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In his arms; it's the only place she feels safe right now. The only place she feels comfort. He told her that he heard a girl at work talking about her, and that she had nothing nice to say about the broken girl. "I am used to it" , ...

Everything is moving too fast. Her words are moving too quickly, her breath quickens, she's shaking. Her mentality is like a hurricane, moving so fast, she's crashing into everything. She feels like she's slowly losing her mind; like a...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Exposure. Something has happened. Something, according to her, that that "something" would risk freeing what she has spent years trying to shield. This is serious to her. You see, this girl has been burned so many times that something as s...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I don't usually get mad, I'm a fairly calm person. But I can't stress enough how mad I get when people who have never had depression or anxiety, tell me to "just change your mood. Wake up happy, u don't have to be depres...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I have been feeling depressed. My moods have been up and down. I have been isolating myself in my home which is making me even more depressed. I need to go out tomorrow and get some fresh air and see the sights or I am going to go insane. Its my choi...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Seeing my mom miserable in a nursing home does this to me.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Don't you just hate it when the dumbest shit triggers you? In my case something as insignificant as seeing someone with an unflattering haircut, or seeing an old house being torn town can be enough to break me down for weeks :-/

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

This is the part that nobody sees. I'm locked inside my bedroom. Crying. I can't move. I can't breathe. My thoughts are racing. What would everyone say. You're pathetic. You're a loser. You're weak. You're too up ti...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Today was a rough day. So many things I should be thankful for, but lack of purpose, lack of meaningfulness, lack of love. I think my thoughts went further today on 'that' subject then before. A constant voice calling me into the dark.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

It's been getting really bad lately. When I was little and I was anxious I would start rubbing my head and biting my knuckles. Now I scratch. I'm so used to my anxiety, though, that I don't even realize what's happening anymore...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I love myself and know that other people love me also. I dont have a problem there. My mind on the other hand is so drained. Their isn't any one thing that is causing it. It's the people that i've lost. It's the messed up things c...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I just had a panic attack... my hands are still trembling.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I have come to the point where I feel nothing but sadness daily. I cannot sleep. I wake up in ungodly hours after only few hours of sleep which causes me to sleep more during the day. I worked in a place (hired work) where I did not enjoy the work ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

“Some say it’s painful to wait for someone. Some say it’s painful to forget someone. But the worst pain comes when you don’t know whether to wait for forget.”

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

depression comes back these days. i m trying to fight against it. 1st thing i do is to recognize and admit the depressive emotions. then i try to do something else - listening to news on my phone, searching for self help articles on the internet and...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Sometimes I think there is a point in which you pass where there is no coming back. People never really seem to understand this about people who suffer from depression or anxiety, but sometimes a soul has felt more than enough pain, felt more than en...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Can someone please tell me how to stop overthinking?

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

“The thing about an anxiety disorder is that you know it is stupid. You know with all your heart that it wasn’t a big deal and that it should roll off of you. But that is where the disorder kicks in; suddenly the small thing is very big and it keeps ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

The anxiety has been popping up a bit more frequently lately. Sometimes I'll go months without incident. Other times I spend weeks trying to shake it. I'm planning a couple of major life changes, which is most likely the root cause. It...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

It's hard to explain anxiety to someone. It's even harder to explain what goes on in my head. What I feel, how it feels. Shit, I sometimes don't even know what I'm feeling. Just an overwhelming amount of pain I am manic depressive...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Can anyone recommend natural supplements that has helped them with anxiety or depression? Thanks.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

All my life I worked and studied hard to get out of my struggled childhood. I don't have anyone close to me. Now I reached a point where I lost everything and my career is in ruins. I don't want to hurt my family by letting them in my probl...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I know that this is already cliché, but I just felt like confessing that I feel terrible. My depression took a sudden escalation to suicidal thoughts and cutting after almost a year clean. And apparently I'm already addicted to my anxiolytics, e...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Racing thoughts... random moments of sadness... apathetic yet anxious... resulting in insomnia and blowing small problems out of proportion. It's like hell, I can't get out of it. It makes me a complex and paradoxical person and I absolutel...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Here’s something you might not know about me; I had a baby when I was 16. I suffered really badly from anxiety throughout my pregnancy and I didn’t talk to anybody about it; that’s my biggest regret.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I feel alone, my depression over the years has left me really isolated and destroyed most of my true friendships which I now know were never going to be proper long lasting ones. I hate the moment it hits you how alone you feel, I don’t feel I can te...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

i'm in my depressive phase in my bipolar disorder already. please someone get me out of this vicious cycle of a disorder. i feel so hopeless about everything. i can't stop crying over everything. i can't sleep either because i feel so....

