I've always been determined to succeed, starting from a young age. I excelled in school, consistently earning top grades until my undergraduate studies. Along the way, I pursued singing, participated in quizzes, and now I hit the gym daily, competing in weightlifting and powerlifting events. I also enjoy writing short stories — it's a passion of mine. While I may not be the most outgoing person, I take pride in my physical strength as a woman. Independence is a quality that defines me.

However, my mental health took a turn for the worse in 10th grade. The pressure from school and my parents became overwhelming, and I began to feel like a failure. At 16, I started struggling with severe and persistent depression, which has persisted into my 20s. I'm currently undergoing psychiatric treatment to manage my condition. I had attempted suicide twice, once by injecting sanitizer and recently overdosing on migraine meds. However, I sought help, and now I'm taking 3 meds per day. I don't want to die, although it may seem otherwise. I want a good life, but when I see I'm failing to make that life, I become suicidal. I need to stay alive until I succeed. My psychiatrist is helping me, but I still feel like I'm stuck. I also had anger issues when I didn't take meds. Now I don't have them, but as I've had them since my childhood, my mind feels empty, like something is missing. I'm pursuing a double degree in Chemistry and Education, and my life is so chaotic. I wake up at 5, go to the gym at 6 am, come back at 7:30, go to classes at 8:40 am, live in a dorm at my university, and have classes till 5:30 pm. It's too hectic. I'm currently on vacation, and my psychiatrist told me to slow down, but I'm struggling to do so. I fear for the future because I need a stable and high-income job too.

What do you think? Has anyone experienced anything similar to what I'm going through? If yes, please share your experience. If not, please offer me some advice.

Personality wise I'm very introverted reserved shy being. Since childhood I never shared any of my emotions to anybody. I bottled up my feelings, I never liked sharing cause I always felt & still feel "What can people do knowing my pain, they will think I'm crazy etc".

Since last year I can feel something big change like : my dreams, reality, everything is collapsing. I don't like doing anything anymore. I even can't fall asleep easily. But when I'm asleep it's hard for me to get up. I have inferiority complex. I have perfection problem. Clinically Diagonised I do have OCD. Knowing the fact human are imperfect still I want to be best in everything. I avoid people, interaction etc.

Having no interest in anything, no emotions, my academic result was worst. My 11-12th grade was & still horrible. But people say Fail is not sin but for me it killed me more as I never failed in school . Trying not to give up but again I find no purpose to stay strong & fight. Staying in comfort zone & imaginary world, I tried escaping reality, & now realizing everything I feel broken. Well the situations from last year till now made me realize I'm damn coward who wants to escape miseries & reality. I have my Main exam within 20 days. My mental health conidition is as worst as my studies. I'm easily distracted, can't concentrate on anything. I struggle remembering things.

I never shared any of this to anyone. I did 3 session with a psychologist but she didn't put importance to my symptoms, my condition, rather she went with making me disciplined so I didn't visit her anymore. I don't discuss about this with my parents because I feel sorry for them. All I want is to get better, figure out life & trust GOD's plan.

Currently, going through a lot of shit that I think I don't deserve. In my family,my father took several loans againsts all assests out of which some got taken by bank through auction. Next is his business, which is not working, he's at home since August 2022 and doesn't even find any jobs. My younger brother is pursuing bachelor degree and is also not making any efforts to even score good in his college. My mom is a hardworking and strong woman who is still stick to papa bcuz she has no other options available. I'm a sole earner in my family, paying rent to grocery n other expenses come under my umbrella. My relationship is going well but I'm not even 1% satisfied with his family. They're from UP and are somehow ready to sccept me but....they want me to follow all the narrow-minded made rules. You guys can't believe, they want me to sacrifice my job, freedom, and even my family. I have never imagined such family can exist in today's generation where they want their daughter to live a happy life without sacrificing anything. But don't want their daughter in law like her. Their conditions are: you need to wear saree for the whole life with ghunghat no other options. You can't do jobs outside home, wfh is allowed but need to handle family, husband, job, sanskar, and relatives at the same time. You can't go out alone. Anyone of his family should be there. You can't post anything on social medua, if you want, you should not add any of the family members n relatives in your channels. You cant even wear suit at home or outside home. Only wear when you'll go outside city or state. You have to handle home like yours and oy you've the responsibility of it. His sister frequently come to his home (multiple reason or sometimes no reasons) but i can't go to mine bcuz his parents are ill nd I have to take care of them. I need to sacrifice everything including parents just to prove his relatives that they found a so called sanskari bahu with no grudges and disagreement issues. I don't know what to do. I love him I also know that he can't took my back when it comes to freedom. He can't stand against his parents. All he is doing is brainwashing me with the name of good girl nd family-oriented woman who can do anything for her love.

