Health & Wellness Contents Archive

Last weekend my tonsils were swollen (still are im sure). This red line appeared which doesnt hurt & Im not sure if its a scratch or nerve or whatever. When this began it mildly hurt to talk & now it just feels like something is stuck there from time to time. Anybody got an idea of what it could be?

Is life really worth living?

I’ve been asking myself this recently and here’s why. I am unsure if I have any reason to be here, truthfully the only reason keeping me going is that if I die people will be sad and I don’t want that. I’m going into university and I’m already thinking this, I can’t imagine when in September I start or when I get a job. All life is, is working, working to get money and trying to enjoy that, but what if I can’t enjoy most of life because I’m too scared to experience it, like I am now, or what if I lose every reason to keep going… I don’t know if any of yas will understand what I mean by this but I needed to vent I don’t know if I’m in a good place right now but yeah.

There's this weird thing i do when i procrastinate.

So whenever i have tons of work to do (study basically), and i start to procrastinate, i do this weird thing. I start doing self care (kind of). Like for the past whole week i should have been studying. On days i have skipped a test, i searched for skincare products?? Like what even. Made a whole plan on joining gym after my exams and buying clothes online. I have been thinking about it to that point where i even think about just escaping from exams and doing all this stuff instead. With time, this is increasing. Ann when i do this i feel this HUGE GUILT in my heart like 'do you even deserve this? Just sit down and study' But the cycle goes on. I mean, what am i?

What is therapy supposed to entail?

Hello, I've had therapy 5 times at this point from therapists with good track records and who I got on well with however it has never achieved anything but being a temporary distraction. Usually I'll just talk about what I've been thinking about recently in regards to my mental configuration and they usually just say that I'm doing all the things I'm supposed to be being taught by them instinctually or that the level of understanding I have is already at levels much higher than even people who've had successful therapy (probably because when I've got nothing else to do my go to hobby is to attempt to dissect my problems). Is therapy just supposed to be about understanding how your mind works or is there something else I'm missing. Thanks, Zdos123

BPD and self neglect

i have BPD, idk if its connected but every once in a while i just feel the need to take extra care for myself and then another period where i completely self neglect. I can go a week without showering, poor dental hygiene, i gained all of the weight i lost suddenly and i feel tired 24/7. I dont even know why. I can cry for no reason at all and then feel dull as hell.

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What could be the reason of lacking the desire to socialize?

Hello. I'm 19 y.o. male and I have little to no desire to socialize. I want to want to make friends and talk to people in a small talk but it's like "I'm never hungry" in terms of social life. It wasn't always like that, when I was a kid it was alright I had friends and I was very willing to interact. What are possible reasons that this is happening? I was thinking this could be trauma or dysthymia (aka persistent depressive disorder) and accompanying social anhedonia.. but maybe I can get more perspective from someone else. I just want to heal and be able to make friends and just live my life fully.

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Sudden depersonalization

Hello everyone, let me give some context. I was sleeping one day when I had terrifying nightmare (it felt real because I remembered the places was my college) and when I woke up everything felt off, i felt like I was dreaming and even the slightest of noise or action like the wind blowing past my window made me stressed and alert. I tried looking at my mirror and couldn’t recognize myself or anything at all, I didn’t remember my name, date of birth or my dog’s name (i did remember I had some sort of affection to it), when I came back home to play with my little brother he told me that he thinks I am dreaming (we were playing around) which caused me ta have severe stress and panic making me think that this would’ve been permanent. Over time it kept fading away until it went away. For context I don’t use drugs and are a dyslexic. Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated, many thanks in advance

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That one girl

I recently started taking zoloft and it has been helping for the most part. It was working very well up until this new woman started at work and now I feel like my meds are not working because no matter WHAT this woman does it leads me to feel irrational anger. I am 20 years old and she is 31 years old and she has told me that she knows more about what we’re doing because she grew up on a farm (we work in wood by the way). She helped me as we worked on Saturday and completely messed up 2 pallets which included her dropping 10 wood parts from the pallet. So I have asked my doctor to up my meds and/or to get me meds that will help with this irrational anger. I don’t know how to control the anger when I’m around her and I’m scared that it will make me lash out

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My mental health is starting to affect my friendships and I was wondering if I could ask for help here

OK so it's come to my attention that I have personal issues that need sorting, and I was wondering if I can get some advice here. I have trouble stopping myself from oversharing, and generally being melodramatic over text to people and it is starting to affect my friendships. It usually happens when I'm not in a great mental state and it makes me anxious in itself. I suffer from anxiety and have a tendency to self sabotage.I was wondering if people have any tips on how to get myself to stop and get some composure when it start?

This is my aunties eye and it’s been like this for a few days and this also happened to her other eye but has subsided is this bad?