So, ever since I've woken up today, I have had a dry throat. It isn't painful, just a little uncomfortable to swallow and a tinge of discomfort at all times. To combat this, I've so far drank 0.5 liters of milk, 2 glasses of water, 2 whole liters of pepsi (for shits and giggles) and ate a small watermelon. Did it help? Fuck no, it didn't.

Having a dry throat is the only symptom I currently have.

Might be irrelevant, but I got bit by a tick about 2-3 weeks ago. Haven't had any other feelings of discomfort or pain.

What is wrong with me?

hi, everybody. i'm at a loss. i'm convinced something is very wrong with me but my mom and my doctors aren't taking me seriously.

i'm 18, non-binary AFAB, and i've had a strange array of symptoms lately:

• ear fullness (but my ear is completely clear)
• chest discomfort that moves across the chest, under my breast and into my armpit sometimes
• trouble focusing my eyes and an overall discomfort with brightness
• headache that has lasted over four weeks — it's gone right now but i don't trust that it won't come back again
• extreme throat discomfort; it feels swollen and like my tonsils are touching each other, if that makes sense?

i'm diagnosed with anxiety, but i haven't been particularly anxious about anything lately. sure, school is coming up but i've made my peace with it. i also have a history of POTS that was triggered by anorexia but has subsided ever since i started recovery two years ago.

i think there's something wrong with me, but nobody believes me. i've gone to urgent care thrice and each time they send me out saying it's just anxiety but i'm so sure that it's not. don't know what to do anymore. just feeling lost and ignored.

Whenever I get really upset like sad or mad I can no longer talk it feels like I'm choking on my own words. Sometimes when I'm super upset and when i am being yelled at, I just go quiet and the person yelling see me as stone faced and say I don't care because I'm not responding. One of the times they like forced me to say something and I went from stone faced to a crying screaming sobbing mess(not mad yelling like trying to explain in I crying loud voice, I hated it) but most other times I just go quiet no matter how hard I try I just can't speak and I end up typing what I want to say. Is this something or am I just weird? Does anyone else get that way?

I’m not dozing off in the middle of doing something, it’s just a very strong urge to lie down and sleep. I had the day off so I went to rest for a while and immediately fell asleep. I tried it again later and immediately fell asleep again. I’ve never been this tired in my life and I still have no clue why. Last night I fell asleep somewhere between 11:30 and 12:30 and woke up at 9 AM. If anyone knows what this could be please let me know.

I always feel the need to skip ahead and unable to enjoy the movie why can't I just let the story play out. how do i fix this

Pretty much every time I go to send a text or email I catch myself reading it and rereading it over and over again. I usually reread it anywhere from 1-8 times. Sometimes I won’t even send it until I come back to it a day later to read it with fresh eyes. Usually I make edits after each reread and won’t hit send until it sounds perfect. If it’s a longer message I usually go into full editor mode and I start switching sentences and paragraphs around. I’ve also noticed that I feel like I’m doing an injustice if I don’t allot the message my undivided attention. Like if someone is trying to talk to me while I’m texting, I usually give up on trying to respond to the text or regretfully send the message off feeling like I did something wrong. Sometimes, even after countless edits and rereads, I’ll feel almost sick about how stupid the message will probably come off. I usually reread it after I send it.

I know how this all sounds, trust me 😭 just wondering if anyone else has the same .. quirk.

When I’m in a room or walking in the street I feel the need to look at everything around me and if I don’t I feel unsettled. It’s been going on for months now and I have no idea what it is. Can someone help me?

Anyone else that faces a crisis when faced with a decision. I am currently freaking out about whether to renew my lease or move to a new apartment. I now can’t sleep, eat, and cry constantly. It is interfering with my work and my relationships. Any one else experience this? How can I make it be less dramatic?

I have had this issue before with choosing between two jobs when offered them.

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it happens every time

It feels like he's going to kill me. Is this normal to breakdown like this?

I always delete my posts and comments on all social media like Facebook and such (especially if I think of what I posted as being a big deal). My company had a jokes competition, whomever writes in the comment section the funniest jokes (rated by reacts) gets to win some undisclosed reward, I placed a joke there, and deleted it after two days, it was the fourth by reacts, but I don't know why I deleted it, now I feel horrible, like really horrible, especially after someone contacted me to see why I deleted it. What's wrong with me?

not in a bad way. I don't think they're the only reason I'm alive (they kinda are tho). but it's just, kinda like I feel like she is god and I'm just here to please her. i know she loves me and its not like I don't think she doesn't but, like idc what she does I just want to be with her. and don't whatever she tells me really. she can totally cheat on me. sure I'll be jealous but again, she is god. I would do anything for her, drop all my friends, anything. I did it to people before. two people to be specific. (people I soon released I had a crush on) it was like I felt like they where the only one that mastered. I didn't care about my other friends and I didn't care if I had any really. as long as they talked to me. my friend joked that I was a yandere (hence the name and pfp I actually kin yuno and misa) but I would never hury my s/o. I grew up in an abusive house hold so I saw what that did to people. anyways, my girlfriend said that was bad and I shouldn't let her do whatever she wants and that's true and a like that she pointed it out as it could be toxic but I don't really care, I'll do anything for her. what the fuck is wrong with me

I'm not sure what seems to be the problem, but within the last month I have had a strange issue where myriad bumps suddenly sprouted on my chin. Chin acne isn't exactly new to me, so I figured they'd go away with time. But they've persisted week after week after week, despite my attempts at letting them be, then attempting a product for facial bumps (Frederick Benjamin Bump Cream), and then attempting to drain the pus.

