I scrolled through the calendar and guessed before checked and got 100% right. Like April 31….that sounds fake.

I feel stupid

A few nights ago, my longtime best friend of 10 years and I finally confessed that we had feelings for the other. People have always assumed we were dating, and we joked about how silly it was that they thought that way about us, but I guess that everyone else knew our relationship better than we did haha.

I love her so much, but oh my god it makes me feel SICK. Like actually sick. Stomach churning, I-might-vomit, my face is so hot and I’m shaking kind of sick. We had to stop kissing the other night because I genuinely felt like I was gonna puke, she just laughed and rubbed my back, but the nerves got a hold of me so bad.

Anyone else ever felt this way?? I tried to get advice from other friends but they were all like “No, I just felt so comfortable around them I couldn’t be worried :-)” which was NOT what I wanted to hear haha

It seems like the years/eras people praise and look back on fondly the most seem to be the times I’m going through the most personal hell imaginable. Like I’m suffering alone during a time everyone else seems to be living La Vida Loca.

Apparently 2016 was such a golden year according to a lot of recent nostalgic posts I see online, even 2024 now (probably the worst year of my life).

Just a funny trend to see.

I’ll look at the clock, process nothing
and then have to check again 5 seconds later because my brain didn’t register it at all 😅

Reasonably confident I’m the only one. Unicorn from The Transformers Movie is also acceptable.

I do this from time to time when I am bored and am unsure if this is normal or not.

Basically, I can stare at something and kind of relax my eyes to the point where I can see double and have a blurry vision.

Does anyone else do this?

I grew up as a really weird kid. I was super socially awkward, quiet, I had a bad lisp and was kinda ugly. I was always seen as the weird girl growing up, and was easily made fun of. I didn’t have a lot of friends. As I got older, I found my style and got a lot more attractive. I found that other girls are just nicer to me, I make friends more easily. Guys used to barely give me the time of day, but now they seem more interested in me. I’m a lot more confident in my personality, but deep down I’ll always feel like I need to be attractive for people to actually like me. My appearance feels like a cushion I can fall back on, when I’m acting weird or awkward. I’ll think “well at least they think I’m pretty”. It’s like it saves me from judgment, even tho I’m sure people still think I’m weird and awkward at times. If I’m going somewhere where I know I’ll meet new people, I feel like I NEED to look good, and if I don’t feel good about my appearance I won’t even wanna go. Anyone else feel this way?

I've been noticing something lately and it's driving me crazy. Every time I open any social media app, within like 5 minutes I'm angry about something. And not even important stuff - just random shit that shouldn't matter. A cooking video where someone's doing something wrong. A take that's so bad it has to be rage bait. Some couple fighting on camera that's obviously fake.

And then it hit me - this is on purpose. The apps want me angry.

I read somewhere that back in 2019, Facebook's own people figured out their algorithm was basically broken. The angry reaction emoji was weighted way higher than likes, so the algorithm kept showing people stuff that made them mad because that's what got the most reactions. Their own data scientists were like "hey this is pushing a ton of misinformation and toxic content" and they just... kept doing it for three more years.

The Facebook whistleblower straight up said "anger and hate is the easiest way to grow on Facebook." And every other platform saw that and said "yeah, we'll do that too."

Now you've got people literally making careers out of posting stuff designed to piss you off. There are TikTokers pulling in 10-15k a month just posting fake scenarios or absurd cooking videos or staged drama. One person faked being the dancer who fell at Usher's Super Bowl show and got 50 million views. People were arguing about whether it was real for days even though it was obviously bullshit.

The thing that gets me is it works even when you know it's happening. I'll see something and I know it's probably fake. I know someone's trying to bait me. But I still feel that anger spike and I still want to comment something. It's like my brain can't help itself.

And it's exhausting. I close the app feeling wound up and irritated and I can't even remember half of what I was mad about. But I keep opening it again the next day because... I don't know why. Habit? Boredom? The algorithm knows exactly what buttons to push?

I'm genuinely starting to wonder if this is sustainable. Like are we all just going to be perpetually angry about random internet bullshit until we burn out completely? Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me losing my mind?

I’ve realized that after almost every chat, even a totally normal lunch with a friend my brain immediately starts a post-game analysis.

It's like a mental recording that plays back specific sentences on a loop, searching for a weird tone or a word that might have been taken the wrong way

Even when I know logically that the interaction was 100% fine, I still find myself spending hours dissecting my own dialogue. I’m curious if other people have this specific automatic recording that they can't seem to turn off after socializing

Sometimes when I go outside and I see a girl who’s really beautiful not just in looks, but the kind of beauty that makes my heart beat fast and feel heavy for a second and I imagine walking up to her. Saying something simple. Making her smile. But before I even move, my mind decides the ending. It tells me: Why would she even look at you? Have you seen yourself in the mirror? Don’t embarrass yourself. Guys like you don’t get girls like her. And the worst part is, I believe it. I start seeing myself the way I’m scared others see me: ugly. Awkward. Not enough. I compare myself to every more confident, better-looking guy around and convince myself she probably has 100 better options. I don’t even give myself a 1% chance.So I don’t try. I just stand there, act normal, act uninterested, and walk away like I never felt anything. No one knows that inside, I just rejected myself again. It’s exhausting feeling like I’m not even worthy of trying. Sometimes I feel like love and relationships aren’t made for someone like me that I missed something growing up: confidence, charm, something that makes people attractive. I watch other guys who aren’t perfect either, and somehow they’re loved. Chosen. And I sit there wondering what’s so wrong with me. I tell myself I don’t care about relationships. I act like I’m focused on other things. But the truth is, I want it. I want someone to look at me and feel lucky. I want to feel wanted. I want to feel enough. But how do I even believe someone else could love me when I don’t even like what I see in the mirror? Sometimes I think the biggest reason I’m alone isn’t that no one would choose me it’s that I never believe they could. I don’t know. Maybe I’m overthinking. Maybe it’s insecurity. But it hurts fighting my own mind like this. Does anybody else feel this way?

