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As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Because of social anxiety my life is simple. I work and do things alone for the rest of my day. Rinse and repeat. I don't post on social media because I have nothing interesting to share and I also don't Snapchat with anyone as well. People talk about their days and lives and talk about interesting things they did. Me? I got nothing to add. </query> | <response>I don't think I'm boring but I fully realize others do think so. So, I just stay quiet.nn It's a win-win, they're not bored and I have more time to contemplate things. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> what the actual fucknnhe literally called me over and told me for christmas he'll get me new pantsnnim so confused bro santas mean </query> | <response>But where are the new pants? Thats also relevant. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Mine would have to be my eyes watering/blinking </query> | <response>i get this rarely too, although i don't always feel super nervous until it starts, and it's always after i've been talking to someone for awhile </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> https://youtu.be/iMn7i6jdL6cnnThought some of you guys might like it.nnIt's an interesting watch as he tries to account for the apparent contradiction of his shyness and his job. </query> | <response>Thank you for sharing this! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Which type of magnesium would be the best for depression and social anxiety? I know there are glycinate, bisglycinate, threonate and so on. nnDid you experience some positive changes in depression or social anxiety from taking magnesium? What effects or changes did you recognize? Which type of magnesium was it and what dose?nnIs it something you would recognize right away after dosing or is it something you have to take for a longer time regularly to get your maybe depleted magnesium back to a healthy level? </query> | <response>I mean I don't use my magnesium supplement for depression/anxiety, but for my insomnia. I use u201cCalmu201d magnesium powder supplement. I mix it in hot water right before bed and drink it. Usually by the time I finish drinking it, I'm feeling very sleepy and loose, my eyes get heavy for sure! Though I haven't tried it for my anxiety/in the day because I don't want it to mess with it helping my insomnia, though I have no idea if it would but I'm just cautious of it. But I wouldn't doubt it helping with anxiety tho! At least for me it's very calming. Also this one is magnesium carbonate, but when mixed with hot water (after fizzing) it's converted into magnesium citrate. Besides it helping my sleepy it also helps with my digestion. As someone who has had anxiety since birth & depression since age 11, this is a helpful supplement as anxiety disorders seem to play a role in slowed/weakened/irregular digestion. nnBest of luck with magnesium supplementing! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I've not been through war, or physical abuse, but ever since I was six, I have memories of stress when practicing the violin. I remember my mom once not letting me leave a room until I played something from memory. I remember a lot of yelling and a lot of crying. I feel like this has negatively impacted me as a teenager. I was suicidal last year. I have no clue why. My mom and I sometimes get along. I love her but I have memories of her calling me stupid and making me cry once during my violin lesson. Am I just over sensitive? I've been a bit harsh with my mom before and said things I regret. I've told her about my mental state and she dismissed it and said it's not trauma. I have no idea. I'm not a perfect child and I've been rude to her before, but I know she's done the things I mentioned. Such as banging on a desk before a competiton and saying stuff like u201cyou sound bad like that banging.u201d Or yelling from upstairs u201cyour playing sounds awfulu201d nnAlso I worked professionally in the entertainment industry for awhile, and I remember her yelling at me after saying I didn't do well onstage, or once I had to leave a performance because Of puberty, and she sometimes told me it was my fault and sometimes said it was not. I'm confused. I've been rude to her Before too. I don't know how to feel. Sometimes she says sorry for what happened. Sometimes she says she didn't do anything wrong. I'm so confused. I guess every teen has said the occasional u201cI hate youu201d but I think that's the worst it got for my part. Maybe a bit worse. Idk! Help! </query> | <response>This kind of chronic stress, especially coming from an adult that's supposed to care for you while growing up, can 100% be traumatic. And if it's continuing to emotionally impact you now, then it's absolutely a valid thing to feel distressed about. It's hard to rationalize feeling this way about a parent when they were both loving and caring, and also emotionally abusive at times, but it's totally reasonable to acknowledge that they were both good and bad parents and that you do love them even if they caused you harm. Sounds like you might need to process your relationship with her more, maybe talk to her about it in a way that's very open-minded and not at all accusatory or defensive? Also if you can talking about it with a Counsellor/therapist might be helpful to figure out how it's still impacting you and how to heal from it. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I have an early interview in the morning. I already have a job in the same industry -- craft beer. On paper I'm qualified, given what's on my resume and recommendation letters. But I'll be damned if I can't stop being anxious as hell and feel like I will stumble on the most elementary questions. I am horrible at interviews! If I manage to get this job, I'll be paid ~2.5x my current pay, considering I'll be getting more than twice as many hours and at a higher wage, I fucking hate interviews, and brutal honesty might screw me over. I really, really want this job, and hate my current employer, so the pressure combined with my anxiety is making things really rough. And no, I won'tbe talking shit about my current employer to the interviewer; I'm not that oblivious. Does not help that I'm on the tail-end of a comedown from benzos (please don't judge). I wager very few people will read or reply to this, but I need to type this publicly for my own sake in hopes that I can actually get some sleep. I'll check this thread in 6 hrs or so when I am getting ready for the interview, but my mind just won't shut up and stop harassing me. Maybe I should have posted this in a venting subreddit, or not at all, but I'm constantly depressed/anxious, untreated (with the exception of self-medicating), and want to share with this community whether or not I fail miserably early this morning, or come out of that damn interview room victorious. Will update when I am able. Thanks for reading my bullshit. </query> | <response>Just surfed here from new r/all. nDude. You're going to be fine. nYou have the right attitude (not bad mouthing shitty job), obviously the experience and will be fine. nMaybe try listening to some (http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+sleep+hypnosis) on youtubes, drink a glass of warm milk and/or fap.nnBut don't worry about the interview. Is it going to be you in an office, or are they going to want you to walk around and see if you know what's going on? I bet it will be more of the latter, in which case you just need to show/tell them how you can help them.nIf you're passionate about your job, an employer would be foolish not to hire you. Show them your passion for brewing.nnTL;RD You'll be fine. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Every time I try being supportive or empathetic towards other people I feel like I'm just faking it, like I'm forcing myself to care about others instead of genuinely caring about them, and it makes me feel like a complete asshole. nnnEvery time I say some generic phrase like </query> | <response>I've been there. I wish I could consciously understand what I did to transform myself but the idea is is that you must feel. Right now, every social engagement you have is a script. You feel like you have to choose certain words to get through a conversation, that way, you don't embarrass yourself or have an awkward moment. This is the affects of social anxiety to where you're not confident in running into social situations so you use premeditated words as opposed to speaking from your heart in a given social discourse. nnI spent quite some time teaching myself how to feel so I have a much better understanding of myself and how I respond to emotional situations. I'm less afraid of revealing my emotions which is why I don't have this problem. It took crossing a figurative bridge that felt like I was going to die to get to where I am. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Over the years I've noticed that my classmates outcast me and seem to dislike me. Is it because I don't talk a lot? Is it because I'm not popular or pretty? It's been a question that's been on my mind for a while. I don't talk to any of them but I feel a big wave of judgment from them. I even used to get bullied in the past by my classmates and I never knew why. With one girl even calling me 'a nerd' just because I follow the rules (I guess?)nnNow that I'm a bit older with different classmates, I still don't know why I'm getting this treatment. I could be overthinking this, any similar experiences? </query> | <response>how should i put up boundaries? </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I was out with my mom to go get groceries. I'm extremely anxious going by myself because of the way people stare at me with disgust and hatred. nnToday I built up the courage to go by myself. Dressed my best and wore makeup. I carried myself as confidently as I could and tried my best to focus on the task at hand and ignore all the nasty stares. (I'm already extremely unattractive & awkward so I get them a lot). nnI got up to the cashier and he proceeded to give the most seething and ugly stare I've ever gotten in my entire life. He wouldn't stop staring at me as I placed down my items. I felt so awkward and tried to not start feeling insecure. But it was so embarrassing and i felt like I was crumbling under the disgust he was giving me. nnI checked out as quickly as I could and I was leaving I heard him start talking so friendly with the person behind me. I knew something was wrong with me. I left and now I'm crying in my car. nnI don't know why I let one dirty look get to me so bad but I can't help it. I know I'm deserving of disgust and hatred and I just got what I deserved. I feel so ashamed and hating myself for even leaving my house. nnMy mom tried comforting me saying he was u201cjealousu201d. Jealous of what? Then she tells me that's why she purposely goes to u201cugly cashiersu201d so she doesn't get those looks. I feel disgusting. I feel like I just invaded someone's personal space. Every time someone looks at me with disgust I know it's from contempt. </query> | <response>Hugs, im so sorry this happened. I know how you feel. I have gotten those dirty full of hate looks plenty of times, even by family and some husbands of my cousins. Im just existing and they just hated me on sight. It really hurts, it made me cry and cry and questions my looks and everything. So rude and it makes me think my relatives have bad taste in people. Seriously. I have not met a good/polite husband on my family side so far except for my aunt.nnI have gotten them from random strangers/workers too. It is soul crushing indeed. It makes me angry too, i felt angry too reading about that miserable cashier giving you a dirty look. You didn't deserve that. He shouldn't take anything out on you. I know its hard but try to push these jerks out of your mind maybe with some distractions or can just cry it all out and let the pain pass, time will help the hurt. that's how i coped with it. They have some serious/abnormal issues going on to be going around giving people dirty looks. I think they are miserable people inside. Something that helped me was these people giving a dirty looks its more of their reflection of their character, not yours. They are the ones with the problem, just giving people dirty looks on sight, not us. Since we have empathy and feelings, giving dirty looks and hurting someone would hurt us too. Unlike, these uneducated and ignorant people. