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When I woke up this morning I knew it was going to be a low-down day. This was one of the lowest days in the last couple of months. I've been bouncing up and down every couple of days since September, when I had this virus, and then that virus. I need to get outside, and I need to get more...

If you have a costume that you wear on Halloween, what is it?

When this depression hit, all of a sudden I lost all my memory of everything good that has happened to me. All I can remember is all the bad stuff. I absolutely KNOW that 6 months ago I was well aware of all the things I should be grateful for, and I felt it. Now, all that pops into my head is...

Just wondering if anyone has experience with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and if so, is it good or useful?

How can you be seen while not being seen? I learned to be invisible so that I could minimise the abuse that I lived with when I was growing up. Attracting attention was dangerous. Now I hate being invisible, but I still do it. How can you have friends if noone can find you?

Anybody else have a big empty hole that they can't seem to fill? I think I'm pretty good at not letting it show. I don't want to be called needy.

I am plagued with "so-what brain". That "so-what" is always lurking in the background of everything I do, just waiting for a chance to pounce, and throw me into indifference. I have a few things that I always feel are worth doing. For me,  cutting firewood for the winter is always worth doing. I...

Validation, need for, lack of, etc. has been a big big issue in my life. Excessive need for validation has cast a pall on my life in a lot of ways. So on the lighter side... I don't know how many people have already seen this, but I love this short movie called Validation. I've watched it many...

Help! I can't see the chat room anymore. It just comes up with a blank page! Can anyone help me get back in? or is the problem larger than just me? Nvm, it's back. That was weird.

It has been a hard go, to learn to allow myself anything. I always felt much more comfortable appearing to be equal or less-than, or having less-than(quantity) or less-good(quality) than other people. I am so good at self denial. After a long time of struggle, I can allow myself to have good...

Does anyone remember EST? Or do EST, or know anyone who did EST? This would be in the 80's, so the younger crowd here probably won't know of it. Or would you? I know it's still out there. I didn't do it, but those I knew who did ended up changing in a way that I couldn't handle.

I really spent alot of effort as I was growing up, learning how not to feel anything. After so many years, I got really good at it. Total blank. Except that Anger would come out every now and then. Why is it that anger builds up and explodes, but Joy never builds up and explodes? I'd like an...

I don't know why, but I can actually feel the weight of other people's expectations. Does anyone else have the sense that other people's expectations have a physical heavy presence, weighing you down? Sometimes it's like moving through a vat of heavy oil. Sometimes I just feel so pinned down...

Has anyone checked out this guy Jia Jiang, who performed 100 days of rejection, publicly, to make himself stronger? He's got this book called Rejection Proof.

Hi everyone. There was a thread made, that got closed, where someone said that other people smelled bad to them. I've read a bunch of Oliver Sacks books, about how the brain can go haywire, and I was curious, so I googled this and came up with Hyperosmia. There's an article about it in...