/r/DecidingToBeBetter

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A force for self-improvement, goodness, and togetherness that helps humanity eliminate evil. Progression is key, so if you have decided to leave the bad behind, this is the place for you.

A Beginners Guide


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Related Subreddits:

Mental Health

Physical Health & Fitness

Productivity

Lifestyle

Addiction & Recovery

Master List of Related Subs


Beginners Guide:

  • This is a place to share and discuss your journey of deciding to be better. You can do this by making a post, or commenting on another persons post. A new feature we are implementing is monthly progression checks. If you would just like to discuss your adventure of deciding to be better, and document/track your progression, you are invited to participate in those!

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  • Remember to keep things civil. If somebody is opening up about their mistakes, it doesn't give you the right to ridicule them. Also be genuine when giving advice! you can joke around but most people are here for serious reasons and expect to get serious responses.

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/r/DecidingToBeBetter

1,166,322 Subscribers

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25 Year Old who feels like a failure. Wanting to restart my life.

Hey folks.

I'm a 25M who's turning 26 next month. I've practically lost my way since 2018, and have struggled nonstop to get my life back on track. I still live with my grandmother due to housing costs in my area being extremely high. I just left a job at a television station for two years due to horrible management and an overall toxic work environment, that mixed with no growth opportunities.

I was in college for two years after high school. Made the fatal mistake of switching majors late in the game so they dropped my pell grants due to excess credit policies.

I was denied by the military back in 2017 due to having an autism diagnosis back in middle. I got a second opinion about it just last year so I went through the process to joining. However, it turns out I had an incident on my medical record involving suicidal ideation from 10 years ago. So they turned me away just recently again.

For the past six years, I've hopped from job to job after one year, getting low pay and trying to move up with no avail. At the news station job, I was trying to move to other opportunities but was turned away. I got sick of my job, because it was practically a dead end so I left.

I've been trying to move to better things but it feels like I'm stuck. I've been gradually losing hope and motivation, and that's gonna making me start to feel very depressed. I wanted to have a purpose in life for once, and am tired of working wage jobs. I want to move on and I'm feeling extremely frustrated because it feels like I don't have that many options. I don't want to go back to being depressed and need a purpose in life.

0 Comments
2024/05/04
05:53 UTC

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I hate myself and need to learn love myself.

I've wanted to die for years.

After i tried to kill myself. I've been spiraling. Hating myself stuck in an identity crisis. I've been a horrible person. I dreamed having friends help me kill myself.

I keep trying to be what others are. I am never myself. I feel like everyone in the world wants to destroy me and I want to help them.

I'm in a vicious cycle of wanting to be productive and quitting on myself. I keep trying to be a horrible person instead of just being me.

I feel like I died became empty and inherited everyone's hate for me. I'm pathetic and I need to be better.

0 Comments
2024/05/04
03:54 UTC

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Afraid to drink water

I’m known for being a diligent water drinker, drinking around 100oz of water a day. (Otherwise I start to feel sick…?) I’ve always drank tap water as I know it’s “safe” in my state/city. Now all of a sudden I’m terrified to drink water. I just started spiraling and can’t stop. I think about how the water could be dirty, unsanitary, and contain gross things no matter how much I read up on water treatment. I’m not scared of the minerals and chlorine in the water. What really freaks me out is thinking about where exactly the water came from, if it ever came into contact with human/animal/insect feces or pee, little organisms in the water, and just the general feeling of not knowing what the water I’m drinking has touched or been around either before or after treatment.

I really am hoping to get some advice on ways I can thoroughly clean, sanitize, and remove gross things from my water.

I don’t trust bottled water either (plus bad for environment). I read that brita filtration systems don’t perform as well as they claim. Boiling water can kill things in the water but it doesn’t remove them from the water. Reverse osmosis is good but wayyyy to expensive for me to buy and install (like $300-$600). I just want to know if there’s a way to clean my water to make me feel safe drinking it, even if it takes 3+ steps to go from tap water to clean water. But I also don’t have much money to spend either so I’m really just panicking right now thinking about how I’m becoming dehydrated.

5 Comments
2024/05/04
03:00 UTC

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how to balance work/relaxation

I (22f) often struggle with balancing work with relaxation. I either relax way too much or work way too much with little to no breaks. Though many times I should be working harder, I often feel guilty whenever I’m not working. How can I get better at balancing this?

