Everyone's a mystery until you've heard the same things from them year after year. You know what they'll say, you know how they think so quite honestly, it's kinda boring.

However, when you strike a conversation with a stranger, it's refreshing. You get to learn about where they're from, what they like, their thoughts, opinions, their passions, etc. It's fun.

My mind races at night. I sometimes get fixated on a crisis and it keeps me up all night with dread and worry. When I think about it during the day it’s usually something minor or at least nothing devastating. This has happened since childhood. I wished it would go away. There has been countless sleepless nights.

I'm 31 and I've noticed that over the last 6 or 7 years I've gradually increased how often I cry to music, shows and movies. In my early 20's I literally never cried. Then I noticed there were like one or two songs that brought a tear to my eye when I heard them. Now in my 30's I find myself crying quite often to sad moments in TV shows and films, or when I'm listening to really beautiful or moving music. It happens like all the time now. What is happening to me?

Fellas, it seems a little gay to me to zerk it to videos where 60% of the screen is another man’s caulk

Edit: Sorry for anyone who had a stroke reading that but idk if it’ll get taken down if I use correct terms

Someone is coming over a few hours to do some cleaning/maintenance, and the washroom is a level below, and I don't want to limp down there every time I need to take a piss.

This isn't a plea for help or a attempt at attention i am just curious (i am not depressed)

Just out of nowhere wake up and the whole day just think about throwing in the towel and ending it all (i never would) something along the lines of never gonna do anything with life or being terrible at everything

Then next day back to normal feeling rather silly about the whole thing?

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Thanks for reading and have a nice day

I'm in my mid 50s and still pick up rocks that I like! Then I move, and have to leave the rocks (because... you know ... they're rocks), and I go for a walk and see a new one. The cycle repeats!

How about you?

When I was a kid I would randomly have these moments when I realize I am alive, I also feel like I am seeing myself from the third-person and it feels like I am playing a first-person game, I know that that may not make sense (3rd person and first person). But I am just really curious if anyone else ever experienced those things since they felt so trippy

I tried looking it up but it seems like it's just me, it's weird. I don't think it's because of anxiety, but just because it really hurts having a needle injected in your gums. Every time I have to get a filling and have to get novocaine (or whatever it is they use nowadays) I end up shaking in the dentist's chair and it feels impossible to stop even when my dentist (playfully) tells me to stop shaking. How about you guys? Does this happen to anyone else?

For context I’m 23m MMA fighter, I’ve already fought in a sanctioned bout and plan on fighting 3 times in 2025, but I love love love sparring and i especially love it when the pros give me a challenge, for those 3-5 min mma rounds of me getting pieced up I feel alive, I can feel the world stop spinning, once that knee connects to my ribs my problems just seem so insignificant, is there consequences? Yeah ofc what sport doesn’t I’m only human, I’m in constant pain, my body is always sore, even right now my face is a mess of double black eyes, but I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.

I feel like I could hike a hill and still feel energized, and get a huge burst of high self-esteem. my heart rate seems to increase too, around the 100s, I start typing really fast. i legit dont take any drugs ever in my life. I also dont get tired here. theres background music playing in my head.

This occasionally happens to me at work. For example someone that ribbed me in front of others, making me steamed or fuming, actually warmly greeted me afterwards. I've heard explanations like "its a way of bonding" or its like when "dogs playfight" with each other, etc. I still actually still find it hard to process this phenomenon.

Does anyone else get "sadness waves" out of nowhere? I've had these sadness waves for as long as I can remember (my earliest memory of it was when I was around 6). The best way today describe it's like a deep deep sorrow that catapults into feeling really depressed and suicidal. This lasts from anywhere from 5 min - 1 hour, and comes and goes for no reason. Sometimes it'll happen multiple times a day for a few weeks, and other times it'll occur 1-2 a month. Just curious if anyone else experiences this, thanks again!

edit to note: it feels very chemical and not like my depressive symptoms I've had these past few years. These waves are worse than my typical depressive symptoms, and causes me to spiral entirely which makes it frustrating especially when I'm going out and eating with friends :,)

