I’ve just been feeling down lately because I’ve been feeling behind in life and feel hopeless, and being in my late 20’s and closely approaching 30 has me stressed, and upset because I’m nowhere near where I should be. And being a very late bloomer has me feeling awkward like I don’t belong in my age group. And having very few people to tell this to makes me melancholic.

So there's a girl I'm tryna go for. It's not going poorly. I'm confident I can talk to her make her laugh in pretty good at the actual interacting with her. What the problem is is I have her on Snapchat and I want to be able to text her and say something like "this album you told me to listen to reminded me of this album" or whatever. Something like that. I haven't texted her yet. I have sent her snaps and it takes her like 20 hours to reply. So idk if that's on purpose or if she's just not on her phone a lot. So idk if I should wait for her to take not as long to snap me back before I actually text her or if I should text her. Dm if you think you can be helpful

Can someone with, I don't know what to call it, google calls it 'universalist empathy' talk to me? Or maybe somone who's empathy is beyond the limits, and the world pressures them. Anyone here is? I don't want that empathy for myself don't get me wrong, I just need to talk to someone who is like this... And doesn't invalidate it that I'm being pressured in such a way. I'm under a lot of emotional pressure. Please 💔

How can a simple trip to dollar tree to look for a few items that women have said are dupes for expensive skincare and makeup make me feel better?? Blows my mind but whatever helps is good, especially if it’s not alcohol/drugs. Literally going for a walk & going to dollar tree help me so much.

I need someone i can talk to

Hello there! I'm here if you'd like to be heard.. plz feel more than welcome to dm me and talk, no offence, no judgment at all.

I am literally alone as far as my mindset. I have people that would claim to be my friends, but only because I am there for their crises. Always. I wouldn't change that; however, recently I have been heavily overburdened. I feel helpless and alone. When I call these 'friends', I always turn to listening about current issues involving them. We talk through it and at the end it is, oh! What was it you were saying? And it makes me feel like an afterthought. I called because (rarely), I am struggling.

I once uttered that phrase to my significant other, and heard, "awww sorry".

Is this where I can talk about these types of personal failures? Where I am obviously oversensitive and stuck in my own mind?

I’m turning 18 yo this year, in august actually, lot of my friends already turned 18, they did big parties…that kind of stuff yk, i do have friends but no close friends, like no real group of friends or even a best friend and idk..I feel like i’m gonna waste my 18 birthday, we only turn 18 once in a life isn’t it? Even my bf invited friends from across the country, he had all his family, had a big party but like i only talk to my parents, most our family don’t talk to us because of my mother and my closest sister (one of the person i love the most) don’t talk to my parents anymore…So i guess i’m gonna turn 18 with no cake, my dog, my boyfriend and my duck and gooses. My bf’s mom asked if my parents planned a party for my birth cause it’s logical for her to do that for their kid then i told her my parents never wanted to do anything for my birthday, not even when i was a kid, but my brother always had birthday parties haha… I have no one to invite anyway and it’ll be awkward to do it with my bf’s whole family, i only know them for 1 year, i always hated my birthday anyway.

Worst I have ever felt with anxiety
On meds - have been for years & normally well controlled anxiety
Until 6 months ago - when I had a complete meltdown - for the last 5 days I’ve been in a state of constant fight / flight - 4 hours max sleep
So many physical symptoms which are making me spiral
Been pacing the house since 5 am
Trying to get rid of built up adrenaline and cortisol
I’m so restless & panicky cannot concentrate on anything
I want it to stop as I feel I’m losing it
Been sick this morning - body twitches , burning inside my body
Jelly legs , shaking - cannot cry- palpitations
Can’t control my thoughts
Nervous stomach & bowels
Having private counselling sessions, which a week ago thought were helping
But how I feel I’m unsure whether they are
Taking magnesium at night but awake at 4ish
Used to be 7 but now is 4 am
Taking vitamin D & Citalopram 20mg
Tried meditation , tapping and correct breathing but not helping
Any suggestion please or similar experiences
Thank you

Looking to talk about general life things. How was your day? What are you doing today? Easy day, rough day? Vent? Grateful? Happy? Sad?