0 Comments
2024/05/04
00:56 UTC

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Depressed and unhappy with life. Documenting my change to see if I can make it

I am a F23, soon to be 24. Due to several long-lasting reasons I am absolutely unhappy with my life and have been having quite badly during the past few years coming up to present.

I don't really know what to do with my life as such. I already go gym frequently, have a very loving partner and a roof over my head (at home). I also have good friends at home, not as many as I used to, but the most important remained. However, I find it hard to reach out and schedule a meet, I am just constantly slumped.

But from tomorrow, I have some goals I'd like to meet daily:

1.) applying for jobs relentlessly and trying to find a flat in London so I could move out from home.

2.) Reading at least 20 pages (I do already have quite an affiliation to reading but have stopped in the recent months)

3.) Meditate in the morning and/or evening for at least 5 mins.

  1. After waking up, getting out of bed quite quickly, since I have the issue of rotting in my bed for 4 hours after waking up.

  2. Regular showers

  3. Stretching

  4. Finishing my python programming course

  5. Reducing screentime

  6. Some type of journalling

Things I already do and would like to keep doing:

  1. Going gym

  2. Skincare+haircare morning and evening

If anyone has any tips, please share them

2 Comments
2024/05/03
22:32 UTC

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I want to get better, but I have to love myself first and I don't know how

I (26f) have been trying to improve myself in nearly every facet of my life, especially in mental health. For context, I have anxiety, depression, misophonia, late diagnosed ADHD, and suspect I'm on the Autism spectrum (my dad is). The two main areas I struggle with are emotional regulation/distress tolerance (I'm looking into DBT but struggling to find a therapist near me who takes my insurance), and self love/letting go of shame. I have been trying to improve or get better, but I've done everything out of fear of losing my job, my partner, friends, and family. I know nothing will stick unless I do it for myself, but I don't love myself enough (or at all) to do it just for me. I can't love myself if I don't love myself, if that makes sense, so I'm stuck in this loop of wanting to love myself but nothing is getting me closer to that because I'm not motivated from a place of self-love. Is there a way you can do things to better yourself/love yourself when you don't love yourself? Doing it "for" other people - usually out of fear but sometimes out of love - hasn't worked, I think it needs to be intrinsically motivated, but I feel so much shame, that I am truly a person who doesn't deserve love, that any techniques I try don't stick. I'll take any advice at this point, so far this is what I have tried to do to love myself (but they don't work because I don't love myself):

  • Positive affirmations

-Journaling

-Meditation

-Somatic work

-Therapy (I think this one doesn't work more based on the wrong technique to be fair)

-Writing letters to my childhood self

-Writing down every time I accomplish anything, even if it's small

Any other ideas?

TLDR: How to I break the cycle of not being able to love myself when I don't love myself enough for things to stick?

2 Comments
2024/05/03
22:29 UTC

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I don’t understand why college clubs are so hard to join

I am graduating now, and I don’t understand why college clubs are so hard to join and are so selective. I tried joining engineering clubs, club sports, and social clubs, and they all rejected me. I don’t understand why college clubs are so selective

5 Comments
2024/05/03
21:54 UTC

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How Can I improve my well being?

Hi I'm a 21 Male and Lately i been feeling depressed at where I'm at rn I'm starting to not like my job because were understaffed and since it's so busy i would Usually have to push myself to do things for the shift to run smoothly.

Another contribution would be What I do when I get home I have friends I talk to but their online who live far away so I don't have a physical contact with them we obviously tend to pick on another which does help blow off some steam a little but seconds later I revert back to how I was their decent people but I don't talk personal things with them. All I do is sleep,work,play video games/masturbate, repeat. I feel this continuous cycle has been taking a blow to my mental health I don't really talk about stuff like this with anyone since I feel people hot their own worries. What should I do change this cycle I have been thinking of exercising since I feel like I need to work on myself physically and mentally.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

6 Comments
2024/05/03
21:49 UTC

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How do I stop being lazy to take showers?

I have a hard time taking showers, lately I’ve been taking showers consistently, but only because my family members tell me to.

Everytime I take a shower it feels very relaxing and it makes me feel better and positive and content, I try to motivate myself by saying it will make me feel better if I do it, but then it gets hard to get in the shower no matter what. I think its just me being lazy tbh.

