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[Members]Farewell/Taking a Break/Returning Thread: Send Your Regards
by MonBon
Last post
 4 hours ago
...See more We often time come to 7 cups in search of something: -Someone who understands -Someone to talk to -Someone who will listen -Someone to keep us company Many of us find that - which is awesome! However, there may come a time when as a member, you are ready to leave. And that is okay. It doesn't have to be forever or even an awfully long time. Maybe you are leaving to go out to eat with friends for the first time in weeks or months. Let us know so we can send you off with warm regards!
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Listener Classifieds (February 2025) Members, Check Out Our Listeners Accepting New Chats!
by Heather225
Last post
 February 14th
...See more Hello, February! This space is for Listeners currently accepting chats to introduce themselves to the member community! Members, if any listeners pique your interest, you can then check out their bios and see if they might be a good fit for you! Here are some things you can consider sharing (only share what's comfortable): Are you an adult, teen or ATL? Gender: Languages you speak: Topics you'll support: Topics you don’t support: Lived experience: Are you open to taking on members for long-term listening support? Your availability (in EST time) and day(s) if applicable:
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NAMI Oath
by Kate
Last post
 February 13th
...See more Any new member of the NAMI Community who introduces themselves and takes the NAMI Oath will receive the NAMI Oath Badge. Please copy, paste, sign and date the following NAMI Oath within this thread: NAMI Oath I pledge a moral oath before my fellow active listeners, 7 Cups members and NAMI supporters. I pledge to help support NAMI's mission and to dedicate myself to building better lives for anyone affected by mental illness. I pledge to always try my best to be a positive influence and make a difference in the lives of others. I pledge to be #stigmafree and respectful of anyone who may be experiencing a mental health challenge. I will educate, advocate and listen to others' experiences without judgment or bias. I will encourage acceptance and understanding. When I see that someone needs more than the peer support I can provide, I will refer them to professional help and appropriate resources. I pledge to make my own self-care a priority and recognize when I need to take extra time to take care of my own mental health. I will keep these promises and I will do everything in my power to promote mental health, healing, and wellness within myself, my fellow members and my world. I believe that no one should face mental illness alone and I pledge to provide peer support to anyone who reaches out to the NAMI Community for help. Signed: Date:
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"The feeling of shame, guilt, and fear of failure."
by sunny7997
Last post
 7 hours ago
...See more I recently realized that I was suffering from wrong thinking, especially since I was following some scientists. In energy, their content was somewhat misleading. After I discovered the truth, it was a shock that brought me back to my senses and reality, and I am slowly trying to correct my mistakes. Imagine that for two years I did not ask for a work certificate until recently. I am shocked. Is it a shock and a distortion of my thinking? And the people I was following and I thought they were guiding me to the right path could not help me, but once I stopped following their delusions and resorted to God and recovered properly, my vision became clear, but I still have some fears, but I am better than before because those things made me feel that I was in control of my reality, and thus I feel very guilty. They were conflicting beliefs. Recently, I discovered that my addiction to social media also distorted my perception of myself, so I immersed myself in those energy sciences and was drawn into anesthetizing my mother, and I thought I was curing her. 
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A last conversation with ex friend
by WatchingThemorningBirds
Last post
 9 hours ago
...See more So recently I cut friendship with a a girl, did it in person. At the time she didnt receive it well and yesterday she sent me a message with some thoughts she wanted to get out.  I didnt take it well, the massage itself wasnt bad intentioned but still it really stressed me for several reasons. So I admit that I was a bit impulsive and there was a little chain of hurt messages from one another. But we could give it a conclusion and in decently respectful ways blocked each other. End to that. Now, I think I will do fine. I can come to terms with it. It was difficult for me that I gave recognition to her hurt and feelings and apologized for making her feel bad. But she wasnt willing to apologize for nothing. So I became a bit flustered. But I can accept this. I think. After all, her words that hurt me so much came out because she was in fact also so hurt. And same for me. Basically, we both hurting. So I can forgive it and forgive myself too. A pace. That I guess is enough that I do it with myself at least.  Of course, I still need some time to get better. But im satisfied and im glad. Hope for a better future. Love 
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Please study on time, don't regret later
by NoobLife
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 3 days ago
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Just venting a Relationship
by TheBestScreenName
Last post
 Wednesday
...See more So I'm singles in my 40s; male, no kids blah blah blah. Met a lady my age, in a chat room off this site, and we clicked, been talking to her for a year via text an FB, her story is complicated but in short, she is stuck in a marriage she is no longer in love with, and she is living in the same house as a room mate basically, since she cant afford to be on her own. I have no reason to believe she is lieing to me, she doesnt ask me for anything and we do not talk daily but try to talk 2-3 times a week. Today i finally had a vid chat with her on FB, my anxiety made it hard to relax, and i got bored like 5 min into being on the chat.. and im like wtf am I doing. I find myself to be really bizarre, I have no social life irl due to social anxiety disorder, im not bad looking, i have great qualities about me, cons are I am unemployed with no car, but i got an idea to fix that. an im realzing how lonely I am in life, and for the past few months this gal is always on my mind, and part of me really does love her, or at least talking to her, and I think the vid chat, kinda moved more into the, I love her as a friend,  which I guess is a good thing, but it puts me back into why am I always waiting to talk to her, I talk to other people online I dont focus on them as much as I do her. I just dont know. I wish she had not told me she