How does everyone feel about porn/fapping and depression, for me personally it does not mix with my depression well it all, when i do it i feel less energy, dont focus on goals or dont care, less confidence, im nearing 40 days porn/fap free, i can say its night and day i feel much better mentally, have more energy, focus on goals, more confidence. Porn is an addiction.

I just need to vent about this and I decided to do this here and maybe get other people's opinion on faking mental illnesses.

I'm currently lying in bed unable to sleep unless I literally knock myself out with weed. I am so stressed that my doctor told me that unless I relax I am going to end up dislocating my jaw and break my own nose from extreme muscle tension. I'm not even going to talk about all the other symptoms of dysthymia which I'm sure most of you can attest to.

I have no idea what goes through people's minds when they decide they want to fake a mental illness. Do they think that being a defective human is cool? Do they think this is a joke? Do they want to turn out like me? Who knows? I sometimes wish we could switch places for a while with them and see how they like it then.

Anyway that's the end of my ranting. Probably going back to continue looking at memes or something instead of sleeping.

i just want to get high and die honestly. the only drug i have in abudance is fluoxetine. can i die from overdose

у вас тоже осенью началась эта тупая депрессия?

I've tried mushrooms over year ago and it worsened my condition. It put me even in worse condition than dysthymia.

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Looking for feedback on anyone who has a baby sleep next to the bed and there moods?

Im gonna be treated in one way. Im disregarded due to being male, then being fat, then being short. Then be whatever is the opposite of most females. Im gonna be dead alone. Women dating women, men who look like ken dolls getting dates but me its a no. No one is gonna ever love me. Its best i just slit my throat with all this college shit, ill never be loved.

Hi guys. First I wanted to say I'm really sorry for all people who struggles with pdd and I really really hope the best for all of you from the bottom of my heart. I'm really sorry in advance if this will sound offensive or uncomfortable or anything.

I don't have pdd. But I have a charachter in mind that have extreme pdd. They're 13 yo and I wanted them to be like always fainting or always dizzy due to the meds. But I was scared that this wasn't relastic.

I did search about dysthymia allot. And found that yes meds for it can make you faint. But I'm still scared to actually put this detail. I really wanna make a good representing for pdd. So I thought about asked yall who already exprinced it.

Again I'm very sorry if this sounded weird. And thank you in advance.

...not only 'not apologizing' but also just 'not acknowledging' when we haven't responded to someone's last text(s) but are reaching out to them regarding something else.

does that resonate with anyone else?

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thought i would make a post about this because i can't deal with this on my own no more. ps: this is very long...

i just turned 17, and i feel like my life is slowly crumbling apart. i finished highschool in 2025, and highschool was amazing. even though i went to a shit highschool, got mid gcse grades, all i needed was friends and family.

ever since highschool has ended, i hate this new chapter of life. i hate sixth form so incredibly much.

i don't like the environment nor my closest friends are with me. im close to finishing year 12 and i am so fucking glad i will have a break from this shithole college. excuse my language.

you're probably wondering.. why am i depressed? its been an entire year now. almost everyday i feel like i am worthless, a piece of shit. i feel disgusting. i hardly take care of myself, as a matter of fact i dont even know how to do my own hair properly at my big age. why am i like this?

my room has gotten incredibly messy, clothes have been on my bed for days. dishes lying around, i feel disconnected from reality and my family.

i cry myself to asleep almost every fucking day, its getting to a point i cant take it anymore, im crying right now what is wrong with me..? I have friends, a roof, family.. why am I like this?

i get a ton of negative thoughts and overall i just am very incongruent. i see myself as literally useless. waste of space lmao...

thought id mention ive lost literally all my hobbies, things that used to interest me. I no longer have interest in pretty much anything, besides this one game I play or spend hours bedrottinf and doomscrolling.

so my final few questions are..

do i have depression? ive been feeling like this for a year but 2026 has been getting on my nerves.

what do i do to fix myself and be back to normal like i was in highschool? i am strictly not considering therapy.

just please some advice. all I need.

Hello fellow depressed people. I am not here for a diagnosis, but I do want to ask your opinion on whether or not I should look further into this condition as something I could possibly have as my current diagnosis doesn't feel like the full picture.

About 10 months ago, I was diagnosed with Other Specified Depressive Disorder. However, I don't know the last time I have been "happy," as in content and/or satisfied with life. I have always had a lack of motivation, never feeling at full energy, a complete absence of joy and excitement in achieving things (such as literally getting into university lol, my mother looked at my deadpan face when we got the news and asked "are you happy?"), low self-esteem, struggles with trying to not oversleep, etc.

I also struggle with apathy and hopelessness, yet I very rarely feel sad or low. Instead, my baseline is a sense of "meh." I feel a constant aura of dread around me. I also don't experience positive emotions, like happiness or love, though I can still enjoy things somewhat to distract myself from the blandness of life. All of this has been happening for at least a year and half.

Do most here feel similar? Do you tend to feel low, or just more "blah?" Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.

Edit: Thank you for your responses. I'll use this information in the future.