I also have ASD so sensory issues are a problem for me, taking showers, the cold, the floor of the tub is like a sensory nightmare to me.. but I fixed that by using some other motivations like telling myself my sensorys will feel better once I’m out, but for some reason I always get this feeling saying something like “What’s the point in taking a shower?“ it feels like a chore to me, not saying I’m depressed but a shower feels like a very HUGE chore I’m supposed to do.

Everytime theres a day I have to take a shower, I start thinking about it and it feels like such a task.

29 Comments
2024/05/03
19:12 UTC

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Confused where should I attend

Tomorrow I'm having IIIT Hyderabad mtech exam as well as farewell party of my Undergraduate college which should I attend. Both timings are colliding each other. I have not studied much for exam also.

0 Comments
2024/05/03
18:47 UTC

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I (24M) want to be independent of myself

Background: My dad passed away due to cancer 1 year ago, so in our household, its just my mom, me, and my sister. My dad`s passing sorta made us way closer as a family. My sister is 11 years. We are an Asian household.

I have a decent engineering job and want to move away and live independently, however, my mom does not want me to move out as I am able to still take care of the house.

My mom also has found a new boyfriend and hangs out at his place 3 times a week, leaving just me and sister for almost the entire day including overnight.

I know that I can move into my own apartment place, and I have the finanicals to do so. However I feel like it is incredibly unfair to my sister to be in a house all to herself for days. I sorta take care of her at this point.

Just the social interaction to my sister is enough for me to stay, because childhood is something that only happens once in a lifetime, and I want her to enjoy that.

However, I am at my ends. I am getting tired of living with my mom. I want to move out and be independent but how can I do it in a way that wont permanently destroy my relationship with my mom?

She refuses to let me leave, and cries everytime I bring it up, and everytime I bring up how you are leaving a 11 year old kid in an entire house to herself.

I am honestly so sick of it all.

1 Comment
2024/05/03
17:33 UTC

96

What does your dream life look like?

What do you want to accomplish? What is your career goal? Where do you live? How are you spending your free time?

118 Comments
2024/05/03
12:21 UTC

0

i want some advice...

so....today I was hanging out with my friends after few mins of chatting the topic led to my ex and the guy friend asked me what i saw in my ex and I said he has the height and face + he was mature and then he asked me why did he (my ex) chose me..? my answer was idk..? and the guy friend replied oi! you could have said looks? damn have some confidence. This interaction was such a ah-ha moment for me.. i want to be confident and love myself..i dont know where to start, i want some advice. also one thing i have noticed about myself is that whenever people stare at me, i loose sense of what i was doing..

1 Comment
2024/05/03
11:31 UTC

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I dont have any friends in my class?

I dont have any friends in my class. I used to have one bestfriend but now i am all alone. Everyone in class are already a part of a friend group, i cant join them. In breaks or when teacher doesent come to the class i read books or sleep, i try to fit in with the other girls but as i said, they are all already in a friend group and i just cant simply fit in. I am already dealing with mental health problems and not having any friend is making it way much harder for me, both for school life and personal life. What should i do?

4 Comments
2024/05/03
08:57 UTC

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I ruined my life

She never ever wanted a life with me. May she did

Or I scared her off.

I want to be better but I am so close to having a mental breakdown.

I never was treated like a human by anyone.

I'm stuck in hell.

I soon will have nowhere to live.

Such is life.

I'm so tired of being treated like dirt.

8 Comments
2024/05/03
06:54 UTC

5

Becoming less timid

I struggle with a lot of anxiety. I find it hard to go to class (in college), public speak, speak with people i’m unfamiliar with, talk with authority figures, sometimes leave my house, my performance at work (as a barista), expressing my needs, etc. I feel like it really gets in the way of forming relationships with people and just my overall success. I know I could do better, I am just not sure how.

I want to make friends and be successful, but I feel like being anxious really gets in the way.

What would you suggest I do to become less timid?

1 Comment
2024/05/03
06:18 UTC

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I want to stop desiring fame

Ever since i was little, all i wanted to be was famous either through acting or being a musician. i’ve been considered attractive since high school and would always get compliments on my fashion sense and it has only made me want to be famous even more. I know it’s an unhealthy desire and idk how to tame it. i don’t want to end up old and regretting that i never became famous since it’s all i wanted to be since i was a kid. Any advice ?

8 Comments
2024/05/03
04:33 UTC

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I don’t know what went so horribly wrong in college. Why didn’t I improve after high school?

