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FaithMonk9473
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PathStep 8 Compassion hearts4,574 Forum posts149 Forum upvotes382 Current upvotes382 Age GroupAdult Last activeSeptember, 2026 Member sinceDecember 2, 2023
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Hi.. Welcome to my profile. I am glad you visited. So here is some thing about my name (I have been asked about its uniqueness pretty much). 

I joined cups and chose this name. As I was going through something and was facing emotional outrage.

So I had 'Faith' that things will become better (they did) and wanted to be unaffected by surroundings to attain calmness like a 'Monk' (work in progress).

I have received all the support needed from here and I try to give it back when needed ( I am not best but I try my best). 

You can find me in Depression Support more often (members) and connect with me on 1 on 1 ( listeners).

I rejoice being around people even when I am not in centre.

I like to talk and would love interact with You. 😊😊

Dear listeners,

Most of my 1 on 1 chat requests will be for casual chat. That doesn't mean I don't have any concerning issue. Actually, I have passed the point to discuss about it over and over, and have accepted that it's beyond my control.

Having casual chat is my coping mechanism to distract myself from it to have peaceful thoughts. 



I have sleeping issue as I wake up mid sleep and come to 7 cups for rescue. My sleeping issue is originating from stress. I can keep my conscious mind distracted whole day but my sub conscious mind plays its own tune in night. 

I seek support and understanding from listeners.

Its a humble request, please dont ask personal questions (in casual chat). I feel uncomfortable.






