var title = 'Psychology and Mental Health Forum Psychology Feed'; var url = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/random_blogs_c-3.html'; var site_url = 'https://www.psychforums.com'; var site_desc = 'Psychology and Mental Health Forum'; var time = 'Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:01:44 -0400'; var data = new Array(); data[0] = new Array(); data[0]['title'] = 'separation anxiety'; data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/separation_anxiety_c-3_u-383654_b-10563.html'; data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/separation_anxiety_c-3_u-383654_b-10563.html'; data[0]['username'] = 'donttouch'; data[0]['blog_id'] = '10563'; data[0]['blog_message'] = 'my father always was suspicious as to why i get really anxious any time my boyfriend leaves. he thought i was doing drugs with him or something - i'm straight edge, so no, i'm not doing any drugs that cause some sort of anxiety disorder. though i did think about how whenever my boyfriend leaves i get anxious. even so when i'm with him i start to get anxious because he's leaving soon. this only happens with him. i automatically assume i'm never seeing him again. i panic and feel as if i cannot feel okay without him. i absolutely hate this, i don't know how to change it, the only thing i've tried is distancing myself but that only leads to emotional distance in the relationship and makes everything worse. i don't know what to do. i don't want to depend on him to feel okay.'; data[0]['blog_time'] = 'Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:03:45 -0500'; data[1] = new Array(); data[1]['title'] = 'I feel like nothing...'; data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/i_feel_like_nothing..._c-3_u-402724_b-10936.html'; data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/i_feel_like_nothing..._c-3_u-402724_b-10936.html'; data[1]['username'] = 'reoww25'; data[1]['blog_id'] = '10936'; data[1]['blog_message'] = 'My boyfriend has been in this really bad place for the past couple of weeks. He says that he doesn't feel like himself (or act like himself) & that he feels like 'nothing'. He's saying that he doesn't feel like a friend or a boyfriend. And that he feels nothing towards our relationship, even though he loves me like crazy. He just feels nothing towards everything right now.

Because of this he wants us to take a break from our relationship so he can focus on himself and getting better. He wants to do it alone.

I am really worried about him. I can't just leave him to battle this on his own when i'm the only one that knows he's in this bad place.

Even though we are on a break I really want to be there for him and help him. I just don't know how...'; data[1]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:10:19 -0400'; data[2] = new Array(); data[2]['title'] = 'Urge to bite....'; data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/urge_to_bite...._c-3_u-269745_b-7695.html'; data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/urge_to_bite...._c-3_u-269745_b-7695.html'; data[2]['username'] = 'hiding_the_broken'; data[2]['blog_id'] = '7695'; data[2]['blog_message'] = 'I'm a 16 year old girl. I never bit anyone as a kid or anything like that. I have been diagnosed with OCD, Severe Clinical Depression, and a Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I am on medication for those things. But I have been having the urge to bite things lately. It doesn't matter what mood I'm in. I just randomly have the urge to bite things. I mostly bite myself; I could never bite another person. Yes, I have been self-harming for a little over 4 years, so maybe it's just another form of self-harm, but it's getting pretty bad. The bite marks last about a half hour. I've only broken through skin once. What is going on with me..why am I biting all of a sudden...'; data[2]['blog_time'] = 'Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:28:08 -0500'; data[3] = new Array(); data[3]['title'] = 'A little lost and confused, maybe used and abused'; data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/a_little_lost_and_confused_maybe_used_and_abused_c-3_u-316719_b-9353.html'; data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/a_little_lost_and_confused_maybe_used_and_abused_c-3_u-316719_b-9353.html'; data[3]['username'] = 'Have1veryniceday'; data[3]['blog_id'] = '9353'; data[3]['blog_message'] = 'this is going to be my first post, i'm not really sure where to start this post so i'm going to jump right in, i have a been wondering lately whether i may suffer from borderline personality disorder, i have had this feeling for a long time that i am not quite right, i have this emptiness inside me, it feels like i am a camera stuck on live feed but no ones watching, i often feel like this regardless of whether i am content or unhappy.

onto how i feel, sometimes i lie awake at night reliving the past day, i feel ups, downs, and sometimes a cold icy rage. i have little control over my thoughts and feelings at these times, or anytime really. i can maintain at times, but only for seconds before i'm lost again. during the day when faced with interactions with people at work etc. i wear a mask that's all smile and charm, at times it feels more real than others. when like this i have little room for empathy or genuine care and affection, because one chink in my armour it could all come crumbling down. regardless of this, time, tiredness, stress and everyday interactions slowly erode it away. the harder i try to keep it on the worse the emotional comedown is. at home i can hide away in a book or hobby, at work i will feel like a zombie, just going through the motions, lost.

i have always known that i have a very adaptable personality, it became more clear with a friend recently pointed out to me, that i completely change, interaction to interaction, almost instantly, depending who is around, effectively becoming a different person. i think i choose the path of least resistance, the easiest and the safest. at times it feels like i am just mirror, lost in someone elses reflection. my lack of self has made me easy to be manipulated and used for the benefit of others at times sadly.

the people i allow myself to care about seem to effect me the most, i don't wear a mask with them, even if i wanted to i can't , this can result in myself becoming this mirror colored thing, for the most part i don't mind because we are happy, and i am more comfortable asserting myself, or the self i want to be,

i think this has been a pretty long post, i will leave it here. if there are any questions i will be happy to answer them. thankyou'; data[3]['blog_time'] = 'Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:12:30 -0500'; data[4] = new Array(); data[4]['title'] = 'where language becomes knowledge, the devil is manifest'; data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/where_language_becomes_knowledge_the_devil_is_manifest_c-3_u-256253_b-6615.html'; data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/where_language_becomes_knowledge_the_devil_is_manifest_c-3_u-256253_b-6615.html'; data[4]['username'] = 'theendofwords'; data[4]['blog_id'] = '6615'; data[4]['blog_message'] = 'the root of all evil is not money. it is not greed, or any other “sin”. it is the perversion of perception. it is to separate “good” and “evil” to begin with. “light” and “dark”; “creation” and “destruction”; “feminine” and “masculine”: those who have been taught there is a line between the two, cannot understand either. it is a product of the imagination even to say that “1″ is separate from “zero”. physicists have done well to prove this, as they have followed their numbers into realms where all of their equations fall apart. into delusion, where they ought be sent. man cannot gain understanding by dividing his reality into smaller and smaller pieces. exactly the opposite, his field of view has been reduced. this story is told by the history of language itself. where once he had many symbols for the infinite and the large, he now has many symbols for the small and the finite. the zoroastrians, for example, had 101 names for “god”, all bearing a different meaning. the earliest symbols appealed to the holistic nature of man’s mind, which saw the giants of the cosmos. today’s symbols appeal to the fragmented nature of man’s mind, which is drawn to think of the “atoms” and “molecules” and the even smaller things. the children of today are made anxious just to think of the vastness of the void, because they can no longer fathom it.'; data[4]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:32:03 -0400';