I had a terrible high school experience and hoped things would get better in college, but that never materialized. I am graduating this spring from UCLA with a degree in electrical engineering, and I got nothing from my college experience.

I never made any friends or been to any parties. I been rejected from every club, club sport, frat, organization, social group, and internships. I am graduating in a ton of debt with no job opportunities because it is impossible to find an engineering job with no internships. I am incredibly mad and upset with how my time in college went, and I don’t understand what went so incredibly wrong. I actively feel depressed because of how my time in college went.

I have no future. I can’t find any jobs now and got rejected from the military. I don’t know what to do

16 Comments
2024/05/03
04:03 UTC

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How Do I Not Let A Stressful Situation Freak Me Out!

After conquering my crippling anxiety for years, I’m back in the nightmare. I’m celiac and accidentally ingested some gluten which makes me sick and causes anxiety, depression, and anger along with the gut symptoms. As I was trying to recover from that, my husband and I both got a horrible flu bug. We were sick for 2 weeks. Our illness forced us to cancel a visit from our kids and granddaughter that we’d planned for weeks and were looking so toward to. Then we had to fork out lots of money for surprise repairs. Then, I got a callback from the place I had my annual mammogram. They are having me come back for another mammogram, ultrasound, and biopsy. Now I’m freaking out. I can’t control the fear and depression. It’s back! Any advice how to control my anxious thoughts and be tougher?

1 Comment
2024/05/03
03:02 UTC

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How to actually care about life and not be empty?

I reached three months of sobriety while also consistently weightlifting and participating in MMA sessions each week. However, about three weeks ago, I visited some older friends and fell back into old habits, including smoking weed and indulging in unhealthy behaviors like drugs, alcohol, and poor eating habits. Despite appearing emotionally charged, I haven't been effectively addressing my underlying issues. Weed has been serving as a suppressant for my emotions, but I've come to realize that it merely amplifies my problems. The root cause lies in feeling bored and empty. In my youth, I used to fantasize about exciting careers like being a cop or a rock star, but as I've grown older, reality has dampened those dreams. I've turned to weed since age 12 to escape the mundanity of life. This deep sense of emptiness has also fueled my anger, yet I'm struggling to find healthy coping mechanisms. I acknowledge my willingness to change and seek purpose, but I've been avoiding hard work, which I know is necessary for growth. I believe the key lies in embracing the challenge and finding a purpose meaningful enough to inspire me. I yearn for a fulfilling and adventurous journey ahead but how can I find anything to excite me in life?

2 Comments
2024/05/03
02:08 UTC

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Learn to enjoy solitude

Up until a certain point in life, I was under the impression that it was weird or unnatural to do things on your own. I always wanted someone there with me to keep me company and to be around whether it be a family member or a friend. It was not until one birthday, I went to Disneyland by myself without anyone to accompany me and it was a lot of fun!

Since then, I have slowly learned to enjoy my own company and relish in going out and doing things by myself from time to time. Sure, it can be fun to have a friend there to make memories with but it can also be an entirely different experience when you do it by yourself. It is through solo experiences where I feel like you can truly learn about yourself and learn to listen to that inner voice. In addition to this, it can also cultivate self-love and confidence because you are making your own decisions and only have yourself to look after. It's completely okay to hangout on your own! Take yourself on a date to a movie then maybe a nice restaurant, go for a walk in the park or by the beach, go see a show or take a daytrip somewhere close by. It is honestly a really admirable quality to meet someone who enjoys having time to themselves and who knows the true value of solitude.

I strongly believe that one of the biggest problems in this current day and age is that people do not know how to do this. They feel that they always want or need someone to be there, for one reason or another, and cannot seem to handle spending time by themselves or being on their own. This dependency on the company of others seems rather alarming as well as indicative of a greater fear that lies underneath the surface. I urge people everywhere to attempt to do activities by themselves, as it gives you time to think about things, reflect, and process one's emotions and experiences. Remember that there is a big difference between being alone/lonely and being in solitude (It's a matter of perspective).

1 Comment
2024/05/03
00:41 UTC

6

Motivation for exercise

Trying to get more physicallly in shape along with a few other things and I'm wondering the best way to stay motivated? Or is it more of an opposite action thing? I want to start doing small workouts and stretching to help with my chronic pain and get stronger but I have a hard time getting myself to stick to it every day

2 Comments
2024/05/03
00:26 UTC

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Why do I find it hard to do any task that requires mental effort?