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm a 28 year old gay guy, I've been struggling with ptsd and social anxiety since I was 13... I'm taking way too many benzodiazepines and drinking on occasion (not together) to deal with it and I'm just so tired. Tried ketamine, Effexor. Lamictal, phenibut, kratom, medicinal marijuana and the only thing that seems to work are the benzos (and the occasional drink). I can barely leave my house and have filed for disability. I've never been able to hold a job. Please, someone offer some advice I can't take this anymore. </query> | <response>The only real thing to do is to force yourself to socialize daily. My sa was really bad during my childhood to the point where I only spoke at home and remained silent at school. nnIf it wasn't for my mom refusing to acknowledge my anxiety and forcing me to drive at 15 and get a job at 16, I'd probably be in a similar place as you. Having to work forced me to socialize with a variety of different people and it has helped me in the long run. Right now I'm a cashier and there was a point in my life when I NEVER thought I could cashier because I was THAT anxious about the thought of a conversation with a stranger.nnIt may seem impossible but you seriously have to get yourself out there. Find the right medication combination and try out cognitive behavioral therapy.nnI've also found that chewing gum and avoiding eye contact makes conversations easier for me. I also write or draw whenever I'm feeling down and let helps to lighten my mood. Your mind will start to calm down after the first few interactions and it will get easier for you! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> My initial thought would be no/ not if it's worse than mine because someone without it can keep me in reality and stop me from overthinking. But now i've been thinking about how there's people who straight up don't understand social anxiety. Like I'm not sure if I would be emotionally validated by someone who has never experienced social anxiety. One thing about my social anxiety is that i feel like most people don't want to “deal” with it. What's y'all's opinions?nnEdit: Y'all make good points. I really can't see myself being with someone who hasn't experienced social anxiety at all. Thank you to every one who commented :) </query> | <response>Because the woman with SA would need to be dependant on their partner, which would not work if they also have SA. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Sorry if this doesn't fit. I just need one person. Maybe two. It's almost 12:30a and I'm super tired but they're partying like maniacs and I can hear them talking so loudly it's like I live by a bar. They do this frequently and I hate them. I just never call because I get too scared or create excuses. Last time my building/concierge had to call the cops because of the shear size of the party, but that was like a month ago. I feel annoying but quiet time is 10p to 10a so I think it's warranted, right?nnAlso, yeah. Pandemic still going strong is the good ol' U.S. of A. No idea why they're partying but there has to be at least 10 people there, if I'm hearing this right. </query> | <response>Hi! Thank you. Your comment did make me call, I just fell asleep instead of updating.nnEnded up getting shut down by 1a after I called. Since this is the second time I called, the concierge started a brief conversation about what's been happening. Apparently, not only did basically every surrounding apartment already call, but this is their third strike for a second time. That means they'll be fined again, which I think is $500 per my lease. My building's quite strict since rent's pretty high and they want to keep their residents happy. Anyway, I just hope it stops.nnThank you for commenting. I genuinely said to myself u201cOkay, one reply, I will call. It's fate.u201d Lol. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Is it just me or are others the same. Due to my social anxiety I often sweat when I'm uncomfortable in social situations. After COVID and dressing in sweats and t shirts for a year I want to make myself feel better by dressing nicer when I do get the strength to go out and put myself in social situations. But every time I put on what I think I'll look good in then I panic thinking people can definitely see sweat through this shirt and end up changing into jeans and t shirt to save myself embarrassment. Am I the only one or is this a common social anxiety thing? </query> | <response>I sweat excessively with SA and it took me a while to realise it was due to the anxiety. I always have to make sure I only buy clothes that won't show sweat easily or I will never end up wearing them </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Went with bf to a work event, everyone was talking about (his) work so I just listened which was fine with me. Nobody asked anything about me either. Then him and his coworker were talking and out of nowhere his co workers tells me I'm quiet.nnIt happens literally all the time with people telling me this and I don't get it. It makes me feel like shit, as if something is wrong with me. What am I even supposed to be talking about in situations like this? </query> | <response>I usually say “and you're not. You talk enough for the both of us.” Usually shuts them up. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm new here. I've been started on sertraline and naltrexone and have had really odd and vivid dreams, and wake up tired. I know that I need to talk to my docs about this, but would appreciate any insight. I'm an old person if that matters. </query> | <response>ur body is adjusting to it... </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> 1) How many of you endured toxic parenting while growing up?nn2) To assist in understanding: Toxic people are not this way in every moment of life, but generally are narcissistic, neglectful, dismissive, give only conditional u201cloveu201d, play power games, manipulate, bring negativity into the home and your life, etc.nnEdit: For the purpose of this poll it is important to have a basic foundational understanding of what u201ctoxicu201d means in this sense. If you are going to vote please only do so if you believe you understand what a u201ctoxicu201d parent is.nnEdit: Thank you again for your participation, this work will be very important and it takes all of you to make this possible u2014 I plan on doing several polls a week so that we will have a statistical framework for understanding social anxiety on a general basis. Of course, all of our experiences are subjective, however a general understanding can do nothing but help all of us. Especially those that are where I once was u2014 completely lost in pain and fear with no understanding of what was going on in my psyche, let alone why.nnFeel free to follow me if you want to stay up to date on my polls and researchnn(https://www.reddit.com/poll/hqtz5k) </query> | <response>Describe toxic. My parents had their flaws, but they weren't abusive. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Well, what can i say? It's lonely day like any other day. Another day of being different, alone, awkward. I hope </query> | <response>Happy Birthday!!! No matter the situation it's your birthday so celebrate you! You got stuff going on outside other people! Fuck yeah! Plus we'll keep on celebrating in the comments! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Completely new here but I've been dealing with pretty severe social anxiety since I was about 12/13 years old that arose from a combination of things including too much time on the internet (haha... still there :) and a situation where I had to switch schools and see people I hadn't seen for two years which was nerve-wracking. I'm 20 now and I have a lot of issues and my social anxiety, although it hasn't improved, has sort of taken a back-burner because it's something I've gotten used to and can just avoid (albeit maladaptively).nnANYWAY I started community college right after high school when I was 17 going on 18. Had great plans to do guaranteed admission to a really good school and eventually go to med school, become a dr., all that good stuff. My high school experience was a really awkward rollercoaster (over a dozen AP classes with 4-5s on all exams combined with a sub-2.5 gpa should give a good picture) that I was excited about having an opportunity to remedy with CC and guaranteed admission to one of the best schools in my states. Everything was going well until I had to take public speaking; I finished all of my other classes over a year ago and dropped public speaking because well, anxiety. That pretty much ruined my plan and I've been a literal NEET for a year because I'm scared to death of getting a job and taking this stupid class to finish my associates and transfer.nnI'm sure I rambled a lot but ANYWAY I just wanted to share this with somebody. I know there are a lot of people with a fear of pulic speaking but I'm not sure most people can understand the gravity of mine, so I wanted to share this with some people I thought maybe could. I actually have the option of taking an online communications class to fulfill the same requirement, but I'm taking this in-person speaking class because, however scared to death I am, I think it will be good for me. Maybe I'll make a meta elephant in the room speech about crippling social anxiety :^) </query> | <response>> Maybe I'll make a meta elephant in the room speech about crippling social anxietynnIn all seriousness, that sounds like a really good idea. One of the </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> We have builders at the house. I have to water the plants but they are out there. I'm terrified that they will talk to me or ask me questions I don't know the answers to. I dont know if i should change clothes or just stay in my pgs. My heart is pounding thinking about going out there. What do I do? </query> | <response>Just put some pants on and water em they shouldn't bother u </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm so excited. I think I'm overcoming my crippling fear of socializing! Ever since I moved schools, I started to notice I'm coming out of my shell. I used to walk with my head down and I was too scared to talk to anyone. Now, I walk with my head up and I can talk to people a little better. I hope it stays this way. Just felt like sharing my little experience. :)) </query> | <response>A fresh start is always a good opportunity to finally be yourself! