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New To The Anxiety Support Community? Introduce Yourself Here!
by Laura
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 October 1st
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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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Sometimes, the Pain Becomes Too Much
by AR56
Last post
 5 hours ago
...See more There is something I have been afraid to say out loud. The debt, the losses, the fear of facing the people I owe, and the uncertainty about my future have taken a serious toll on my mental health. Sometimes, I lie awake thinking about what will happen if I cannot repay the money. I imagine people coming to my home, asking for their money, and me having no answer to give them. I worry about my family's reaction, the shame I might face, and how I will ever get out of this situation. These thoughts follow me everywhere. Even when I try to distract myself, they come back. Sometimes, the pressure becomes so unbearable that I find myself thinking about suicide. I never imagined that financial mistakes and debt could bring me to a place where my own mind would turn against me like this. I feel trapped between the mistakes I cannot undo and a future I cannot clearly see. I want to fix everything, but I don't know where to begin. I want to repay what I owe, but I don't know how. I want to give my family peace, but I am struggling to find peace within myself. And perhaps the most painful part is that I have been carrying so much of this silently. I don't share these feelings because I want attention. I share them because pretending to be okay has become exhausting. I need somewhere to be honest about what I am experiencing, without someone judging me for my mistakes or telling me how easy it should be to fix everything. I know that money must be repaid and that my decisions have consequences. I am not trying to escape responsibility. I am simply struggling under the weight of it all. Sometimes, I wish I could pause the world for a moment, breathe without fear, and feel that there is still a way forward. I don't need someone to promise me that everything will be perfect. I need to believe that my life still has value, even with this debt, these mistakes, and this uncertainty. I am sharing this because I don't want my pain to remain a secret forever. I want someone to understand that behind these numbers is a human being who is struggling, frightened, and mentally exhausted. I need help finding a way through this. I need hope that my life can become more than my financial mistakes. And I need to know that even at my lowest point, I am still worth saving.
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Anxiety/Depression Copes That Work for You?
by resilientpancake
Last post
 6 hours ago
...See more I would like your help creating a running list of things that have helped others with their anxiety/depression. Coping skills or preventative measures or whatever you've found has helped you personally. I can find some things on Google, of course. Like "exercise 3 times a week for at least 30 minutes" and "box breathing" and "5-4-3-2-1 method". But I would like to hear what you all have personally found helpful. Different ways to work around cognitive distortions or different methods that have worked for you to making it through the work day or just even helpful things you've learned in therapy. For me, I'd like to contribute "color breathing". Basically, you pick a color representing your current feeling. Then pick a color for the feeling you want. Like red for anger and blue for calm. Whatever you're feeling, and the colors can change whenever you want. Like red doesn't always have to be anger and calm doesn't always have to be blue. Then you take a deep breath out and imagine the color of the feeling you don't want coming out of you. So imagine a red smoke coming out of your mouth, letting out that anger through your breathing. Then, take a deep breath in and imagine that desired feeling's color filling up your body and making you feel that feeling. Calm, joy, peace, etc. And then keep doing that. Breathe out the bad feeling, breathe in the good feeling. Personally, I haven't had luck with box breathing, but I find good luck with color breathing. Please help me create this list. For myself and maybe for others who could use more advice or skills. Thank you in advance 💕
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Alone
by Polyester0
Last post
 6 hours ago
...See more I feel like I don’t really have anyone and it’s impossible for me to find friends that i care about and where the other cares about me too. All my friendships are surface level and I wish I could meet someone to talk to and spend time with everyday. I have a boyfriend but he’s the only one i truly have, and it sucks because he has so many people in his life and then there’s me who only wants to see him and talk to him all the time but i don’t want it to be that way. I just want friends and people to have fun with. I don’t think i’ve ever been close to someone before besides my boyfriend and I wish I had more people to rely on than him. I’m just not sure how to find those friends. Or if it’s even possible. I don’t know what to do to find someone and I don’t think there’s anyone in my life at the moment who I can or want to become close friends with.
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Why does it even exist
by Zahara3
Last post
 8 hours ago
...See more Anxiety has made me lose the desire at times to leave the house. I hate when it comes while shopping or communicating with people. Sometimes I say to myself why does this even exist? Where did it come from? Why did it even start? I want to be able to go again without getting heart palpitations or chest tightness and dizzy spells. Sometimes I wish it was a button that can turn it off Who else goes through this while going out?