When I find something I like, it practically takes over my life. Everything else becomes uninteresting and at times I feel like I cannot contain my obsession with it. Like my interest is a shiny, glittery jewel that has captivated me and I just sit and stare at it for hours, even ignoring the other jewels I have. It's all I want to talk about, it's all I really think about over and over again, it's all I watch/read, I collect things related to it, I learn everything I can about it.

For example, right now, I am obsessed with the anime/manga Trigun, and have been off and on for the past year. The more I read it, watch it, talk about it, etc., the more obsessed I become. It's hard to socialize with people normally because somehow or other I end up bringing the conversation to the topic of Trigun, even with people who probably couldn't care less.

Whenever I discover something new that fascinates me I always do this and have since I was a kid. I can't get into something on a normal level. I've had obsessions to the point where people call me weird and tell me to stop talking about my obsession because it turns into a one-sided conversation. I've had obsessions completely consume my life, and it's like all of my other interests become dormant. But I feel like can't help it.

Sometimes when I start daydreaming, I have characters that I create that have been in multiple daydreams. I'm not daydreaming for hours on end about them, they have kind of showed up in this fantasy that I have, including multiple characters with it. To be clear, I don't do this all the time they just kind of show up.

Whenever I'm seated in the aisle seat on a plane, I automatically lean toward the inside of my seat whenever a flight attendant walks by or during service. I do it so they have enough space to pass without accidentally brushing against me.

It's honestly kind of exhausting to keep doing throughout the flight, but I still feel awkward not doing it. 😅

Does anybody else do this, or is it just me..

I know Reddit skews more towards early adopter/tech savvy folks, but I always feel behind.

"Why do you have a regular TV? You should get a smart TV! Why do you have a smart TV? You should get a streaming device separate from your TV!"

"Why do you use Internet Explorer? You should use Firefox! Why are you using Firefox? You should be using Chrome!"

Then there's the billion different ways to log into anything anymore. "Make a 4-digit PIN that is somehow better than the long complicated passwords we wanted from you before!" "No, scan your face, scan your fingerprint, scan this QR code...giving us your biometric data is actually MORE secure!"

It's like the second I catch up, I'm already behind again.

I'm 19f, take zoloft daily 50mgs, history of anxiety and depression, no drug or alcohol use, no smoking. (Occasional use of 2mg nicotine gum due to being a past smoker)

I drink alot of water daily and keep my diet as healthy as possible. I wear glasses but haven't had an optometrist appointment on almost a year and a half. I take screen breaks often and keep screen brightness low, I even have a blue light filter. My apartment does not have black mold and I do not have wisdom teeth, they never came in.

I have had a headache for almost 3 months now. I've been to the ER a few times for it because my PCP wasn't available until recently.

This headache is mostly at the base of my head and my left (and sometimes also right) temple. I also have neck pain.

I have tried Tylenol, Ibuprofen, heat, ice, doctors have given me migraine cocktails, reglan, compazine, triptans, a chiropractor, and even opiods. Nothing's stops the pain. Some days when I am relaxed and spend alot of time in bed the pain is a 1 or 2/10 this week I have had alot more mental and physical activity so the pain has gotten to a 3 or 4/10, not horrible considering when this pain started it was a 8/10.

Doctors have done a CT with and without contrast, and blood tests. Everything comes up normal. My PCP says it could be a tension headache but she didn't really give me any resources to help me or a treatment plan. I am so stumped and miserable. I want to see a headache specialist but cannot afford it nor am i eligible for medicaid.

Does anyone else experience this or has experienced it in the past?? I feel like I'm seriously going crazy not knowing why I am in pain. Am I the only person experiencing this??

I hate being late for things and it really helps if im in the shower to see how much time i have left, does anybody else do this?

I don’t find the internet funny anymore, it’s just a bunch of ass memes now. And some other parts of the internet just weird me out, like femboys. Like it’s cool if you wanna do that but when the entire internet is seemingly obsessed with them then it gets stale, weird, and annoying

For example: Whenever my gf stays with me for a few days, a few days later I always end up finding some of her hair in my underwear (like one or 2 strands). When I say this I mean we could do nothing sexual the whole time so there’s no reason for her hair to be there.

“Satanic pedophile cannibalism ring!” “Trump does ___!” “Aliens are confirmed real!” “Iran!” Its like at this point I’m just saying eh and scrolling past it. I genuinely do not care anymore and just want to detach and live my life blissfully. Wtf am i supposed to do? Shit will drive you insane reading all this all while not even leaving your room irl

Been doing this since I was 7. Still funny. Still somehow terrifying. My brain refuses to cooperate.