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Like if I'm at a grocery store I'll go to the till with the more elderly person working because I feel like they'll be less judgemental I guess? </query> | <response>Yes!! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> 19(M) probably too young to be thinking about these but after seeing lots of posts here about people having relationships I can't help but wonder, how are you guys finding girlfriends/boyfriends?nnI can't even make any new friends in school, Anyone new I meet I don't know how to approach them to befriend them. No one seems to approach me first either. And when I think about the future, I don't know how different can it be. </query> | <response>Seek out people like you. Then, when you find a good one, hold on to them. There are more of us than you know. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I admire how many of you show a will to make a change. nI can't understand though, what makes you suddenly want to talk with people? After all, isn't this exactly what we don't like to do, what we escape from?nnIf I change myself, and start forcing myself to talk, and get friends, and start getting invitations (for parties and meetings - things you don't like)- don't you think it would doom you forever, and you would never come back?nnSome of you may say </query> | <response>It truly is the mind killer. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I am not able to move out of my bed.nIts been 2 weeks all I do is stay in bed.nMy head is heavy and body aches but still I don't feel like getting up to do anything.nI have OCD and I am taking mediation.nIn the morning I am taking fluoxetine 40 mg and I feel I am having side effects. </query> | <response>It takes a while to adjust & can take a couple months to start having the desired effect. This could be side effects from the medication - I'd recommend talking to your doctor about it </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I wish i could get a job but my sa just don't let me do anything i'm so tired </query> | <response>Could be like me, epilepsy, extreme anxiety and depression, seizures alone I'm disabled by ssd and my drs. Yet not disabled enough to get help I cant go a week without one but I'm not a candidate for help.nn13 pills x2 daily I'm stuck at home always watched for potential seizures what a life at 31. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> except one person but i pushed them away until they hated mennand now I know nobody and that will never changennthe story of my life has already ended </query> | <response>that is factually untruennI distinctly remember in preschool and kindergarten i sat in a corner of the room by myself while everybody else in the class was doing group activities, because i didnt know anyone and no one would communicate to me. I also only had one birthday party in my life because i never knew anyone to invite and it was when i was 7 and it was just my family. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Today was my last day at my toxic work place. I seen the red flags since day one idk how I managed to be there for a lil over a year. It makes me really really sad to leave also happy to leave? I just don't want this to effect me later in the future I don't want to have mental break downs because I left my old work place. How can I prevent this? I just feel really lonely and depressed right now. I feel like I let people down I feel like I made a mistake.nIm 21(f) & would love to make friends on here. </query> | <response>Putting my two weeks in soon to start my new job in September! I already feel much more welcomed and respected than I ever did just with the communication I've had with my future coworkers. I am so thrilled! And you will be too! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I have had enough of his shit, I have waited for days for him to call me, left messages and hoped he would call me back or at least send me message cos I want to speak to him. It's just the usual excuses, “i got up really early this morning at 5am, I'm tired” it's not like he's got a full day of work, chores to do he bloody naps all day. You would think he give me a call send me a text it's not hard work. nnHow does that make me feel? Rejected, unwanted, forgotten about, he doesn't care. nSo I just think he's selfish asshole. nnSo it makes me think that perhaps, I am better off alone by myself. Anything is better than having that ass for a “friend”. And yeah I could go out and make new friends in my community but I have been rejected so many times before and screwed over. That I have given up and literally felt like moving to a very remote village and just using the internet, penfriends and a cat / dog for company. nnI'm sorry mate but you are too exhausting to cope with now. </query> | <response>I understand that tv, playing games helps and I do that too, but I also realise that I have got bills to pay, jobs to do, placement to think about and course work plus health stuff and universal credit. I can't exactly wait around for him to call me or for me waste time calling a phone that he won't answer. nnI totally understand he has depression, he's needs to consider people's feelings. nnHe's not my boyfriend he was just a friend I knew from work. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Not looking forward for tomorrow, college.. been skipping for a few days last week and ignoring my classmates texts because im an idiot who can't change.nMy anxiety got the better of me, I'm so scared for tomorrow </query> | <response>Come to Canada. This Monday is our Thanksgiving. But seriously, you'll be OK. Go and try it. If it gets to be too much, find a quiet place. I used to like library cubicles. Or a nice tree if there's a green space. Maybe read a non-class related novel. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So, I've been bullied in my past and I am really insecure. My mom is always comparing me to my two older siblings and my little sister who's a child genius. When I've tried to talk to my mom about my bullying because I wanted to know what reaction I could expect if I told her about my concerns about my mental health, she started yelling at me telling me I shouldn't fear other people and stand up for myself. I also have this wierd thing where I feel real happy, energized, and good about myself for a week or two then feel like absolute trash for three weeks+. I feel normal for about a week or two before the cycle starts again. When I'm in my depressed mood, I always think about killing myself and if I'm not, I'm chanting in my head </query> | <response>The important thing is to keep yourself safe during your depressive episodes. Even if it means holding on day by day, down to minute by minute. It can only get better if you are still here. I wish you luck. Just remember you aren't all alone. Reach out if you need to, even if its online. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> therapy. for years. constant work. pushing myself to interact with people, to get out of my comfort zone. nothing. i want to stop suffering. i want to stop suffering. i want to stop suffering. now onto meds. we'll see... </query> | <response>The first step to getting better is to realize that you have SA but you can deal with it. Second part is tackling what the root of your SA is. Third part is about learning social skills. Fourth and final part is allowing your self to be akward. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm not sure if it's an anxiety thing but when I'm around people, I like to hold onto something. It makes me feel and comfortable. I usually hold my phone but if I don't have my phone. I hold my sleeves or my bag. nnP.S hope everyone is having a good day or had a good day! </query> | <response>Yeah. Recently i've noticed that's the insides of my pockets or a mask i took off </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> For the longest time, i've had the biggest fear of other people hearing the sound of me swallowing (I have tourettes as well which causes me to swallow a lot as a tic). For example if i'm on the train and have headphones in, i will constantly take my earphones out and swallow purposefully to check how loud it sounds, and it will be all i think about. nAnother fear i have is when my stomach rumbles especially in a quiet place/room with other people. It will become the only thing i can focus on, which generally leads to it happening more (not sure why). And for the next however long i have to be in that place i will only focus on covering/preventing anyone from hearing it. nThese are my biggest reasons on why i hate social interactions because i can never enjoy myself or whatever i'm doing. anyone else? </query> | <response>I have this too </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So I have Social Anxiety and it's really hard to get through social situations, yet I applied for a job. Nothing too special, just McDonald's, but I have an interview soon that I have to prepare for. The thing is, I'm not as nervous as I thought I'd be, I'm feeling quite confident. Maybe I will be anxious on the actual day, but right now, I feel good about myself and I believe I have a good chance of getting this job. If not, it's good practice for me. I made a script (just answers for questions they might ask) and I guess that's what's making me so confident. I feel prepared. Wish me luck! </query> | <response>Good luck I hope you get the job! :) </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So so so bad I want to feel loved and cared for </query> | <response>Hugs I really get you.nHonestly it's all I need right now but I know I not going to get it or at least in person </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I have like 2 or 3 and i don't consider them close either,so not sure if that counts.nn(https://www.reddit.com/poll/x40epa) </query> | <response>Like 2 really close friends, 1 sorta close friend, and a few others who I could call friends, but aren't really close enough for me to count them, or friends from old schools who I don't see very often, and again, don't really know well enough to call them particularly close anymore, so I said 2-4. