Hey guys, I’m 24 years old, and over the last 1–2 years, I’ve pretty much neglected both my physical and mental health got in depression.. Even before that, I spent a lot of time gaming and had bad posture. Then I spent about a year working on my PC a lot, sometimes every single day, without doing any physical activity to balance it out.
I’ve noticed that I have forward head posture and an anterior pelvic tilt (hollow back). For the past few weeks, I’ve also been experiencing recurring neck pain and muscle tension that travels up into my head.
It’s affecting my everyday life more than I’d like. It affects my confidence, the way I speak, and my ability to concentrate. I often have this brain-dead feeling, like my brain just isn’t working properly. Sometimes I also struggle to speak clearly.
I just can’t seem to be the person I want to be. I notice that I automatically become quieter and more withdrawn when I’m around other people. I feel like I can’t really be myself because these symptoms are holding me back.
Of course, I’ve also wondered whether there could be psychological reasons behind this, since I haven’t always been in a good place mentally either. But honestly, I find it really hard to believe that it’s purely psychological.
Stretching exercises do help, but the relief doesn’t last very long. Right now, I’m genuinely scared that these problems will stick with me and never go away.
What should I do?
I’m currently trying to do stretching and strengthening exercises every day, and I’ve also signed up for a gym. I’ve arranged for a trainer to create a workout plan specifically focused on my problem areas so I can build muscle and improve my posture. Do you think this will help me get better over time? Is it possible to feel normal again? What else can I do? I’d really appreciate any advice from people who have experienced something similar or have knowledge about this.

I’m also hoping to hear from people with experience because I’m genuinely scared that these symptoms will affect me at school and at work next year, and that they won’t have gone away or improved by then.
I’m worried that I won’t be able to achieve my goals if I continue feeling this way.

I don’t want to die. I just want this piece of meat suit to finally listen to me. I’m so tired of it constantly ruining my life. I don’t even blame my contamination OCD anymore. It is a piece of crap. All it does is create body fluids when I don’t want it to doesn’t matter if I do everything right it’s somehow gonna to bleed somehow it doesn’t matter if I take this stupid medication. I want out of this meat suit and to live my life happily.

I not as expressive about my feeling , i can tell in more in personal space then putting it out lime this i am sorry if i am breaking any rule but i badly need a company who. Listen to me and help me out specially a women POV

Being raised in a broken home and all alone affected me soo much , never had a friend or a family member to open up , i never felt loved and felt like being a cursed on me , having suicidal thoughts , anxiety attacks , depression , PTSD as well as ADHD symptoms alot , but cant seek help coz the country i am in feel all this is nothing , they celebrate everything as a family together where as i see all this my whole life all alone , no one there to listen to support , just wanted to end this life now

I don’t matter. I can’t be here anymore.

Hi I’m a 24M and I was really curious on if I had a type of bipolar or depression. I’ve had one really bad depressive episode in 2021 that lasted a week when I was extremely worried about life after death and the unknown of what happens. Ever since that I’ve been tame but will randomly have a few bad days every few years, my last episode lasted 3/4 days in 2024. I currently just went through another one and I think it’s due to seasonal depression but truly don’t know the exact reason, it started Sunday night and just recently ended. I’ve never really had a hypomania or anything like that before and don’t really know the reason of these random waves of sadness that happen not so often. I genuinely don’t know what it could be due to the episodes being so rare and spaced apart and wanted to know if anyone related.

29M - I used to be super happy and blissed out, then 3 years ago I suffered a massive loss in my life where I lost most of my life’s creative work in one go. Almost all my films got deleted from the internet / YouTube and I also lost all the backups / copies. I went through a mental health episode and deleted everything so it’s basically my fault but it’s still painful. Since this loss I’ve been extremely anxious and depressed / suicidal 24/7 and have no hope of it ever getting better. It’s such a contrast because I used to feel so good and had so much creative energy, now I can barely create anymore. Did anyone else used to be happy before long term depression kicked in? I think about how I used to feel 24/7 because I feel like if I wouldn’t have deleted everything I’d still be happy, just by deleting everything it completely screwed up my long term plan and I lost my place in YouTube history which basically crushed my childhood dream. My last post got taken down and I’m wondering if it’s because it was too long, kind of disheartening. Just mainly curious how many people have a similar story of going from being a super happy person to then suffering long term depression. I miss the person I used to be and the person I could have become if I would have never gotten depressed

I've been on wellbutrin, vraylar, trintellix, abilify, and now effexor. None of them have done anything significant except effexor which made me feel worse. What am I supposed to do? I just feel so extremely apathetic. I failed two big exams and don't even care, and I know I should...

I've deen dating this one guy, and I don't think he understands depression

I'd tell him I'm feeling very down lately and low on energy, and he'd say oh just do something you like that's fun.

Or he'd say you'll feel better soon. I don't think he understands the severity of depression

Has anyone ever deen in a relationship like this

I have been struggling with depression for almost a decade now. I’m 19, freshman in college and i am really struggling to wake up and get out of bed. When im out of bed, i feel drained and super tired like i just want to sit down, but when im sitting down i almost feel this restless urge to get up and do something. Like my body is so lost right now.

