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AlexaAmoroso2
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PathStep 15 Compassion hearts34 Forum posts8 Forum upvotes13 Current upvotes13 Age GroupAdult Last activeJuly, 2025 Member sinceFebruary 17, 2014
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i’m lex.

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Bipolar, Schizophrenia & Psychosis Support / by AlexaAmoroso2
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 July 21st, 2025
...See more @glossolalia i lost you, and i don’t know how else to find you, don’t know if you’ll see this, i hope you do.
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20 & Over / by AlexaAmoroso2
Last post
 July 1st, 2025
...See more i will be 27 in september and i feel i no longer i have friends, and i struggle to make new ones. i have social anxiety among other things and i’ve lost so many friends over the years, i don’t know how to start a new circle. i have my fiancé, who i’ve been with for almost 7 years. and i have my best friend, my girl since we were 5 years old. my only other friend is someone i haven’t seen in person in too long. yet somehow, i have been struggling to be honest with any of them about my mental health lately. besides my three, i don’t have a group anymore. i used to, but they all left. i didn’t have many friends as a kid, i was severely bullied and my only friends ended up being homophobic abusive ***. when i was in high school, i found my circle and was happier than ever. the memories with my old friends live forever in my heart but that is all they are anymore, memories. my mental illness and trauma may have played a part, but most of them hurt me, left me, i didn’t do them wrong, they just left. now i am 26, engaged and dreading to start wedding planning because i don’t have people to invite, i don’t have bridesmaids, i don’t have people that would plan a party for me, i don’t have the support i once did. and i know, i have a fiancé, i have a best friend, that should be enough and believe me, THEY are enough, then why do i feel so alone? why don’t i talk to anyone or do anything? why am i struggling in silence?
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i don’t know where else to turn
Trauma Support / by AlexaAmoroso2
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 July 4th, 2025
...See more i am here, with all these emotions and heavy weighted thoughts, and nowhere to put them. i have been struggling immensely and don’t know how to ask for help, or how to talk about it. i was in therapy for years, medicated and under treatment, hospitalized and all. currently, i am still medicated, but not correctly, nor am i being honest with my doctors about how i am feeling. i am not in therapy, i can’t afford it. i don’t know where else to turn, i don’t know how to start over and seek proper treatment. i don’t know how to admit to the people around me that i haven’t been doing well. i am really good at pretending like everything is okay, i am extremely high functioning, though i am worried i may fall back into old habits and i’m scared.
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the strugge of being misdiagnosed
Bipolar, Schizophrenia & Psychosis Support / by AlexaAmoroso2
Last post
 July 7th, 2025
...See more when i was 17, i was hospitalized in two different psychiatric hospitals. prior to being admitted, i was diagnosed with major depression and anxiety. amongst my hospital stays and post therapy sessions, i was also diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, PTSD and bipolar disorder. during this time, i was struggling heavy with my depression and anxiety, i was actively self harming and using drugs and alcohol and fell into psychosis. i was medicated heavily, anti psychotics, antidepressants and anti anxieties. a few years later, i stopped taking my medication and stopped seeing my doctors. naturally, things got worse. i began seeing a new doctor who started me on seroquel, to treat my insomnia and schizoaffective symptoms. i have been on seroquel for about 7 years now, it helps, but i hate what it’s done to my body. anyway, i had a session with my doctor recently who finally told me what i had always suspected, that she doesn’t believe i have schizoaffective, that she does in fact think i have MDD with psychotic features. i remain on seroquel, for i fear to change or add any medications to my regimen due to trauma. i worry i have never been treated properly, that my past therapies were focusing on the wrong issues. today, in present time, i am struggling with my bipolar symptoms, my depression, my addictions with SH and PTSD and my sleep disorders. i can’t afford therapy, i have no one to talk to. i don’t know what to do, so here i am.
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introduction
Self-Harm Recovery / by AlexaAmoroso2
Last post
 July 5th, 2025
...See more hi, im lex. i’m 26 years old and have been self harming since i was 11 years old. currently, i am 6 years clean. i struggle daily with the thought of relapse, and lately my struggles have only worsened. the last time i cut myself, my fiancé and i had just begun dating. the look on her face brought me back to the beginning stages of my self injury and i swore i would do my best to stop, simply because i didn’t want to hurt her. i feel as if i can’t talk to her about it because as much as she may support and love me, she doesn’t know the feeling from experience, she doesn’t fully grasp what the feeling does. i have resorted to coming back to 7cups, the same community i was once apart of all those years ago, to see if there could still be a community that allows me to speak my mind, honestly, without judgement. i feel i am drowning. i do not know what to do. i am worried i will fall back into old habits, relapse and hide it from my loved ones, like i used to do as a kid. i worry because it’s all i have been thinking about. i look at my scars and think, why can’t there be more? they fade and i want to cry, i don’t want to see them go. sometimes i wish i could just disappear, fade, like my scars.
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