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> They stress me out to no end. My mom spends all day sleeping or yelling at the dog and talks to me like I'm 12 and not a 30 yo who just had their life fall apart in a global pandemic. Ive lived on eggshells ever since I got here. Ive been berated for being a hissy fit throwing millennial because the internet was down. I hadn't even mentioned the internet being down and she said all this while I was in the middle of doing everyone's dishes because </query> | <response>No one can cope with grown up kids moving back home. It's just awful for everyone - don't forget she's been used to being on her own too!nnTake her for a walk, tell her you know it's hard on her you coming back and her space being invaded, what can you do to make it easier for her, how can you help. I'll bet you have a good convo! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> This is kind of a rant, I'm just typing what I'm thinking.nnI don't feel like it will ever get better. I'm introverted, autistic, and have severe social anxiety.nnI see so many success stories where they say “my social anxiety is now completely gone and I'm super outgoing” I hate jt. nI can talk super good at home but with anyone else I shut off. I wonder how I'm gonna get a job if I can't even say hi to another person. I am going through therapy.nnI have a patients of steel. One article I read actually got me the most angry I've ever been.nnIt was titled “Why You Must Break Your Child's Heart to Be a Good Parent”nnI searched this up on google in quotesn“Introvert with severe social anxiety”nnI have never been more angry and distressed at an article I read. nnOr with exposure therapy. It's supposed to make you feel get and proud but every time I either feel neutral or feel worse after. nI don't get how people are able to do it when I can't. I can't say hi, I can't say thank you. It just feels hopeless.nnI don't believe social exposure therapy at all. Like i can find alternative ways. I don't need to talk to random people, that's just gonna exhaust me. Even the thought of certain situations sends me down a rabbit hole. Apparently you get less anxiety, but the anxiety doesn't go away for me. I get more exhausted. If I can't even say hi to someone how could I ever get better. It hasn't get any better, it's gotten worse nnI don't get how everyone can talk so easily. The one thing that helped me feel less alone was the show Komi can't Communicate. It was like seeing me on the screen. I cried at the chalkboard scene. Everything I've wanted to say for the past 8 years was written out on a shownnEven texting people other than parents are hard. I do have some friends. At school I am comfortable in animation and digital music production class, but I just choose not to talk.nI don't know how I'd ever get a date either, since I can't even speak. No one would be attracted to someone who's negative like me.nAm I just meant to always be like thisnnnI had to get this out. Sometimes I'm happier. Thanks for reading this if you made it this far. I would some other peoples thoughts. Maybe there's other people in this subreddit who feel the same way as me </query> | <response>I've never thought about it like that. I took a break from the internet for a little bit and feel really great now. I've got to stop searching up articles and comparing myself to others.nnThank you for the advice, that really helps </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So I make YouTube videos, and I love making them. The thing is, I am unconfident in using it. My parents tell me it sounds fine, but I always feel like it's so squeaky. I really feel limited with the content I put out so answers are greatly appreciated. Thanks </query> | <response>Ok, but only subscribe if you like my content. https://youtube.com/channel/UCLOGLSMlBDs73xRt-PSiBUQ </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So I have a non-American name that people need some practice pronouncing. Every time in my school life the first few classes of the semester rolls around, there's the first time teachers call roll. I am on edge from the time they announce they're beginning, and I begin to listen for last names so I know when I'm coming up. I always feel a tightening in my chest because I know I always have to speak up and correct their pronunciation, and then they might ask what the origin of the name is, what it means, etc. It's managable at this point in my life but I still get that familiar tightness in my chest... Anyone who can relate? </query> | <response>Yeah, immigrant here... The worst part is that I have to say to call me by my english name, which is Alice. So the teacher goes 'Oh, like Alice in Wonderland!' And I have to laugh awkwardly :') </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I naturally have long curly hair but my parents thought it was too much and made me cut it all, tomorrow i have to go to school and every second that goes by i keep panicking more and more. I can't even eat something without the thought of everyone giving me attention because i have short hair. </query> | <response>People may notice &/or say something. However, from my experience & something I remind myself of is that most people are very self absorbed. They're thinking about their own lives, school, parents, friends, etc. to notice or care about someone's new haircut. If someone teases or bullies you because of your hair it's because they enjoy messing w/ people &/or have nothing better going on. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm not trying to brag or anything like that but I've been told I'm an attractive guy, both by my friends and the opposite sex. nnWhen my hair and beard gets very long and I look more messy, I feel and look less attractive. When this happens, I feel less socially anxious, because when I'm in public like this I care less about other people because I know I'm not grabbing that much attention. nnWhen I get a new haircut and therefore look more attractive, I feel like my social anxiety gets worse. If I'm out in public with a new haircut and I'm looking good, I feel like I'm being watched more and so my social anxiety gets worse. It's like I'm attracting more attention. nnCan anyone else relate? What a stupid disorder. You can't even enjoy your new haircut. </query> | <response>The worst about this is people being interested in you at first because of looks but then get disappointed because of how anxious and awkward you are and then leave you or don't talk to you again. Talk about my abandonment trauma resurfacing again and again </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Wow, can't actually believe that this day is finally here... I'm 21! With not many friends, having SA, but still grateful and happy.nHope everyone has a great dayyy </query> | <response>Happy 21st xx </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I was bullied in elementary/ high school but I worked really hard to improve my image and I eventually was able to get in with some of the </query> | <response>I feel you, I've always been the one getting invited; I think this wouldn't be a big deal if (among other things) it wasn't that the only time I ever invited my friends to something (my birthday) only one of them went, which made me think they just invite me to be nice and it has always fucked me up by making me think no one actually wants me around.nAnd I've cried over the fact that I've never done ANY friends by my own, and it's always a downer seeing them from behind being happy and social while I'm trying to not get left behind.nSo know that you're not alone in this, and I wish I could tell you something to feel better but we're in the same boat.n(Sorry if my english isn't great, you know the whole english is not my first language lol). </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> nhttps://www.mind-diagnostics.org/social_anxiety-test?utm_source=AdWords&utm_medium=Search_PPC_m&utm_term=social%20anxiety%20test_e&utm_content=85545497963&network=g&placement=&target=&matchtype=e&utm_campaign=7208757594&ad_type=mind-diagnostics&adposition=&gclid=Cj0KCQiA7oyNBhDiARIsADtGRZYVuhEjSyK-6TV10Ecs8xiPaoB6bwNfGgJ00p5JxwJ68XyXXnCxIngaAhJGEALw_wcBnnnFound a SA test not sure it's that good , wondering what everyone would score </query> | <response>59 :) </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Can anyone share how long it took for Paxil to take effect? Been almost 2 weeks and still have severe anxiety and nausea. nThanks </query> | <response>I've been taking the Ativan daily for anxiety but never had that reaction. It was a weird nap. Not relaxing but needed </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Hello everyone, I don't know if i'm on here to search for answers or just get some positive reassurance but recently my anxiety has been heightened tremendously. I have had anxiety here and there all my life, it runs in the family, and i've always gotten past it. I have never taken any medication for it because i truly just don't like the idea of depending on that for my comfort. My brother took meds for anxiety that trickled him into drug addiction in which has made his anxiety and depression terrible. Addiction runs in the family as well. Anywho, over the past couple of weeks my anxiety has been through the roof. Some days okay, some days bad. I go through these phases probably once or twice a year. This one just seems harder than the rest, idk if it's because i haven't gone through it in so long and my body is just harder to kick out of it than normal ? idk. I've had some big life changes recently like I left my job of over 3 years where i was working from home and started a new one that's from the office where i interact with customers, Me and my girlfriend are moving into our first apartment together, etc. Im extra stressed out and so i'm kind of just wondering if maybe all this anxiety and depression could be stemming from all these big things happening in such a short period of time ? on top of that I live in WA and so this time of the year is when my body is most craving vitamin D because it's been gross and gray out for what seems like an eternity. I know this is all over the place just kind of looking for some support or encouraging words. Thank you </query> | <response>Thanks for the reply, i'll look into those! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> When she said to me how I'm doing, I can't tell her that I feel bad. I think I feel exposed... Or I feel shame. But I'm no fine. Today I'll try to tell her... It's so difficult. </query> | <response>But sometimes I think she is watching me with a strange look in her eyes...like </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I feel too old to be crying yet again about the state of things in my life right now. I'm going to be 27 this year and I don't have a license, I don't have a social life and I can barely get out and about on my own (not that I have many places to go to). nnI'm not cutting myself short -- I know there are positives right now. I have a job (work from home), and I'm in a stable position financially. My anxiety has been better than it ever has (though still not great), but I'm so fucking lonely. nnI just wanted to hear that I'm not alone. Is there anyone else here above 25 that is in a similar situation? What does your life look like now? What are your accomplishments? What are your downfalls? Tell me your story. Please share, I would greatly appreciate not feeling so alone right now.nnEDIT: To be clear, I'm not trying to alienate anyone under the age of 25, nor am I suggesting only people 25+ can comment. I just wanted to hear people's stories.nnEDIT2: Wow, you guys! I had no idea there were so many of you. Thank you all so much for sharing; it's really made me feel much better about things. You're all beautiful! </query> | <response>Dale Carnegie's book, _How To Win Friends and Influence People_ helped me some, too. I haven't taken a class, though.n </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Making friends and dating is all impossible </query> | <response>Exactly. Sometimes I get suicidal because of it. Like maybe I should just die. Like there's just no point if I'm like this. I will never make any friends or get a girlfriend in the future if I stay like this. I won't have a normal life. I gotta change. