I’m increasingly concerned about my 21-year-old stepdaughter who lives with us. Despite her age, she still has many childish tendencies, and most of her interests align with those of a much younger individual. She has a deep love for Disney movies and often spends hours watching them, which is something I would expect from a child, not a young grownup. She doesn’t have many friends and sits at home all days after college. She is quite capable of taking care of herself and doing small things around the house without being asked. But I must say she is rather immature. Her reaction to conflict or discomfort is often inappropriate for her age. Instead of engaging in a conversation about something she dislikes, she may throw a KitKat at me or show the middle finger, which is so infuriating!

Another issue is her emotional sensitivity. She gets upset over trivial matters and becomes angry very easily. It's incredibly challenging to have any kind of constructive dialogue with her because she takes everything personally. She’s been on medications for almost five years (maybe more, not sure) with official diagnoses of depression and social anxiety. Which only exacerbates all her tendencies. I mean, even the slightest bit of criticism or pressure can lead to her bursting into tears. My spouse and I are being very discreet around her, as any minor inconvenience or change can set off an emotional breakdown. She needs that my spouse be around her at home most of the time, she won’t even go shopping alone, presumably because she’s too anxious about it.

She has seen a therapist in the past, but I can’t say if it made any difference, my spouse was the one who chose the therapist and overlooked the process. I think they had some conflict, and my stepdaughter refused to continue. Don’t know the details. Anyhow, I worry that she hasn't been able to progress beyond these childish behaviors due to her mental health issues. I want to support her, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to do so when her responses are so disproportionate.

I'm concerned how it will impact her future. She needs to be able to handle life's challenges without our help (financial or emotional). I fear that she may be unsuccessful in relationships and work environments, if she continues like this. I need some guidance on how to help her change and thrive.

Hello. I’m a new member here and felt like venting lately, but unfortunately I have no one to talk to, no friends and family to speak out this stuff to. So… I’m hoping I can speak out my thoughts to strangers rather than tell anyone else in my life about my struggles. I feel they have enough on their minds to listen to my thoughts.

Lately I’ve been feeling really lonely and I’ve come to a realization that I’ve fucked up my life more than I want to admit. Things have been hard and I understand that every human being in this world has struggled at one point in their lives.

For context, I have had no one to talk to for atleast 5 years. Or rather, I had no friends and no social support at all. I had a family that talked to me about regular occurrences but other than that, I never told anyone anything that was on my mind or the troubles I felt. I was also diagnosed with persistent deppressive disorder, though I never really went through with my therapy and my mother refused to let me continue my medication. I was a shut in and isolated myself at home, though admittedly the pandemic made things even harder for me.

I’m also a loner and I hated school. And ever since quarantine stopped, I found myself going back to school face to face. I felt horrible about myself especially since I was the only one there without a friend. I sat at lunch alone and kept quiet most times. Unless I was needed, I rarely talked to my classmates. I realized now just how much harder being so isolated and being a social outcast is. I did everything alone and I wanted to stay that way. Whenever group projects and presentations came, I purposefully cut classes causing my grades to drop. I don’t even know if I could graduate at this point.

I kept thinking about killing myself most days. I feel so alone, like all this things I’m feeling is completely irrational and that nobody could ever understand me. Many times, I wonder if I’m merely overreacting. My family never really liked talking about mental disorders, my father always insulted us whenever we cried and my mother was a workaholic, never spending enough time with her children. My father was also a gambler and a sexist. He was always distant and rarely interacted with his children so I guess that’s one of the reasons why I could never talk to him and my family about anything.

Anyway, that’s everything I had to get out of my chest. I’m sorry for the long rant.

Hey, everyone.

The last four months I've been experiencing some weird symptoms of spacing out and forgetting things and people. Not in the extreme kind of way. I do remember big details, like who this person is, their name and how we met ect. Although details of what we did or talked about the day before can get a little hazy, and I often need reminders of what happened. When I get those reminders, my brain catches on and it comes back to me. But it often comes in pieces and in different shades.

This state of forgetfullness is not constant. It comes in "episodes" from some hours to days to stretch.

I usually explain it as some kind of "dreamworld" with shaded sunglasses glasses I get into. When I "wake up" from it (aka. take off the glasses) I still technically know where I am, but see everything in a much brighter shade. When I try to remember the time before, it is like trying to remember a drunk night. Again, I remember the big things, but it doesn't really feel like I was present or there. Me and my boyfriend call it KFC (originated from AFK "away from keyboard", but I was not familiar with that term and kept accidentally calling it KFC, so we just stuck with it :P).

