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Severe depression and anger

Dear people here,

I have been in a relationship with someone, she was also someone who introduced me to this app, so maybe she might see my post maybe not.. but in writing here because I neeeeeeeed help. I used to be religious person, I used to pray, I used to ask God to help me. My ex has caused me lot of pain, since one year, she promised me to replace me and I’m someone who is very sensitive it killed me. Even though I attended her birthday and I made her happy. But I couldn’t be like before ( before I was into marriage with her and I offered her that) but she rejected me like I was trash, she said things that hurted me. Since that time and the relationship was toxic, in my birthday she blocked me. And in the same week she met someone on the train and she shared her number… from that moment I closed it inside me… and two month ago, she tried to contact me again. I knew that the other guy intention was not friendship as she said.. anyway I rejected her and she tried sooo hard to break the ice I built inside me. She said she is psycho… but yes she used to call me a lot of harsh words. That can break me and because I was crying a lot. She called me weak and she blocked me.. for some reasons since then I feel connected to her. For me she was my first person, my first friend and my first love. I give her everything with honesty. I wasn’t her first and she had dirty and broken past but I accepted it… I looked at the new her. But she never changed… I don’t want to tell too much details but at the moment I’m fully broken I can’t do any work. My family is in a place I can’t visit them. I don’t have real friends around me, I told one friend I thought he is close that I’m depressed he told me it’s not my business. I have lost all feelings to keep alive. I’m tired. Before I meet this girl I was so much strong.. I’m successful person in my life despite all that I have high educational degrees. But at the moment I don’t have job. After last degree I couldn’t be fine or be able to do well. I’m not playing victim role as she said. But I’m a sensitive person. She demolished me. And honestly I was so conservative that I only will meet one person and marry one person. I give her this chance after I trusted her. She take all my energy. I become wrong, I feel wrong of myself, now I wish her bad. I wish her to see the same pain she caused me. Sometimes I feel to revenge. Because I worked hard to move on from her and I paid all my savings on therapist. And when she came again she broke me. My wish is not something possible but I wish I never met her. I did loved her from the bottom of my heart, I tried to contact her again and she said we never know each other and she called me stranger. I know it’s my responsibility to stand on my feet and how to deal with that. But I have zero power. I don’t know what is the best way to forget her but I don’t want to forgive her. Even if this costs me all life. I want to let her feel what she did to me. I would say honestly that I want to die.. deeply speaking.. and even that when once I told her I’m tired I want to die, she called a loser. Nothing of showing her my weakness could stop her from having any mercy on me. But she have that huge ego, my therapist told me she is a borderline personality. I actually read and study and spend too much and talked to a lot of ppl and nothing works. I feel that I also lost my faith.. I also feel numb and cold and tears doesn’t want to go out. She traumatized me lot of times. And for me either I revenge or I die. And both are not good. But I don’t feel alive. At the beginning I used to wish for a warm hug. Now I don’t want anything, I also had this dream to build a family. She destroyed me and the dream. Not out of blame. But I had no experience. I was avoiding relationships because I had the belief of one and only one forever. Meanwhile I’m not able to tell my family my pain and I don’t have anyone who could help. I don’t need to go hospital or anything. I also can’t afford any more money to help myself I even went to travels I did everything to feel better but nothing works. They say the solution is within myself. There is nothing… I feel that I lost myself forever, and I swear to god that I wish her to feel the same exact pain she caused me. And I know revenge is not good. But I want to, let me regret it. But it should be done during my down time, because I never seen her when I needed her. I was sick, I was in the hospital I even had some achievement days where I have to meet people and smile but I go home. Weak and broken.

I’m not sure if I’m here asking for help. But I’m here to express that I wish her hellfire. And I believe that God is justice and if I don’t get my justice and if all that is fake I feel that I’m going to lose my faith. But I will work hard to keep it even if I killed myself. And honestly I become obsessed with the idea of asking God to take me.

