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What Is Depression?

What Is Depression?
Depression is a serious mood and mental health disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and acts. With that being said, the symptoms of depression include persistent sadness, loss of interest, fatigue, and sleep or appetite changes. On the other hand, it is often caused by a combination of biological, genetic, and environmental factors and is treatable with therapies like psychotherapy and medication, and often requires professional help for diagnosis and management. Last but not least, untreated depression can lead to severe consequences, including relationship problems, substance misuse, and suicidal thoughts.

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Write a free verse reflection poem about a core memory.

A “core memory” (a phrase popularized in part by the 2015 movie Inside Out) is a significant moment or experience that stays with you and shapes you in some way. Core memories often connect to strong emotions — joy, fear, love, embarrassment, pride, belonging — and become experiences you can recall clearly even years later. They might be impactful conversations, milestones, turning points, once-in-a-lifetime adventures, difficult truths, important relationships, “firsts,” flashes of clarity, or life lessons.

Here is my poem:

The Tears that Shaped Me

The hallway glowed a bright yellow.
It was dark outside,
and I carried a faint excitement
that maybe it would be a good night for me.

My long dress — my favorite color — that exact shade of sky blue you see at noon on a cloudless June day with a soft, warm breeze.

Only then did I realize
I had no idea how to move in this space, how to belong here.

I walked into the lunchroom,
strange and unfamiliar in its new arrangement.
I missed my mom the moment she slipped away, leaving as quickly as she arrived.

Two hours, then three.
I watched, a puzzle piece that didn’t fit, a quiet spectator taking notes, seeing everything through a microscope.

I wasn’t “picked” that night.
Invisible.

A dance — a tiny stamp of approval — was nowhere for me.
This chapter of my life ended right then, ushering in a transition I didn’t ask for.

Was I even there?
Did it even happen?

Tears soaked the dress
until it became its own rainy day.
My chest tightened.
Regret and sadness painted my heart in black, burgundy, and navy blue. The sunny June afternoon turned into a December midnight storm —
cold and unwelcoming.

The unchosen.
A title I still carry,
a backpack glued to my shoulders.

Share yours below. 📜

#MightyPoets #Journaling #CheckInWithMe #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #Disability #ChronicIllness #RareDisease #ChronicPain

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What Does The Phrase Walking On Eggshells Mean?

What Does The Phrase Walking On Eggshells Mean?
The phrase "walking on eggshells" means to be extremely careful about what you say or do around someone because they are known to be easily upset, offended, or angered. On the contrary, this cautious behavior is also intended to avoid conflict or a negative reaction much like one would tread carefully to avoid breaking fragile eggshells. Last but not least, this phrase is often even used to describe relationships where one person feels a constant sense of tension and fear.

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I am https://approachable.I know a gossip and I am, not, to them.#CBT

I never enjoyed sitting around people who, judge,mock,belittle,put down,criticize and try to discredit people, for having a seperate life experience, difficult upbringing and outloud bigots, gross. I do have an extremely low tolerance for juveniles relationships,with coy and flat https://affect.I do have a sense of humor,darker than some anticipate.
I am approachable, if you are genuine, kind and https://forthcoming.I will make you uncomfortable, if you are on script,fake and an accomplice.

I do not have time and grace for those with malicious https://intent.And those that have attempted to puposefully put me there, I am not, who I was, then As, none of us https://are.I am all the names you have been using,plus more, just like your daughters and https://grandmothers.I am all the rage, anger and regret, you've been told, to be https://quiet.I am every bit, in tuned to the game, that has been played on https://me.I am sorry and relieved, I am better than before.And, I remember all of https://it.For that, I am https://grateful.Keep trying though.

