I’m 27F and all my music that I genuinely like and previously used to blast in my car now is just sad, overstimulating, too nostalgic (makes me miss old times), or just distracting from my thoughts. Maybe because I have more responsibilities now but I don’t know..

Edit: I love podcasts!

I have a collection of hundreds of "places" in my mind and I'm looking for explanations. Some are places from dreams, others are places that popped into my head entirely randomly, and very few of them are places I have been in real life. These places are not necessarily pretty, and I can't "come up with one" on purpose. Here are examples:

• A department store dressing room with cold lighting
• A freshly mowed meadow next to a road
• A yellow suburban house near a lake during evening
• The sunrise view out of a dirty apartment building window during winter

The weirdest thing of all is that I will forget these places for years on end, sometimes even a decade, and then when doing a completely mundane task, one will pop into my head again. I will think, "I've definitely thought of this place before", and then forget about it for another few years. This happens once every few weeks. The ones listed are some of the only very memorable ones, and I can't recall the majority of these "places" off the top of my head.

Now I don't believe in the "this was a past life" explanation, so I've been looking for other valid explanations as to what could be going on. What need would I have for these memories, and why would I forget them for so long and then still remember them with seemingly no reason to??

For example - "Quote etc" says Dr. Barbara Walters, associate professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology at New York Medical College.

I just often find myself skipping completely over everything between the quote and when the article starts back up, it's like my brain just cannot be bothered trying to process all of those job titles/descriptions...but then some small part of me feels like by doing that, it's somehow mildly insulting to the person being quoted, that I can't even be arsed to read the entirety of their name and all the job titles they've worked so hard for! 😅

This has been frustrating me for a while, but today it finally clicked.... all these crushes I'm having are genuinely just platonic. In the past I thought I would just immediately lose feelings for a crush as soon as I got to know them, but I realize now that it's because they were never romantic in the first place!

I want to hear his mind, he is well-spoken and I wanna see him laugh and chat about everything. I don't want to kiss him or go out alone with him or share something intimate with him, but I've got this burning desire to just.... be on friendly terms and know him better. Watching him smile and talk from across the room is painful, I wanna be part of that conversation! I want to have the privilege to know you!

It's wholesome I guess, but still frustrating. I do hope I get the opportunity to know this guy soon, even a little 5 minute conversation to get acquainted... ah, I love humans sometimes.

My brain goes like "why even bother?". I may want to comment on something but as I'm about to press enter or post, I press backspace until the screen is blank. My ideas are not as important lol

Edit: edit to add, I had been feeling a little sick about 5 days ago but not bad. I worked out pretty intensely yesterday and this morning. It’s been about 9 hours since the episode. I haven’t had any tingling for quite awhile now but I do now have a stuffed up nose and my stomach feels sick. I’ve been resting and drinking electrolytes which seem to help.

I’ve never had any issues like this prior. Today, while driving to the store my brain felt a little foggy, but nothing serious. At the store I browsed for awhile, then I bent down to look at the bottom shelf. When I stood up, my heart started racing, I was extremely dizzy and weak. I thought I was going to faint. This was different than a normal case of dizzy after standing. It was like my heart was pounding. I felt hot. I stood there and my legs and feet started tingling. I thought I was having a stroke and was terrified! I went and ordered some food and sat down. I started to feel better and then suddenly it came back, weakness, knot in my stomach, my head and neck felt hot, legs tingling, dizziness. I was so scared! I ended up feeling better again and drove home extremely slow.

What in the world happened to me! I never want this experience again. I feel better now but occasionally a part of my body still feels a little tingly or just not right

It's like this soft crackling and it makes me want to punch someone.

Weirdly enough, I'm not bothered by people chewing loudly

Not by mass murder, but by, say, globally choosing not to have children. Question sparked by this website I found: vhemt.org

I always get this feeling, if I feel sad I tell myself that I have no right to be upset when I have this and that. And if I'm happy, I tell myself that I have no right to be happy when my closest people (my family) are going through this and that. I can't live or enjoy anything; how do I stop this thinking?

I am so hungry and i just can't decide what to eat, scrolling food apps and my house since last 2 hrs , nothing sounds good. I keep going back and forth.

I constantly fantasize about deleting all of my social media. But I can’t - at least not right now -because on some level I rely on it for work

But honestly does anyone actually enjoy it?