I'm not really lazy in the sense of not wanting to do work. I can wash the dishes or vacuum or do any other brainless task for the whole day if it's needed. I just can't get myself to do things that require thinking, creativity and problem solving. I find it extremely hard to study or do creative tasks like writing. Is this a common thing, and if so does anyone know how to fix it?

5 Comments
2024/05/03
00:25 UTC

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Does anyone else feel like every skill/hobby they do they have been getting worse at as they have aged?

I will keep this as short as I can:

The few hobbies I "do" include kick boxing, pickle ball, video games, and I am a senior in college in pre med. I know these are all quite different skills, but in any given one of them, I make it a huge point to be consistent with them in order to get better at them and progress my skills. As time goes I will make advancements here and there but over the past 3 months I have been just regressing.

Punching technique and power has decreased recently. I record myself for technique purposes a lot and I look like I have never thrown a punch, despite having 6+ months of practice.

pickle ball is sorta the same... miss easy shots and make mistakes that I have, at some point, learned to minimize but now I am returning to them for some reason.

I have worked decently hard in my organic chem lab class and maintained an A then I failed the final which brought me down nearly to a B-.

I don't feel burnt out. I don't feel like I am out of energy, i just simply suck at everything I do now.

How do I fix this? I have got the advice to take a break from things but I have sorta tried that multiple times and I dont "come back better" as people suggest I will. If taking a break and working at something both dont work, what the hell else can I do?

2 Comments
2024/05/02
23:57 UTC

0

Im 16 and my life is fucked

Freshmen year went by great having a 3.9 GPA, with nearly straight A's with everything I could ever want. I had many friends, went to the gym every day, motivated, and made my parents proud. They even sent me to a private school for my sophomore year. By the end of freshmen year I made a friend who went out a lot, and had many connections since then my life has fallen apart.

During the summer after freshmen year I went out everyday and every night it was a fun time I made many great friends during this time, but slowly a lot of drama came up. My parents did not like me going out so much, everything went well until the end of summer when I almost died from alcohol poisoning. My BAC was higher then .50, I was sent to the ER and was in a coma but I luckily survived on because my friend got pulled over for speeding which saved my life as if I went home I would have died. By this point I should have realized that I should calm down but I did not. I first tried smoking during that summer and by the end of it I got my own cart. When the year started I went to a new school which I had many friends at, turns out I was wrong I basically became an outcast. I still had friends just not many and the friends I did make I have realized many did not like me. I started smoking heavily during this time, stopped going to the gym since summer, and had shit grades. Since I did not have many friends at this point, I did not go out much and wasted my life on social media. Then one day the hospital bill came and it was a bill for over 40,000 dollars for my one night stay at the hospital. My parents were deeply unhappy with me and we started arguing all the time. I wrestle as my main sport and loved it, The new private school I went too had the best wrestling team in the state. I could not handle all the practices, matches, and intensity of it. So I skipped many of my practices, while I love the sport my motivation was at an all time low. My parents sent me to therapy every week, and nothing came from it. I did not mind it but it did not improve anything. I had developed a major anger issue and it was uncontrollable such as smashing and putting wholes in my wall, destroying things I had, and trying to fight my parents. It got so bad that I destroyed my whole house out of anger for my parents. They called the cops on my and I got arrested for the first time and put in handcuff and taken to juvie at 2 in the morning. Before that point that got fed up with me not going to school, faking sick, not leaving my room, and just my unwillingness to go because of how much I hated the school. So I basically forced them to take me out and send me back to my old school a bit into the second semester. They have already paid the full amount in tuition for the year (25,000 dollars) not including the fees and all the expenses so they were not happy at that point. No one in my home was happy and the main reason was because of me. I came back to my old school and things just spiraled out of control, I had many friends here and my old habits of going out everyday and every night came back. By this time I got my licenses and would come back home everyday from 1 to 6 am. During this point I have been consistently vaping, smoking, and drinking almost every day. I had no motivation at all and I was failing half my classes at my old school that I use to do so well in. I started skipping school a lot consistently, I got arrested again because my friend stole something, and I was guilty by association. I had a court date that I had to go too but instead I got off on probation for 3 months, 8 hours of community service, 4 hours of an online school, and some fees. But as apart of my agreement I could not get in trouble with the law again or all my old charges and the new charges of come back and I would be sent to juvie. 2 weeks later 6 friends and I got pulled over for having to many people in a car, but they gave us a warning and got out parents to pick us up. By this point I have had 3 interactions with the law in the past 6 weeks. I was failing many of my classes now, and I tried shrooms for the first time, the same week I tried acid and loved it. I would take tabs before school and after school, and would take multiple at the same time, I loved the feeling of it. I would consider myself popular and I did some pretty fucked up things such as finding a weird kid from my school and tried to turn him popular, I would fuck with him such as catfishing him and getting him to send nudes, sending him to 2 hours away to meet a girl that was not real, basically making him my personal uber. It was fun, but I started to feel bad so I told him about everything I did to him, he seemed cool with it during that time. But then I lost control of him he started getting used by so many people for rides, vapes, carts, money, and food. One day he became friends with someone who is not so good and he agreed to buy him a gun. I told him not to, but he would not listen and people found out and he got reported. There was a whole investigation towards him. Recently some friends and I were planning to go to a rave but he left us stranded to pick up some girls who were using him, he planned on going with them, but they refused and basically forced him to come pick us up. When he left my key chain totaling up to over 500 dollars in keys in his car. When he came back they girls got out of his car and he refused to pick us up and was scared he was going to get jumped. I forgot my keys in his car and he drove off then he texted a bunch of people saying he threw my keys out of his car, and blocked me on everything. My parents were extremely mad and told me to get in contact with his parents so I tried. One day he came to school and I confronted him with two of my friends and he gave me a fake number and a fake address so we got in his car and he drove us to the mall. We refused to get out of his car until he gave us his parents information and address. Then he proceeds to call 911 on us and only reported me now I am facing explosion from the school, that i have only been at for 2 months.
All I want is everything I had back then, I want to fix everything. I basically bankrupted my parents, addicted to multiple drugs, I do not work out anymore, I get about 3 to 5 hours of sleep every night, Many interaction with the cops, and a horrible relationship with my parent. I do know what to do anymore and have had many mental breakdowns recently.