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Relationship issues Or Post Trauma
Women's Issues / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 December 2nd, 2025
...See more I have been through mentally abusive times. I came out the abusive environment to nurturing one. But the trauma endured still came along with inside my mind. The countless sleepless nights are follwed still after 2 years. Waking after the terror images of past in my dreams. Daytime also my disappointment upon people who could have saved me but didn't take stand surrounds my mind.  I am a woman and it is my issue that I am a female where Girls are taught to endure all the misbehaviour happening in the in laws place in the name of adjustment. Whoever I asked and discussed about my misery asked me to adjust. As every girl has to adjust in her husband's house. Bearing it was too much for me.. Even after coming out of my in laws house, the mental abuse that happened haunts me.  I am far away from them, there is no contact with them. But I am still married. I don't have courage to file for divorce as my parents are not supportive enough to take me in.. It is a doomed situation for me.. I am prisoner of my own mind.  The strength I seek within myself has not been found yet.
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Writing our thoughts is one of the best thing
35 & Over Community / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 November 28th, 2025
...See more Writing our thoughts is one of the best thing we can do for self care. It takes away the heavyness to lighten our heart.  Writing helps us self reflect and sometimes gives us vision towards solution, to have another perspective towards life. It brings us front for ourselves as well to shine our chatacter to better know ourselves.  In my personal experience, revisiting my old journal has brought me to appreciate myself that I had written at that time. I hope I was able to spike some motivation here. Keep cheering Up. We are all in this together. ❤️ 💙 💜
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Is it mid life crisis?
35 & Over Community / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 August 5th, 2025
...See more This comes from dwelling the experience and thought process of comparing the previous Me vs current Me. There is alot of changes in Me, my do ups , my likes, dislikes, overall everything has changed. When I ask myself why I am not into those things anymore that I was in when I was in my 20s. I simply don't get answer.  Then I ask next question to myself "Am I happy with change of preferences". To my amazement, answer comes as Yes.  Its like I am transformed totally over the course of past two years.  I think I should stop questioning myself 'Why' and start enjoying the contentment. Its all that matters at the end. What do you think?
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From my anxious self
Anxiety Support / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 April 30th, 2025
...See more This is going to be outcome of my current feelings that I am going through; anxiety.  I feel anxious of uncertainty. I get intuitions that I often ignore because I go by facts and reality. I beleive we can't simply start/stop something just coz I felt it in my belly.  Now I am going through uncertainty where intuitions are playing role that I had intuited something similar in past and chances are becoming for it to be true. If that happens, it'll be negative for me with major set back in life.  This thought is making me anxious as I dont have any plan B. I have to start thinking about it.  Things when they are uncertain makes me anxious. I need to chill and calm down but things being out of control are not the thing for me.  Its really overwhelming right now and I am just trying to vent it out. I don't know how my post will be taken but I request prayers from everyone reading this that I should get stable life and mental peace. Thank you everyone for your prayers. I hope best for You All.   
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Life was better before I ruined it
Depression Support / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 May 31st, 2025
...See more My mind is accusing my for my wrong decisions.  It is depressing. I dont know how to stip it an move on. I am getting lots of negative emotions like hope less ness, low self esteem, uncertainty and more. Life was better before I ruined it myself with my decisions. Do you know how to come out of this feeling and move on towards positivity?
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How anxiety feels to me and how I deal with it
Anxiety Support / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 March 27th, 2025
...See more First of all I am glad that we have a dedicated community for anxiety support. I would like to share what happens with me when feeling anxious. It starts with my brain getting numb thus vision gets blurry. Even though I am able to see it and somehow read, I wont be able to understand. Then my fingers become fat, as in of I type in phone.. I will press the key beside my intended one.. Then comes my heart that beats like a running horse. Due to it then starts sweating. And if I reach this stage of anxiety means it'll take hours for me to settle down. Most of the time I prefer to restrict my condition before heart gets involved by drinking water and doing breathing exercise. After heart gets involves breathing exercise wont work and slower approach like '5 4 3 2 1' exercise might come for rescue. Even though we cant guarantee that exercise will execute properly and work. It is difficult to concentrate with racing heart and numb brain.  I have experienced one thing with myself, I am not sure if it applies to everyone.  When feeling depressed or other emotions seeking other's support through talk helps to improve or come out of that moment.  But for anxiety attack, we have to deal ourselves as talking with others wont work. As we are not in condition to talk itself. If someone sees us that time, they may come but it confuses or mostly scare them if they are new to witness it. 
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Binge Eating: My personal experience
Eating Disorder Support / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 February 24th, 2025
...See more I would like to share my personal experience here. I have been in the entrapment of binge eating in the past. Whenever I used to feel stressed I used to turn towards food. And it used to be junk food mostly. Stress eating made me gain tremendous amount of weight.  When I decided to come out of it, I did it slowly step by step: 1. First, I replaced my stress eating food from junk to healthy one's like healthy snax. 2. Then I reduced the quantity of snax and introduced fruits.  3. After that I added vegetable juice at part of my diet ( it tastes horrible initially). This was my approach to reduce the added weight. Vegetable juice increased my metabolism. So whatever binge eating I was doing (snax and regular meals) was getting digested and was not getting stored as fat. 4. Then I slowly replaced my healthy snax with regular fruits intake during normal time.  By far, I had made a habit of fruit and vegetable juice intake. So whenever I used to feel stress my body used to ask for healthy snax instead of junk food. 5. Slowly and gradually my gained weight also got reduced due to my change of food habits. Current scenario is that whenever I feel stress my body doesn't expect food. I can say that confidently as recently when I was feeling stressed I gulped food (Junk food, fruits and snax) but my stress did not releived.  So I am out of the trap of binge eating. These all steps were of almost 1 year with each step being followed for more or less 3 months. It takes sheer amount of commitment and dedication to follow and finish what we have started. Yes, stress is still an issue which I am trying to progess as best as I can with help of 7cups.  I am thankful to good listeners and peer support of members that still help me in my difficult times. 😊😊
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My general Journal: Context
35 & Over Community / by FaithMonk9473
Last post
 February 22nd, 2025
...See more I am using writing posts as a method of self reflection. My mind gives me several thoughts throughout the day for different matters. Most of them I often forget as they come and go. I can't even count if they are recurring or make sense or just random. So I have decided to give pen to most of them to seek support or share views if anyone else also feels this way.
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