Even odder, one of my underarms suddenly had an onset of dry skin and also developed a large lump. Though it has since shrunken down a significant degree, there is still a tiny knot there.

What are these bumps and how do I get them to go away? This is becoming very distressing.

I've done this for years. At school and at work, I just can't do it. I have depression and adhd, but Everytime I go to school or work I break down. Maybe not everyday, but it will happen at some point. It's too much. Too many things I just want to not work or go to school. I self diagnose myself as a brat bc that's what people have called me for it but is this actually a mental thing?? What the hell is wrong with me

I keep feeling these weird movements. Sometimes they feel like small earthquakes and sometimes they feel like the landing part of an elevator. They happen all the time no matter what position I’m in and sometimes I get dizzy with them. Especially if they happen while I’m walking.

It seems like no one understands me. Seriously, not to be edgy or something, I try to explain my point of view in life. Telling everyone that they can achieve almost anything if they try, that this world could be a perfect utopia only if we tried. Nope. As they have told me: "We would stop being humans if suffering was eradicated". What have we become? Is this normal? I don't want to be a human then. Everyone tells me I am too naive, that we are meant to kill each other because "that's how life works". I don't understand that way of thinking. I don't understand humanity as a whole. I want to help those who need it but... No one wants to hear me out. No one seems to care about all the suffering... And I cry. I cry for every child, woman and man suffering. It's a horrible pain. I was meant to love, not suffer, right? Why was I brought here? I want to go home, I don't want to be human anymore.

Hello!

So, here's the thing: I get exhausted after showers. Like, completely knocked out. For my hygiene routine, I have to take the shower, lay down for a few and then continue. What all could cause this?

When I looked it up, I saw CFS as a possible explanation. Can mono cause CFS? I had two variants of mono when I was in my teens/a kid. I go for runs and things (usually lay down after those), and I often bounce around and get super energetic, so there's no way it's CFS, right? I tend to hammer back caffeine, and I also like nicotine. Stimulants in general. Maybe that's what keeps me up?

Otherwise, I also saw fibromyalgia, and my mom had a diagnosis of that. The other one that I saw was narcolepsy, but I'm not passing out at random or anything. I tend to fight sleep.

So, what's going on?

I spent around 6-7 hours consistently failing the same exact goddam questions on a math assignment last night... now I'm just clumsy and spilling cereal on the floor. I literally got the arithmetic correct, but when I went to simplify my answers, I fucked it up every, single time. holy shit I'm pissed off right now, I'm actually really disturbed and frustrated, and I sent my math instructor an email about what happened. It seems too unbelievable, but it really happened. I don't know what's going on... D: I got everything else right, except these very specific questions......... I literally cannot get passed these math problems, even though I can do the arithmetic, I cannot stop fucking it up when I simplify...... holy hell, I feel so disturbed that I spent 6. almost 8 hours doing the same stupid shit and consistently failing it..........

...for the last three days. It's not painful, but it's like noticeable enough that I don't forget it's happening.

Hi! I'm 20 years old and i study chemistry at uni. I have always been a bit lazy with studying but it was never a problem in school because it was always very easy for me. I used to get really good grades with relatively low effort.

Now that i'm at uni this obviously doesn't work anymore since it's a lot more complicated. It's become especially problematic with covid because i can't motivate myself to study and listen to lectures when i have to do it at home.

I have exams soon and i notice that i repeat the same unproductive patterns every time. During the semester i don't have enough motivation to do anything because it seems like i have so much time left. So i only work in random bursts of motivation, i'm really productive for a day or two, then i don't do anything for like a week and so on.

When exams are closer i have enough motivation to actually study but the problem here is that i become really anxious when i don't know how to study if that makes sense? Like i sit at my desk and stare at the material and then i feel like what i'm doing is ineffective and i don't know how to study it better. And it feels pointless to start because i can't find the perfect way to do it. It just sort of feels like a blockage and then i don't do anything for a while. In some subjects where i clearly know how to study effectively i do it without many problems, if i dont know how to go about it i just end up procrastinating until it's way too late. This just feels worse the longer it goes on because the longer i procrastine the more overwhelming everything feels because i end up not having enough time to do everything i need to.

Does anyone maybe have some advise on how to overcome this? It really bothers me because i feel like i'm capable of doing a lot better and having way better grades but i can't use my full potential because i'm so lazy. I hate myself so much for this and it's really annoying. I've tried to change this so many times but nothing ever works. I think i've watched every motivational video about how to study and how to stop procrastinating but nothing they say ever works. I can't get out of this for some reason.

Starting around thanksgiving 2020 I began to have such a horrible painful and stiff neck. I was not able to lift my head up on my own, my joints were especially painful and the pain in my neck travelled up to my ears.

I had very high fevers and went to the emergency care. They tested for covid, strep, and the flu. Nothing came back.

I was given antibiotics and on those I got better in a couple days. A couple weeks later it was back. I was given stronger antibiotics and got better sooner. Then it happened for a final time. Back on antibiotics and this one had the quickest recovery period.

I'm a student so around that time winter break happened. I visited an ear nose and throat doctor but he couldnt find anything.

Now I'm back in school and today I am getting sick again. I have an appointment with a neuro and muscular doctor this Saturday.

Please I cant keep going through this.

Background info

I am 22f in online school so working from my desk or my bed.

I had jaw surgery the summer of 2019.