u/Illustrious-Rain-235

Would love to hear y’all’s stories :)!! 💛

Hello, please be nice in the comments

For context I have mental health problems, & I’m neurodivergent (ADHD possibly autism) & have went through allot in my life recently

It’s hard for me sometimes to do basic things like sleep well, eat properly, etc as I’m struggling with my mental health & I’ve been struggling with my prayer for few months now 🥲🥲I genuinely feel so bad about it. I spent my Eid & last days of Ramadan in a mental hospital because my health was severely bad & now I’m out & genuinely struggling allot

Would love help on how to get back to prayer

Hello, please be nice in the comments

For context I have mental health problems, & I’m neurodivergent (ADHD possibly autism) & have went through allot in my life recently

It’s hard for me sometimes to do basic things like sleep well, eat properly, etc as I’m struggling with my mental health & I’ve been struggling with my prayer for few months now 🥲🥲I genuinely feel so bad about it. I spent my Eid & last days of Ramadan in a mental hospital because my health was severely bad & now I’m out & genuinely struggling allot

Would love help on how to get back to prayer

For context, I have childhood/family trauma and both my parents have been hospitalized because of their mental health..

I unfortunately have recently been hospitalized & it’s been few weeks since I’ve gotten out & im still processing everything.. I can’t believe I was hospitalized because of my mental health and I thought I was stronger than that. I’m the eldest daughter, consider myself a perfectionist & the only one going to post secondary education in my family & I feel I have so much burden on my shoulder to make a good life for myself.

I just want a kind soul to reassure me that everything will be okay and that I will get through this tough stage in my life

Reality sucks lol, & I really am addicted to my phone and spend hours on it on different social media apps & tuning out the world around me with videos, memes & talking with friends. It truly is blissful & I know it’s bad to have a phone addiction but I am very dependent on my phone most days.

Periods, PMDD, PMS, PCOS Pregnancy (haha all the p’s😂), Societal beauty standards, Societal pressure to act a certain way, women’s health not being taken seriously, getting misdiagnosed bc men’s health is researched more than women’s, etc !!

Haha sometimes I just want to unsubscribe from womanhood, it’s allot!

Hey!!!

Just wanted to make a post where ppl can share which tips, tricks & advice, perhaps books or videos that they’ve used that’s helped their depression!!! ☺️ hope we can help each other out!

We got this 💛

Hey you 🫵🏻! Let’s help each other out 🙂

Comment a tip, trick, resource or advice that’s helped with your mental health journey

We got this! 💛

How to deal with burnout of life??

I had a job last summer which stressed me so much that I feel my body is still dealing with the stress, my college was very intense for me aswell so that was also stressful, most recently I went to the mental hospital & that was stressful!

Now I’m in spring/summer break & don’t want to work & im taking a break to process everything

How to deal with burnout & stress? I feel I can never fully rest? Anyone else dealt with this? How did you get out of your high stress and burnout stage of life

Is it still self harm if I’m pressing different objects onto my skin really deep? Like, not cutting or bleeding involved? I’ve done it for few years and relapsed again and idk if it’s self harm or not? & want to get help for jt because I do this when numb and dissociating

Hey, so I’ve been in Zoloft since 2019 & don’t get my wrong it did get me through some rough patches, but feel it did more harm than good in my opinion.

I have self harmed because my dose was so high & felt I was dissociating, my anxiety has become physical in a way that I have rashes, body aches, headaches, nausea, etc, I sometime she comes so numb the only thing that makes me feel alive is sh and I have ideations. aswell as SEVERE brain fog and feel I’ve become dumber tbh

I got a psychiatrist which was the first time I’ve ever really gotten one, he is free because I was hospitalized & had to go inpatient for my mental health so they gave me him

& he is adamant on seeing the Zoloft through & told me that Zoloft doesnt stop working, it will always work even though I told him I don’t think it’s the right medication for me.

Has medications ever stopped working for you? How did get psychiatrist to listen to me

For context: I’ve never really had good male role models in my life & the men that are in my life are incompetent, use women, are not motivated, abusive, etc

& I hate the Muslim men I’ve seen on social media, all red-pilled, have alternate motives with women, two-faced, etc

Idk if I’ll ever get over my fear and distaste of men and low-key worried about my future, but at the same time I couldn’t care less if I’m single for rest of my life, I just hope I can financially help myself and live alone.

It’s so funny, all my friends know me as a man-hater and I’m embracing it, but I do stay kind when my friend is interested in a guy or wants to get married, I’m like the supportive auntie who will always give them advice & encourage them.

Alhamdulilah tho for not having a mindset so focused on marriage, as I want to genuinely focus on myself & build a life that younger me would have liked

Genuinely, how do you stay consistent with prayers, making dua, etc when you’re so deep in the depression and anxiety & struggling with your mental health? I also get distracted easily and don’t have the attention span for allot of things (might have ADHD or Autism tbh)

Anyone struggle with the same? How to be better practicing Muslim?

