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A few days before my 37th birthday, I had a stroke. Lost most movement in my right arm and leg (and I'm right-handed). Probably covid-related since I had it back in January and have been having headaches daily since. Couldn't get an appt. with a neurologist in time once I realized the headaches...

Back to having zero romantic prospects. Someone I had been talking to on and off for the past year seemed to be going somewhere, then she pulls the "it's not you, it's me" line. Obviously the situation is more nuanced than this, but this is the gist of it. Somehow this is even more depressing...

Earlier this year, I went to a psychologist and finally got a formal diagnosis that includes autism spectrum without accompanying mental disability. Also general depression, anxiety, and panic disorder. This is something both myself and my mom have suspected for years, since I was a kid even...

My mom is visiting from out of the country for the next two weeks, and while she's here, she's going to buy me a house. Sounds great, right? Except that I'm not allowed to have anything good happen to me. So instead of being excited at the prospect of living somewhere more affordable and without...

I have no friends in real life, very few I talk to online (and only rarely, then), no girlfriend, and no hope of getting any of those. No dreams or aspirations, and I don't dare to even hope for the future because it always goes to honeysuckle as soon as I start being hopeful. I can't find a job that...

So I was talking to a girl I met online for a few weeks and we really hit it off. But a week ago, she just stopped responding to my messages on discord. I know that it looks like I was ghosted, but things just don't add up. It makes no sense. She still shows up as online regularly (according to...

So after being unemployed for a few months earlier this year (and gaining about 20 pounds from depressed-eating and no motivation to exercise), I finally managed to get a temp contract job at a call center for benefits offered by various companies. This was not only a blessing because it was a...

Been a while since I've made a thread (or posted at all), but that's partly because of how I've been feeling lately (for the better part of the past year). I still work as a pharmacy tech, and have had no luck finding any sort of job in my desired areas of interest (biology/botany/ecology)...

This morning, I was woken up by the sound of someone opening the door to my room, and some guy I've never seen before walks in. At this point, I'm pretty much fully awake and propped up in bed, but extremely confused. I ask who he is, and he replies "I'm Nick." Still extremely confused, I ask...

I like to think that I've made progress with my overall anxiety and depression since I started on antidepressants last fall, but one aspect of it hasn't budged an inch: I'm still utterly unable to believe that any girl would possibly want a relationship with me. I get along with others (of both...

Is anyone here on meds for stuff like depression or anxiety, or have you been? I just started Citalopram on Wednesday, after my doctor prescribed it to me. My psychologist thinks (well, pretty much knows) I have depression (though not major depression) and anxiety problems, so this is what my...

(cut out of my other topic) Let me tell you about an online friend I know. I'll call her Tara (not real name of course). Known her for over a decade, she's like a little sister to me. Used to be really close back around 10 years ago. She moved out at 18 because her parents strongly disagreed...

Sorry if this is a long post, got a lot to rant about. Maybe I'll feel better after. Paragraphs are largely stand-alone, so feel free to skip any that sound boring or something. Grandfather died in February, I had been living with him for 12 years. House is sold now and I need to be out by the...

So earlier today, a game development project I've been working on with some others for over 3 years got officially terminated. And with that being the case, I can now officially say that every single project that I've started or been involved in over the past eight years has ended in failure...

My desire to piss away time on the lottery that is dating sites seems to ebb and flow, but one thing remains constant: I have a really hard time messaging girls I'm interested in. Now, in theory, it should be easy: message anyone I have any interest in whatsoever and maybe I'll hit that lucky...

(Despite the generic topic title, I'm asking only about the scenario below) So there's this girl in a couple of my chemistry classes that I've been talking to more and more the past few weeks. She seems more responsive to me lately, and I don't know if this is just because of just becoming...

As it's key to this thread: I'll be 28 in less than a month. I've had a lot of trouble making lasting friends my whole life, but lately it really seems to be catching up to me. I can't really meet people to fulfill this criteria at college, because most of them are 6-8 years younger than me...

I've touched on it in my other topics, but I just encountered it again. When it comes to asking out women I know are single, I always run into a roadblock. I can never convince myself to give it a try, because I always feel this sense that if they're actually single, it's because they're...

I've gone over it in other threads, but the short version: My ex, which was mostly a long distance relationship, was very (unintentionally) emotionally abusive to me. She got less happy and more depressed as our relationship went on, at a rate that kept up with my feelings for her (that'd make...

I've heard advice along these lines countless times in my life. "Don't care what others think about you!" or "Just ignore them" or other variations. But how exactly do you stop caring what others think? How do you ignore people who comment negatively about you? If you're the kind of person who...