loved me I think that threw me for a loop, because it was New Years Eve of last year and she threw it out rather non chalant,  so that should maybe tell me she loves me as a friend as well. which i know she does, but i guess i mean, i shouldnt need her to explain to me what level she loves me.  i just get exhausted with thinking about this.  im like, can i live without her, yes, would i be intimate with her, yes, am I eager to be intimate with her, no, do i see myself having a good solid relationship with her, if her life was not so messy,  yes,,,  there is just this level of i think indifference and uncertainty in me, on one hand she cheers me up and is great to talk to, and i can invision myself really enjoying spending time with her, on the other hand, she doesnt show any real level of interest in me other than when she i guess to what I assume is bored and tells me she misses me, she doesnt ask me how i have been, etc, but to be honest..... I have never met a woman, who was interested me and asked me how I am doing, how was your day etc. and that has always hurt. so any small attention I get from a woman who like this one does, tells me on occasion she misses me, that i am cute and adorable and funny, it means a lot to me. but i notice the other things, the not asking how i am doing, etc.  and I find it sad, that my own sister, took her time, to make me a hand drawn valentines day card, and told me, that she was sending it to me, and sadly, i had to be the first to reach out to this friend of mine and wish her a happy valentines day, i mean come on. I tell myself come on, I know better. and maybe, im just wanting too much or I want myself to be in love with her, when it just isnt there, and it is coming to a point now, where, after this vid chat, i feel like, I have to start slowly ever so slowly distancing myself. and i really dont want to distance myself from her. cause sadly she is all i got. im tired of being alone, i want to be in love, i want to love someone, and i guess im not sure if i am settling, which maybe to a degree i am, or am i ready to just say i am choosing to love this person and i am willing to accept no one is perfect and what i expect isn't realistic.  an honestly I deal with such internal suicidal ideation and passive tendenicies , that i should honestly just dedicate myself, to myself in terms of only focus on staying alive and not bother with relationships or friendships even. Cause my life has always been a struggle, ( whos' hasnt " )  but I just feel like, this rope i have been hanging on to all my life, instead of climbing up it, i keep losing my grip, and i slide a bit lower to the end of it every year, and that it wouldnt take but one more really good swing of the rope, to shake me off it. and I have had a couple really good swings thus far to have knocked me so far down this rope. and after awhile i just hang on the rope going what's the point. and i tell myself to not hurt my family for one, and really that is the only honest reason i hang on. not cause life might get better or because there is a chance that there is the right woman who will love me in the proper way that is a two way relationship / recipricol, or how ever ya spell it ( enjoy the typos and errors  i got a screen of red underlined words ). or maybe i just need to succumb to the idea that socializing online and having a sad online relationship is the most i can hope for in any meaningful way.
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Constant state of exhaustion
by humangreed
Last post
 February 11th
...See more Hey everyone, I'm new here. I wanna preface this by saying I've "graduated" from therapy in 2023 and was in therapy for give or take 7 years before that. In December after tapering off my medication for months I was also officially taken off my antidepressants. In a lot of aspects I'm better than I used to be, but I still feel like I'm nowhere near a functional person and never will be. My room is a nightmare and I can never gather enough energy to clean up more than just a few pieces of garbage at a time. I can't work and live off financial aid, which I'm grateful for but doesn't fund a lot so I can't pay someone to help me clean. The last few days have been awful, my best friend and partner ended up in the hospital on the same day, while my best friend is recovering well my partner's health is getting worse in an alarming way. I can't do anything about it and I feel like I can't do anything to improve the situation I live in. I'm honestly just disappointed in myself that after all these years of therapy I still feel this useless. I'm so damn ashamed because I truly don't want to live this way, I'm just so damn tired. Being autistic doesn't help because so many tasks overwhelm me so bad I can't even hold my head up.
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My experience in 7 cups
by Trustyourheart
Last post
 February 4th
...See more Hello all, I've been a listener here for more than 9 years now. It's been such an enriching experience making some really close friends. I've had some chats which I'll cherish forever.  The platform has helped so many and there are such amazing listeners who're all here to hear you out. More power to each and every one out there ❤️ 
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tryingtosurvive2024 my user name explained
by tryingtosurvive2024
Last post
 February 3rd
...See more Yes I survived 2024!  💖 Anyways this username shows how dumb and human I can be.  Everyone makes mistakes, and I make my fair share of them!  The 2024 at the end of my user name is a mistake.  When I was joining 7Cups I was also thinking about my problems in life, and how I feel like I'm just trying to survive.  You know how on the internet, when you make up a username, putting a number at the end of it, makes it different from anyone else who might also use the same username.  Since the year was 2024 I just went with that number.  I wasn't thinking how funny it would sound once 2025 came around. This is not the first time, and it probably won't be the last time, I've done something stupid like this...  Back in 2013 I was trying to learn how to use Linux.  Linux is a computer operating system.  I joined a linux forum using a user name like:  trying to learn linux with add.  That probably wasn't my exact user name.  It upset people and I got attacked for it.  Cause they took it that I wanted them to go easy on me.  I guess I wasn't thinking clear enough then either.  What I remember was, I was on a social anxiety site, thinking about my mental problems.  I was thinking about how having ADHD/ADD has made my life difficult and in someways has defined me.  So taking that on the end of my user name felt like a good idea, that backfired.  Due to how I got treated on the linux forum I ended up leaving it.  I didn't stop trying to learn linux, but I stopped using that particular forum. Unfortunately user names can get you into trouble, even if your intentions are not bad.