My iman feels so low and I’m struggling allot

My medication isn’t working properly for me & therapy is too long of a wait but inshallah I will be getting appointment next month.

Hello, please don’t judge me & be kind!!

I’ve always been socially anxious and when I was in the formative years of school like through elementary school to high school I always hid in bathrooms during math, made my parent do my homework or just tried my best but always got bad grades.

I live with my parents still, which I understand is a privilege because I don’t pay rent, utilizes, etc but I’m realizing I need to be independent & start learning money math and basic concepts of math.

I’ve noticed this as a problem when I was a cashier and when people give me money I didn’t know how much to give them back and it caused me EXTREME anxiety and panic.

I currently persued a degree thay doesn’t require much math or none at all

Is their any resources to learn money math? Or also math in general?

Advice and resources are kindly appreciated!!!

Hello, please don’t judge me & be kind.

I’ve always been socially anxious and when I was in the formative years of school like through elementary school to high school I always hid in bathrooms during math, made my parent do my homework or just tried my best but always got bad grades.

I live with my parents still, which I understand is a privilege because I don’t pay rent, utilizes, etc but I’m realizing I need to be independent & start learning money math and basic concepts of math.

I’ve noticed this as a problem when I was a cashier and when people give me money I didn’t know how much to give them back and it caused me EXTREME anxiety and panic.

Is their any resources to learn money math? Or also math in general?

Advice and resources are kindly appreciated!!

Salam! I’m a hijabi in her 20s and for all of my life struggled with my mental health and recently been hospitalized because of it & now I’m out of the hospital & things seem to be getting worser.

My friends don’t know about the severity of my mental health & tbh I keep it “surface level” with them just say I’m anxious & migjt have adhd, etc I don’t delve deep into the suicidal ideation, dissociation, childhood trauma, etc.

I’m struggling adjusting back to life after the hospital & find myself comparing my life to those who don’t struggle with mental health problems.

Any other girlies found things that have helped their mental health? Right now my iman is at all time low, struggle to pray or do the activities I love.

Why are we as Muslim ummah so hush hush about mental health problems and the stigma around jt drives me insane.

I feel so so lonely & would want a girlie to talk to.

Salam! I’m a hijabi in her 20s and for all of my life struggled with my mental health and recently been hospitalized because of it & now I’m out of the hospital & things seem to be getting worser.

My friends don’t know about the severity of my mental health & tbh I keep it “surface level” with them just say I’m anxious & migjt have adhd, etc I don’t delve deep into the suicidal ideation, dissociation, childhood trauma, etc.

I’m struggling adjusting back to life after the hospital & find myself comparing my life to those who don’t struggle with mental health problems.

Any other girlies found things that have helped their mental health? Right now my iman is at all time low, struggle to pray or do the activities I love.

Why are we as Muslim ummah so hush hush about mental health problems and the stigma around jt drives me insane.

I feel so so lonely & would want a girlie to talk to.

Basically napped the day away as I guess was really overwhelmed, depressed, anxious and sad and now it’s 5:00pm. It’s so strange I have this urge to do something & I really want to do it but I can’t physically bring myself to do it, idk what it is about me and why I avoid tasks.

Advice would greatly help!!!

Has anyone else experienced sleepiness after being stressed? Basically I get extremely tired, joint pain, headache when stressed but when extremely stressed I get sleepy and literally have to take a nap. Is this normal?

Has anyone else experienced the same?

Tw: sh, suicidality

I’ve been on sertraline/Zoloft since 2019 & had UPS & DOWNS with it, I was dissociating when I was on high doses of it & self harming & feel I was “out of my body” I’ve still had anxiety but unfortunately over the years it’s become physical anxiety symptoms like rashes, brain fog (MY MEMORY IS SO BAD), I feel I’ve become intellectually dumber?, tightness in the chest, hand shaking, headaches, body pain, hand shaking etc

Their has been times that I guess it’s saved my life but I feel at this point the cons out ways the good of this medication & truly I don’t feel it’s the one for me

It’s frustrating that I can’t get my old self back, I wasn’t so depressed before this medication & my brain fog is so so bad now

Recently I had told my doctor that I don’t think sertraline was the right fit for me & she gave me some other medications & unfortunately those gave me side effects, to the point I had to go become hospitalized for my health at the mental health hospital and BOY let me tell you after being discharged (it’s been around a month now) I feel even shittier, now I have a psychiatrist and he put me back on sertraline because he wants to see if it work/ (which is SO DUMB BC no, it’s clearly not working) & the psychiatrist is adamant on me being on this medication. I’m currently on 150mg & I’m feeling depressed, started self harming again & even if I do a fun activity that I like I have this sense of dread and doom and gloom around me.

I don’t know how to advocate to a psychiatrist that is not listening to me!! Has zoloft stopped working for any of you?? How did you feel better?