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Panic attacks are a bully
by Amira3
Last post
 10 hours ago
...See more Panic attacks sometimes can feel like a bully. You know how much it picks on you but you never know when it will come around the corner but you always have it on your mind knowing that it may pop up anytime. The punch to the gut, the fast heart rate and shaking hands. The sweating palms and feeling like the room is closing in. Do you deal with panic attacks? How are your symptoms?
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Feeling Useless
by Blank707
Last post
 11 hours ago
...See more I have GERD and gastritis which has made my life feel really miserable. I’m supposed to be in the prime of my life and yet I hardly ever leave my house and can barely manage school. Most of my friends have jobs and are in school or have graduated and I feel like I am so behind and useless because my health affects my ability to do those things. I already barely left my home due to anxiety and depression and now my health issues have made that worse. It sucks because my friends want to go out and have fun but I can’t without feeling terrible. The pressure is building for me to start contributing more to society but I don’t know how nor what I am going to do with the rest of my life, I feel like I’m drowning or suffocating.
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Anxiety
by Scubaspirit377
Last post
 11 hours ago
...See more It's strange how fast the tides change from calm waters to tsunami in seconds and while you're trying to protect your home from flooding your mind is dumping buckets of water in your living room... The panic causes an action, the action causes response, the response causes panic... Vicious circle thats hard to break
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Taking time off work
by BorahaeAndHappiness
Last post
 12 hours ago
...See more Hi everyone. I decided to take a leave of absence from work because my mental health is really bad right now. My anxiety and depression are very bad especially my anxiety. It almost feels like my soul was ripped out and replaced with anxiety instead if that makes any sense. Anyway, I have some plans for what to do on my time off but would like more ideas. I'd like ideas to help me heal during this time. I already have plans to see a doctor so please don't say that. 😊 I'm looking for other things right now that don't have to do with a doctor or medicine. Ideas so far... Get outside Meditate Read bible Read a book Listen to music Go to my happy places (libraries or bookstores) What other ideas do you have? Thanks 😊
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Treating anxiety and coping
by UnderstandingURpain
Last post
 12 hours ago
...See more Doing 30 minutes or more of exercise a day for three to five days a week may significantly improve depression or anxiety symptoms. But smaller amounts of physical activity — as little as 10 to 15 minutes at a time — may make a difference. We all know that a chemical imbalance can cause anxiety and depression , there are many forms of treatments for this , exercise is truly a non expensive form of therapy to help cope with anxiety. People who have extreme anxiety and do daily exercise have reported feeling better and getting their anxiety to the place where they can cope better.
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Anxiety from hormonal changes
by justducky423
Last post
 23 hours ago
...See more I don't know how much of mine is stress from getting ready to move states or from getting on and off birth control. I was put on the Mirena IUD to help with my endometriosis and it was great for the first month and a half, but I had to get it out after 3 months because I was getting increasing panic attacks and palpitations. I also ended up losing 11lbs in 3 months from nausea. I got it taken out about a month ago and the panic attacks have been happening all week. I ended up at the ER one day and had an EKG which proved to be normal. My PCP put me on Lexapro and that's helping a little bit. I also see a therapist on Tuesday to share my issues. Has anyone else had these kind of issues from hormonal birth control?
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Agoraphobia
by CanadianMom
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more I’m pretty housebound I feel so guilty when I don’t go out with my husband…. Anyone else have this to deal with?
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Anxiety and loneliness
by azureLemon4767
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Ive always felt quiet lonely when it came to friends. Its weird though because I feel like I physically have people i talk too but then when i sit with myself i feel an empty pit at the bottom of my stomach and genuinely cant think of one person i am genuinely close with. Especially in school im now a senior in highschool but all throughout my years i never had a stable friend group or a best friend i go to assemblies with or games with yk. Im not sure but my anxiety tells me that its cause im not funny enough or pretty enough or my personality isnt good enough any tips.. I’ve struggled with overthinking my whole life but it definitely got better over the years. However once i get attached to something like a crush(which is stupid ik..) i tend to overthink every little detail. My thought completely consume me that my quality of life goes really down if something doesnt go the way i want abt this person. I cant focus on college apps, my studies, my hobbies, etc and i feel like i cant have a good time anywhere cause im overthinking this one person… anytips

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