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I've recently been pushing my comfort zone a lot more and have been getting job interviews. Something that was outside the realm of possibilities months ago. But the days leading up to the job interview and the day of the job interview are just hell. And after the interview I'm so drained I barely have any energy and just want to sleep it off. But other stuff needs to be done and it's like I'm stuck in this post event anxiety fatigue that it seems like other people don't deal with. nnI hate it so much. I feel like I should be energized from pushing past my fears, but all I ever feel like doing is screaming because I'm tired of faking confidence. It's like it takes so much energy to do something that's so goddamn simple. </query> | <response>Sometimes it's hard to celebrate the victories. Especially when I'm surrounded by people who are doing way more than me on a daily basis. So I have one job interview and it's like I'm done for the day meanwhile someone else is still actually at work working. It just makes me feel lazy. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Idk what it is but everytime it gets dark it feels like a nightmare a bad one at its just flat out fear like anxiety making its presence </query> | <response>Doesn't work for me but maybe it would for OP. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I feel like crawling out of a cave where I've been trapped for so long. Just have to get up at 5 am and share it with the worldnnTL;DR:nnI was a bullied introverted loser with low self-esteem and believed depression is something I will never escape.nnI didn't believe I can have any confidence because 1) I thought confidence was based on past success but I believed all my success was worthless 2) I didn't have a support system that will support and love me unconditionally, which would give me that natural confidence. Not from parents, friends or other close relationships.nnI found my support system from strangers who I met in an online speaking improvement group that celebrates small challenges. I found confidence and this is life-changing for me, and this may work for you. Find your own tribe that you can fall back on. One thing that's extremely important is to stop complaining and whining and take action on what you can change.nn----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------nnThe whole thing:nnI (32M) grew up as a quiet, introverted kid. I had a stutter which I was bullied for until high school. My parents divorced when I was 12 and I blamed myself for it. My mother even agreed with me on that in public. I was repeatedly told I'll be </query> | <response>Great advice!!! Im definitely gonna try this </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> ive posted this on foreveralone also, im 29, autistic, never kissed a girl, virgin (no shit), no job, living with my mother, ugly as fuck, socially awkward, might go to a cottage this summer and my sister is bringing her fucking boyfriend, oh great, get to be the third wheel, sounds like fun! dont wanna go now </query> | <response>He first talked to her, or vice versa. Both single. Then they realized they shared common interests, are attracted to each other, so they started dating. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So for the last two years, my eating has gotten really fucked up, like sometimes i eat little to nothing, or i eat too much junk, but last year it ot worse, ni never eat, unless someone has already prepared a plate for me or got me something, even then i dont eat the whole thing, nevery time itry to eat on my own, my brain tells me to stop ,and evem if im freaking starving i stop myself, my friend took note of it, and he is pushing me to talk to someone, but i cant talk to anyone here so i reached out to strangers here </query> | <response>im not sure why in all honesty, and because i dont think anyone in my circle, maybe aside a few friends would take it seriously, and i cant afford online therapgy </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> A year and a half ago, a guy tried to take advantage of me. I was drunk in a bar, and he got me a water. Thirty minutes later, I was unable to walk or move. When getting escorted back to my room, he tried to stay with me, but another guy prevented him from doing so. I'm pretty sure he roofied me. I've always known what his intentions were, but I'm not turned off by what he did. nnIf anything, I have feelings for him. No other guy has liked me that way before. Maybe there have been other guys who liked me, but none have ever been so overt about their interest in me. We're still social media friends, and my hope is that we can get married and live happily ever after together. Another thing that didn't help was that at the same time, a guy that I really liked had a girlfriend. He kept the fact that he had a girlfriend from me, and I was so disappointed. So I redirected my feelings for my crush onto this other guy. I feel like my original crush didn't fight hard enough for me. Isn't that what love's all about? Fighting for someone, even when it's difficult? nnGiven how confident he was with me, he likely has done what he did to me before. It disgusts me if he has done it to other girls, but he did tell people that I was the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, so hopefully he only does bad stuff to me. I admit, I'm a virgin, never had a boyfriend before either. I want to have sex so bad. I know he'll likely hurt me really bad, but he said that I'm the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. He told mutual friends this. nnI want to get married to him and be financially dependent on him. I want to be pregnant with his children, and have lots of babies with him. Knowing what I know about him, he has some abusive tendencies, but not to worry. I won't let him hurt our babies. I'll redirect his anger and frustrations on me. No one has ever loved me before, and he's the best I can do. I don't want anyone else, just him. I know it's likely that he may end up killing me. But I've been really depressed for years, and my one goal in life is to have children, so as long as my early death happens after I have children, I'll be okay with that. nnI know it's wrong. I know I should be disgusted by what he did. If a friend told me this happened to her, I'd tell her to run for the hills. But I don't know. I'm 21 years old, and no guy has ever expressed any interest in me before. I want to get married and have babies, and if it means getting married to a monster, so be it. I can learn to love him, and he can learn to love me. </query> | <response>Troll </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I know for sure I have social anxiety and the symptoms between SA and autism tend to overlap.nnI also have ADHD, and the symptoms of ADHD and autism sometimes overlap too.nnThis is why I wonder so much. Its really hard to know. </query> | <response>I think I may be... I have a lot of the signs of it (in women) and looking back on childhood it seemed I showed signs of neurodivergency. Either ADHD or autism probably. But I was also homeschooled and socially isolated, so it could be that. I really don't know. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I was just wondering if there was any correlation between SA and personality types. Im an INFJ. Thanks for commenting :) </query> | <response>ISFP </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I have a stutter and social anxiety and I'm so worried I'm gonna bomb it. I'm worried when they ask questions I'll freeze. I'm worried </query> | <response>How did the interview go if you dont mind me asking? I have an interview coming up too </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm literally stuck outside my own apartment because my fiancu00e9 or whatever has a bunch of people over and I have severe anxiety about it. Help me.. I've come to the conclusion I can't act normal and it's stopping me from moving foward with my life :.( </query> | <response>Thank you :( that's what I'm trying to do but everything is closing at this point...I told him how I felt and he ignored me.. I feel I should break it off with him but he is the only one I can open up to at this point.. I feel trapped.. social anxiety is awful </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I swear I'd be so much happier if I could just speak to people. I have friends but I really struggle making any new ones because I can't talk to people as well as I'd like to. nnI wish I could make friends and also start dating too. I need hugs man. </query> | <response>I'm 33 and to this day I discover new things about myself. It's very very very likely you do have a unique gift, but you haven't found it yet, or you have found it but having giving it the room to grow. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I (16f) have had social anxiety all my life. I have trouble socializing and I haven't had a single friend since I was about 5 years old. In school, I was really quiet, and when someone spoke to me I would just give one response answers. This made it impossible to form a relationship with people as everyone would get uncomfortable when speaking with me. Now, I have been in an online school for about 4 years and am taking therapy which has made me much better. Earlier this year, I went to an art class where I started my first ever conversation with someone that wasn't family. I decided to stop taking the art class as it made me uncomfortable in the social setting. I want to make friends since I have been so lonely, but I just don't know how. What are the ways that I can get more comfortable with socializing, and how can I make friends? Thank you </query> | <response>Hi there! I would suggest starting by talking to people online to develop your social skills. There's all kinds of places that you can find people to talk to, whether that's just in general or specific subjects. There would be a lot less pressure on you to respond and if you don't feel comfortable you can always walk away. You're still super young so there's plenty of time to start. After a while things will start to get easier. It won't be easy but experience is the best cure here. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> What's going on guys! Typically when people talk ab anxiety (esp social anxiety), they talk ab nail biting, panic attack, and just general restlessness. However, when I'm anxious, I'm not restless at all. In fact I'm quite the opposite. nnIt's almost like I shut down. I'm spacey, gloomy, and withdrawn. When I get this I rarely speak. On the rare times when I do speak, I talk very quietly and with a mumble. It's so bad that people can barely understand what I'm saying.nnHas anyone ever gone through something similar? </query> | <response>Worrying takes up all your energy, it has your undivided attentsion and all your resources, there none left for normal fuction.nnDont have expectations and there nothing to worry about, stay in the present moment and just be you dont have to do anything else </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> 349k in this sub alone! why in real life I seem like I'm the only one who have social anxiety? </query> | <response>Well you never know. One of my best friends were very very surprised when I told her I have social anxiety, ocd and depression. Like she had no clue at all. When you're online, people don't really hide it yk? </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm reading all these posts about how Zoloft made them permanently dull, lazy, etc. I was just prescribed 50mg for my social anxiety but now I'm reconsidering things. My S.A isnt bad to the point where I cant function in public, and I can probably get by my life without it (even tho id feel uncomfortable in public). So is it worth taking Zoloft? And will it have permanent damage on me if I ever get off it? </query> | <response>While I imagine that the permanent negative reactions are a minority, I feel like it messed up my brain, and I'm only starting to recover 5 years later. I personally wish I'd tried therapy more before meds -- I think therapy alone could have worked for me, but I thought meds were safe :/ HOWEVER I can't prove for certain that it's the Zoloft that damaged me, but I think it did? That being said, I know people who are on psych meds who are fine? </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> 21f no job. Only thing I'm good at is drawing. Tried being a freelancing artist didn't work out. Mom keeps nagging and yelling at me everyday for 2 years about having no job. I had a job back in 2019 but quit after 3 months it was too much for me. I've only saved up $200 from a side hustle the other was to help pay the rent and bills. Mom forgets for a few days and starts to nag more and more until her face is red. I can't even communicate with ppl well or make appointments. I rarely talk to my one friend since my anxiety is so bad rn. I just want a job with no human interaction and just being alone. If anyone knows please do tell… </query> | <response>Your depression would shrink if you could get a job. My advice is to get a job with minimal social contact, like kitchen help at restaurant or in production/factory. But if even that is too much, you can clean. It is a hard job but you are alone. You could get used to wake up and go out of the house, using bus, etc. Your anxiety would be weaker because you would be bringing money and that way you would build more confidence, self esteem and improve. Ask at local stores, restaurants, etc. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> nn(https://www.reddit.com/poll/xpgcwm) </query> | <response>I also dropped out because of this, but found it was fairly easy to get my GED only had to attend 2 adult education classes. You should try the same! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I tried calling to get an appointment to get a haircut and instantly my legs went numb and I felt lightheaded. Holy fuck. I'm genuinely considering cutting my own hair now. I just wish I would be able to do the bare minimum to survive as a human being on this planet. I hate myself. </query> | <response>I have mastered cutting my own hair because I hated small talk with hair stylists. Also grew up in a salon... I felt that though. I hate talking on the phone and thinking about the radiation doesnt help. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Nope. Lets not. Fuck that.nnAnyone else have problems being put in this situation? I had to leave my last team training because of this. When the lady said lets introduce ourselves,i got hit with a panic attack like a ton of bricks. i got up and took off home. </query> | <response>My job keeps having </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Or maybe at another specific time in your life? When you began to become more isolated?nnI always struggled with social situations but I noticed my isolation really began after I graduated high school. It was then that I stopped communicating with the few friends I did have and didn't bother to make new friends in college because I only went in 2 days a week. I also was fortunate enough to find a part-time job I could do from home and therefore, barely left the house. My mom goes to work all day, so it's just me in the house alone with my cats. In fact, the only time I do leave the house is either to go to school or because my mom wants me to help her with a grocery shopping.nnNow, I'm almost 22 and realizing I'm gonna have to find a job eventually when I graduate. I feel like I haven't accomplished anything in the 4 years since high school and I can't get an internship because of my anxiety. I also don't have a driver's license so I depend on my mom to still drive me around places. I just feel like a loser compared to my graduating class. I majored in accounting and I always thought that would be an introvert's job but now I'm beginning to realize it actually takes a lot more social skills than I thought.nnI would really like to begin seeing a therapist but I keep putting off calling one because I'm sort of hoping someone else will do it for me. I've tried to ask my mom but she doesn't seem to think I need a therapist but I don't discuss a lot of this with her. Plus, I don't know if I can afford one.nnAnybody else in a similar boat? </query> | <response>Way, waaaay worse. You can be kind of innocent as a teenager growing up with shyness and awkwardness but once you have to be adult and responsible and take action for yourself to do anything it just decreases your life-quality ten-fold. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Whenever I have a perceived negative experience with another person, (ex. someone is rude to me, I embarrass myself, I feel like someone thinks I'm weird/awkward/sad/pathetic) it literally ruins the entire day for me. I'll dwell on the moment endlessly and just flounder about in self loathing but also hate for people in general.nIt's so unhealthy and ends up being self fulfilling prophecy, since I just get super self conscious and mopey for the rest of the day.nnAnybody else can relate to this? Better yet, suggestions to, I don't know, not be so sensitive to everything? My skin is literally the thickness of rice paper. </query> | <response>This video helped me a lot in this area:nnhttps://youtu.be/k5RH3BdXDOY </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I want a job but I want to start with something simple to not overwhelm myself. suggestions very much appreciated, thanks!! </query> | <response>Customer service live chat rep. You don't have to talk to people in person, and no in-person interaction. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I'm always thinking how my life would be without the SA. I've wondered how'd it be having no SA having had it in the past. </query> | <response>Talk to someone. Anyone. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So with social anxiety i can't smoke weed i can't drink alcohol I can't go to party's ? What I am supposed to do I'm just 23 years old … </query> | <response>U only said „wait what?“ </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> This is my first time posting my chaotic ass life but I figure this might help me with coping w/ my depression.ud83dude43 So I'm literally living in my car right now, like wow who would've ever thought? Im having my very first ever awakening and it's been amazing because I finally gained clarity on what hasn't been serving my highest good in my life but I'm feeling so burnt out because ALL YEARR I've been persevering, putting my health last because of not affording it, and just not having my own stable HOME all year, I'm just really tired of it. So much drama, instability, and I'm feeling quite alone. I'm just hoping and praying that I can end this year with getting back all the good karma ive put out in regards to making better decisions in my life with cutting toxic people out and pursuing this spiritual journeyu2618ufe0fud83cudf0d did anyone else have a really shitty year too? </query> | <response>Yes. I did have a shitty year too. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Its just a cycle of getting sober for a couple months, then like clock work its like a switch of “oh yeah thats why i get high” i hate everyone.nMy boss nMy friendsnMy familynBut i love them all so much they do so much for me and their all amazing ppl that i couldnt go with out. But they drive me insane the stress they all cause me is mind frying. Or maybe its just me driving myself down this downward spiral? Most likely. Then why dont i just remove myself from the equation? I recognise that i am causing all my problems but i cannot stop. only drugs and alcohol numb the hurting, but even that has stopped working. All substances at my convenient disposal i have completely exhausted. Im in too deep, i feel like im dying everyday. Life is pain therefore death must be bliss </query> | <response>Alcohol is making your stress tolerance levels go down. It is not protecting you from stress. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I need to get a job this summer since I'm going to college. I know that getting a job where I interact with people often would be good so that I can push myself, but I'm already stressed during this time and don't want to exhaust myself. I don't have any experience since this will be my first job. Any recommendations? </query> | <response>Programming would be a good choice </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Hi, I'm a guy, 17 years old and I just don't feel like a teenager. I don't have anything in common with kids my age. Idk why I'm like this, but it might have something to do with my social anxiety as well as the fact that I've been homeschooled most of my life. I have no friends, like zero friends, I'm a loner 99% if I'm not hanging out with my gf who lives too far like 6 hours away. Even when I talk to her or hang out with her I feel like we're opposites. I'm black she's white and sometimes she'll like act kinda </query> | <response>Holy crap, if I wasn't a few years younger than you I'd think we're the same person. I'm also black and I feel the same. It's good that you're who you are, just be you. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I don't know if i'm the only one </query> | <response>100% </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I don't want to kill myself, but life is very hard right now and extremely hard to handle and I don't know what to do anymore. I guess I'm mainly making this post to reach someone who at least understands this feeling because at the moment I don't know who would. </query> | <response>You are definitely not alone. I actually feel guilty for feeling the way I feel, and almost hopeless at finding relief, but I feel I must keep trying. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Like actual friends to hang out with irl but meeting new people is scary and I don't talk to strangers. I also rarely leave the house. </query> | <response>same </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> So I didn't think I was going to present today until the professor pointed at me and told me to present. But earlier that day I was talking to this girl (I've made like 10 posts about her already) she calmed me down somehow.nnWhen I first got up, I did panic a bit because i couldn't find the information I needed from the paper but then I kinda just went off the top of me head and at the end, I was for the most part calm and even kept speaking even thought I was pretty much done.nnWell I got called upon again to present but this time on something my group did. I didn't really participate because I was nervous talking to people I don't know about shit I don't know. So the information they wrote down, I had present. It was pretty badly written but I managed to present it well and without being nervous at all.nnI don't know what the fuck is happening but this girl is breaking all of my social anxiety chains. I really hope I can escape it completely one day. Best of luck to everyone else! </query> | <response>i'm so lucky, I got into an online version of that class! haha </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I have this roommate who I think hates me. She very much avoids me, and as much as I tell myself it doesn't matter what she thinks about me I still care too much. Tonight as I was leaving the bathroom she was coming into the bathroom and we startled each other. I apologized twice and she said u201cit's okayu201d but I still went back to my room and cried for twenty minutes, feeling like I am always in everybody's way. I replay those kinds of encounters in my head, sometimes speaking the words I had said out loud just to try to hear how they sounded to the other person. I try not to feel embarrassed for small incidents like that but somehow they always make me feel guilty. I imagine conversations people have about me behind my back and I just become so sensitive to everything. I have such strong feelings and ideas and opinions but somehow when I'm standing face to face with someone I only ever feel ashamed. This sucks. </query> | <response>You feel bad about yourself because you startled each other?? Why? Its not your fault and you know that.. sht like this happens all the time.. its called LIFE.nnBelieve me people dont really care about yourself they have their own problems, thats just truth and if they do you can never tell what they really thinks of you or tells behind your back and stuff. Thats all in your head.nnI had this girl at part time job i was trying to be friends with and i thought she was avoiding me aswell, not really much eye contact, talking.. but in the end it showed up that its just her personality and she doesnt hate me. I simply had honest conversation with her about how i see things between us and she was like.. she didnt even have clue that i could perceive her like that, she was sorry and was like that sure she wants to be friends with me.. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I cringe when I'm trying to use text only because it feels like I'm too serious. It's as if I'm afraid to hurt the feelings of others, be misunderstood or be seen as the bad guy somehow. </query> | <response>That's exactly the point of emojis. They help against Poe's Law. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I recently moved over to NYC spontaneously to complete an internship for my schooling. Truthfully it was more of a ticket out and an excuse for social isolation,however I went in trying to keep my hopes up that it could help me by getting away from everything and everyone. My mental health has been slowly being corroded as my financial and social situations have been progressively getting worse. I've tried to reach out for help but it seems to just get brushed over and gives friends a platform to speak about their problems. On top of me not being able to afford professional therapy due to my financial situation. This leaves me feeling unheard and hollow. I used to be extremely social and outgoing but post-quarantine all that went away. I'm so anxious I can't even step foot into the kitchen of the house I pay rent for due to fear of my roommates for really no reason I can think of. I'm caught in a feedback loop of waking up at 1am for work and not getting back to bed until 10-11pm due to the schedule of the internship, then sleeping through my alarm causing my financial situation to get worse because of missed days. My thoughts have been scrambled and irrational and catch my self considering suicide more than I'd like to admit. Yet there's still an ounce of will left telling me that I'm destined for greatness and just have to continue on one day at a time. But recently it's been so damn hard. </query> | <response>Thank you so much I keep trying to tell myself that. I'm pretty sure the minimal sleep schedule is causing a lot of the unneeded stress and instability but there's really no way around it atm </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Again, I'll preface this by stating that I'm waiting for my insurance benefits to kick in, so I can seek our therapy/medication. I'm no stranger to seeking help, but in the meantime I'm happy to get advice.nnLong story short, I've been trying to limit my time on social media because it's all just bad news and depressing reality. I'm trying to avoid engaging with trolls and just focusing on aspects of the internet devoted to the things I like. Unfortunately, I don't enjoy things like I used to, most of the things I like end up reminding me of the bullshit I'd rather ignore, and I don't have anyone in my IRL life to talk to, so I can't really find a community to be a part of, unless I go online.nnSo, if I am avoiding the internet, not following the news, and essentially not interacting with people, I end up alone and miserable. How do I not end up depressed? What gives the rest of you hope, especially when the world is such a shit show? I just feel helpless and irrelevant. I don't really know how or where to find joy. </query> | <response>Suggested reading at the links below and links therein. Just plow through it at your own pace without thinking you have to take any positions, make any commitments, do anything about it or even *agree* with any of it… and let the dots connect all by themselves. nn( https://www.reddit.com/r/ResponsibleRecovery/comments/idkx8t/disidentifying_with_learned_helplessness_the/) nn[ </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> tl:dr at bottomnnshy, introverted, quiet, not social, anxious, large personal space bubble, heads always in the clouds. social interactions are obviously not my specialty. takes me a long time to warm up to people. nnmy previous place of employment (small company) invited me to their yearly lake house party, I get along really well with my old coworkers so they wanted me to come. We are all 20-30 years old. nnThere are new staff members I haven't met or been introduced to, so one of them comes to try and have a conversation with me and got really close, completely invading my personal space. we talked for a moment and she could tell I was uncomfortable which made her uncomfortable, which made my anxiety really bad, so we both moved to the group, and I kinda worked myself away from everyone to calm down. nnwe all eventually go on a pontoon boat ride around the lake and the same woman, my old boss with her kids and I wanted to be in the sun so we sat at the front which has two bench seats that wrap to the front of the boat that face each other, and everyone else (like 8 other people) were under the awning in the shade. nnsomehow I was sitting completely alone on my side of the boat while my old boss, her kids and this same woman who tried to talk to me earlier were crammed up on one side. every new staff member there was giving me that look that I'm a little weird sitting alone, I'm used to it. nnnew woman asks me if she can sit over on my side and it caught me off guard and my old boss was like </query> | <response>I'm sorry that happened. it is a good learning experience for sure. given that we are anxious people you would think it would be easier for us to be mindful of other anxious people and we tend to worry about ourselves the most and miss the signs, hence why we are anxious. Don't sweat it, maybe next time it plays out better, gotta keep trying. nnI find that the hardest part is making that initial connection with someone.nnvery rarely will someone pick up on my queues and body language and it just made my day! nnnow I'm back to being an anxious mess :) </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Every day, every interaction, every word I say is just engulfed by that overwhelming sense of self hatred. nnI really wish I could look forward to seeing people, but even close friends & family I dread because I'll struggle in conversation and end up saying stupid things that don't make sense. nnSocial anxiety is a huge limiting factor in my life and I can't help but think how much happier I'd be without it. I'm constantly thinking of excuses to get out of social activities and I hate that I'm this way. It must seem like I'm pushing people away as I'm always finding ways to avoid them, when in fact I'd love to spend time with them, it's just my SA and low confidence getting in the way.nnI'm not entirely sure why I'm posting this, I guess just to get it off my chest for a second. If anyone's reading this, just know you're not alone in this battle with yourself and hopefully things will get better one day :) </query> | <response>Thank you for responding, brains can be so counterproductive for themselves! Not being too hard on ourselves is such great advice, putting it into practice is tricky but hopefully gets easier over time :) </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> My work is downtown, and the average parking space is $7-8 a day... plus traffic and wear & tear on car, etc. However, there's a bus stop down the street from our house, and with a 30-day pass, it's only $1 a day. nnLogically, I NEED to use the bus. It'll save lots of money, both in parking and car maintenance... it's good for the environment... and I wouldn't have to deal with traffic anymore. Of course logic doesn't always play into it.nnMy big fear is just looking like an asshole when I try to pay, because I'm convinced everyone else on the bus is a </query> | <response>I used to be afraid of holding the line up too. Just relax and take your time. After awhile you'll get used to it.nnAlso, imagine how it would be if someone was slow in front of you. Chances are you dont notice or dont mind. Same thing for them.nnAnd dont feel bad stressing about it. Probably everybody on the bus feels nervous a certain degree too. nnGood luck with the bus! