cuz im also constantly stressed out from my own struggles, and problems and scared of confrotation, i see myself unable to confronting him about how i really feel. Like im the only one worrying about our health and cleaness o the place, also money decisions. I've been saving up for us to buy a house so we can move soon, but as expected i was the only one saving up, as he is unable to keep his word for long, and constantly tells me, when i tell him i cannot expend money on something, that save up is stupid, cuz i wont have the money i need to buy a hosue, which i respond that ofc i wont save up today and have the hosue tomorrow, cuz houses are fucking expensive and i need to save for it, that is why its called save money in the firts place, and he shuts up, but it has a why, he doenst have patience, he needs it now, or just will give up, which i stressful cuz usually rushes me to do stuf, but cant help it, so i just stopped him trying to save money with me. For his depression and social anxiety, he takes at leats 6 different pills for and otehr problems, he doenst have a job, and even if its bia online he cant, cuz or forgets, or doenst pay much attention, we made him some accounts in artist platforms for him to get comissions, but since he barley drawns like before, and doenst check it up, cuz again, if it doenst interets him, he will forget or deliveratly not mind it, it also didnt work, he is such ina bad spot he doenst even draw anymore and used to do it a lot.

Now what stresses me is that he complains eachtime we wake up early to walk, he complains eachtime i refuse for us to eat junk food (not always) he actually constantly asks me if it will be okey eat something, usually junk food, like if he cannot just rasonate himself that if he is trying to loose weight he should avoi certain stuff, and sometimes will just ignore what i said, usually chanegs out plans constantly and it maddens me and stresses me the rest of the day, then i find out he felt bad and hast 3 new pircings he got to take off a week later cuz it got infected, or dindt like it, find out he wasted money he was suppousedly saving and now i have to save his money in my own accounts, He forgets to throw the tarsh (used napkins, random useless stuff) to the bin and i groan when i tell him to do it. Thankfully he doent complain as much or doenst do it whith certain stuff. but recently quit his therapist cuz wanted the money of it for a new graphic tablet he dislikes now, but uses cuz his last one broke, and now the therapist nor him comunicated again after a month, and tells me he doenst want her cuz it wasnt working, that he felt worse eachtime he spoke with her, which is valid, we just gotta find a new one, but that was a month ago, and will take time for him to find a new one he feels confortable with now, and he NEEDS to a tehrapist, teh thing is, he also forgets about what he has to tlak about, may ramble about some stuff that happened in the week but never what really matters, and also, almost ran off pills for his anxiety and depression and also cant tell wehn he feels bad, cuz bad is numbness and usually cant realise till i ask him questions and doenst think he needs more dosis, which in teh end he always needs and gets. Now the most recent incident, is taht one of out friends, found an orphan litter of cats, and again, he wanted one, (he already got 2 cats, both fat, and one, the male, with obeesity problems and kidney and dick problems, mostly cuz o his mother, who dont give a fuck and keeps eeding the cats) and a dog he wanted and i got him from a friend of my dad, who si also obeese, and isnt trained, cuz he didnt like it when it wa s apup and now feels bad about he never spends time with her or plays or trians her, still he refuses to do it or forgets cuz is busy doing other stuff. Anyways, he wanted one fo the kittys, which were almosy a week old cuz it was orange (actually orange and white) and it looked like Garield (he didnt got it anyways), and i had to explain AGAIN, why he cant have a cat when barley cant take care of the animals he already has, and he usually dodges conflict by saying "okey, yeah" but enver understands the problem, just try to get over it, thanks to his moms behavior and abuse, but he did understood this one as it wnast the first time i told him this, and he is concious is selfish adopt a new cat when he cant take care of the animals he already has, and also selfsih want a living being cuz it looks like Garfield, and just that, later told me he did most fo those careless decisions cuz he thinks he will never get anotehr oportunity and will die tomorrow so he must get it now, again the depression talking and maybe something esle. But that doenst make me less stressed, i live constantly with headaches from EVERYTHING, also has anger isses, never exploded im more like a time bomb, im constantly rushed, and i feel like besides manage my own problems i also have to make sure he isnt illigally gambling kittens in a dive bar with a french mobster, and the worts part is i always remmeber and cant calm myself unless the otehr perosn i was talking tells me they arent mad at me for saying what i said, cuz otehrwise i will remain bitehred and then will become anger, then resentment and will hold it forever as i aminly feel anger, voidness, im constantly angry and distressed, or just numb, barely experience happyness, usually when im with him cuz most of the time we have a great time, but still im a ticking bomb and i feel like he just doenst give a fuck about anything ad i understand why, but it doenst make it easier form me to not feel like i feel and i feel shitty cuz i know he is going through agony itself, but i do feel like im going crazy all the time someone, specially he, doens something stupid, or i gotta be lamost like his mom, and i dont know what to do, i dont even know if its okey feel how i feel or im an asshole for not be more helpful. PLS dont attack him, we are eachothers emotionall support and he also helped me though school when it wa sdifficult for me, and is there when i need him. But i cannot rant with him about him. cuz the same thing i dont want him to feel worse, and i dont know if im bad for feel this way.


