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New To The Anxiety Support Community? Introduce Yourself Here!
by Laura
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 October 1st
...See more Let us know more about you, what brings you to 7 Cups! We are glad you are here!
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Not All Longest Nights Belong to the Sky
by daydreammemories
Last post
 September 18th
...See more Hello hello wonderful humans! I hope your days go as smoothly as possible💚 Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating🎉🙂 Last Sunday was the longest night of the year for many of us. In Persian, this night is celebrated as "Yalda". Yalda Night is known as the longest night of the year — a moment we can measure, predict, and mark together. We know exactly when it starts and when it ends. Historically, it symbolized the victory of light over darkness and hope over hardship. Families gather to stay awake through the night, trusting that after the longest darkness, the days would begin to grow longer again. ✨ But life has its own longest nights. There are nights that don’t follow astronomy or calendars. Nights of loss, anxiety, depression, uncertainty, illness, or waiting. Nights where time feels stretched, where the idea of “morning” feels distant or irrelevant. Nights that don’t end with sunlight, gatherings, or tradition. This post is about acknowledging those nights. The ones we don’t name. The ones we endure silently. The ones that feel endless not because of the sky, but because of what we are carrying. Yalda reminds us that darkness passes. But it also invites us to ask harder questions about the darkness we live through. ⁛What has been the longest night of your life? ⁛What made it feel endless? ⁛Did you have support, or did you carry it alone? ⁛What helped you get through — or are you still in it? ⁛And when you imagine “morning,” what does that actually mean for you? (Kindly please add trigger warning if necessary!) (Please use your member account to answer and your listener account for supportive replies)
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 August 28th
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Sleep related anxiety
by ilcieloinunastanza
Last post
 2 hours ago
...See more Does anybody else struggle with anxiety surrounding sleep? Like your stuck in a loop because you have this predetermined idea that you won’t be able to sleep and you stay up thinking about how you won’t be able to sleep and the thoughts themselves regarding sleep are your cause of anxiety. I just wish I could talk to people who have struggled with this in the past, and if so how did you manage or cope with it?
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Anxiety
by diligentWalker4845
Last post
 12 hours ago
...See more Lil anxious!!!
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Anxiety feeling physical
by brenbird
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more So I was holding onto a computer of my boyfriedns and my father found it and took it. He talked to me just now and believes me and says hes going to talk to my mom about what to do moving forward.  For the past 3 days since he found it, my stomach has been hurting and is upset. I cant eat without feeling sick. I constantly feel like im going to throw up. Its horrible.  Its getting worse now because I know when I talk to my mom abkut this its going to be a bit worse than the talk with my father even though my mom is the better parent and theres so many things going on in my family right now.  I feel so sick and like im on the verge of throwing up and im so irritable too.  Im so sick of it all. 
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Many moving parts
by firefliesandbooks
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more I just need to talk to someone. I'm new to 7cups. I'm dealing with a lot of stress right now. We just listed our house for sale. We bought out my husband's siblings from his moms estate 4 years ago now. Our goal was to either fix up the house or tear it down and rebuild. Well none of that is happening now. The house is not worth fixing up and we can't afford to tear it down. We're just hoping to get what we owe out of the sale. We'll need to move shortly and don't have the funds for a new place and a deposit. His mom always wanted the house sold when she died and we should have listened. Now we're struggling just to make it. I'm embarrassed to have people come in for showings. I'm spiralling with my anxiety. I don't know what's going to happen and I don't like that. My future is unknown and I'm scared. That's all. Thank you for listening if you made it this far.
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What if they never comes back?
by Yourslistener07
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more Why keep hurting yourself every night over someone who doesn't even care? They are out there laughing and living happily while you're holding on to the hope that they'll return Please don't do this to yourself Trust God's timing and let go If someone is truly meant for you they will never be okay with seeing you shed even a single tear
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Fun
by Feynman17
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more Hit me with your best joke (preferably dad joke)
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This is for those who feel anxious because of people.
by scenicNight6182
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more I wanted to share something from my perspective. If people make you anxious, here's a question i think you should ask. For what you are living in this world —> YOU For whom you are living in this world —> YOU Who matters the most —> Your happiness And the things which matter the most should happen first —> YES Should we ignore the thing which is stopping you to get it —> YES And Do you think if people don't understand you and think you are wrong, weird, bad, different, then you became the bad? But are you really bad? Trust what your heart says. Trust it. And if the answer is NO Then why care what they think if they are wrong? We should never fear the wrong. Should you sacrifice the peace you are getting for something that is not right and not important at all? What do you think?