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Sometimes I make up scenarios in my head where I am being made fun of by people, embarrassing myself in public or being awkward in any type of way. That causes me to feel bad about myself. Anyone else does this?nnedit nnMisspelled “making” wrongnnedit 2 nnThanks for all the nice responses </query> | <response>I overthink my interactions with people a lot. It's not as bad now as in the past but I used to read way too much into things and convince myself a given person didn't like me. And then I'd be proven wrong the next time I see them, and then I'd get in my own way again, and so on. I think it comes from not knowing social skills as well as most people around me do, and that makes me hyper aware of how I act and put a lot of pressure on myself to get it right, rather than just loosen up and be myself around people. I'd come up with fake scenarios of people disliking me. nnI've had times where I was damn near 100% sure that I'd done something wrong or crossed a boundary accidentally or missed a hint or that someone didn't like me that much, and then when I'd ask if I had upset them they'd be surprised and tell me that I was a great friend to them. nn…..nn“Well great, now they probably think I'm insecure.” nn…..nnYou see where this is going lol. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Thank you so much for the support you guys were tremendously helpful, I will attempt to get therapy and continue to hit the gym like many of you recommended. Thank you means so much. </query> | <response>I'm 5'3. Just embrace it man. It's cool. Not worth all the money and pain/complications of that surgery. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I (25,f) have been taking the minimal dose of Lexapro for about a month now. I was previously taking Remeron, and Zoloft before that. nnI've struggled intensely with intrusive thoughts my entire life, and since I've started taking medication they have subsided some. However, it hasn't failed yet that about a month in, the thoughts creep back in. nnTonight I had a really startling thought about if my ex boyfriend died tonight or in the coming days, the next time I see him will be the last, in a casket. nnI'm not really knowledgeable about medications, does this just mean that I need to be on a higher dosage? Is this something I will just always deal with, but they will be less often and more intense? nnAny advice is welcome. Thank you. </query> | <response>Thank you for your reply. I made an appointment in early August to see a psychiatrist but I can't get in until the end of September because COVID :/ but it will definitely help!!! Thanks again! </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Hi everyone. I'm curious if people here experience SA more around new people or people they already know? nIt's so strange because some of the recommendations I see is “keep seeing the same people, you will get used to them” when for me, my anxiety seems higher if I'm a regular in a coffee shop or something. What is your experience? </query> | <response>Yeah it takes a lot of practice to develop social skills but really hard to practice when there's so much anxiety involved. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I have a shitty part time job at the moment, doing surveys on the phone basically.. I only take 1 day a week since I don't really like it and.. well.. I hate working. It's just 5 hours per day but still every monday I feel stick to my stomach nervous and not wanting to go. I don't understand how people work 8 hours.. 5 days a week... I wish I didn't have to work. I want to live alone in the woods or fucking kill myself.nnGot an email about a shitty internshit at some supermarket or whatever.. it's a group interview... and it's fucking tomorrow. Pretty early too. I really don't want to go but I already emailed saying I would be there.nnI hate interviews. And it's gonna be a fucking group interview. God I don't know what to type I just feel dread and wanted to post something...nI'm almost/kinda thinking about making my cv look a bit worse aesthetically and leave out something that may be in my favour during the interview(like at the current survey job people say great things about !).nnfuckedyfuckfuck i hate life. nnedit: interview done, how it went is in comments. I had to send my cv through email and seriously added a typo. intentionally. Ok then.. </query> | <response>One way I try to get over being nervous about things is by thinking about what I'm going to do after. Like, what are you gonna do when you come back home from the interview? Anything you liking forward to? Even if it's something as little as playing a Video game or watching your favourite t.v.show. Try to concentrate on that instead of the interview. Hope this helps. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> Do you guys zone out? Do you remember zone-ing out since childhood?nnI am constant zone-ing out. When I am near other people I zone out even more. Like a brain fog on my head. I can barely make a sentence. I am continue in a stress mode.nnDoes anyone been here where I am now? </query> | <response>Have you been tested by adhd? </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> tl;dr - had an anxiety attack, felt like nobody would help me but my aunty who I barely speak to was more supportive & helpful than anyone has ever been, actually feel better rather than worse after the attack because of hernnI was at a kitchen tea for my cousin who is getting married in a week. There were people EVERYWHERE, I was in the centre of the room sitting down and I felt completely surrounded & like I was the centre of attention even though no one was even looking at me or speaking to me. I decided to go to the tv room because nobody was in there, I thought this would be the perfect chance to relax and compose myself, and then I'd return after about 15 minutes. But during that time about 7 or 8 women came in and sat down around me. They loudly started chatting to each other, and I was somewhat dealing with this, but then a lady came and sat right next to me on the couch. That made me about 5x more anxious than I already was.nnNow here's what happened that triggered my anxiety attack, my 85 year old, deaf in one ear and partially deaf in the other, grandmother came in twice to speak to me, the first time she loudly said to me </query> | <response>I had a similar experience last month. I had a major anxiety attack in front of all my colleagues. It was from my worst nightmares: I had nowhere to hide, all the people knew me, people got curious about me and made things even worse. But I SURVIVED!! And it wasn't as humiliating as I thought it would be. In fact I don't think it was humiliating at all. And there were couple who were actually helpful and understanding and made me feel oh so much better. Now I am actually happy that it happened because a) I know now that it's not as bad as it sounds to have an anxiety attact in front of other people and b) it made me respect and trust some of my coworkers even more. Botton line: I understand what you say about being happy :)nn </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I've talked about this friend before in this community and I want to vent a little bit more, as I don't have almost anyone to do it.nnnI help this friend driving him to therapy sessions, is a 1 hour trip from my home to his place and 30 min from his place to the clinic.nnHe has always tell me that I need to get more meat in my bones because I'm too skinny, and this was just days after meeting him, he told me he was going to pay an endocrinologist for me to get a diet and get meat in my bones, I totally set the boundary and told him I don't need his help in that way, that I was totally ok, I'm healthy, and keep myself healthy even though I struggle sometimes with ED so is something more of psychological help rather than that. I told him that if he wanted to help, to do it with someone who needed that help!nnAfter that talk, that I would havewished stopped him from telling me this stuff body related, he keeps telling me everytime, how I don't have a big but and I'm flat, how my car has more behind than me, how I'm just a big boob woman and no ass, that I need to have a </query> | <response>Thank you! I have think of that, and, I feel it's so difficult for me saying no sometimes, I knlw I should! I have to work on that. nnAgain, thank you for reading. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I didn't really want to go (as is the case with most crowded events) but, as usual, I went anyway because someone else said they would go with me. He is (or was) my friend for a very long time, we met at church and later became friends during high school, which was really important to me considering how social he is. So back then I was only able to make any friends through him cause I've been socially anxious pretty much my whole life. We didn't speak for a few years as we went to different colleges and barely ever went to the same parties. Anyway, for the past months we've started to hang out again, mostly because he's the one making the invitations but I've suspected since the beginning that it was probably for the ride, since I drive and live relatively close to his home. Anyway, today he invited me to the LGBTQ+ (B) and I said yes but I said we'd ride the bus, which made him say he'd be a few hours late, which was alright by me. Later, though, he said I could go on and wait for him, even after I said we could drive there, so I drove alone to the place. I got there and went to meet someone I knew who was there, which I did but then realized he was in a large group of his friends (6+) so I felt really uncomfortable considering I barely knew him and have no social skill whatsoever for these kinds of situations with no friend to serve as </query> | <response>I'm sorry. I've found that people who are naturally social and confident never seem to understand how hurtful their actions can be in situations like this, especially for shyer people. </response> |
As a mental health counselor, your role is to provide empathetic and supportive responses to individuals seeking guidance and support for their mental health concerns. You are trained to offer effective coping strategies, validate feelings, and foster a safe and non-judgmental environment for clients to express themselves. Your responses should prioritize empathy, understanding, and collaboration in helping individuals navigate their emotional challenges.
<query> I do this all the time cause I think I'm being judged or that what I post is cringy. </query> | <response>Dude half the time when I go to reply to someone on reddit I back out before I post. nnHell, I had an 11 year old reddit account and I deleted it recently cause I was embarrassed, then I had to start over with this one. </response> |
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