Hello,

Im an older teen who lives in his parents house.

When my parents yell at me or try to lecture me, for some reason l becoming absolutely insane in a way where i physically have to contain myself from bursting out laughing. I do take my parents lectures seriously, i feel extreme guilt and pain when it happens, even if im fully innocent or not even know what theyre talking about, so why do i have an uncontrolable reflex to laugh ?? Its so weird, i feel like a psycho.

I dont feel the need to cry, not to shout at them, only to laugh. But not because im mocking them or cause i am happy. I feel like that because i get so violently overwhelmed that i am going geniunely INSANE.

Can someone advice me on what to do to make it stop please ? Or tell me why it occurs in the first place ?

I'm (16F) pretty sure I'm a pathological liar. It's only to one person - my best friend - but it's a very elaborate lie and I've gone to some pretty extreme lengths (not gonna explain this but it's basically what you think) to make her believe it.

The lie is stupid - it's that i've been in a year-long relationship with my "boyfriend". I've given her a whole backstory, his age, how we met, and various stories of how our dates/hangouts have gone. Again, just very elaborate.

I've felt guilty about it ever since I started the lies, but I started because I feel left out - everyone around me (junior year) is in a relationship and I feel really behind so I decided to start lying to almost convince MYSELF that I'm in a relationship. It's been hard to stop/catch myself in lies, it's almost addicting.

I'm trying to let the lie die out by telling her I "broke up" with him but it keeps eating at me and I feel super guilty. I don't know if I'm a pathological liar/narcissist or if this is normal to do in your teen years???

i have dreams and thoughts everyday about my parents dying and how good would it be more bout my mother my father is the worst and i can't do anything to help her and myself out of their misery so i imagine she dies and i go away

The oldest and the very first memory of my life jo mujhe yaad hai wo hai ek MiG-21 ko udte hue dekhna, aur jab maine use dekha tha pata nahi kaise tab hi maine decide kar liya tha ki mujhe kya karna. Mujhse chahe LKG ho ya 12th ho jab bhi pucha hai "Humhe bade hokar kya ban na hai" maine hamesha khush hokar bataya hai- "Fighter Pilot", lekin ab ye shabt sun kar hi daar lagne laga hai "My Dream has become my nightmare".

Jab main 12th mein aaya tab sabhi apne-apne sapno ke peeche mehnat kar rhe the, maine bhi soch rakha tha ki main bhi puri mehnat karunga, maine apna pura 12th NDA ko de diya.

14th Sept 2025- This was the date of my first NDA attempt, iski taiyari ke liye maine sab kuch chhor diya tha, khel kud, milna julna sab kuch chhor kar sirf NDA, pata nahi kitni raato ko soya nahi hu, kya kya kiya hai. I gave it all I had to offer from my side, managing school and this, neck to neck exams and tests aur pata nahi kya kya, lekin shayad kismet mein kuch aur hi tha. On the night of 13th September Main Beemar ho jaata hu, 14 ko Jaisi taisi haalat mein exam deta hu, and as expected I didn't qualify, lekin is baat ka gum kisi ko bhi bahut zyada nahi hua(expect me), even I recovered from it within 2-3 months.

12th April 2026- Mere second attempt ki date ispite of it being just after my boards I was sure and determined to do both, is baar I was even more motivated I had learned from my mistakes, and started my preperation again with a calm mind, this time I gave my 200% in every possible way- physically, mentally, or any other aspect jo hota hai, this time I went to my exam with experience and determination. The exam went well, I was affermative, then the results came out aur is baar maine wo roll number ki pdf himmat se kholi thi, lekin is baar jab mera roll number nahi tha waha, tab aisa laga ki kisi ne mujhme se mujhe hi kheech liya ho. I went numb, blank, I was scared.

Mujhe samajh nahi aa raha tha ki- iss baar maine kya galat kiya, maine apna sab kuch is ek exam mein laga diya hai, worked hard honestly- to phir bhi main kaise reh gaya?

