I live alone and I cannot keep the place tidy no matter what. I am a responsible adult, but I lose track of what's going on in my place. One day I clean the entire kitchen, then I cook something but I'm so tired so I let the dishes for next day, then next day I go out, then I forget, then I realize way late things are a mess again. If I type it down like this it seems really stupid but I swear it's like it doesn't even cross my mind before I realize it's way past due cleaning. Today I ran out of clean dishes, they're all in the countertop, and I don't remember how this even happened. I don't remember deciding to not put them in the dishwasher, but I did do that. Now I'm doing a clean-up again.

I have a habit of rewatching a favorite show or re-reading a favorite book series but then never finishing the last season, few episodes, or few chapters because I subconsciously want to avoid the feeling of it ending. I know it’s weird but I can’t get myself to finish. Anyone else do this?

I am hitting this point in life where the idea of going outside to do things doesn't appeal to me anymore. I dread every weekend where I get invited out to do something or I try to go out to do something and realize things are just strange now. I do not know if it's a post COVID thing or just because everything is so expensive. It seems like now when I go out something is bound to go wrong or people are very anxious about having a good time due to the cost of going out. For example a group of my friends went to a fall fest and one of the stalls made fun of us for not knowing how to ask for a basket (one of my friends called it self pick instead of you pick). And other customer service experiences like this. Going out to eat used to be fun but now the food all tastes the same and not very good.

Honestly now some of the most fun I have outside is just walking trails. I am not sure what I am doing wrong or if I am just complaining too much? Does anyone else feel like this? This is becoming more of an issue because I used to love to travel and now I am seeing the same thing when I travel. I can't justify traveling if I am just not having a good time.

Is anyone else REALLY fucking over seeing rich people in movies and TV shows? I am SO over it I could puke. I think producers, director, directors, etc., need to STOP look around and take a beat. So many people struggling right now and everything out there is just riddled with rich people having lives none of us can relate to or will ever have. It's exhausting and old. Their houses are extravagant, their cars are ridiculous, their problems are even more hilariously out of touch. It would be laughable if it wasn't insulting in face of everything. Anyone else feeling this lately too? I've fucking had it.

I was supposed to buy a new laptop after using my Chromebook for 10 years but I upgraded my iPhone instead.

so i’m in my late teens and i’m starting to get more accountability for how i present myself and ive noticed that i sound like a bitch. and sometimes i lwk am but a lot of the time i don’t even mean to sound so rude but i come off sassy. i also get pretty mentally drained quite fast and i imagine it has something to do with it.

But the thing that gets me is i don‘t even do much. I don’t have many chores and I don’t get bad grades so i barely study and i only work around 7 hours a week but i still get so tiered. I become really irritated and i snap at people and feel so guit after. I also get slightly annoyed by the customers, i think i come off as rude as well bc people tell me i naturally have an “attitude“

like am i that weak? everyone does thing and i don’t understand why i can’t.

i wish people didn’t have to take my tone and face so seriously. Im not good at deescalating things when they do think i’m mad either bc i actually get mad at the fact they think I’m mad lol. My best friends autistic do she doesn’t read into my tone all that much and i wish every one was like that. it’d make everyone a lot better to be around.

Like sometimes I watch scary stories with my friends at sleepovers and we hide under the blankets with pillows and cats but I never use my regular window browser because I don’t want to be jumpscared by scary faces or monsters regularly in the recommendations

I’ve always had very straight teeth, save for one lateral incisor that sticks out slightly. When I was in middle school, an orthodontist strongly recommended I get braces to my parents. I honestly can’t remember exactly why, but I know he said it was something that doesn’t look like a big problem now, but could cause huge problems later in my life. This is was well respected orthodontist in a fancy high rise building in our city, and we never got a second opinion.

Halfway through my treatment, he said my teeth weren’t moving fast enough and gave me rubber bands that I had to hoop over some of the brackets to put more pressure on my teeth. I wore these rubber bands exactly once, out of the office the time he prescribed them, and never again. At every subsequent appointment he would say how well my teeth were moving and praise my diligent rubber band usage, which was nonexistent.

