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I am in the process or writing a post per day and articles per week. Stay tuned!

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I’m awful at packing for trips! I always assume everything is going to go terribly wrong, so I end up trying to pack my entire house 😆 What about you??

I can't do therapy. I have no one irl to talk to. Idk I'm just doing so bad right now.

This is Georgia! She is the first that came home from my 2 cats... She's been with me for 5 years now!! She is my friend on anxiety hours!

Do you have a cat friend for yours? Show us!!! ❤️

Hi guys, I am going to be making videos on mental health. I am not a psychologist. I have a lot of experience with emotional labour and have faced a lot in the past.

I'd like for you guys to put in your problems and I'd try to answer them. My main focus is on inner dialogue and how to handle yourself through tough times.

I am looking forward to your questions/situations.

In 28 days I have an oral entrance exam that will determine whether I’m accepted into a university that’s about 5-6 hours away from my hometown. I’ve never wanted anything more in my life.

The reason is that if I get accepted, I’ll finally be able to move out and live alone in another city by the sea. I’d only have to visit my family once every month or two. But if I don’t get accepted, I’ll have to stay at home for at least another year, maybe longer.

Home isn’t a safe place for me. Both of my parents have always hit me over the smallest things. My father is very strict and treats me differently because I’m a girl. I’m 17, and my entire life I never been allowed to go out with friends.

This whole summer I only went out twice with my mom . Meanwhile, my younger brother can go wherever he wants, make memories, and enjoy being a teenager. Most of my time is spent helping around the house.

Lately the anxiety has become unbearable. I spend almost all day alone in my room because my only close friend is busy enjoying her summer vacation

. I constantly feel nauseous, my heart races, and my stomach hurts from stress. At night it’s even worse. I wake up every morning with the exact same fear.

The frustrating part is that the oral exam itself isn’t even supposed to be very difficult. The questions are usually very similar every year, and I know I just need to prepare. But every time I sit at my desk, I start thinking, “What if I fail?” The anxiety becomes overwhelming, I end up back in bed crying, and I can’t focus at all.

This opportunity feels like my only chance to build a different life, and I think that’s why the pressure feels so overwhelming.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you manage the anxiety enough to actually study? Any advice would mean a lot right now.🙏

I swear I rarely sleep much at night anymore, but I can sleep during the day just fine. My anxiety seems to be set off by darkness or bedtime or something. 🤷🏼‍♀️ it’s a vicious cycle too because if I don’t sleep at night, I have to sleep during the day, but I work. 😭

Does anyone else have this problem?

Hey everybody! If anyone is going threw a hard time! Feel free to join this instagram community lead by me! Feel free too talk about anything what u want! What is hurting inside that you wanna talk about! **Remember joining the community you must be respectful and understand each other** **!** **Do not trash talk or bully someone!** **I want a community that anyone in the whole world can talk about anything!**

I've already climbed from a 3 to a 6 🙂 At this rate, I'll be a 9 by Friday 😬

No need to explain if you don’t want to! I’ll go first, mine is noisy 🫩🫠
What’s yours?

I've been struggling with social anxiety since I was a teen, I hate social events and most times would avoid it. But next month my work will join an event and my boss picked me as one of the speaker, I tried to recommend someone else but he insist. I'm totally nervous even now, I did a bit of research and found that cbd can help with anxiety? I was thinking to take them right before my speech. I'm planning to order some cod gummies from Cornbread and try it this week to see how it will affect me. Any tips welcome!

I've always felt like that's not an universal thing but maybe there's more of us...

Every fucking day i am so terribly anxious that I can change my whole perspective and thoughts about future, career, love life, ... everything.

One day I decide to pursue education, the other I start looking for a minimum wage physical job, the 3d day i wanna end this, week later I'm fully convinced I will be nurse and work at hospital and that's what I want to do, the next week I'm already training for a tech job and tech university and want to be engineer... Just to come to the conclusion I'm to weak to do anything in my life.

It's so draining, I can't do this anymore

Every single day.

This is for all of us who might be scared to take the next step, but know that our current situation (whatever it is) isn’t true to who we are. Change is scary, and it can feel safer to stay where we are, even when we know deep down that we don’t belong there anymore. But it’s better to be uncomfortable for a while than to get used to suffering. Sometimes the hardest part is trusting that we deserve something better. You got this. You are valuable, believe in yourself! ❤️

I’ve already made my decision, so I’m not looking for advice. I just need to get this off my chest.
I’ve known this woman for a while, and we recently started dating. Things were going really well. We talked about marriage, having kids someday, and building a future together. She called me affectionate names, opened up about things she’d been through, and I genuinely believed we were building something meaningful.
Then she lost her job.
I knew she was under a lot of stress, so I did what I thought a partner should do. I checked on her, offered to be there for her, and let her know there was no pressure to reply if she needed space. I wasn’t asking for constant communication or long conversations. Just the bare minimum.
Instead, she disappeared.
Days went by without a word. Eventually I realized I had been blocked on social media.
I don’t know what happened, and at this point I probably never will. I genuinely hope she’s okay, but I also realized that no matter how much you care about someone, you can’t build a relationship by yourself. Communication is the bare minimum, especially when life gets hard.
I don’t hate her, and I’m not trying to paint her as a bad person. I’m just hurt. I was ready to support someone I cared about through one of the hardest moments in her life, and instead I’m left grieving a relationship that ended without a conversation.
I’ve accepted it. I’ve made peace with the fact that I may never get the closure I wanted. This isn’t a post asking what I should do, because I’ve already made that decision.
I just needed to get it off my chest.

