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I’m on my second day of Lexapro and I feel high. Is that normal? Should I ask to have the dosage changed? Is this some weird placebo effect? My whole body just feels full of butterflies but heavy. So heavy I don’t want to move or do anything. But I’m not exactly tired either. Does anyone have...

We all know that there’s suicidal ideation and there’s actively suicidal. But what about when you’re in between? I live daily with some level of ideation, at its most basic where more days then not I’ve got intrusive thoughts of what if I jerked the car this way? Or took this combination of...

One of my nephews is currently stationed in a very volatile area. They haven’t shut down the ability to send packages yet and I want to send one off before they do again. I know to include his favorite snacks, but what else would he and the others with him like? What did you want most?

I have been trying out manifestation lately and a part of that is when I go to sleep I like to put on a meditation video from YouTube. I choose a different one every time, different creators, different videos, different goals, just to spice it up. Typically I will listen and my body will feel...

Anyone get into the manifestation community and have success in changing your reality or getting things you want?

I know I do it- after the fact. But so much of my trauma and abuse surround having needed to be steps ahead and if I wasn’t predicting needs and moods and environments then there were big consequences. Which means now, every little thing I say or do or that anyone around me says or does is...

I put up another post asking what ways you feel supported because of a fight ish I’ve had with a friend. Another thing she brought up is she wants me to stop trying to fix things. She says she wants me to just listen to her. I do listen to her, gladly and I don’t step in with advice, I’ve...

I recently got into a fight- ish? I’m not sure what exactly it was, with a friend. One of the things in it is she asked me how do I feel supported, how do I feel seen or heard, as in what behavior can she do for me. And the honest answer is I have no idea. I blanked. Anything I can think of...

What would you do with your last 100 days?

Has anyone used vibration plates as a like somatic healing thing? My sister got one and is positive it’s helping her lose weight which had my mom buying one. I am working on weight loss in a different way- but when I was doing research it seems like the vibrations can act similarly to somatic...

Just that question really. How do I ease my anxiety enough to stop trying to control the future and situations?

I’ve met someone and he is one of the best humans I’ve ever encountered. He is this incredible person and I just know I’m going to f*ck this up. We’ve been talking about a month and a half or so and we are taking it slow and cautious because of course we’ve both had our share of trauma and...

What’s the actual difference? Is there a difference between being selfish and being assertive? How do you say no to things without it being a selfish action on your part?

I’ve been watching some tv stuff about psychology and find it interesting how different peoples’ baseline brain world/thoughts go. Apparently some don’t have images/videos and some don’t have any inner thoughts I guess? Mine is just a constant narration of things I have to do next or commentary...

For anyone in the United States- if you sought help from your local MHMR due to lack of income and insurance, what was your experience like? I’m about to reach out but I’m nervous for some reason.

If a person touches a child in an effort to please another person when they wouldn’t normally touch the child otherwise- does that still make them a pedophile themselves?

Why does a thing from one source bother me but from another source not? I originally thought it might be related to the overall relationships with the individuals in the following examples but it flip flops so much I don’t think it does. Examples: Humming If C does it I feel instant rage If M...

Absolutely zero judgement if so. This is coming from a place of curiosity and being very deep in my feelings and unsure about a lot of things right now.

Do employers like or even accept/acknowledge Udemy? They have some classes that I’m tempted to take. I like the budget friendliness and being able to pause or accelerate when I need to. But I don’t know if I should only focus on “fun” classes that would be just for me. Or if I took some of the...

I have some but I feel like there’s got to be more out there. My particular issue is I have no idea how a thing can happen in a place (or almost happen) and people can move on during or right after without a thought. It’s like they don’t give the situation the gravitas it deserves. But I know...

Primary on my mind is school shooters because we’ve got a threat at my school today. 99% sure it’s completely fake. I understand the motivations of a lot of actual perpetrators, to a point anyway. But I don’t understand the inevitable string of copycats and fakes that happen after each real...

Sometimes I’m a masochist and do some research into history. Or, like tonight I come across a very interesting Reddit thread of history that was too informative and incredible to pass up. But it contained an exorbitant amount of accounts of humans being worse than human. The most vile nightmare...

How do you figure out who and what you are genuinely attracted to sexually especially but romantically as well if your whole life has been one big trauma response? I can identify when I feel arousal around different people or ideas. But I can’t identify whether those are because I would have...

I know there’s a lot of knowledge about trying to quit one addiction can cause another to rise up in order to fill the hole/role. But can the opposite happen? Can making progress on one addiction *also* make progress on another? I’ve gotten rid of social media and porn and somehow that’s...

What is the feeling called when you’re nostalgic and homesick for a time and place you never actually experienced?