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My Husband is letting depression win.

This year, literally the past six months, it seems like my husband is letting his depression win. He’s always upset, angry and/or depressed. There’s always a trigger that sends him into a negative thought loop, but the thoughts that seem to keep popping up is that he’s lonely and it’s all his fault, and that he’s never going to amount to anything because he doesn’t earn enough money. He upset about not having friends to hang out with, yet he won’t try to stay committed to anyone long enough to gain a friendship. He’s upset about not being able to afford everything his heart desires because his job won’t pay him enough money. Then he cites both of these things as being reasons as to why this life isn’t worth living. He gets livid and irate. He ends up mad at every little thing. I don’t know what else to do. He’s gone to therapy for years. He refuses to go on medication unless it’s the medicine he wants. I’ve tried my hardest to be supportive and to be there for him, but I really just don’t know what to do. He’s fine for one week then the next he’s mad at the world or himself. It’s a constant vicious cycle. I love him, but I’m exhausted and at my wits end. #Depression #exhausted #help

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from “Safehouse” by MILCK & Mira Housey

There was once a girl who lived in a round house
Her room had a window with a view of the whole town
She felt lonely though, whenever she looked out

Cause the people of her town loved tall, thin, straight lines
They made fun of her house from the outside
"Round little homes don't make good skylines"

But then one day an earthquake hit
Their tall skinny houses fell to piles of bricks
And her round little house rolled right thru the streets

With every neighbor she rolled by
She'd show forgiveness in her eyes
With arms wide open, took them by surprise

She said
I'll carry you out of the rubble
Be your shelter when yours start to crumble
I will be there if you'll let me
It don't matter the shape of your own house
I got plenty of room so just stay now

You'll be safe in my safe house

Her house rolled on, with her neighbors in it
Till they heard a crash, turns out her house hit
Something hard…
She ran outside, eager to see

To her surprise it was a another kid’s home
Round and quirky just like her own
When they locked eyes she felt relief
Like the long lost friend she had yet to meet

"I've never met somebody else like me
Who learned to live a life built differently"

She said
I'll carry you out of the rubble
Be your shelter when yours start to crumble
I will be there if you'll let me
It don't matter the shape of your own house
I got plenty of room so just stay now
We’ll watch from the inside how it plays out
You'll be safe in my safe house

Everyone felt more invited
They made homes of all shapes and sizes

It don't matter the shape of your own house
We got plenty of room, so just stay now
(Just stay now, just stay now)
You'll be safe in my safe house

#artastherapy #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #MentalHealth #Grief #neurodivergence #Autism #ADHD

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I don't know how to feel

The kinky community we belong to has a dinner event 2x per month and I desperately want to go. Pauley said she's not going until she gets her teeth fixed. She's not even thinking about actually getting them fixed. She's not working anymore. She just plucks her legs and reads Wikipedia articles all day. She's not doing any billing like I asked her to do. She just won't. I don't know what to do.
Part of me thinks I should go without her. I want to make new friends and have a social life. I'm lonely.

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Too many feelings

I was adopted as a baby.
Today I'm lost, I'm 54 and sooo lost.
Forget this bulshit of gratitude and adopted parents saviors.
Being adopted is always a loss. And you the world act like you have no right to mourn.
That is it: you don't have 2 families when you find the biological one, you have none!
I'm trying to come to terms with all that, and I'm upset, I'm angry, I'm lonely.
Sucks!
#adopted , #Adoption .

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🌱 Holding On to Hope: A Letter from My Heart

There are days when my chest feels like it’s caving in. When the weight of motherhood, medicine, and simply being human all collide into a tangled knot that sits heavy on my ribs. On those days, I whisper little mantras to myself:

> “This is not forever. You have made it through worse. Breathe. Begin again.”
I’ve been many things in this life — a daughter, a doctor, a dreamer, a single mother navigating the unpredictable tides of life in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I’ve held hands that were warm with hope, and hands that grew cold as life slipped quietly away. I’ve witnessed first breaths and final breaths, and somewhere in between, I found my own breath — fragile yet determined.

🌸 Motherhood: My softest place and my fiercest battle

Being a mother is my sweetest role. It’s also the most terrifying.
My children are these little galaxies of giggles, questions, and breathtaking innocence. They trust me to build their world — even when I feel like I’m still figuring out my own.

I stay up at night running numbers: tuition fees, grocery costs, visa rules, dreams of a better life. I battle guilt and exhaustion, but every morning when Saamarah and Nihaan look up at me with sleepy eyes and say, “Ma, come play!” — it’s like the sun comes up inside my chest.

💉 Medicine: The profession that broke me and built me

I chose medicine because I wanted to heal.
Truth is, sometimes it hurt more than it healed.
Long shifts, watching young patients with cancer, seeing families fracture under grief — it all leaves scars.

But it also gave me a tenderness I wouldn’t trade for anything. I’ve become a collector of stories — stories of resilience, of heartbreak, of miracles. Each patient taught me something about the art of being human.

💔 Loss and loneliness

I lost my father not long ago. A grief that was sharp and strange. A part of me still expects to hear his voice on the other end of the phone, asking, “Khawa daowa thikmoto hocche?” (Are you eating well?)

Losing family changes you. It cracks open the places you’ve carefully plastered over. But in that rawness, I’ve also found compassion — for myself, and for everyone else stumbling through life with unseen bruises.

🌱 Hope: The quiet hero of my story

Here’s what I’ve learned:
Even on the darkest days, hope whispers.
Sometimes it sounds like my children laughing on the rooftop, chasing pigeons.
Sometimes it’s the gentle voice inside that says, “You’re allowed to dream again.”

I’m planning a new chapter now — higher studies abroad, new horizons, maybe even writing more openly about mental health and motherhood. I’m terrified. But I’m also exhilarated. Because life, with all its messiness, keeps inviting me to grow.

💌 If you’re reading this…

Maybe you’re a tired parent. Maybe you’re battling something private. Maybe you’re just trying to survive another ordinary day.
I want you to know: you’re not alone.
It’s okay to cry in the shower, to drink cold coffee, to feel both grateful and overwhelmed at the same time.

Hold on. Keep going.
There are sunrises ahead that will make you grateful you stayed.

❤️ With love from my messy, magical corner of the world,
Tamanna

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I’m new here

Hi everyone am here because I got betrayed and hurt and I don’t really want to be here anymore but am trying to find people who I can connect with and build myself back up better #Depression #Anxiety #Grief #lonely

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I’m new here

Hi everyone am here because I got betrayed and hurt and I don’t really want to be here anymore but am trying to find people who I can connect with and build myself back up better #Depression #Anxiety #Grief #lonely

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