When the time finally came to take my braces off, my teeth looked exactly the same, including the lateral incisor still sticking out. When I pointed this out to him, he said it wasn’t important and would be pushed in by my retainer. I actually wore that retainer every night for several years because it bothered me that I went through two years of braces to still have that one crooked tooth, and it had absolutely no effect on that tooth. My lateral incisor is still crooked to this day.

i just cannot be bothered to text or call after school/work. or hang out even more. it just takes so much effort and energy. obviously i see my friends everyday and im with them the whole time but then when i go home, i literally completely ignore them. and im ngl i am on my phone and they usually text on a groupchat, so i just never respond. if they message me privately, ik it might be something serious and specific so then i will respond but its usually just a short convo.
theyve gotten used to me being like this and they have told me or said in jokey way, that i never call or text. i feel bad but at the same time i genuinely cannot be asked and i rather just do my own thing when im alone.
but the thing is i dont feel this way (abt texting and hanging out, i still dont like calling) to my sister or mum..

for example: beaches(ofc debatable), public transopport, and in general just blasting music in lets say a park

Specifically need the girls for this 😣

Are there other women out there that just feel left out in the dating world…

I feel like ever since I was a little girl I knew deep down that I wasn’t pretty like other girls and knew it would be hard for me with boys. I’m really mid to be honest lmao & I’ve accepted that since a young age and never really let it bother me much until recently. I was one of the girls at school that boys made fun of, I was never asked to any dances, I would be asked out as a joke etc.

It’s been eating at me more and more I think because so many people around me and in my life and even just on social media are getting married, having kids, starting a family, all the things I’ve dreamt of doing myself but no the possibility is very slim. I think I get insecure about myself a lot, I see other girls get treated so well, they are taken care of and provided for, they have a good man showing them off and doing things for them. And it’s just made me a bit sad thinking that will never be me.
The relationships I have had, I always end up being cheated on. In fact I feel like the guys I’ve been with were embarrassed to be seen with me anyways because they never took me on dates, or took me out of the house much at all really. I always felt like it wasn’t much of a relationship anyways, I was used for either my apartment or car, or money. Sometimes I feel like the only way to keep someone around is by buying everything I possibly can that they want, which is very sad lol. I’ve always been the one to give, and I don’t think anyone will ever do the same for me.

I just wanted to vent and see if there’s anyone else that maybe feels the same. It’s like an ache I feel knowing I want something I’ll never have. It kinda makes me question the point in life, I know relationships and having a family and being married isn’t the only thing in life to be happy about, however, it’s something I want so much so it stings a bit and makes me question what the purpose and point for my life is.

Sometimes I’ll lie in bed and spend an hour imagining completely fictional situations that will probably never happen.

Arguments where I come up with the perfect response, conversations with people I haven’t spoken to in years, or entire versions of my future that exist only in my head.

The crazy part is that I can get so invested that I actually feel the emotions associated with these imaginary situations.

Then I realize I’ve been lying in the dark for an hour arguing with someone who isn’t even
there. 😭

I took a couple of surgical gloves for whenever I do cleaning around the house

I've noticed that I have a tendency to repeat what I've just said to someone. Usually I repeat last couple of words in a sentence, with same loudness but with different intonation, while breaking eye contact and looking somewhere else.

It usually happens when I'm explaining or discussing something, particularly when sharing my opinion.

I wonder how common it is? Does this have a word? What might be the reasons for such behavior?

every single time. checked my balance that morning, it's fine. still stand there frozen until the little beep like it's about to announce my business to the whole line

It’s exhausting.

For years, my mood has fluctuated up and down, but most days I feel at a low “meh” baseline rather than genuinely happy. On occasion, I might have 1–2 better days where I feel good, more motivated, and less irritable, but usually my mood shifts throughout the day depending on what happens.

Sometimes a small comment or interaction can suddenly make me feel irritated, hurt, disconnected, or significantly lower than I felt moments before. Other times, music, exciting plans, attention, or something new can make me feel noticeably better, but the feeling often fades, and I return to my usual baseline. I also struggle with feeling dissatisfied or emotionally empty even when nothing particularly bad is happening.

I’m trying to understand whether this sounds like emotional dysregulation, a depressive pattern with mood fluctuations, or something else.

Does anyone relate to this? What are your mood fluctuations like, and have you figured out what causes them?

Do you think these apps are designed to keep us scrolling, or have we just lost the ability to take a proper break? What's the longest you've accidentally scrolled?

I was talking with my buddy about nostalgic childhood stuff today, and those classic horror book came up in conversation. We were laughing about how obsessed everyone was with reading them under the blankets after lights out. It got me thinking about whether those monster stories truly gave us chills, or if part of the fun was just staying up late and scaring ourselves on purpose because it made us feel grown up.

Does anybody else feel like the spooky atmosphere under the blanket was scarier than the actual book plots?