one thing i never really got about low self-esteem is how hard it is to reverse. i never really realized the impact of going 90% of my life hating myself. i thought of self-esteem as something that just clicks, like 'one day i'll just wake up confident in my abilities.' turns out it takes constant work and positivity. who'd have thought. submitted by /u/nobodynewknew [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I was born poor, mother decided to pay with a man that had no intentions on succeeding with her or helping her. Bad father, no friends no family shitty job I’m only 20 buts Im just done trying to find new ways to make money just so I feel secure, everyone I run low on money I’m stressed, I’m always stressed my brain is always thinking constantly just going thoughts just piling its fucking annoying I want quietness. I’ve accepted I’ll just be poor, I’m done hearing my grandmother stress me to work hard and get a good career and find a good man and have a family. Life isn’t like that anymore, e ..read more

I hate my self submitted by /u/Outside-Yam-1130 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I (20F) am severely depressed (have been for years) and I’ve turned to Reddit to try find people who are similar to me, to see how they manage and just feel less alone. I peruse r/selfharm mostly, since my major concern is my own self harm. I met a few guys around my age there; they seemed nice at first. But after a few hours of talking it became obvious they only cared about trying to get pictures of my cuts and my body. I was stupid and sent some SFW and mild pictures at first to introduce myself, but I grew uncomfortable and deleted them once they started to seemingly come onto me even whe ..read more

So without going into much detail about what happened I'm just in need of advice. I(21M) work in childcare, some after school daycare thing in a smaller school district I've been at for 5 years now. So I've been working with, for the most part, the same kids for up to five years. This job is mostly just playing with kids in the gym or leading different programs for any student K-12 that just needs a place after school for some reason. My job really hasn't been too serious. I just deal with problems as they come. Kids fight, parents get mad, so on and so forth. But recently one of the kids t ..read more

I quit my job yesterday. It had been building for a while. It’s completely crushed my spirit. The whole environment was just horrible, and when I had issues with a disability I was mocked and put on a PIP. I’d only in the last few years got some of my confidence back and now it’s in pieces again. I don’t have a new job to go to, I don’t have savings… Truly, it was a last resort to save my sanity and hope to get my physical health stuff under control. Throughout this I’ve been having to deal with my child’s father. This person has been in overdrive recently. Today I received in excess of 70 ca ..read more

My parents divorced last September (not on paper yet). I've only seen my dad once after that. Shortly after the divorce he got a new woman and in his words 'it was never gonna work out between us anyway", which was really hard for my family. After all that he came to visit 'us' but the whole time it was just my parents threatening eachother and fighting. At that time I also got really sick and smashed my face against a hard hook. I haven't seen him since then but we call and message 3-4 times a week. He wants to visited again. My mom had made it clear to him and everyone that she doesn't want ..read more

More and more each day I fantasize about mutilating and torturing innocent people and each day it gets me more of a sick pleasure. It started when I started wanting to kill myself again. I began to feel so frustrated by the fact that I'm held prisoner in this miserable life that I wish I could take it out on others in horrible ways. I feel horrible. I'm really worried about myself, but I can't actually talk to anyone about this. I feel like it would scare the shit out of my friends and family and they wouldnt understand theyd just think im a psychopath. If I tell a psychiatrist I get slapped ..read more

I (15F) had a crush on this guy (14M), and he turned out to have one too. we started dating last saturday, but I feel like I am not good enough for him at all. I have alot of problems with trust, and relationships in specific, because I got manipulated into a relationship with a 20 year old last year. my current bf has been an absolute sweetheart, and is giving me all the time and space for everything I need to process. but so far, my feelings haven't started up like i thought they would, and I feel more like friends than dating. I know it's probably because of the trauma and my body shutting ..read more

I'm so anxious that I lack of words... But what do you do to stop overthinking an argument? It hurts me because it was so unfair and I felt like I lost this argument, when I was just defending myself against those fucking bullies. It was 1 years and 5 month ago... But I keep thinking about it. It is so frustrating because I'm wasting my time but I can't help thinking about it again and again. Do you have advices please? submitted by /u/TryPsychological2297 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more