I’m fairly new to be medicated despite dealing with depression for years. I’m currently on 10mg of escitalopram and 18mg of concerta. For some reason, i have only felt worse since starting them and it really sucks.

Life really fucking sucks lately. I cant ever imagine getting out of this depressive episode. With the way my life is, i mean i honestly dont think i even have a chance at truly being happy. Do non depressed people exist? Are they real???

Hi guys.

My doctor recently put me back on sertraline 50mg for my anxiety and depression.

I was on it about a year ago and just couldn't take the fatigue and sluggishness that came with it.

So, he switched me to prozac which was amazing for my depression, but did little for my anxiety.

So, he put me back on serdep 50mg and also prescribed Wellbutrin XL 150mg.

I just wanted to find out which time is the best to take the serdep. My Dr said at night, but I've also heard alot of people who say that take it in the morning. Cos I don't want the serdep to be messing up my sleep quality, which would explain the side effects I had last year.

I don't want to be here, but I don't want to die, and life feels so unmanageable, yet I'm clinging on distraction after distraction. I need to run and never stop, but I cant move my legs off the bed

I’m sober now like my psychiatrist said I should be. Why is there still this ache in my heart and this knot in my throat all the time? What am I supposed to do with this pain? I listen to music on blast to try to quiet the damn thoughts but it’s hurting my frickin ears and I can’t listen to music forever. I walk til I can’t feel my damn legs anymore but the whole time I just think about how nice it would be if a car hit me and ended this for me. And on top of all of this bs I should be studying for midterms. But I can’t focus long enough before I start crying. How do I deal with being awake? It hurts. I have no one. And every waking moment is a reminder that life wasn’t meant for me. Please help me. Please any advice at all is worth more than you know. I just don’t know how to be ok unless I’m asleep.

i wish it just went how i wanted it to go, it felt so freeing when it felt like that was going to be my last night on earth, i just want to end it to free myself from being on this world, im tired of disappointing my father, and just the people around me who have to see me like this, i hate feeling like im a walking failure, always masking the self hatred that seeps from fractures of the facade i put up so people can just stop asking if im fine. i have attempted more than once and recently it feels like death calls for me each time i decide to get some rest, i dont fear it and i welcome it, if it happens it happens. i would rather it look like an accident or something so i try not to devastate the ones that might care, but i just fantasize about walking into a deep wilderness with nothin gand just surviving until i just decide to let death take me.

I just don't know what to do anymore.. most of my family just doesn't care about me and take me for granted. All the little things and big things I do for them and the don't even give me a thank you..

They treat me like trash and pretend it never happened.

They are so abusive and there is no escape I'm tired..

Honestly I don't know how much longer I can go with nobody really caring or wanting me :3

Im trying to make it through Christmas just to give the very few people that think of me fondly a good holiday before anything happens.

I'm sorry you should just ignore this^^

I’m 20 and still treated like a fucking toddler. I’m not allowed to talk back, not allowed to stay anywhere by myself, not allowed to say no to anything, not allowed outside by myself, and I have to tip toe around them to make sure they don’t blow a gasket. I’m so tired of having to be the mature one around who are supposed to be my paternal figures. Every emotion I show is treated with suspicion or laughed at and I’m barely holding myself together most of the day no thank to the myriad of mental problems I have. I just want to sleep forever at this point cause I’m literally always tired.

each day i just pray its my last. the only time i feel good is when im alone and asleep

I'm 40 years old and I'm exhausted. I've exhausted my capacity as a person. I've exhausted my dreams and goals. I'm exhausting the people I love.

I'm struggling to find work. I'm struggling to maintain relationships. I used to have a great job and be in love but my mental state has declined and with it most of the good has fallen away.

I miss being useful. I miss being a lover.

It's late and I'm tired. I don't know if I'll be okay, but I will survive this no matter what. Even if I have nothing left, my defiance against this horrible decline is survival and writing so that my words survive me.

Thank you for letting me get this off my chest.

TW: suicidal ideation

What is even the point of living? Of even existing? Having to commit to everything, work/school, body health, relationships. It's been a week since I last had a sip of water because I simply forgot, and it would be too much effort to try, my kidneys are already messed up anyway, I never liked water, so why does it matter to drink it now? Why can't I just die? Why can't they just let me die? How awful is that? The world is horrible anyway. Honestly, the only things keeping me alive and not like a depressed zombie are my friendships and interests, but I can't just live for them, I'm not glued to them or something. So what does it take? Career? I don't know what to do in the future, I'll probably be working in a low wage job anyway. Family? I'm not even that close to them anyway, I don't know how I'm going to get into a romantic relationship with someone while feeling like this, I don't want kids.