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2024/05/02
22:49 UTC

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Can’t Stop Pressuring

I cannot stop pressuring my ex to get back together. I’m not even fully registering I’m doing it until after I have.

We work together, our cubes are across from each other’s, and our break-up was harsh and abrupt, though we had been having issues.

He’s been so nice though. I was on medical leave the past few months and we broke up Friday. My first day was Monday. He bought me lunch and took us to our spot. He offered to take me to the appointment I have tomorrow like he said he would. All week he’s been nice and we’ve gotten into two fights as well. In the past, he would ignore me completely, even still dating, if we fought at work.

It’s exactly what I’ve wanted from our relationship the entire time we’ve been dating. It’s what started my interest. It’s what kept up dating after the first few disagreements. The last 4 months, this person has been gone and now he’s here after the last thing I said to my ex when he broke up with me is to tell me when that guy shows up.

We broke up because he doesn’t feel I respect his personal space. I don’t respect his need to be alone and be alone without distraction. I text too much and he feels I rely on him for my emotional regulation. I can see this but in fairness to myself he’s ridiculously hot and cold. Doesn’t matter. I want him back. I’m working on my stuff.

The last four days I have repeatedly tried to convince him we should stay together. I just can’t stop. I can’t seem to accept he doesn’t want to be with me because of the behavior. Why be so nice to me at work and pay more attention to me than ever, which he’s said he’s resented in the past and I personally find distracting, versus continuing our relationship outside of work and making the adjustments needed.

Like I can’t even focus on how I don’t want to pressure him, I end up going on a tangent of how I don’t get it and can feel myself about to try to go and logic him back into feeling good about the relationship.

And yeah, he’s said he loves me and cares about me. Says he’s doing this to just be a good friend and I’m left like where you been.

I just want to know how to let this this be and re-evolve into something we’re both happy with, like it had started. I know we both started pressuring each other. He’s pressured me into a lot and maybe that’s where it’s coming from. But I just want to stop and let him treat me well and come back to his feelings if he can.

3 Comments
2024/05/02
21:54 UTC

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My fear of cockroaches is ruining my PhD

There is a problem with german cockroaches (the smaller ones) in my dormitory. The exterminator was there already plenty of times, but it is just pointless, because they come in from the hallway. So you can't do much about it and just have to live with them.

I am currently not financially able to rent an apartment, I have to stay in that dorm. But because of those cockroaches, I am only willing to stay one night a week (because I finish a class in the evening, and the next class is the next day in the early morning - so I have to sleep somewhere, a hotel is not the solution because it would be more expensive than the dorm and not all the days where I'd have to sleep are free).

