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I'm new here, so hello. I'm a 19 year old male in case you were wondering

I've been SIing for a while now. I've had issues with depression and self-esteem for years, but my cutting is a relatively new problem. It started over a year ago, I would cut myself for no real reason that i could think of, and after a couple months I stopped without much trouble, I still don't really know why ...

Last year was my first year of College. It was very difficult, and I didn't perform up to my expectations. For almost 11 years, I have had feelings that I was ugly, high anxiety, felt worthless, and was very edgy. Over all, I wasn't enjoying life. Then recently, I slipped depper into depression. I felt psycotic, and didn't know what to do. What was wrong with me? How was I to tell my parents, would ...

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Sometimes i get so depressed thinking about mistakes i've made and thinking what other people think of me. i am sad that they know that i have been hospitalized and that they know that my mom was crazy and that i have potential but that i am just in a dead end job. i am sad that i used to have money but made some bad choices and that i am so poor now and ...

Q: Doc, are most psychiatric diagnoses right,
or are most psychiatric diagnoses wrong?

A: Um, uh, well... we profess a rationale for everything,
but the answer to that inquiry is clearly out of our gamut.
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When I was a child about 10 and 11 my mother who had been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic accused my step father of molesting me. He never touched me. She made me go to a counselor who believed me that nothing happened and so my mother got mad at him and thought that he was a quack.

For months before my mother told me what she believed had happened she would yell at me that ...

I'm here looking for tips, ever since i was raped, i have really low self esteem, :cry: i think of myself as being worhtless and damaged goods and i don't know how to get past this :( , does anyone have any ideas or tips than i can try to maybe feel better about myself

I am 17 I started cutting about 3 years ago, my mom found out when I first started sent me to a councelor and I still continued. I stopped for a while. In Feburary I started a fast, binge period and during that time I'd just get so down I went back to self-injury. I finally stopped the fast binge cycle but I'm still back into self-injury. I hate doing it but its the only ...

I'm kinda out of options and i'm struggling to get my life on track so i've come here to see if any of you all have advice, When i was 16 i was beaten up and raped by two men and that was how i lost my virginity. my family wasn't very supportive saying that i have disgraced my family name and have a reputation now cause of what happened. I dealt with it by ...

Hi Everyone,

My therapist told me about a study where you participate in a clinical evaluation of self help programs and you get to use them for free and they give you a gift certif to amazon after if you finish the study -you have to answer some questions. I signed up last week and the programs are great. my therapist signed me up so I don't know exactly how but he said you could ...