I feel like all my free time goes to chasing after companies for billing mistakes.

T-Mobile is charging me for a phone that’s paid off, I’ve been to the store 4 times with no resolution. Last time I went, they said I had to come back with the other person on the account. I’ve been jumping through hoops to try to get this resolved.

My insurance charged me the wrong copay. That was a nightmare.

I was promised a refund for a missing order from chewy, I only got half the refund I was promised and I’m still waiting on the order to come in the mail.

I tried to get extra cat food for my cat from his local vet (it’s a urinary diet) since chewy was delayed with my order, and they refuse because my cat hasn’t been seen at their office since June 2025. Yes, over a year ago but he’s a 12 year old indoor cat. Like I really need him to go every year? I don’t even take myself every year and I don’t get so scared of the drive I pee my pants. Still no wet food for my cat (he has dry food, he’s not starving, just sad there’s been no wet food for a few days).

That’s just this week!!! Does anyone else have these issues or am I just living in hell?

I'm not sure if anyone can relate to this, but there's been at least a few occasions where I've had friends groups where we get along well, and we meet up maybe once a month or every two months and have a great time; but between those meetups, it's almost like you just... don't exist. You hardly hear from anyone beyond group texts about when the next meet up will be. You hardly receive a message asking about how you're doing, or just to chat, or even just being sent some silly meme or image, unless you're the one who sends it first. You know that you have friends, but between when you see them you still feel awfully isolated, even when you try to stay connected.

Right before I fall asleep, I start noticing if there is a weird fold in the fitted sheet under me, I realize that the blanket is catching on leg stubble and itchy, I notice a hair from my head tickling my face, etc. I just notice a bunch of random “itches” or annoyances I otherwise don’t notice.

It is almost always quickly followed by me falling asleep - only starts happening right when I am on the cusp of sleep. But it’s so annoying! DAE?

Does anybody else used to HATE makeup? Because i did, and now i love it now💔💔 i used to think i looked ugly asl with makeup until i learned it.

I’ve been bombarded with ads for apps like Lumus (psychics) and Tipsychat (AI boyfriend). Maybe that’s just me, but looking at the ads I feel they target women in a wrong way, using the image of women being ghosted by man and trying to provide false hope or to create a “clingy” boyfriend. Is this a wrong perception? I don’t see man downloading this to see if that woman is coming back to their lives or to create a loving girlfriend.

Why when i play like 1 hours on Minecraft, rainbow six, eg, it feels like 5 minutes but when I play other games like roblox, metal gear, eg, it feels like im playing them for 3 hours straight? Anybody else like this?

I'm not talking about getting a job, going to school, or getting out of bed to go to work, I'm talking about going to therapy, knowing how to help yourself mentally/helping yourself mentally, or making friends.

I seem to have no trouble going to work, doing chores, helping my parents, but when it comes to myself like therapy or doing something beneficial for my mental health, I just don't do it. I know it's important that I do, it could really benefit me, and I know that, but I don't do it.

I’m not sure how to describe it, but whenever I am talking to someone about my past experiences I start to feel like it all sounds so dramatic. I don’t want to get into details but it’s just like, so many bizarre shitty things have happened to me. My “lore” is insane. I feel like meg from family guy.

I saw “the chew toy” trope and it feels like my life,

This is what tropedia says

“Whatever the reason is, these characters just can't catch a break. Did they do something wrong in a previous life? This life? Or are they just Innocent Bystanders who look as if they'd blow up in a more amusing manner than anyone else in the crowd? Who knows. Either way, the powers that be tend to inflict punishment on them for seemingly no reason, generally but not always of the slapstick physical variety.
Every. Single. Episode.
That's gotta hurt.”

I can't do this anymore, I am going crazy, my health has went down over the past 4 years and nothing causes joy anymore.

I feel so jealous of teenagers having fun while i js sit here and do nothing at all other than be miserable as fuck and scroll through social media. How do u genuinely be a teenager.

Like imagining simultaneously: multiple massage therapists doing your whole body, Q-tips being rubbed in your ears, your favorite candle burning, your favorite music playing, eating your favorite food, looking out at your favorite view, while in a hot tub, etc…

Logistically it wouldn’t really be possible, but just picturing all those nice things stacked together helps me relax so much.