This also affects my loved ones, since I don't remember bonding experiences fully, and i with KFC sometimes also forget their needs. Because of this, i really want to find a solution.

So how does OCD come into this?

I as a person am very creative and have many "childish" traits. I usually get urges to do funny stuff , like wanting to climb on a railing, pet the cat or get a leaf from a tree I'm passing. Sadly no matter the circumstances, these urges still remain. Even when I'm having a scuffle with a friend or am comforting someone, I can not get rid of the thoughts that I really want to pet that cat. These urges have never been harmful and therefore I have never even considered them as any disorder. Other symptoms that could align with ocd, is that I very often have random thought processes that don't make sense. I can just go with my day and suddenly think of how cans are made, or what nothingness looks like and have a huge urge to discuss my thoughts. The thoughts are not voluntary and Its difficult for me to shut them out and concentrate/listen on something/someone else while having them.

On the other hand I do not have the "normal" OCD symptoms. I don't have urges to repeat patterns, slap butts in public, nor am I germophobic. I do have strong sense of organizing and knowing where to put things, but on the other hand I don't mind my room being messy at times either. When my brain is foggy or I am stressed I can get I to obsessive cleaning.

Thank you for reading this long post. I don't expect any scientific diagnoses from you guys, we are all just people after all. But I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences on the matter. If you have any questions, hit me up 😊

Hii there dear readers

I don't know from where I start yet my current love life isn't working.im in long distance relationship Last year Nov 15 my ex and I started having fights he used to fight all the time and used to leave me and threat me at jan 18 I had breakup from three year old realtionship. I was broken I didn't knew what to do at the moment my best friend he was also an broken heart with 11ex he comforted me soo much honestly I realised I have feelings for him and he has to later we started dating and my life was like it became alive,I made him feel complete all was perfect until March 18 came I tried to make new friends outside in discord there some bad people started forcing to send nudes and started harrasing me for 4 hours I was harrassed and I took screenshot how they harassing me and sent to bf in a hope he would help me comfort me later on...he misunderstood all and stopped talking to me became angry blocked me it took 13 days to recover back 13 days miscommunication and like I sent him 5k+ messages with this all his phone got broken and tab he wasn't able to use.only laptop was with him so after patch up he changed like totally he started playing games for 5 to 6 hours and started late reply I used for his reply for weeks and miscommunication due to games he did and many people has suggested me to do breakup with him yet.. I have true feelings so i wasn't able to do so everything went same till 4 months I tried millions of ways to fix relationship and make him spend some time with me yet nothing worked and he is now out of my touch.. last month then a friend provoken him to do breakup with me by saying lies and he belived yet I recovered relationship back in 3 days.i messaged him directly after trying everything that I have started feeling lonely and alone in realtionship he only said oof on that and didn't took any action and continued all.one week ago his exams got finished he got his phone back and he didn't informed me about it I just Sussed on him that how he is using phone late night so I asked him did he got his phone back he said yes and oof with that. His gaming habbit reduced alot this month but new habbit started not being online only which is more upsetting...later I said him 2 days ago that I ain't gonna use phone and maybe last conversation it is between him and me gonna be yesterday he just read chats and replied nothing only asked why not I gonna use phone and replied nothing I said him I love you he said nothing on that I got bad vibes then..today a tarot reader did reading and said that my bf is confused he is with someone else and he is cheating on me I were broken to listen tarot reader also said that he is not choosing me he is choosing someone else and in current time he is thinking to move on....my heart was like broken but then to I feel like my bf Maybe with someone else but he didn't cheating on me as I feel from inside ...but whatever tarot reader said that's also matching with my situation disturbed love life and all. I literally don't know what to do many people and many friends has said to breakup some said he has loosed interest from me some saying he is not good person some saying he is play boy I literally don't know what to do I simply love him and that's all I know I'm just living on past sweeet memories of Jan,Feb and march...but nothing is getting fixed on I directly texted him a week ago to spend time with me I directly said what I feel when he is not with me he said he knows its his fault and said these days he is very busy with training and gym and all that's why he not online or spending time and that time I felt like he as insecurity or angry with me or what i felt at that moment but tarot reveals move on someone else in his life cheating and all....