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Lost My Youth to Eating Disorder

I'm a male, 23 years old, and I suffered from anorexia nervosa for over 6 years. I recovered at 21 years old without any professional or family help and it wasn't until i was 22 that i told family and friends that i once had the disorder. They were both angry and not surprised. I'm terrified of what my life turned into during that stage in life. I became so completely consumed with by the disorder, enveloping myself with these figments of imaginary fat on my ...

I Don’t Know What I Feel for Her

Hello, I am a high school teenager and I have been seeing my girlfriend for 3 months. She is 17 years old, white, and from a modest household. I am 16 years old, Hispanic, and from a poorer household. We have been dating for almost 3 months now and up to about 2 weeks ago; she was everything I could ever want in a girl. But now when I am around her I don't feel like the way I did before. We are both abstinent ...

Family Thinks I Am Schizophrenic

I have lived with depression/social anxiety and selective-mutism for the past 4-5 years. I recently had my sister express her concern for my mental health. She begged me to seek help. I engage in cutting, overdosing, starvation. I have cut since the age of 14 and have never stopped, going so far as to cut my vein and be sent to hospital. I want death. In fact I dwell on suicidal thoughts 70% of the time and have tried many times to end my life. I have ...

Parents Won’t Listen to Me

I have a group of fantastic friends, and a guy who I really like and he likes me. My parents won't let me date. They think that this guy is a horrible influence, a manipulative monster and a cruel person. They think this because of a prank he pulled that really hurt me. He is bipolar and suffers from a lot of depression, he also has a hard time dealing with the past. We have this in common really and I really like him. He ...

Mom Is Taking Over My Life

I know I may be young (16) but I am stessed out to the point that I want to run away or harm myself. I do not want to be with this boy, and actually broke up with him already. My mother has actually been texting him as me for our whole relationship. (Which is 10 months) And would NEVER let me text him. She also controls my facebook and texts other friends as me. She has had my phone since 8th grade, and continually ...

Something Socially Wrong with Me?

I'm stable. I go to school and get good grades. I come from a traditional nuclear family, I know they love me, and I love them back even if they get on my nerves. However, lately I have very distressed about myself. I feel like something is wrong with me. I started thinking about my childhood and adolescent years this past month and a half, and I noticed that I truly was not happy and I think I have had the same problem for years. ...

Mild Paranoia

I am always paranoid of what people think of me, who I hang out with and if my friends said "Hi" to me or not. I do not know what to do and I even think about my future of who I will hang out with, who will be in my class and so on. It is depressing and I feel often sad and upset that I overthink too much. What should I do? My last year is next year and I want to focus ...

Do I Have Bipolar Disorder?

So I had been bullied all my life, have no friends, I feel like I cant talk to anyone and that I cant trust anyone. I thought I depression but then I would burst out into an episode of high self esteem, wild, impulsive, basically I did some research and realised I fit perfectly to 'Mania' But then after a week or so I would totally crash. I would feel depressed and feel suicidal. I would burst into tears for no reason have no energy, ...

Do I Really Want a Sex Change?

I want to be a Woman but I don't know about getting a Sex Change. That is extreme and I am scared. I live with my mom and her boyfriend and my mom does not let me cross-dress in public because she fears that I will get hurt (I don't blame her and I understand). But she does support me 100% If I get a sex change because people will then know that I am a female and I won't be wearing the wrong assigned clothes. I ...

Roommate Issues

I'm sharing an apartment with my girlfriend and two other guys for college and we have all written, signed, and agreed to a set of rules, guidelines, and penalties, being clear that we wanted to make our time here as easy and peaceful as possible. Even though we did that, one of the guys I live with consistently breaks the rules and makes messes without cleaning them up and it has gotten to the point that he doesn't listen to us anymore or follow ...

Hating Myself to the Point of Closing Myself Off

About 2 months ago, my grandpa passed away. I was really close to him and it was the first death I ever had to deal with. (I'm 15). At first my mother understood my depression, she allowed me to be late for school, and always tried her best to help me. But now that I should "Be over it" I'm not. I feel like I'm still in shock that he's gone. I don't know if it has anything to do with this... but I thought ...

In Love with an Older Man

well my situation is more then complicated. I'm 16 almost 17 and I'm in love with a 11 years older man. and my dad is his boss. we have some things between us in the christmas party he said he cant take it anymore me being too close to him and we were both drunk and stuff he just held my hand at the party when my dad and his girlfriend wasn't looking.. another time I'm drunk i called him and he said we ...

 

 
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