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DinaElwy
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PathStep 330 Compassion hearts261 Forum posts809 Forum upvotes1,004 Current upvotes1,004 Age GroupAdult Last activeJuly, 2026 Member sinceDecember 9, 2017
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Pressures due to my age
Relationship Stress / by DinaElwy
Last post
 February 16th
...See more I turned 34 on January 12th. Ever since I was 28, I've been plagued by the feeling of a countdown, an inverted hourglass ticking away the time I'm supposed to consider myself young. Whenever a suitor proposes, it's easy to find fault with him: he's from a rural area and I'm from the city, or he's narrow-minded and I don't want that, or he's not handsome, and so on. But I know I'm just stalling because I want to feel love for the person I marry. Even if my married life is unhappy and full of responsibilities, at least I want to enjoy the engagement period with someone I can't wait to be with, and of course, that won't happen with an arranged marriage. Recently, a man who works abroad proposed to me, and he doesn't know if he'll settle there or if we'll return to live in our homeland. He's considered more handsome than all the men who proposed to me before, but I'm not comfortable because I simply don't feel anything. I'm not eager to see him, and I feel pressured every time I know I'll meet him. And when I do meet him, I don't know what to say. My mother speaks like Laurie Gottlieb in her book "Marry Him," a book I haven't finished because I felt like Gottlieb spent pages lamenting her missed opportunities with people she could have married by the time she turned forty. But when I think about myself and my past years, I can't imagine myself with someone I don't love, even if they love me. I can't imagine being in a relationship where I constantly feel guilty for not appreciating the other person's feelings. My mother tells me I'm getting older and my chances of having children are decreasing. I'm also afraid of being alone and of living like a child who never matured or accomplished anything. I really don't know what to do.
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PTSD suffering
Trauma Support / by DinaElwy
Last post
 June 26th, 2025
...See more I went through two shocks in a row, the first was in 2020 when I was unfairly dismissed from my job, which prevented me from applying for a job again until now, and the second was in 2022 when my father passed away suddenly while sitting next to me. Until now, I have not been able to do anything in my life, not even leave the house. I have been registered for a master's thesis since 2020 and until now I have not finished a chapter and I am terrified of any step I can take, especially since I was in a very critical situation after objections during the doctors' discussion regarding my thesis proposal. I do not know what to do?
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I'm losing my chances little by little
Anxiety Support / by DinaElwy
Last post
 August 25th, 2025
...See more I feel like every day brings me lost opportunities. I currently feel a great loss of passion and no desire to work or build any hope for a better future. I have listened to many self-motivational phrases and also to phrases of blaming my stagnation, and all of that was useless. I tried to get a master's degree in architecture, but even after registering the title of the master's thesis, my ideas stopped flowing and I lost all passion to work on it. I tried to open an architectural design office, but new conditions were issued for practicing the profession that require me to obtain an architectural record that includes my work over a period of three years, which I never had because none of my previous employers attributed any work to me, and now I am unemployed, so I am facing the state without any experience to open my own project and I have no hope in that because I am thirty-three years old and offices and companies prefer to hire fresh graduates. I no longer have hope for anything and I feel that I have no future. I will just remain a burden on my family and useless.
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I can't save myself
Depression Support / by DinaElwy
Last post
 August 24th, 2024
...See more I feel really anxious, empty, disinterested and unwilling to do anything or engage in anything. I wrote here once that I was worried that my master's registration period would end, and I still couldn't work on the thesis, and one of the members replied that it was good that I was worried because it would make me do something but that didn't happen, I still can't find the ability to do anything or save myself.
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No Power for passion
Depression Support / by DinaElwy
Last post
 August 4th, 2024
...See more I feel empty and unmotivated. I can't work on my master's thesis even though time is passing. I can't eat or sleep well. I can't remember the last time I went out. I feel useless. I've been forgotten.
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I have no right to see the person I love
Family & Caregivers / by DinaElwy
Last post
 July 25th, 2024
...See more I feel really stressed and frustrated. I wanted to go to see the person I love last Thursday, but I could not as this day coincided with the second anniversary of my father’s death, and this day is always difficult and psychologically exhausting. Also, the person I love does not know of my presence and may think that my feelings for him are trivial because he is a famous person, and he also seems facing a difficult health condition, and to him I am a complete stranger, so my interest in him would be considered intrusive. I feel sad, frustrated, and horribly afraid. I cannot bear to lose him the way I lost my father, as this could truly destroy me.
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I can't endure to hear my loved one's death anymore
Depression Support / by DinaElwy
Last post
 July 15th, 2024
...See more I feel shocked and in deep grieve, because the one I love and who doesn't know anything about me has cancer, I can't endure that because my father's death destroyed me and being in this experience even if he won't know me is too hard. I feel that that everybody I love, and I hope to continue my life with would leave me or die.
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Suddenly lost my father
Trauma Support / by DinaElwy
Last post
 September 16th, 2022
...See more "My father died on the eighteenth of last July suddenly, I do not know if it was a heart attack or angina pectoris, but what really surprised me is the severity of my father's illness and how he used to hide his suffering from us. I used to have my dad in every detail of my life but now I'm afraid of getting used to life without him, so I don't want to get better or stop feeling sad, because that means I've really lost him. I do not know what to do."
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