I don't know the purpose of this post, I'm not going to kill myself, I don't have the courage, but it's just a negative thought and I'm depressed all day, I don't think this will ever change. I can't change, not without treatment. Which I won't be able to do because I don't want to explain to my mother why I need therapy; it's basically pure luck to have a good therapist, psychologist, I don't know what I need, but I need something, I can't stand feeling like this anymore.

I feel like every day I'm getting closer to going back to doing the things that messed me up to deal with this shit (as you can see, didn't work), or do new ones.

i feel like being on reddit has made me worse mentally. i came here to try to talk to people about my sexual trauma because i can’t afford a therapist and i know reddit has a lot of support groups. i’ve been messaged and harassed by so many disgusting men that i don’t feel like a human being anymore. my entire life i’ve been assaulted, raped, everything. i can’t take it anymore, i feel like a joke

i was assaulted the other night and the way i’m coping with it feels disgusting, is this a normal reaction? is something wrong with me

I've had depression for a very long time and I'm curious if anyone has theirs get worse when they get a cold, flu, or in my case for almost 3 weeks, bronchitis. I've been so fatigued that I'm sleeping much more than I should be, but sleeping is the only time where I get relief. I have anxiety too, so that makes it worse. Even taking a shower is difficult because I feel so weak and lightheaded. Most of the time I feel like I have "brain fog" and just don't feel normal at all. I know that bronchitis is usually from a virus and it's really hard to deal with. Does anyone else feel like this at times? I have felt like this before when sick and sleeping so much but it never gets easier.

I have health issues and live with severe debilitating pain from arthritis and multiple herniated disks. Im disabled and unable to work and behind in life due to this. I live with my parents in a house with no air conditioning that's broken down with barely and food to eat most days but atleast i have a place to stay. I lost my health insurance due to turning 26. I have begged god to heal me for years and he won't. He doesn't care that i'm hurt he wants me to suffer. My pain gets more unbearable every day. I've missed out on life. I have severe mental health issues now from all the suffering. I've been through. Everyone hates me and treats me like shit and thinks im worthless for not being able to work. My family views me as a failure.

I have no future. No dreams. There is nothing to look forward to. I cling day by day on to my mother for food and to life because I refuse to give up. A few minutes ago, I received the news that I wouldn't be able to pursue my education. I can't work because of my legal status in this country I live in. I can not do anything. There is no place that I can truly call my home, and I am scorned upon in this place where I grew up in, who would know the difference between your birth place you determine so much what your life turns out to be. No country would welcome me. I am a parasite. Everything in this world seeks to get rid of me.

I used to have dreams and hopes. People would even envy me, but what good did they ever see in this one-way road that would amount to a dead end? I've long been tired of living, but why is it that now I want to live so much, and the world just keeps on rejecting me. It's suffocating me. I want to live so bad, but why is it that there's a rock attached at my waist stopping me from reaching the surface, and I sink deeper into the ocean day by day. Was there always a rock? Who attached thtis? Maybe it was always there since birth. Some people are born on the land and can walk freely. Others are born amidst the sea, but with enough effort, they can reach the shore. Why is it that the world has hated some people enough to put them in the middle of the sea and force them to drown with no way out? I thought I had been one of those people whose efforts could help them reach the shore, but all along, I didn't realise my efforts were futile and there was never a way for me to be like those I admire on the coast. I drown a little more each day, and the rock just becomes heavier. Why was I born to this fate? I want to live so much but I can't. I am a child drowning, a parasite striving to survive in a world that is not its own, clinging to life every single moment, but in the end, it just dies.

Hi everyone! I 19F am in desperate need of any advice i can get. Due to personal reasons, I abruptly had to drop out of university until January. In addition to that, I also lost a lot of my close friends very quickly. I went from being very productive and having a daily schedule and goals, to struggling to get off the couch. I don’t sleep until almost 3 am most nights and find myself waking up at around 2. My room is a disaster and I feel like i’m not myself. I overall have just done a complete 180 in lifestyle. It’s been about a month of this and I know I don’t want to continue this until January so please, if anyone has any advice on getting out of ruts I need it! Big or small! Thank you!

Hi for context I have always been a bit chubby a bit overweight my whole life. As a girl the extra pounds mean a lot and as a teen the extra 30-40 made the difference between fat and pretty. Now I’m 18 and it’s gotten bad again. Ever wonder if it could get worse. (Not downplaying anyone’s situation ik obviously there’s worse) try being depressed AND FAT. I have no motivation to do anything and do anything to feel that moment of happiness and the easiest for me is food. I’ve always loved food I was born into this world hungry.but now that I have all this stuff happening and this anxiety and depression and whatever else I have being fat has made it 10 times worse. Never gain weight guys. And I know I could lose it but I’m too lazy to make the first step for anything I feel disconnected from my body and the consequences as if it’s not me inside of this body it feels as if I’m spectating my own life just controlling a character like how else do I even explain this. I’ve neglected myself to the point where even trying to fix it feels so far.anyways just wanted to vent a bit. Not sure if it’s a result of my depression or if the weight resulted to the depression okay bye thanks for reading