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Everything is destroying me, especially school. I am in all honors classes and am already failing 2 of them. I have nervous breakdowns from my homework because I fear doing it wrong, and most of the time just give up and don't even try. The wors...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

So I'm supposed to be relaxing and emptying my mind this morning in yoga class, and instead I find myself lying there stressing about Christmas. What the heck is wrong with me? 😖

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I have the worst phobia of spiders, so last night as I was staying up late reading for school, a tiny spider ran across my bed and underneath the blankets. With my glasses being off, I freaked out but I wasn't sure what it was. I put my glasses ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

i have bpd and ocd(borderline personality disorder) i committed suicide attempts a lot i battle depression but i'm tired i just wanna give up need to have a friend to be free with

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I'm 22 years old and I've been having moderate to severe anxiety for a few years now. One of my absolute worst fears is getting blind by the time I'm 45 years old. Maybe this stems from the fact that I'm highly myopic already, wit...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I've lived with depression and anxiety for a large portion of my 22 years on this Earth. It's a constant battle, that has left scars on my skin and soul. Crippling me some days, a debilitating curse. Medications were thrust at me from a y...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I just dont want to be here anymore. I want to go to sleep and have the greatest dream ever and not wake up. The thought of my reality is unbearable, frustrating, annyoing,sad,and lonely. The dream of peace is so much better.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Maybe this will help to put things in perspective

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Guys if you are feeling like you can't take it anymore there is a FREE crisis hotline you can call and it's anonymous and they will talk to you. Just pick up the phone before making any rash decisions. 1-800-273-8255 Or text 838255! Real pe...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

What are some good employment ideas or opportunities for someone who has issues being around other people? I need real answers.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I am struggling kind of bad. I have no one to talk to who will understand. I can't stop the thoughts. I keep telling myself not to give up but I really can't see a point or a reason to keep living. The pain is bad right now. And I'm su...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I'm not really sure if I'm depressed. Maybe I'm just so sad about how my life is going. I usually just can't help but to cry when I'm alone...sometimes on the bus where people around doesn't really care if I cry. I'...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Falling short again I'm falling short again The ranges set so high And I could never climb Falling Where's the all I have to show The knowledge that I've never known The garden that I failed to grow

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Some days the world is my oyster, but they're becoming rarer with age. Most days I want my bus to crash or a plane to fall out the sky and crush wherever I am.. today is one of those days.. although an apocalypse might be nice.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I can recall, feeling like a crumpled paper ball next to the trash can, not quite good enough to make it in Forgotten and carried away By rats and mice to a new place Becoming lived in My body is someone else's home These thoughts cannot by ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Can someone say something happy or something so that I can stop feeling so depressed? I will pay in internet hugs.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I battled Anxiety following a car accident. Forever fearful another vehicle would slam into the back of my vehicle. My doctor gave me pills that would help calm me, however these put me 'straghtaway' to sleep. My husband told me my head lit...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

"Time Won't Change The Way I Feel.."

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I screwed up again today. I hurt a close relationship with a loved one by accident. It's alright now; they are fine, but I'm dealing with the aftermath. I had the worst panic attack I have had in a while, and it led me to not think as clear...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I really don't see myself getting better. At least not any time soon. I've seen psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, and nothing helps. When I don't improve they say I don't give them much to work with. It's not my faul...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I have for a long time now, but with the right medication it seems to be improving. "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Sertraline!"

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Feeling really low... Pretending is exhausting. Made it through another week at least... I can spend the weekend hiding.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I'm such a homebody these days, I just want to curl up inside my home and let the mad world be busy without me. Depression came crashing into my life at the tender age of twelve. No one could understand why I would be like this at such a young a...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I lay in bed on the phone with you, warm and happy, not talking..just drifting, when demon brain chimes in with a vision from the past "remember this?" he grins and shows me a boy with the back of his head blown apart... "shut up brain...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I wish everyone around me would stop dying and killing themselves so i can take time from helping others to help me.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Christmas used to be my favorite time of year. It is hard this year to be alone when the person I love is very sick and is locked away right now (mental illness). I think I'm stronger than I think and feel sometimes..:I will get through the holi...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Just need to talk about life and how it feels like you are looking through your eyes as if you were watching tv

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I got diagnosed with depression with anxiety yesterday. I start medication and counseling soon. I know I'm not alone in this, but out of everyone I know, it's abnormal... So now I feel like the odd one out.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I battle depression and anxiety. Let me say that again, I BATTLE depression and anxiety. I battle it with self-care. ... by allowing myself to be loved, ... by telling the voices they are wrong, ... every night while I lie wi...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

And it's really been kicking my ass these past couple of days.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

In some kind of morbid way, the only thing that keeps me going during my depressive episodes is remembering that one thing that I'm looking forward to that would convince me not to kill myself just yet. In this case, it's Dr. Strange. It...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I remember when i used to come back from school and not care about anything around me. I would just watch my favourite disney channel programmes: That's so raven and Hannah Montana. I miss those days, where being a child was about having fun. ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I woke up feeling really anxious and sad. Today should be a fun day at work. There's nothing I love more then interacting with people when I just want to wall myself in.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Anxiety and depression are two things that need to be talked about more but simply aren't. As a sufferer of both who also has some quite drastic trust issues I live in silence struggling by myself and it's not right. I know there are people...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

How can I tell my parents that I'm a thousand percent sure I have GAD, Panic Disorder, and Agoraphobia?