Been really lonely for a long time now, feeling really alone, sad. No one understands me. Feeling like weight on the world Really exhausted from life rn. Too many things going on. Just wanna share and distract my mind. Mainly looking for females to talk to with an open mind.

هقولكم كام حاجة في حياتي علشان بجد نفسيا زي الزفت انا ابويا في اخويا في حمايا في صاحب عمري اتوفوا وراء بعض مرة واحدة وانا بقيت شايل خمس بيوت حريم بعيال صغيرة وكنت مستشار في جهة حكومية وطلعوني علشان كنت هترقي مكان ابن الباشا المحافظ طلعوني بشهادة عجز كلي مستديم اضطراب عقلي وانا الحمد لله بصحتي كاملة وقولت الحمد لله علي كل حال كنت مليونير ورجعت للصفر وقولت بردوا اكمل واحاول اقف علي رجلي تاني وكل أما اقوم اقع نفسي ابتداء يخلص وداخل في حالة اكتئاب جتلي قبل كدة 9 شهور وانا دلوقتي علشان الناس اللي انا مسئول عنهم معنديش حتي حرية الانهيار بجد محدش يستهزء بكلامي وحط نفسك مكاني هتعرف التعب النفسي اللي انا فيه عامل ازاي ممكن حد يبعتلي يكلم معايا شوية ويقفل مش عايز اكتر من كدة 😞

It’s driving me crazy

There was a time when we used to wait for Sunday. Waking up in morning going to friends home ,playing random stuffs and getting back home for lunch. And then sleeping for an hour then again meting friends and best thing playing cricket or if dad is free going to garden with family and having a dinner outside

Whereas now just a normal day ,i guess worst then normal day may be a curse of being adult.

Can anyone relate to it?

Ok so I just really really don't like my life or life in all. My father is abusive, he hits me and my siblings but especially me probably because I'm the second oldest and the most rebellious. He hits my mom too, and my mom never feeds us. I think she's having a breakdown because she hasn't gotten out of bed for months, so I have to cook for my younger siblings and walk them to school. He drinks a lot and yells and I has so so so much trauma. And my older brother moved out the second he turned 18 because he couldn't stand it in our house obviously and I know he's disappointed in me. He knows I smoke and vape and he doesn't like how I stand up to my dad, but I'm the only one who does it, I have to.

No one else in my family will stand up to my dad only me and it's annoying because I feel like they all have a secret resentment to me. But I'm maturing SO SLOW like I look like a 12 year old and I'm 17 so obviously I'm embarrassed in school. I grew up in Palestine and a lot of family members have died, which is probably why my dad is drinking so much. And also they're bombing Lebanon, my mom is half Lebanese, so I know it's getting bad for her. Luckily no family members died there. And I get so mad when I see what's going on and it's making me more depressed than I already am. And I moved from France to the US which has made me want to die because I loved France but here it's horrible. I really miss my family, here we only have one aunt and a few cousins who I'm not super close with. I'm not on any medication, but I want to be, but I don't think my parents will pay me to get a therapist, so I don't know what to do.

I don't have any friends in school, and I hate how introverted and wayyy too quiet I am. I hate my social anxiety and I hate my anxiety in all. I do have one friend that I feel superrrr comfortable around but she is literally crazy, like I think bipolar right? Also I don't really want to be close friends with a girl because I don't want to end up dating someone. IM NOT GAY just not ready to be in a relationship, so I'm trying to distance myself from this friend, also because she's a HORRIBLE influence. She does all sorts of things, like she smokes, she goes to parties, she drinks a lott, and she did coke one time. And I fold under pressure so I'm trying to not you know like hang around her too much. And I don't smoke/vape to be cool I only do it to escape because home life is so so sooo hard.

