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Hi I'm Kirsten and I've struggled with anxiety for as long as I can remember. I grew up in a broken home with my parents always fighting and yelling at either me or my brother. Though it's still like this today, I've kind of learned to cope with it. My friends tend to make fun of me when I get nervous about something little like just asking the teacher for a pencil but I cannot do it without my face getting red and my hands shaking and my breathing getting insanely irregular.

Now that I've been on 7 Cups for a couple of weeks and gotten a feel for things, I thought it was time to introduce myself.

My name is Kate. Have you seen the Disney movie "Tangled"? Congratulations, you've seen my origin story.

In truth, this Rapunzel didn't free herself from the tower until she was 27, and the damage was long-past. The emotional and psychological abuse (Mother Goethel has NOTHING on the things my mom would say), left me devastatingly insecure, with a good deal of social anxiety, and horrible general anxiety, panic attacks, and PTSD.

I have my rollercoaster of recovery like everyone else does, and the last six months have actually been a pretty big dip, but it was helpful to find 7 Cups and the wonderful Listeners and Forums full of kind and understanding people. I appreciate you all so much!

Hello, I am a full time caregiver for my father who has vascular dementia and alzheimer's. I have asperger's syndrome and right now my anxiety and depression are having a turf war..... Night time is the worst, I spend the night worrying about decisions I have made and decisions I need to make. What the next day will hold....what new developement do I have to try and cope with.... the list goes on and on.....

Reading everyone's post here have made me feel like my experience is little compared to what others have suffered. However, I know that other's pain does not disqualify my pain.

I grew up in a nuclear family. I had a great father, mother and a brother. We were not exactly economically stable but we managed.

While my mother went out of the state to do a project from her work, we invited an abused woman and her children to our house. She was running away but there was no space for her in the care program... So my mother took her in.

My father cheated on my mother, he slept with the runaway woman while my mom was out working.

I felt betrayed, grossed out since I was the one catching them on the act.

He kicked us out of the house and sold our car. Left us with nothing so that this other family could take in. I really loved my father, but his actions broke me apart. I haven't ever seen him as my father again. Just a sperm doner.

My mother worked 4 jobs to feed both of her children, never resting and constantlyy getting sick.

At school, I was verbally and physically abused by my classmates because I was fat and ugly. I was targeted on every group of people I joined, locked inside the restroom till night, pushed around and laughed at. And the teachers couldn't do anything because most of the kids had rich parents who bribed the principal to not expell them.

I was bullied at school and home was lonely and miserable. I used to pinch my fingers with needles and watch the blood drip from them, it was my way of coping. It stinged when I tried to hold anything.

Life was nothing but pain for years, I couldn't bare to see my mother cry every night and my brother attempting suicide.

This year, however, it's better. We live in another country, bought a small house and be economically stable. My past left a scar and now I have sever social anxiety, I struggle on trusting people and opening up. I'm currently into pet therapy since I refused to talk with a therapist. I have a dog and I'm reallt happy. I joined this great group of people who understand my struggles and have common interests.

Things do get better. Trust me.

Hi.. I've come here to try and seek help I guess. I've been through dealing with anxiety and depression since very early teens. I thought I had over come this I've been doing so well the past year. But I've just had a miscarriage and I'm back to square one. The feeling of wanting to hurt myself is back, the lack of interest in my diabetes is back, the lack of controlling it so now I lose weight is back. I need to talk.

I've suffered from anxiety (especially social anxiety) and self hatred for a while. I grew up being bullied by someone who was once a pretty close friend of mine. I have a few friends now, but my my closest friend seems to not really care about me at all. I try to be happy and confident every day but it's hard for me, I feel like I'm wearing a mask. I feel like nobody really cares how I feel. I mentally abuse myself, I always think negatively towards myself. It's hard for me to have a normal conversation and when I do, I always screw it up somehow. I love being around people but I hate having to struggle through a conversation with someone.

Most of my teen years I was homeless and living off of "family friends" who took advantage of my willingness to earn my keep. 10 years later, I ended up in an emotionally abusive relationship which threw me into a self loathing spiral, although I managed to break out of the relationship over 2 years years ago, I have just now began to heal the wounds caused by my childhood and previous abuses (self or otherwise).

I'm Eric and I get upset and say sorry for just existing it seems anymore. i don't know what to do, but I admitted to my family that I need to go to therapy. I think I will feel better in the furture. I just wish I could see myself as someone good. I want to be happy and not worry about everything.

Hi everybody!

My name is Charly and i've been struggling with anxiety and agoraphobia for a while now. I'm seeing a therapist so that's new but agoraphobia is still a huge thing in my life.
For people who don't know what agoraphobia is, it makes me don't want to go outside, if i'm at a public place im freaking out. So that makes my life not that much fun for a 21 year old girl. i'm kinda holding on tho, some weeks are good some week are bad I guess a lot of people can relate to that.

So if anyone is also having problems with anxiety and agoraphobia maybe we can chat about it, help eachother etc.

Thanks for reading,
Cheers, Charly xx

Hey I am Kate just moved to a new school.......small town........ Halfway through high school have been bullied since gr3 suffered eating disorders since gr4 and self harmed from gr6-9 currently in gr11 I have anxiety........but talk to my mom and it's not anxiety just stress..........don't sleep at night........its just because of screens not my nightmares or anxiety........ I feel so bad about being here sometimes and then I eel guilty about that because I have it soooo good food in my stomach a warm home etc. When some ppl don't have that. I am not suicidal anymore but I still hate myself so much sometimes and it's so hard.......I feel like I have no one currently my anxiety is the problem because it propels my sleepless nights and I am pretty sure it affects my feeling of inadequacy but I just don't know how to stop it tips?