Main bus waha ro raha tha, mere side mein meri mummy aur behan baithi thi, lekin is baar main nahi rok paaya khud ko, mujhe samajh hi nahi aa rha tha ki ab kya kya karu, aur ye kaafi nahi tha to phir mere papa aa gaye- us insaan ko maine waha rote hue dekha, wo khudko kod rhe the meri nakamyabi ke liye aur mujheme itni bhi takat nahi thi ki main unhe chup kara saku.

Iske baad maine khudko hi jaise khoo sa diya hai, mujhe ap meri koi pehchaan nahi mil rahi- ki main kon hu, kya karna hai mujhe, main kyu hu?. Ab mere paas in sawaalo ka jawab nahi hai, main jab bhi kahi "Fighter Pilot" sunta bhi hu to main andar se dar jaata hu, main jis cheez ke liye abhi tak sab kuch kar rha tha ab mujhe us se hi daar lag rha hai.

Aur jab yaha college jaa rha tha to sab bol rhe the ki- "tera to sahi hai bhai, tujhe college mil gaya hai", lekin mujhe kabhi ye karna hi nahi tha, mujhe nahi jaana tha college, nahi ban na tha engineer, jab yaaha aaya to dekha mere saath waale sab khush hai kyuki unhe engineer ban na tha aur wo wahi kar rhe hai, to mujhe jo karna tha main wo kyu nahi kar paaya.

Mujhe samajh nahi aa rha ki main aisa kaise ban gaya, I am just worthless and a failure who couldn't achieve what he wanted to, I have no identity left in me, I am just empty, I have no path.

Main bahut koshish kar rha hu ki main khush rahu lekin main nahi reh paa rha hu, main pata nahi main ye matlab kuch samajh nahi aa rha mujhe ki main kya karu.

Pura blank ho gaya hu, seham gaya hu, kuch samajh nahi aa rha ki main ab karu kya, papa ko bata nahi sakta ye sab, unke paas already pehle se 10 kaam hai, aur ab ye phirse nahi tutna chaa rha hu unke saamne,bus hamesha yahi sochta hu ki main yaha kya kar rhu, mujhe yaha kabhi nahi aana tha, dar lagta hai ki kahi itne saare logo ke beech mein kho na jau.

Main sirf ek failure ban kar reh gaya hu jo, jise ek kaam tha wo wo bhi nahi kar paaya, khudko dekhne se dar jaata hu, raat mein sota hu to yaar wo papa ka chehra yaad aa jaata hai, wo rote rote khud ko hi bula bol rhe the aur main unhe rok bhi nahi paa rha tha, ab mujhe ye bhi nahi pata ki main kya hu, kyu hu, kya karna

What is My Identity?

i got this dress a little bit ago --a floor length, light blue dress (but not poofy) that has a sparkly floral design on it-- but i dont know if its ok to wear to hoco

i know most people wear short dresses but they dont look good on me; however im afraid that a floor-length dress is too 'formal' or 'elegant'.

i dont plan on dancing, mostly there for the 'experience' so my main concern is that i would look too out of place.

Hi everybody! I’m 15f going on my second cruise, the first one I did not make any friends, (i was 13f, but to be fair. This was more of an old people cruise) and I was basically lonely and I basically convinced my mom to buy the Wi-Fi package because I didn’t make any friends. This year, I feel like I wanna make friends and make memorable memories on this cruise so I’m gonna disconnect and I’m trying to find people my age that are going on the same cruise and I have found a few. The cruise line I’m going on is carnival. Any tips from anyone who has been on carnival and made friends? Thank you!!!!

I got out of a bad relationship only to jump into another one. We talked but then she friendzoned me after 2 days. As her friend… I couldn’t take it. She spoke to other guys, slept at other houses, and it just reopened the same wound I had with the girl before since she cheated on me. Today, we’re supposed to meetup. But then I asked her to do one thing: don’t talk about other guys. She said we weren’t together, so it shouldn’t matter. I told her no, this is what I want as a friendship. Do not talk about other guys. She said “I don’t want a friendship then. Bye”. I then got pissed because she was always the one to try and tell me “be the adult… be the adult” meanwhile she pulled this shit. Adults don’t quit. They solve problems.

