earlier today my girlfriend messaged me saying this: “I haven’t been feeling like myself and this week isn’t the first time I’ve felt like this. I don’t feel like my body belongs to me like it belongs to someone else

My parents usually abuse me emotionally and verbally; it is almost like I am detached from the whole family and I wish for the day in which I would leave my parent’s house for good and live on my own.

From a teen in the U.K.: I am terrified to enter a relationship with a man because I’m convinced I’ll be murdered by him. I’ve made plans for when I’m older and potentially in a relationship with a man to

When I was either 6-7, I was at my mom’s friend’s house. My mom and her friend left me and the other child alone that day; I knew her we would play sometimes previously when I was at the friend’s

I feel like there could be some psychological reason as to why I get so upset whenever my parents leave for a few hours. Currently, I live at home with my parents but if they go out and don’t tell

From a 13 year old boy in the U.S.:  i have a friend that suffers from anxiety and depression, it hasn’t been diagnosed yet due to her not feeling comfortable talking to adults about it. She has scars on her