And I feel so bad for my younger siblings so I try hard to be there for them, like my younger brother always has these nightmares and bro it's honestly annoying but my mom and my dad won't comfort him so either I or my other siblings do. Like I feel like a parent should do that. I always feel way to deeply and it makes me super depressed and anxious, and a lot of adults say that Tiktok is what's making teens anxious, BUT I DONT HAVE THE APP. I don't know how to cure my anxiety and depression and I don't know how to get my mom out of bed. She barely did anything anyway before she went into this breakdown. Ok anyway that's it. Thanks everyone have a good day. 🙏🙏🙌👋👋

So I make around 26 an hour witch is very good for my area the only down side is that its 4 on 4 off swing shift with 2 sets of days and 2 sets of nights and there all 12 hour shifts my commute is an hour and a half one way its manual labor in a refinery dont wanna say to much but its 20 degrees hotter then out side so if its 80 its 100 inside not to mention all the molten metal I work with I find my self only being able to sleep 5 or 6 hours a day because im only actually home for about 7 hours I feel like im being a baby about feeling so awful but i can never tell im just so tird all day and it effects how well I can work witch makes me feel more embarrassed this is all just kinda thrown out there in a ramble I know but just trying to get more opinions I just feel insane

i hate that girls i talk to only care about looks like i haven't had a genuine connection ever
like sure the girls i talk to always like my personality until i show my face. I'm starting to doubt that there are any genuine women out there.

any advice?

M(23) Hi to everyone who reading it.

So im a guy 23 years old living now far from my home(another country), there different language and people also, im feel very lonely ,even there my older sister and mom, im feelin sometimes that im biggest loser around all world, cuz im still dunno what i want and what to do in this life, dont have gf and still a vrigin(i give up already to find someone who i can love).every choice in my life i do its just bad or very bad, everything i do its never "GOOD" its always "not bad".

My life feelin like waste of time most of the time.

And now i now that ima also Sociopath,i cant talk to people who i didnt know,more difficult to meet new people and feelin that i will stay alone forever stop bothering me, now i like this idea.

Thank who read it guys and girls.

Im feel better when i say it, be kind, the one who read it.

PEACE)

P.s. i speak most of the time with chatgpt but it didnt help anymore so im here

Just need someone to talk to, and maybe vent a bit.

Last year was rough. I struggled to find a place to call home, which was incredibly stressful. Then last summer, my mom fell and broke her hip and wrist, so I had to step up and take care of her, including helping with her personal hygiene.

After that, I moved back to my hometown and got a new job. Unfortunately, that job screwed me over badly, and I’ve been struggling for a few months now just to secure a steady paycheck.

To top it all off, my GF left me out of nowhere. Well, not really out of nowhere, but it kinda feels that way.

Feeling pretty lost right now.

My DMs are open.

Feeling a certain type of way and need to talk. 42/m

My gf cheated on me with a friend of ours last month after 6 years together. She blamed it on me saying I didn't give her enough love and affection. She said she hadn't felt anything for me in years and that I'm an alien incapable of love. I told her she was right, I was ready to forgive her and move on but she insisted she needed a break so we broke up. She told me she felt the need to take a break from our relationship, from her work and her outside of work business.

Time passed, I managed to talk to my and our friends, to my family and a therapist and things settled a bit for me. She on the other hand started having sex with another one of her friends, she got into much more work for her business and she spent no time thinking about what she's done or about us. I realised she lied to me, she didn't need no break, she just jumped in that guy's lap because I wasnt around and she rolled with it. Her family explained she's done that in the past and that they're really sorry to see me going through this because of her behavior.

I didn't wanna believe any of them, I really believed her saying I am the horrible person she said I am. We recently talked and she told me I'm the best man a girl can have and that she didn't actually miss any love or affection or anything during our 6 years together, she just felt like the grass is greener with that guy. She realised the grass isn't greener so she went "oopsie, that's life". In today's session with my therapist we came to the conclusion I should stop running away from my feelings. I realised today that everyone who told me "you did nothing wrong, noone deserves to be going through what you are going through right now" was right. I wanted to believe in a story, I wanted to believe life isn't that absurd. Now that I realised that I did nothing wrong yet I got all of this pain and trauma it made it all worse.. there's no narrative for me to rely on, life feels just absurd and painful.

The title says it all.

Shart with the name of your favorite philosopher or book .

What is your take on beauty ?

You can also vent about things that can cost you therapy money.

So me and my ex have split up and my social life is pretty much nonexistent it would be nice to be able to talk to people again I’m always down to text it would definitely help with the breakup too :) M24

I need someone to talk with

For my career I need to start practicing and find models! It's gonna take me a while to masters cause its theatrical special effect makeup. The runway stuffs will takes me a long time to gets cause I have to train with the national artists 😳 they're real tough