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My faults#DBT #CBT #

I write as a way to express https://myself.I do not have anyone to talk to on a regular https://basis.Ive been told, I like to hear my own voice, that one hurt. I have my art, writing,my son, my pets and small https://goals.I do not have friends anymore. When your health flips, your mind goes whppidy doo, https://too.Then your mental health becomes, top priority and it is not easy, at https://all.There is no faking https://it.I realized, a few years ago, I had less than a https://handful.I depended too much on my spouse,one friend,who actually didnt even like me and a https://frenemy.I do consider, a group of women, I shared a classroom with,my lead teachers, my https://friends.All of our lives, are busy, but that bond,will never sever for https://me.I have had enough, of
Relatives who are nice to my face but gossip when I https://left.I found, a majority of people in my world, did that, to https://everyone.Certain ones, have spent yheir entire lives spreading a narrative.So, I removed myself. I only became more aggressive and outside my character.
I cannot grow when all around me stays, as https://is.I cannot be,the only one looking for growth, accountability and change, to only be met with stonewalling and https://defensiveness.To expect someone to have a expiration date, to their own discovery, is wrong.in two months, you must be https://healed.Are you serious!

Not knowing the layers of trauma, a person has been through,is why, you don't play judge and Jury, to someone elses experience.
You sit with them, learn, at their pace, what is unraveling and https://why.Not set up to destruct to https://rebuild.That is playing with an order, already set, that noone but that individual, can https://dismantle.You are doing a disservice to your loved one, if you think, you know best.you only know, your perception, not theirs.

If You, will not, by choice,communicate, answer openly, or share insightful thoughts, engage and be vulnerable,I do not want to be around you.

If you, chastise,shame and belittle me, for my past, to https://others.I do not want you,in my life or around me or mine.You're toxic and talk poisons, not support.

I want open minded,pure heart,self aware, no shame and no more $$ transactional relationships.
If you give me a gift, do not hold it over me, later, to get something you https://want.I do not keep score with kindness.

I am done with petty jaded gossip,enabling meanness and https://ugliness.And if Im a bitch for it, please, call me a https://bitch.My boundaries, have turned me into the https://asshole.I understand this.

I am bullying the https://bully.Im sick of watching people get away with mocking, belittling and denying someone elses struggles and https://experience.Who does that?

Projecting your inadequacy on to me, is weak and goes unwarranted.
I am good alone, when the company, you keep, stabs its own on the regular.
Sometimes loyalty protects those for shame and for history sake, rather true character. I will find out more as the weeks go https://on.I will keep writing, resting and building. All I can https://do.I will not be forced to "heal" at anyone, elses https://pace.When you delay the process,hiding truths, you compound the fall. And I wont apologize for being transparent, because I was.
I will not pander, to hiding parts of myself, for a couple people to feel comfortable with their own https://issues.Stay in your own lane, even when invited.

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I didn't realize until last night what it feels like to be safe again. I didn't even realize I hadn't been feeling safe for the past 2 years. I didn't realize someone doesn't have to hit you for it to be an abusive relationship, although I was always scared he would. There is a thin line between love and hate. And once he realized I was leaving, the mask fell and I saw who he's always been. I don't deny the mistakes I've made, I've even sat down to apologize, but my kindness is usually taken advantage of. I was trying to be the bigger person, but he's forced me out of the house because my mental health has declined so rapidly living with him. I could really use some encouragement today. I have to go back to grab my cats and I'm scared.

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All About Emotional Intelligence

All About Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EI), or Emotional Quotient (EQ), is the ability to understand, manage, and use one’s own emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of others. It has many benefits such as an enhanced work performance, stronger relationships, as well as better communication and decision making skills. Lastly, the components of Emotional Intelligence include self-awareness or the ability to recognize one’s own emotions, how they affect one’s behavior, their strengths, and their weaknesses, self-regulation or the ability to manage one emotions and impulses, think before acting, and regulate your emotional responses, motivation or a drive to achieve goals for reasons other than external rewards such as money or status, empathy or the ability to understand the emotions and perspectives of others and to respond appropriately and social skills or the ability to build and maintain relationships, communicate effectively, manage conflict, and work with others.

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I'm proud of myself today. I don't like asking for help because I don't want to be a bother, a mooch, or be seen as weak. I decided to finally talk to my family about my situation and they all said they would help. All I kept thinking before was that everyone would be annoyed and not want to help. In reality, they all asked me why I didn't reach out sooner. I felt like I deserved all the mistreatment and harsh words I was receiving, but I know all people make mistakes. I surely have, but I am trying to tell myself this applies to me. It's easy to tell someone else, but I don't always think it applies to me. I'm trying to work on loving myself now that I'm out of my abusive relationship

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