I am ruining my PhD because of this. I just started doing my PhD, but instead of attending seminaries, additional classes, just connecting with other scientists in the field, I am running away from it because of my fear of cockroaches.

My fear is so big, that I can't even look at pictures of them. I regularly have nightmares involving them. When I am at my dorm, I don't even want to get out of my bed because I fear that I meet them next to the entrance door where they usually are. Even if I really really have to pee, nope, I won't move out of my bed, and I wait till the morning.

I know, this sounds stupid, but is there some quick way to deal with this fear? Like any supplements, methods (I will try out even the most "esoteric" ones if I have to)? I just don't want to make an appointment with a psychiatrist, and they won't be able to prescribe me pills which would shut my complete anxiety system down for at least 24 hours.

I really need help here. I am ruining my life and my career because of it, returning home at 11pm just because I don't wanna face those cockroaches.

I don't wanna drop out of my PhD, I want to invest 100% of my time into it. But because of my phobia, I simply can't.

And no, exposure therapy is NOT the solution here. I tried that by simply staying at my dorm, and it ended up by me yelling at my mom at 11pm on the phone (having the biggest panic attack in my life) and returning back home at 5am.

36 Comments
2024/05/02
21:19 UTC

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First time crying in pure happiness

If you seen my posts, you’ll know I suffer from anxiety and depression. Every day felt so tough and hard and it felt like everyone hated me. It wasn’t until I started cutting myself with a razor blade to realize that this is not how I wanted my life to be. So I stopped venting and started asking for help and i started meditating and clearing my mind. I finally cleaned my dirty room and i started attending classes again.

Today, I headed out to a wide beach, walked to the end of it and meditate for 5 minutes. Then I started jogging. The air was nice and cool and my phone was blasting some beautiful piano music. It honestly felt like I was in a painting. My painting. The joy of it all overwhelmed me and I started silently crying while walking home. I love every single second of the day. I hope everyday is like that.

[ Also I noticed when my mind was cleared and I was happy, people started becoming rude. Like glaring at me and purposefully ignoring me. But strangely, I don’t care.]

3 Comments
2024/05/02
21:15 UTC

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M21 Looking for someone who relates with not taking best care of self (hope we could work together)

Hiiiii there.

Ofc like title says, I’m a fuck up 💔 lol

But, I know other people struggle, just like I do, and I wanted to maybe work with someone idk.

Someone who is also a bit silly and likes dumb jokes and honesty, that may or may not be a bit edgy or degenerate lol. 😅

Last time I tried accountability buddy with someone it was kinda meeeeh, we didn’t get along as friends, so I kinda want a friend. It’s easier working with someone than caring about myself tbh. So I don’t really want a life coach that’s gonna be like “ah yes, a money opportunity 💰💰”

And I guess, I’ve tried recovering in life myself, it is really fuckin hard, especially when trying to get motivation is brutal 💀

I’ve organized my issues like this:

Regrest at end of day ——> I used up my time in bad way/made bad decisions ——-> I made bad decisions because I have trouble controlling emotions.

My big issue is probably just managing my emotions right now, getting myself to make better decisions. But it’s really though having any motivation to change.

Ultimately, I hope I could exercise more, look more into job/future stuff. Just be a more responsible adult instead of like, y’know, scrolling through dumb YouTube recommended vids. (Which is like new Twitter drama about another Minecraft youtuuber 💀)

So, if you’re a guy, above 18 and relate with my issues, maybe we can talk? Idk, let’s work together so we can spend our time in day better

Also, please be having same issues, don’t just be trying to help, I really want to find someone who more so relates, I think relating with someone and thinking “omg this is fr me” really helps, while if you don’t have same struggle it may feel one sided.

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2024/05/02
20:11 UTC

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I dont think i am a good person -- honestly

Hi !!

Recently i have been feeling like i am not a good person. I gossip a lot no out of malice intent tho, I cant keep my mouth shut. I lie about stupid things. I can see why some people don't like me I am too outspoken, i don't keep my opinions to my self, i'm loud, annoying I am honestly really starting to dislike who I am. how do I become better, bc i know deep down this isnt me, i am bubbly, smiley, and i love to laugh but recently i've been caught up in drama and I dont like this version i am becoming :/

4 Comments
2024/05/02
19:50 UTC

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