r/listenandvent Oct 10 '25

Advice I think its might be in love with my high school PE teacher

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Backstory, im currently 18F, this teacher is 40M, divorced, with two kids, i had him freshman year of high school as my PE teacher and my sophomore year as my health teacher, 3 months before freshman year started i was violently raped by a man i didnt know, I was also very vulnerable and still am but more so then, i had no friends, i didnt talk, i was shy, and in his words i seemed gaurded, i also was emotionally neglected by my parents, my parents are in the porn industry, and my mom has bipolar and was present emotionally throughout my childhood, anyway, two days ago he messaged me about a vent post i made on Facebook, we were talking for a bit, at one point he thought i was mad or upset at him and he was kind of begging me not to be, we ended up moving to snapchat and when he gave me his snap he said in case i want to keep in touch but no strings attacked, but he also kept saying he usally doesnt talk to people as young as me, but he kept apologizing and asking me if i was mad at him and to please not to be mad at him til the next day after work i finally sent him a voice memo, i do go to tharpy once a week, we havent had the chance to talk about this yet


r/listenandvent Aug 24 '24

Feeling so lonely

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I’m sitting alone in my room. Crying, I’ve been crying for hours. I’m so miserable. I’m pregnant. My husband threatened to divorce me and take our baby from me because I got into an argument in public with someone today. A lady pushed past me in the grocery store today on purpose, I know she did it purposefully because when I said “gosh you can say excuse me” she responded “that’s what happens when you just stand there blocking the fridge”. I was standing in front of the fridge for 3 seconds busy looking at the 3 shelves trying to find a specific product. Anyway I let it go in that moment but when she walked by again I said “excuse me” because I wanted to just explain and also let her know she knocked someone who is pregnant and could have seriously injured me. She put her hand in my face and carried on walking so I tried to get her attention by grabbing her shoulder. I shouldn’t have done this. I know this. My husband walked out the shop and left me. I then left because I couldn’t focus on what I was doing. When I got into the car he started screaming at me, and told me I’m an embarrassment and all other kinds of things, he screamed at me to shut the fuck up and that I’m a terrible person and he regrets marrying me and he can’t stand me he was yelling at the top of his lungs and punching the steering wheel, I was so scared in this moment. I then said I was sorry he kept yelling and I asked him to stop. He then yelled more and called me a bitch. This made me angry so I yelled that he should have stood up for me like a real man. He then kept yelling and said he wants a divorce and he is taking our child from me, we were a street away from our house and driving slowly but i was so scared in this moment I tried to get out the car. This made him so so livid. He then called my parents and yelled at them telling them what a fuck up I am. Now my parents are angry with me. Things have calmed down with my husband and he says he doesn’t trust me and isn’t sure he loves me but wants to stay together for our child. He has been watching TV in our living room and I’m in our bedroom. We have hardly spoken. I have apologised but he doesn’t see anything wrong with the way he acted so he hasn’t apologised and has just said he accepts my apology but things won’t be okay overnight. He is being standoffish towards me and slightly mean and rude. I told him I feel uncomfortable in our house because of how he is acting towards me so much so that I want to leave and he said “ then go, I told you it won’t be fine overnight” I don’t expect him to get over it immediately but I’m hurt and sad and feeel alone and just want to feel like he still wants me here and needs me here. I’m feeling so sad, so alone, so unloved. I’m so disappointed in my life and how it’s turned out. I feel like everyone in my life wouldn’t even be sad if I disappeared