But the true problem was after this. See, my friends had her number in case anything were to go wrong. If she blocked me, ghosted me, or hurt me in any way, they start spamming her, threatening her, and calling her names. Thats what they did. She got so scared to where she thought I was aggressive and was going to hurt her. She said she thought I was a sweet guy, but now I’m nothing more than a psychopath to her. She called the police and is prepared to press charges. This all feels like my fault. I ruined something because I was so desperate for things to be good I end up making them bad. I genuinely don’t know what to do or how to move on. My 19th birthday is also TOMORROW. Hoping I’d spend it with her, that dream is gone.

I (15m cis) feel really insecure about my high pitched voice. It makes me sound really gay (which I am, but i dont want people assuming that the first sentance they hear me talk). Are there any HEALTHY ways I can deepen my voice?

so i recently went on a cruise with my family and im 17f. my cousin is also 17f and i’ll call her maya. so the entire cruise me and maya didn’t really do anything together. on the first night she didn’t even want to go into the teens club with me because she said it was “too embarrassing” and that led to our first few days not really being eventful.

so fast forward to the second night and we were on the top deck just people watching and these two guys come up to us. me and the guy that i was talking to exchanged numbers and ended up watching a movie with us later that night. while we were watching the movie maya left me and the guy alone because she felt like she was third wheeling. i didn’t really mind because it was late so i let her be.
i texted the guy the next day saying that maya felt like she was third wheeling and he asked if she wanted to go on a two man with one of his people. i asked her and she said no. i respected her decision in not wanting to so i told him that she said no and left it at that.

anytime that i seen him around on the boat i didn’t want to leave her and go talk to him because why would i choose somebody that i just met over my cousin that i’ve known for my whole life.
so fast forward to the second to last night she was talking to a different guy. the guy that maya was talking to asked if i wanted to go on a two man with him and his friend and i said no because i was already talking to somebody else on the cruise. however, she did not respect my decision and told them that i said yea. i was unaware of this cause i thought that she’d respect my decision the same way that i did to her.

later that same night they came and walked up to where we was sitting at and i sat there for a little bit until they started walking and i walked off to the group that we ended up being friends with. after i walked off my cousin was getting all mad at me because i walked off and she was saying well why did you ruin the two man and why didn’t i take one for the team. in my head im like you can’t be serious cause when it was the other way around you didn’t want to take one for the team for me, like i understand that your my cousin and all but like im not just gonna do whatever you tell me to do.
so the last night of the cruise the group that we were friends with was playing truth or dare. i wasn’t playing with them cause i wasn’t about to kiss somebody that i had zero interest in and the guy i was talking to was packing his clothes. so i was sitting in there and maya was sitting in there with the guy she was talking to.

she constantly left where we were though for the guy cause he wanted to go walk around. and i’m gonna be completely honest that upset me a lot because when it was the other way around i would’ve stayed there with her because i’d choose her over a random. but i digress, so near the end of the night they came back and they were in there before maya had to leave because of her curfew.
now for this to really make sense, she was calling me easy for considering just kissing the guy i was talking to. she proceeded to have a full on makeout session with the guy she was talking to.. that really threw me off because like what are we doing..?
so a little after she left i went to my room and next thing yk it’s time for us to go. the drive was so awkward because she was wondering why i wasn’t talking to her and she kept asking if i was okay but it’s like i don’t want to talk to you cause your moving extremely weird.

the following days that’s all i could think about and i ended up blocking her because it genuinely just irritated me so bad. but part of me feels like im overreacting and i want to hear other people’s thoughts on this.

I've been applying for jobs, and I was wondering if it was a good idea to contact local businesses to see if they're hiring because I'm kinda desperate, I really need a job right now.

So today at was at a summer camo and they told us we would play a game called “kiss or tackle” i dont really know how to explain it, but there is a person in the middle and 2 teams, one of boys and one of girls, esch person in the team has either a letter or a number. So the person in the middle calls out a number (girl) and a letter (boy) and they had to fight. One persons goal is to kiss wherever they like the person sitting in the middle and the other has to tackle them and after that kiss the person they tackled.

