Mental Health Awareness and Personal Growth

So I'm a firefighter, and about 2 years ago, we got a call to a house for an ambulance assist, but we got there first, we walked in and there was 2 guys on the sofa passed out, we copped very fast it ...

Long story short, my (35f) now ex-bf (34m) had seemed really supportive of the fact that I own a cheaper little fixer upper house that has a variety of unfinished ADHD hyperfocus projects (nothing cri...

Why is it that sometimes when you're sleepy and resist sleeping for hours, you stop feeling sleepy? You feel off but not exhausted anymore. For example, you stayed up all night. At 1 AM you were pra...

I relate when people say they regret having kids, but regret is a weird word here because I never exactly had a choice in choosing to have my son. What I regret is that I allowed my life to become thi...

This is me, 100%. I am afraid to organise anything for my birthday, in case no-one turns up. I was also engaged for many years, and never organised my wedding for the same reason. I see a therapist re...

Hello all, I just got awarded a full scholarship/studentship to begin my PhD, and I needed to come somewhere and just talk about how hard I worked for this. Tl;Dr at the end Guys, I have struggled ...

I'm a freshman taking electrical engineering. First semester I had three 7 am classes including calculus and failed two of them because of attendance. I had my phone's default alarm set to 5:30 then ...

Peace be with you in Christ. Thank God that today five people repented and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and I baptized them. I am serving among our brothers and sisters and want to improve th...

I'm m27, my best friend was nb25. And out of nowhere her brain just... collapsed. She was gone a few hours later. They were one of the strongest people I've met. Dealt with so much shit, so much abus...

I had an earlier post where I had mentioned changing to all quizzes and tests due to having such an absurd amount of missing homework. I've been doing this for the whole last quarter so far, and here ...

I am in grad school and recently went through a 4-year relationship breakup. This is my first time living alone without a roommate. I put this together in around 3 weeks – I am so fortunate to have co...

I’m a pretty average looking guy in his 30s. I’ve had my share of good, but poorly ended relationships. I’ve had some brutal situationships that have completely left me feeling lonely and just out of ...

\*We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we're here together!\* \*\*Welcome to the 24 hour pledge!\*\* I'm pledging myself to no...

I just wanted to say I'm feeling okay. I normally give up by now. This time, there are a few other factors that come into play, so I think everything will work out okay. Is there anyone else around th...

That's it. I'm fucking sick of being poor. I'm tried of it especially knowing unless I win the lottery it'll always be this way. Like is there even a point to a poor persons life genuinely? It's just ...

Hi everyone, I typically never post anything but I felt that I wanted to share this because I know there is a lot of people doubting if this actually work. A few years ago I was in a really bad stat...

Friends, colleagues, and brothers/sisters, I joined this wonderful organization back in 2020, right before COVID. Before I joined the Air Force, I was a kid with many aspirations in life, but no mone...

Both me(M31) and my partner(F30) have got into this habit of coming home after work, eating and watching TV until bed time. It has become a really depressing habit that is actually really difficult to...

I knew I had a problem. I knew I needed help. I kept making excuses, thinking I was just stalling but would eventually kick it and figure it out. I denied the effects on my mental health and how depre...

Earlier this year, on day 1,034 of sobriety, I drank. My husband and I went out for our anniversary and the restaurant sent out 2 glasses of champagne for us. Instead of asking for them to take mine b...

I used to think loyalty to a job meant something. I showed up sick. I stayed late. I put their goals before mine for years. You know what I got? A performance review and a reminder that I was replacea...

I mean somebody had the courage to do that and honestly, good for them. Like just let me live in peace while I'm out here living my life. Now that I'm employed, I miss days which felt like a vacation ...

Spent the last two days cleaning when not working and caring for our child before my wife got home. She must be tired because she said it looks great and promptly fell asleep on the couch. I’m proud ...

I live in Texas and started smoking carts in 2022 and quickly got addicted. Once the carts destroyed my tolerance I was so addicted and desperate to get high so I got hooked on edibles. From 2024 unti...

I'm 48 today. I speak 5 languages, I have a masters degree in law and 20 years of sales experience, mostly in aviation and defense. Been looking for a job for almost an year. I have 4€ to my name as w...

Prescription toothpaste!!!! Seriously. The amount of money I’ve been to save on dental work (and a potential root canal) because of this $20 bottle of anti demineralization is magic. Where has this be...

lost everything to house fire, and i am facing the hardest problem in my life right now. i really don’t know where to go, i couldn’t save anything. not even a single shirt was saved, im a single mom,...

Hey, ich habe meine Noten in meinem Realschulabschluss von einem Durchschnitt von 3,1 auf 1,4 geändert, also gefälscht, und arbeite seit 9 Jahren in einem großen Konzern. Ich hatte damals viele Absa...

So even though my husband and I wanted kids, neither of us knew what we were getting into since we weren’t around babies much. I was an only child, he was the younger sibling. We agreed to stagger our...

I am devastated I’ve had a SCH the entire pregnancy but was told time and time again my bleeding was normal her heartbeat was strong and she was doing well. Fast forward to today at 3am I started hav...

I've been lurking on this sub for a while now, and I just wanted to say, atp i would take anything to be busy during the summer. It's a 2 months contract but omg, after 110 applications in my field (...

My 5 year old could probably not go to sleep at all and still make it through the next day of school. She has a set bedtime. Has physical activities (dance and softball). We don’t do screens at bed...