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I'm a college freshman, and this is my second semester. The work has been piling up and is making me feel stressed out. I can't talk to my boyfriend about it because he's experiencing the same thing, and he works full-time (I'm working part-time). Sometimes I feel like he invalidates my experience just because he works full-time and is a full-time student. When I talk about how stressed I am about something, he will downplay it and talk about his problems and how he has it worse. I've been struggling with my mental health lately, and struggling with that on top of my work has exhausted me, and I've been self-harming and feeling so guilty and horrible and sluggish and unmotivated. I'm just so tired and feel like I have no one. My family doesn't understand that they can't just "pray away" my mental health problems or "think positively" and I'll just feel better. They don't completely understand what I'm going through and downplay my issues as well. I tried to go to therapy, but my therapist kept cutting me off and telling me to stop talking negatively about myself when I'm just trying to talk about how I'm feeling. I just feel like people think that there's a single solution to my problem or a single diagnosis or label. I feel like my experiences and feelings are complex, but people are making it seem like it's not that complicated. I just have no one.
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Im in the same boat as you what Im doing is going to tutoring 100% and yes I have friends I would like to talk to but I need to focus I suggest studying in the morning and before bed if you can.
ReplyYou should have taken notice when your therapist told you to stop talking in a negative way about yourself because by doing this you make things worse for yourself. Try from now on to talk in a positive way about yourself. This way you will feel lifted and better than you did. Please return to your therapist and go on with the treatment. Also get as much rest as you possibly can.
ReplyContinued: changing your attitude will help you a lot too. If you stop feeling sorry for yourself and dwelling on the negative you will begin to get better.
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