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Stress and anxiety are bitches. I'm sure that mostly everyone here already knows that. Sometimes life is just a fucking mess, and no matter what you do, it just gets worse and worse.

Personally, shit's just gotten so bad lately. A bit more than a year ago life was shit and I started pulling out my hair, then I noticed I had a bald spot after about a week and I did everything I could to stop. Managed to stop, until recently. Right now I have a fair sized bald patch right on the top of my head after about a month of pulling. At least I have long hair (about chest length) so I can just put it up to cover the spot.

This community has been the thing keeping me sane lately and I just wanted to thank you guys for just doing what you do. I'm a fucking mess and just need an outlet

Man...
I've been traped in problems recently, but while I overcame, I felt hell so wonderful that I felt it was all worth doing and I became proud that I didn't give up.
You must belive : prize is comming soon

As @R1100 says, there is light at the end

I'm sorry you're in so much stress and anxiety.
I'm going through a dark phase in my life as well, so I can relate. You're not alone in this.

@nanl not to be an a** but for me one of the things I has to understand in life is that indeed we are alone and that's ok.

Some people embrace religion or friends, but truth is we are alone.

Man, you're not alone in this. Anxiety fuckin sucks and keeps us all doing crazy shit to ourselves. Good thing is you're not alone: as you said we can all help each other. Why don't you start with ranting here about what's troubling you?

Stay strong. You can do this

@carlosjpc I understand we have our individual experiences and feelings, and in this way, we are alone (anyone can go through that for us).
However, I think it's helpful to connect and share what we think and feel. This usually helps with anxiety. And also gives us insights about our issues and how to cope with them.

Reading books helps a little bit, it doesn't cure the problem but helps us in distracting our mind in positive way :)

@arcioneo wow, you're such an amazing person. Why don't you kick you out yourself

@R1100 @carlosjpc @nanl Thank you guys. I saw your comments this morning and they helped me feel a lot better throughout the day. I looked at them probably every couple hours just for some reassurance that things would get better.

@neurod1sk One thing that I'm still not quite over is recently getting rejected by a girl. I had gotten my hopes up because even her family thought it was gonna happen, but she ended up turning me down.

Right around the time that happened my best friend started hanging out with a couple people (one being my ex) that I refuse to get involved with again due to them being bad influences and just terrible people in general. I ended up telling her a few days ago that I don't like them and that I need to distance myself for a bit right now.

Then the hair pulling caused by some of that combined with my mind fucking hating me, being paranoid as hell and just overreacting to everything. So for the next few months I'll be pretty insecure about my physical appearance

Also that last comment is exactly 1000 characters and I'm actually pretty proud of that cause I didn't plan it at all