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Nowhere to go and need help
by sympatheticLunch2795
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more I’m 19 & honestly at my absolute breaking point rn. Idk what to even do anymore, so just venting here. Strict family, never felt loved or cared for tbh. My ex who cheated on me. I was just so emotionally vulnerable & desperate for love, but he just used me. We were intimate twice, and he leaked my private pics to my brother. Everything went to *** after that. Dad won’t pick up my calls. Been crashing at a friend’s place for 5 days, but can’t stay here anymore either. Literally have nowhere to go. I don't have 30 money left, can’t even afford food rn. On top of all this, I have endometriosis & it’s day 2 of my period. The physical pain is unbearable & mentally I’m just screaming. Haven't eaten, can't talk to anyone, completely alone.don't know what to do
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Insecurity
by adventurousMango3752
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more I have been with my boyfriend for about 5 months now and I have deeply rooted insecurities in betrayal, not just from past relationships but even friends to family from a very young age. I expect it. I expect people to be unkind to me. It makes me so anxious that the people closest to you have the most power to hurt you. I also have bpd and cptsd. And the more I fall in love with him everyday the more I feel the pure fear. We have a small maturity gap. He is younger than me and sometimes I feel like I deal with conflict better than he does, it’s hard feeling like I don’t get the support I need that I can give in even harder moments on the flip side. He truly is a blessing. I’ve never felt so cared for and loved in my whole life. While also feeling like im fighting a war in my heart and my head. I have no safe space no friends no outlet. I internalize everything and I’m trying really hard to heal and not push these feelings onto him and end up losing him anyways but also give myself grace because this is like over 20 years of I indealt with trauma. I am actively rewriring my brain chemistry and actively trying to become a better partner and person everyday. We ended up having a disagreement his morning because of insecurities and although we dealt with it better than in the past i also don’t want it to be a pattern and I also don’t want to lose him because of it. He brought up he feels I mention my ex a lot and he doesn’t want to be compared to him but he is nothing like him. I never try to compare them I don’t know how to get him to understand that even though I’m mid 20s a 6 year relationship is along time and my most formative years on top of childhood trauma, I just have a lot to unpack and work though. Any advice?
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What is one thing that stressed you out this week?
by cheerfulKiwi1776
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Hello everyone! It has been such a long time from the last time I did a check in with youse all! I hope you guys have been doing great and I wish that whatever comes your way you can handle it🤍 So, for today, I want to ask something simple, yet sometimes really heavy to carry alone. Guess what. There's no need to carry it alone anymore! Lets all share together and support one another: ✨️What is one thing that stressed you this week and you want to put out of your chest?✨️ Please everyone lets ensure to support one another at those difficult times we are letting our guards down and being vulnerable and opening up about something that stressed us. Lets all share and support together 🍃
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Help with cleaning
by Daydreamer47
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Can't find my old post, so posting here. I'm feeling discouraged because I'm trying to find more help with daily tasks like cleaning. I posted on care.com, but people are way overqualified and not very willing to only do 1hr/week. I had one person setup to meet, but she cancelled last minute. I don't know what to do. I also wish my therapist would help me with this somehow and I'm frustrated with her.
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Another day with anxiety
by frankNickel5633
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Stopped taking my Lexapro in August due to not being able to see a doctor to get a refill. The withdrawal was bad and had me feeling like the end is near. Finally got them a couple of days ago but it's my birthday and I've been wanting to go to the ER all day for things I know are just my anxiety. It will be a couple more weeks before the meds kick in, I don't want to sleep. I feel like I won't wake up, been like that for a couple of days now. Why does anxiety do this to me. Why do I need meds to be normal. At least it got me to focus on my diet and exercise but man this sucks.

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