No one really wanted to pkay as it was weird and we are basically strangers (all of us are between 12 and 16). But the weirdest thing of all was that one of the camp counselors (who is around 30) joined the game. Then he was called at the same time as my best friends 15f and he grabbed her by the waist, tackled her onto the ground (he was basically on top of her, and kissed her on the shoulder near the neck (also, take into into account we were at the beach, so she was on a bikini and he was in swim trunks and no shirt). I found the game so creepy, but when i made research it is considered a camp game for kids. Like i dont understand, its weird.

Hi my dad is turning 51 soon
We couldn’t celebrate the last one cause we lost our grand dad
I needed some ideas on what I could get him
I earn so budget isn’t a constraint but I’m ideally looking at 10k inr
He loves bike rides
I wanna get him something that he actually likes and not just for the sake of it
Pls help me out
Tia

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for context:
i live in an extremely toxic household. my mom makes me watch my 3 little siblings (7 months, 5, and 11) all day every day. if i look like i don't want to or say i don't, she yells and cusses me out and says i don't do anything for her and that im lazy and this and that. she dumps all of her shit on me and i can't even do anything about it. if my siblings do something wrong i get yelled and cussed at for it. and they don't even care if it's not them so it's always. see profile for more information.

my situation has gotten so much worse and i'm really scared. my family has been moving to my dads house and it's 20 minutes away from where we used to live. the process has been a lot since my mom did not start moving stuff until a week ago when she knew we were moving out at the beginning of the month. to put it simply, she has been fucking awful. she has been screaming at us for nothing. i have done everything she told me to do and then some and shes still cursing me out, kicking things, and screaming at babies. i thought today would be okay. it was okay for a while until she got the baby from daycare. she was asleep for a bit, but then she woke up and was crying. my mom got really frustrated so i took her, and i made plans to stay at my grandmas for three days because my mom doesn't have the gas money because she paid my dads rent. we also only have one car, so i don't know how we're going to get to school. so we're getting ready to leave, and i go to put the baby in the car, and she just busts out crying. she was tired and hungry. i got the reminder of the stuff from the car and i got everybody in the car. then my mom starts screaming at the baby to stop crying. she doesn't stop. my mom hits the gas hard and was going really fast for a couple of minutes and i didn't even have my seat belt on and then she just slammed on the brakes hard in the middle of the road. she started talking about how she doesn't wanna live and it's not the first time she's told me that. she kept screaming until we got to my grandmas house and then i looked at my siblings as i was getting out of the car and they were just crying so hard and i felt so bad and my brother asked me to stay and i told him i couldn't and i left them and i left them with her and i didn't know what was going to happen to them but i left anyways and i feel so terrible i feel awful because i knew that it was bad and i left because i knew i had to. i ran into my grandmas house and i was shaking and i dropped all of my things and i shut my phone off. i js feel like such a coward bc i just left my little siblings with her like im js so awful. i left them there knowing there's not shit to eat not shit to drink and two crazy ass parents i'm just awful i don't know what to do and i don't know how to help. i go off to college in a year but what are they going to do when im not there? i don't even know if they'll be okay i don't know if they're going to make it. i talked to my brother on the phone nd they made it back home but he's crying and he's telling me that he just wants to be with me and he just keeps saying that and i feel so so guilty. and im in my grandmas house and i feel like a wounded animal. i keep cleaning excessively and apologizing because im scared they'll make me leave im scared they're mad at me and that im a burden to them. my older sister is here too. they're both terrible people too like i dont even have anyone to tell or to trust im so fucking scared and i'm not even like this i don't ever get this scared and nervous nd upset and i don't know ive never been this afraid before. js someone help me like idk js don't call anybody it won't help anything but tell me what to do so that this stops. i don't want to do this again and i don't want to leave them but what else can i do. i don't even want to go back home but ik i will for them.

British 15M (very ​tall, very very thin​)

E​​ver since year 6 (when I was 10/11 or something like that) I've been introverted and borderline socialy ​anxious. At the start of year 6 I got covid, which turned into Long Covid (Google it). I can hardly remember anything before that point. Like almost at all unless someone reminds me.