I’m not sure what I can do more… but I’m like a broken glass ball that is melting from the heat of my anger… and I don’t wish her any good in her life. Because I lost myself for her I give her myself fully. But she is just a selfish disgusting person. Even if she want to show love she show it from distance. She never listened to me or even did anything I asked her for. Not out of control but out of maintaining the relationship. She did nothing that could make me even to go in peace or to protect the relationship.

I’m not also better than her in my birth month, I cursed her with the f word. And I also apologized for it recently but she face it with words that made me even feel worse. For her and her family I’m disrespectful person because of this curse. But it’s normal that she threatened me to replace me and tell me things that break me. She was treating me so bad. I told her from the beginning of the relationship that don’t block me if we fight we can fix it with communication. She blocked me every time we fight and close the call on me. And that drove me anxious and there I understood that I have attachment problem. So what’s the life is about. She injustice me. I used to be happy on my own and I accept rejection easily. But now since her rejection if I feel or sense I’m being rejected from anything even the job interviews it kills me and I become so down.

I’m not sure what is the purpose of this app here, but I decided to write my pain here because maybe god is hiding something behind this app. And I want to write it all so at least someone could witness the pain that I’m facing. I start seeing the life unfair and I lost everything I could keep. I couldn’t maintain any more pain or even my Normal relationship even close friends avoid me. At the end I accept all that. But how I will feel better I don’t know.

She is the reason of all my troubles. Because I trusted her again. She melted the ice and finished whatever left for me to survive the life.

My heart is extremely broken.. and my weight is increasing and im losing people and losing myself. I become negative and all that because of her abandonment to me.

Yes I lost everything. Not because I lose her I should be happy that she is not my wife now. But still I wouldn’t be calm because I feel betrayed and I feel like I lost everything. Even I went to therapy because of her and I did lot of things for the first time for her and because of her and I want to revenge.

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Alex’s Arrival: Navigating Loss and Finding New Beginnings in BestGuessistan

Hey friends — I wanted to share a story from my ongoing BestGuessistan series that’s been close to my heart lately.

Alex’s journey is about what happens when everything you knew unravels — career, relationships, identity. But in that raw, uncertain space, she finds permission to rethink what success and healing look like.

BestGuessistan isn’t a place you find on a map. It’s a state of being — a landscape for rewriting life after rupture.

In Alex’s story, ministries like the Ministry of Updated Expectations and places like Pain de Resistance Bakery become waypoints on a path that’s less about answers and more about gentle permission.

She learns to stop comparing herself to her old self and starts embracing the uncertainty of becoming — slow, tentative, and beautiful.

I’d love to hear your thoughts or experiences about what it means to let go of “before” and start anew.

Here’s the full essay -

Navigating BestGuessistan

BestGuessistan isn’t a place you’ll find on any map. It’s not a place at all—strictly speaking. It’s a state of being, a shifting landscape where life after rupture unfolds. The familiar markers have vanished, replaced by ministries that don’t govern but guide; places named for the emotional work we all must do; spaces where healing follows no straight line.

The names may seem strange at first—The Ministry of Updated Expectations, Pain de Resistance Bakery, The It Dependsathon—but each holds a truth about the messy, unpredictable journey of rewriting a life.

Alex never planned to come here. She didn’t plan to go anywhere, though the urge to escape pulled at her like a tide. The place wasn’t on any map she’d seen—though she searched, endlessly. But everything had shifted beneath her feet. It was time for change.

Her decades-long career unraveled. Her wife left—without a clear explanation. Her bond with her kids thinned by distance and silence. Everything she counted on—her identity, her worth—crumbled. It started slowly but came crashing all at once. You know how that feels.

Leaving seemed like the only option. Staying to face the wreckage felt unbearable. Letting the rubble wait felt easier. Any shift, any change, even just a new backdrop, might ease the weight.