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Stress is giving me ulcers. Love it. Praying it won't bleed as I take the PSAT tomorrow. (I had to leave school early because of it today) Whatever, I'm sorta done, so let's hope I survive tomorrow morning. :-)

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

My anxiety don't let me live anymore

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Welcome to My Life Do you ever feel like breaking down? Do you ever feel out of place? Like somehow you just don't belong And no one understands you Do you ever want to run away? Do you lock yourself in your room? With the radio on turned up s...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I almost start cutting myself again today.... 😞 don't want to start cutting don't want anyone to see scars 😞

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I'm not really sure what has happened throughout the years, but I've gotten so anxious with who I am and who I was. I've had a hard time forgetting about the past and I want to try and move on. I know I created an account on this websi...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Never say these things to someone who suffers from depression, or any other disorder/mental illness: 1: "You just need to give yourself a kick in the ass." 2: "No one ever said life was fair or easy." 3: "There are a lot of ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I'm fed up with life, I feel like there's only more depressing things waiting for me in the future. I really can't stand life anymore. I want to run away where I don't have to deal with anything. I give up.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Depression has been the basis on my existence since I was born. My life is/was always depressing. Never had much luck in anything and it doesn't get any better. When is this going to be over? I'm really sick of all the bad luck I have to en...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

So my therapist says I need a crisis plan. People I can contact when I reach level 4/ level 5. I'm struggling with this :/

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Does anyone else get very depressed during the summer but then are perfectly fine during the winter? Because I have been experiencing a lot of symptoms of GAD and Panic Disorder for the past couple years, I get super tired and irritable, and lately I...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

doesn't help to be lonely on top of that.....

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

It's waking up when nobody is here, I can't get up, my body is too heavy and anxiety bites me whenever I think about what I have to do. My life feels so futile, I try to use my logic but my emotions just won't play along..I know what...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Today is a tough one The frustration I think right now I have pushed away all those I love my own family don't want to know me My friends haven't called in weeks If anyone does call me it's because they want me to do something for the...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I finally manage to tell my parental figure I need help and I want to try medication and a new counselor. Weeks it took me to work up the courage to tell her and today when I remind her to call the doctor she tells me to remind her another day, she...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

And right now I'm about season 5 finale of House 😶

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I like to come to places like SW to help escape the reality that is too hard to face at times. The distraction. The occupying of the mind. The meaningful banter. It all takes my focus off of the problems that weigh me down.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

It is hard, but never give up. There is hope and happiness out there waiting fo...Okay that's cheesy. Well, let me put it this way, sure it could seem like to you there is no end as they both tell you that you are trapped in this battle of depre...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Part 3 after loosing everything I was sleep in mom and dad couch she cost me my job I found another job and saved up some cash buying a home next to my parents growing very close to them as I put my life back to gather while at work got a phone call ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Part 2 after getting married and have my second child on the way life became hard my wife wouldn't work 6 months later my third child came I was working 70-80 hour to support my family not to soon after that my first cousins start coming to my h...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I'm feeling so emotionally broken today. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning let alone come to work. At least I'm working by myself so I don't have to interact with anyone. Depression... sigh...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

It is a constant daily battle with both. Depression and anxiety aren't the only things I suffer from, there's so many other things. Some of them make life more difficult than others, and sometimes it is so hard to find people that understan...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

A lot of the time i'm just incredibly numb and waiting for death lmao i have kind of a nihilistic personality

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

All I do is work and cry. I'm tired and want comfort. Reaching out to anyone is like trying to talk through a glass wall.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Tips on handling anxiety on your own without medication?

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

well today the depression has definitely got hold of me .. i'm usually quite a positive person, full of hope, positive thoughts, faking a smile to hide the pain .. because i believe positive thinking really can make a difference in your life, yo...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

At times, yes. The anxiety has been downright out for blood lately. Working on clearing out the negative energy and opening the Chakras. Salt baths with lavender are also helping. It's a working process. At least the panic attacks have seemed ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Today....depression won 😢😥

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I know a lot of people suffer from it; the number grows everyday. Most people I know have suffered from one or both at least once in their life. I get help for it when I can, because I want to be able to feel happy one day and not wake up feeling the...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Some days are better than others.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

So lately I've been taking my antianxiety meds off and on to help me sleep. I haven't taken them for a few nights and last night I woke up to a vivid memory of when I saw my deceased brother in the emergency room. I immediately thought abou...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

I'm not the " stay in bed all day and feel sorry for myself type of person " I'm the "suck it up and take a deep breath ,hold my nose and dive in to the dark abyss with a smile on your face type " I do kivetch and feel ...

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

It's super fun ....yay me ! 😑

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

I Battle Depression and Anxiety

"People tend to follow a pattern of physical attraction Great first date, second date late night passion. It never Lasts long so you keep on passing to the next one. You Never really felt the connection only physical affection So you protect you...

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