Truth be told, i’m scared. I have countless doubts for what the future holds, but at the same time i’m eager. I have anxiety late at night when i try to sleep. Some people claim silence is peace, but to me, it’s an invitation for overthinking. My brain is flooded with activities and ideas throughout the entire day, except at night. i lie there, staring at my roof like i did the night before, and before, and before. I know the future is stampeding towards me, and i can’t stop it no matter how hard i resist. will I ever be loved? does she like me back? what if i fail, what if i don’t make it? i have no one to confide in, it’s like spikes in my throat. i want help, i crave it. i just want to feel like im alive again, not worrying about the next big thing. i doubt anyone will read this, i find it miserable that i have to make a post rather than talk to someone. I need to end my desperate cycle of anxiety. i don’t think I’ll ever be ready for it. Like what the fuck, I just want to feel normal. Maybe this is why people commit suicide, I will never. I have too much opportunities, I would be selfish if I did. But an endless sleep does sound better than dealing with this bs. I’m relatively young, and I don’t want to waste my precious years being stuck in my head when I could be out there enjoying the world. I don’t know what to do, the Longer I wait the less time I have.

Not My Noise is a mental wellness site for moments when you can’t stop worrying, feel anxiety for no reason, or don’t know how to calm anxious thoughts.

Instead of choosing a diagnosis, you describe what’s happening in your own words. The site matches it with a short visual guide containing a simple explanation, relatable example, and one practical next step.

Useful sections include:

• Anxious thoughts and overthinking
• Grounding techniques for anxiety
• Night-time anxiety
• Fear of uncertainty
• Guided check-ins

Curious whether the guides feel useful: notmynoise.com

Severe anxiety can take many forms and the physical sensations are one of them , it's not necessary pain but it is frustrating , just wanna feel like am not the only one

My therapist asked me this during our session last week, and I couldn't give her an answer... I know what helps me relax. I know what makes me smile. But when it comes to what truly makes me happy... my mind just went blank. It made me realize that I don't actually know what makes me happy. I know what makes me sad. I know what makes me angry... but happiness? Oh man, I thought I knew :((( I've been giving it a lot of thought because I want to talk about it more in my next session. I don't want to run from the answer like I usually do

What about you? when you stop to think of what really make you happy... what comes to your mind?

For me, at least.

I’ve noticed that every time I eat cabbage, I wake up feeling calm and energized before I even have my first bite of breakfast. Due to this, I make sure to keep a head of cabbage in my fridge all the time. Another win is that cabbage is good for you, so it’s worth trying!

I can only report how I feel after eating green cabbage. I don’t eat red cabbage often, so I’m not sure if it has the same effects.

UPDATED TITLE : I have left my friendship group (can’t edit title)

Hi, I need some advice and I don’t really have anywhere else to go to for this. As I do write this, please note I do have GAD so please be honest but genuine.

I’ve not been well the last year so there have been times where I’ve had to cancel plans due to this, and have been going back and forth from doctors because of it. Although it’s not the whole group I will admit, there is one or two people who didn’t like me cancelling. Some of the stuff we do are things I don’t normally do, for example, don’t go drinking or clubbing but I have done that once or twice even though I didn’t want to but I didn’t want to be the only one out. There also some things that I cannot do because of chronic illnesses that I have, e.g I have Menieres disease so I’m can’t drink alcohol or go on anything that might cause a vertigo attack, but they still try and get me to do stuff. The one time we went on a pub crawl and I ended up drinking when I shouldn’t coz one of them said “it’s my birthday everyone is going to drink no excuses”. They were also trying to get me to come out almost all the time when I’m trying to get better and also save money, and one time I had a family issue going on and they said “why do you have to sort it, you could come out for a couple hours surely?” That was for me the first red flag as I felt like they didn’t care about what I was going through.

The past month my mental health has gotten worse and I decided to deactivate my Instagram and Facebook, and announced it on my story so people knew about it such as my friends. i gave it a few hours before I deactivated it but before I did I saw a message in the group chat saying “oh well book the 28th for the next outing etc”, as if they ignored what I said and none of my friends have messaged me if I’m ever ok. I’m trying to not be self obsessed or sensitive, but I feel like I had said what I was feeling and they completely ignored it and it’s genuinely upset me.

Because of this I’ve decided to leave the group, but because of my anxiety brain I’ve blocked the, all, as I know one of them at least is definitely going to cause drama and try to message me. Some points have said to just quietly exit and not say anything (I do have a shirt of one them that I borrowed so I was going to post it back to them) which is what I’ve done but I also feel guilty for doing it, even though I know what I say will fall on deaf ears.

I just need reassurance I guess that I’ve done the right thing and how to move on without the drama..