She found BestGuessistan in the cracks: graffiti on a toilet stall, a late-night search for hope, a place suspended between dream and waking. Was it real? Or the fog thickening?

She drifted in, soft-footed, unsure if she was arriving or fleeing. Questions swirled—dizzying, raw. Who am I now when everything that defined me is gone? What value remains—for myself, for those I love, for a world that feels alien? How to hold fractured past and uncertain present? Do I still matter? Who am I now, and does it matter to anyone?

The Ministry of Updated Expectations was her first surprise. Always open, it greeted her with a warm hush—rigid demands softened to loose threads. She didn’t know what to expect, but soon recognized what she’d found: permission. To revise her inner metrics; to rethink; to start fresh. She sampled programs and spaces, finding threads to reweave herself. It was a beginning.

At Pain de Resistance Bakery, the scent of fresh bread steadied her unsteady heart—a sweetness not just for nourishment but rebuilding. She wasn’t sure why it was named so; the place names all confused her. But she stayed. Emotional Logistics offered tiny stickers that whispered, “You showed up.” Strange, yet comforting. The It Dependsathon beckoned—a maze of maybe and uncertainty. Some days an austere Japanese hedge maze; others, a wild English garden. Paths as varied as her own journey.

Slowly, with effort and setbacks, she stopped measuring herself against her former self. She let go of the crushing weight of failure, a new, unwelcome companion since the fall. She discovered places that welcomed the after-version of Alex—not the old, but the becoming. That shift was not repellant but strangely magnetic. She felt herself loosen, but hadn’t fully embraced it.

Not yet.

Her journey wasn’t over. One last place awaited—off any map, unmarked, unguided. She arrived.

At the House of Blues—a spare room with worn wood and honest shadows—she lit a blue candle, mourning who she was and honoring who she might become. She picked up a battered guitar, unsure how to play, but the instrument showed her: how to experiment, rethink, play a blues progression. Folding a letter to her former self, she tucked it into the communal songbook—each note a reckoning, each silence a chance to listen.

Here, finally, Alex found space to breathe, reckon, and begin playing her own tentative, beautiful song.

And in the notes, chords, and budding melody, she glimpsed the faint shape of what might come next.

Thanks for reading and sharing this space with me.

What parts of Alex’s story resonated most with you?

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Hi, my name is NiceWolf24305. I'm here because I am struggling to survive in a relationship that is being torn apart by my wife's behavioral changes and issues (maybe as a result of medical issues) but she refuses to get help with or talk with me on a level. It's complicated and draining.

#MightyTogether #Anxiety

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Amen This Quote Is Very True because it has been way easier to go through life with him. He is my best friend.

Amen This Quote Is Very True because it has been way easier to go through life with him. He is my best friend. We can deepen our relationship with him, by praying, listening to Worship Music, going to church, and reading the Bible.

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Tell us about your "found family."

Familial relationships can be complex, even more so for those of us who have experienced some level of trauma/abuse, or who have set boundaries with our immediate or extended biological families for a variety of reasons. Thankfully, this doesn’t necessarily mean we can’t create a family of our own.

A "found family" (also called a "chosen family") is a family we create ourselves with people we meet who help us to feel safe, protected, and loved.

Do you have a "found family?" Tell us about them. What makes your relationships with them great?

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#Autism #Parenting #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDisorder #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis #Migraine #Spoonie

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Hi, my name is Milodogboxer. I'm here because I'm depressed and am in a loveless 43 year relationship though he thinks all is peachy keen. He's built a wall, and to top it all off, in denial about his health... recently started metformin for type 2 diabetes, had a stent put in, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, 64 years old, drinks 5 plus days a week

#MightyTogether #Depression

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#BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #withdrawal

Hi peeps. What's your opinions on emotional withdrawal?
My husband's been doing it to me for years, and apparently this is more common in relationships than I thought.
Ive been struggling with BPD my whole life and this behavior from my husband is ruining me.

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