Im 21y. My parents have been using drugs since before I was born, not only they but my siblings too, they don't seem to intend to drop this crap and with each passing day I get more angry with their attitudes, the drugs made my father get worse and worse, paranoid always saying that my mother betrays him with imaginary men who are not even present in our lives, they use and stay a whole week recovering to soon repeat the cycle, during recovery they fight for anything, they are never satisfied and stop taking care of the house and themselves, to make thing worse, my brother came back to live with us, because of the depression that came caused by drugs, he uses it with my parents and still makes a point of complaining about me to my mother, fortunately she is not influenced by him and even fights with him when he exaggerates cursing me as the fail of the family, according to my brother I am a spoiled child who should have already left home and followed my life because I am a tick that sucks the happiness of my parents, being that he is twice my age and returned to live with our mother because he does not want to get a job, yes you read right, is not that he can't find a job, he just don't want to work. We have bills to pay bcs their irresponsibility in dealing with money and always wanting to use more, no project is completed ever and they always leave everything for tomorrow and never do. I feel like I'm being dragged along with them with all this, I still can't leave home to live my life and despite the difficulties I'd rather stay here than go out with nothing and live with worse difficulties, at least here I don't have to pay the bills, I was fired recently and I've been looking for a job ever since, is shameful to have to ask them for money when I know I'm going to hear a lot of complaints from my brother saying I don't give and I just take advantage of them for asking. 30$ to buy something like a snack... I don't feel like doing anything, last month i didn't shower for a last 4 days, eat crap and i just leave my room to eat more, i feel like a pig, im getting better but living with a family who uses drugs its so fucked up.

Everything would be resolved if they stopped using this drug crap, my father doesn't work and my brother doesn't work because of the drugs, they don't feel energy and every day they go through their anxiety gets worse off doing anything, my mother has worked hard taking care of us and even if she uses it, sometimes she seems to be the healthiest of all this, when she doesn't use her clean the house, makes food at night and lives normally, she doesn't use it like them but still and pulled to do it. This is due to the influence of seeing them doing, she already says that she hates this thing and don't want to do anymore.

I've never used it and I don't intend to see what drugs and alcohol do to a person over the years is scary, you get useless, you don't take care of yourself anymore, you feel like everyone is wanting to betray you, you don't leave the house and live in an infinite loop...

Sorry if anything was confusing, english is not my first language, im from Brazil.

This probably sounds suicidal but it’s not. I mean in a way that you don’t mind dying because you’d like to experience nothingness (if you believe that’s what will happen, like me).

I wonder if I will experience ‘consciousness’ again after death. The fact that I am experiencing it right now after eternity of nothingness could be a proof that it may not be nothingness, but another life. Or not. Idk.

I have a habit of doing this to avoid certain people responding or taking a snap/story the wrong way. I use social media for blog use

My wife does all the paperwork in our house, she loves it, she's amazingly organized (thank god).

But when she engages me into the process, (which obviously has to happen sometimes, like tax forms etc.) my brain starts fogging over until the point where I'll fall asleep in the chair. I can feel my thoughts slowing, words are harder to find in my head and I eventually shut down completely.

Any attemps to do paperwork myself result in massive amounts of self distraction & procrastination, to the point where I'll forget I was doing it and it then ends up all being too late.

I just can't focus on paperwork AT ALL!

After I came back home from work the day before thanksgiving I started feeling sad after thinking about all these holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Anyone else feel sad or depressed when the holiday season rolls around?

Whenever I think about my past, I feel... nothing. Like I'm watching something on a TV screen and it didn't really happen to me.

Thinking back on bad things that I've been through doesn't make me feel sad at all. I feel nothing when ruminating on my previous breakdowns and even me self harming- it's just a list of facts of what happened to me. Trying to remember stuff like birthday parties and holidays and good times I've had brings little to no happiness either. Is it like this for everyone?

Sometimes when I yawn or when I'm coughing gasping for breath, my hair gets sucked in and goes directly into the back of my throat and I hack and gag and pull the hair back out 💀

I need to know if I’m weird or if my husband is an alien.

Whenever my feet are cold in bed, I lay on my back and stick each foot, one at a time, in the knee pit of the opposite leg. Then I bend my leg to make a kind of foot sandwich. I hold it there until my foot warms up and then do the other foot until I’m nice and toasty.

I’ve done this since I was a kid. I’ve always slept on my back with my legs bent (like a frog), so I probably discovered it because of that. But I simply cannot be the only person that does this!

I just had a really bad and sudden depressive episode, I really wanted to hurt myself and I quickly left all group chats, and blocked all my friends. My hands were shaking like hell and I couldn't breathe. I felt like I was being actively strangled. (Been about an hour and I feel fine now)

I don’t like giving just 1 gift, so I like to get 1 expensive gift and usually like 3-4 small items valued around $20 or so.

I was on the highway and the guys in the backseats kept yelling BREAAAAK etc everytime even though I was clearly breaking.

The car is also big, with 5 adult men and a weak engine so they kept mocking me for failing to start the car when we were on steep hills.

Whenever I finish a new movie or a new show, I usually have one character that I really really loved/related to and I basically turn into them. Dont know why I do this. If it’s a male, then I try to morph my personality into his, try to act like him, like his interests, etc. If it’s a girl, I try to look similar to her. Cut my hair/dye my hair, change my style. And I just get obsessed with the character, too. I say things like “I’m literally him/her”

It’s so odd and I have no idea why I do this. It usually goes away after I find the next character I love😭