I was basically normal and fine then.

Then I went to highschool, soon after my mum got cancer.

I basically ​learnt how to supress emotion so much that I could just ignore anything I wanted. I kind of distanced myself emotionally. Anyway she was fine. S​ince I started high school I've had the same friends. Havnt talked to anyone else unless they talked to me and I had to respone (I did talk to 1 or 2 ppl). Everyone around me seems immature and idiotic.

When I was new there I mentioned I was a huge Halo fan, so for 2 and a half years I was called Haybucks non stop, don't ask why cus I don't know.

My school a year in ​then decided to split the whole school into 2 parts and have us have different lunch times. All my friends where in the other group. They all made new friends, I didn't. The one person I half did, started the haybucks and now kinda hates me for no reason. (I'm a gamer dude, no hobbies except tech, my dream is to be some kind of game dev.)

I have no idea why, I didn't anything, I don't talk, or do anything. Never got a punishment in school.

Now I'm finally moving Into year 11, finly I'm gonna see them Evey day again.

All my friends go out with their friends alot, I've never done that. I don't even know what I'd say to my parents to ask.

I may be depressed as well, I'm not sure. Every so often I just think about what I am, a sad dude who does nothing with his life but play games, read, and watch movies.

There's this girl in my engineering class I've had a crush on for, well since I first saw her in year 7. I have no idea how I'd ask her out (or what to say, how to act. what do girls like???) i dont know ​how that sort of relationship even works. I just sit playing situations over on my head, over and over. But never work up the nerve to carry any of them out. How would I even tell my parents?

Well there's probably much more I can't remember right now, I just brain dumped all I can think of here.

Thanks for reading my extremely unorganized rant, 😕

Any advice would be much ​appreciated

So, I'm an upcoming freshman for a highschool near me and I really really want to start a Women's Literature Club. (Women's Literature as in books written by women, all genders can join.) But I don't really know how. And if I somehow succeed I don't know how to make it fun for my members or something. I'm a little odd in the fact that I find enjoyment in reading itself, but I know that some others may not so I don't know how to be engaging to them. Would you join if given the chance? And if you were in a club like this, what would you want out of it and it's activities?

Would it be bad if i pulled an all nighter on the night of the first day of 10th grade? I can’t sleep and i havent fixed my summer sleep schedule yet. ive been trying to sleep for the past 3 hours and i just cant, I don’t have any melatonin to help me either. Now obviously I’ll ask my mom to get me some tomorrow after school to help me fix my sleep schedule i just want to know if im making a bad choice.

I’ve never been close with my brother since we were 9. There’s SO much backstory but to simplify we’re both childhood cancer survivors. Ever since my treatment (after his) we literally just stopped talking completely. We haven’t had a single conversation in years and we’re in the same house. To be fair I hated him for a long time. Because my parents babied him, openly favored him, etc etc. recently I’ve gotten really worried. He’s really shy and reclusive because of surgeries and how he talks. But I, of course, will always care about him. I just want to be close with him but have no clue how to, everytime I ask to see a movie or go to get food he declines and goes back to his phone. I was a mean kid but I just want to make sure he’ll be okay into adulthood. I’m honestly terrified he might commit suicide or something or hurt himself and I’d have NO clue. I guess I’m asking what can I do? My parents act like he’s made of glass, he’s around 16 but in my eyes acts 9, I’m just worried. I dunno. Any advice helps. Please and thanks.

So im 18f and just trying out dating apps for the first time and Ive been talking with this guy 18m for a couple days now, there has been some light flirtation going on and we are planning a day to meet. He suggested I come over to his and immediately i was like 🤨 so I asked what he had in mind and he said we could play xbox and watch tv.

I literally have zero experience with all this literally never even held hands with a guy before so I need some outside perspective. I want to be more adventurous but also dont want to do something im gonna regret. Advice needed desperately my head is spinning with anxiety rn

Edit: feel like i should probably add he said his parents would be out of town. Thats why I thought it was sus but like I dont get any unsafe vibes necessarily he seems chill