I'm even going through mental health issues. I've migraine (severe headache) and depression. Even visited psychologist n neuro several times. But that shit somewhere scares me a lot, idk why. Sometimes, I even got suicidal thoughts due to these big list of problems.

Pleasehelp me out with this. What actions should I need to take? What to do🥺 please help me

Hi, my question will be somewhat delicate. I’m not quite sure whom to turn to or what to do next, so guess I just need some opinions on the matter.

I work in a library, and we have a mentally handicapped man working with us. I don’t know the details of his condition. He’s in his forties but acts like he’s 16. All my other colleagues are middle-aged women, I’m the only one without a family or kids. When I took the job, that man immediately took a liking to me and it sort of became our routine to chat a bit in the morning and after work. Nothing personal, we talk about favorite music and TV-shows. He tells me what he had cooked for breakfast (he lives with his mother) and the new Lego set he had bought. Initially I thought it was normal work chitchat, especially when we both get bored with repetitive daily tasks. But lately our communication has turned to direct flirting on his side. He always wants to help me with something, even though I don’t need any help. I tried to be polite and friendly, but eventually snapped a couple of times telling him he was distracting me from my work. He got offended and ignored me for several days walking back and forth past my working desk twenty times a day with a blank face. It was actually a relief, but it was not for long, and meanwhile my colleagues kept joking that I’d been rude to “our Jeff”. I secretly hoped he’d stay offended, but he showed up with a rose instead and doubled his flirting. He also became more aggressive, last month he came to work and put his arms on my shoulders asking for “free hugs” all the while smiling like it was something natural. I didn’t know how to react and tried to detach myself as quickly as possible. My colleague who was standing next to me patted him on the back and told him to go do his job, which he did. She finds his attentions to me “cute” and reminds me that he doesn’t fully understand the full consequences of his actions. I’m not sure this is true because he doesn’t act the same way to any other woman, but I never gave him any reasons to believe I’m interested. I took two weeks off before the holidays, hoping that we’ll all take a healthy break from one another and things might change for the better. My friend advised me to treat the man as I treat my female colleagues, to be very reserved and focus on my work. However, I find it hard to follow! I began avoiding our small cafeteria on the first floor and take the pains to have lunch at the mall next to the library, just to avoid any communication with Jeff outside work. It’s both longer and lonelier. I feel uncomfortable when he is around. Two days ago, he grabbed me by the hand near the elevator and tried to hold me, making inappropriate comments about my skirt. I told my manager about it, she shrugged it off, like all my other colleagues do. They think he’s harmless, and I almost feel ashamed for complaining to them. I tried to casually lie to Jeff that I have a boyfriend and am about to get married, and he didn’t show any signs of comprehension at my words, as if I were talking about my brother or about pizza. I feel like I’m some sort of trophy, and I’m supposed to be kind and understanding because I have no mental issues and he has.

So, how to handle this situation appropriately? I don’t want to get Jeff in trouble, but I don’t know how to stop it, without quitting my job? Or should I quit? The pay is not worth it, and the only reason I took it was to pay the bills quickly and because I thought it’s a great relaxing job.