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Ever feel alone?
by achris2831
Last post
 January 26th
...See more Hey everyone, I'm new here and giving this online support group a go. I live with my wife and 2 children, my 10 yo son who has autism and my 8 yo daughter. My wife has been experiencing intense health issues, including going from being able to hike 3 years ago to now being in a wheel chair. We are still trying to get a diagnosis for all her health stuff, having seen pain specialists, rheumatologist, a geneticist and others. I work full time to provide financially, handle the parenting duties, care for my wife, and take care of the household chores. I'm grateful for my wife and children, they're amazing. It's just at times the heaviness and stress gets to me and there's times I feel lonely - anyone else have that? What do you do?
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Roleplaying On Social Media Addiction
by hopefulencounter
Last post
 January 20th
...See more Hi guys, I'm new here. I want to share my story, I think I do have social media addiction especially it's an addiction of roleplaying as fictional character. So like, I write story, replies as this fictional character I really like from a game. I know it sounds silly, right? At first I had a lot of fun roleplaying with friends, I made some good online friends. But then this one friend who I really trusted betrayed me by taking my place. So they created a new account of the same character that I roleplayed as, without telling me. It really upset me because, they used to be my roleplay partner, but there they were, playing as the same character with no partner, freely interacting with their fans. On the other side, they told me they needed a break. I wasn't suspicious at all, of their sudden need of break. But then it became more frequent, they're rarely online on the account that was paired with me as their partner. I feel really mad, it still upset me until today. How they took my place like that, how they outshined my spot. This whole drama caused me to leave that roleplaying community, but even after months of break from roleplaying, I still feel sad until yesterday. Thinking how they gained a lot of popularity, how those people supported him without knowing they're a bad person. Roleplaying was so much fun.. I even think of returning again after what happened to me but then I realized it's better if I completely leave that hobby forever.  And what makes me feel so sad, is that everytime i look at that fictional character, I got reminded of them. I remember their betrayal again. But i still love that game character, I really love it. I'm having a really hard time to let go, to leave roleplaying , the thing that I used to love 😔. How do I move on completely? How can I love that character without constantly being reminded of what happened?? Thanks for hearing my story, I'm hoping for some advice on letting go ❤️ 
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about your day.
by faithypooh00
Last post
 January 8th
...See more Hey everyone. I hope everyone had good day! If you don't mind I would love to hear about everybody's day. I will start with mine.  I woke up at 6 a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep so I just started on my school work cause there was school today for me (I'm kinda suspended so I have to do everything online) so anyways then I basically made makeup all went to work for a while and now I have to go back at 2200 hours (10 p.m.). Now I just sit in my room and listen to Tate McRae and eat popcorn till I have to go to work.  so now that I have shared it's your turn.  with all of my love, I will be waiting, @faithypooh00
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I don't know what to do.
by Charlietheshark
Last post
 December 30th, 2024
...See more My name is Charlie. I’m currently 16. I have a girlfriend. I’m a girl that’s somewhat masc. I’d say I act like a gay boy. My girlfriend is 17 and is just a full on tomboy. We’ll call her “AL” for here. She’s got short hair, always wears baggy clothes, and could probably out-wrestle most of the guys in our school. She’s fiercely protective, sometimes a little *too* protective. She doesn't like my bisexuality, constantly questioning who I talk to, checking my phone, and getting jealous even when I'm just talking to a guy friend about a video game. The constant nagging and suspicion are wearing me down. I love her, but I’m starting to feel suffocated. Last week, she saw me talking to Mark, a friend from my art class. Nothing happened; we just chatted about a painting project. But AL flipped. She grabbed my arm, hard enough to leave a bruise. She called me names, accused me of flirting, and then…things got physical. She pinned me against the lockers. She kept repeating that I was hers, that I couldn't look at another guy. That I couldn’t *be* bisexual. It was terrifying. I tried to explain, to tell her I didn’t do anything wrong. I know I NEED to tell my parents but they’ll be even more upset that I’m with a girl than anything. And I just feel so stuck.
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The open book of Danny: ask me anything
by DRHerrington
Last post
 December 13th, 2024
...See more Hello. I'm Danny. Feel free to ask me anything, or respond to my personal journal here.

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