As you can probably see, BlahTherapy’s signed-in zone has a few problems.I’m sure the BlahTherapy moderators are either too busy to get into making apps or shouldn’t be getting into apps yet. But I don’t know exactly what’s going on in the background of this site, so who am I to say?

I’m glad you were able to enjoy your birthday. I hope you made the most of it.

That definitely sounds like a bad situation for your friend to be in. It’s very nice of you to offer whatever you can to help her. As for the last paragraph, don’t think of depression as a test of worthiness or a competition. Everyday happiness is more like pain tolerance or the ability to eat Marmite. Some people just don’t have it, some…[Read more]

There are a couple of groups you can join on BlahTherapy to discuss those subjects. Or you could talk about it one-on-one with somebody. Either way, I hope you get whatever help you’re looking for.

There’s not much you can do. Neither of you control whom you two have feelings for. I guess- if I were you- I would spend time being friends with him until either he falls in love with somebody else or you do. You could still get to know him as his friend and learn if you really like him or not.

On occasion, the BlahTherapy servers will fail. You can only connect anyways if you wait for ”X Listeners holding on” or ”X Veners holding on” to appear. If that doesn’t appear, there’s no use trying to connect until the moderators fix whatever’s causing server trouble.

The only advice I can give is, ”There’s nothing better than your best.” If you feel you’ve done enough to prepare for the work ahead of you, then the grade you receive is probably as good as it gets. If your best is a perfect score, that’s great! If your best is just a bit lower than that, there are multiple reasons why that could be not your fault.

You seem to be looking at this in a relatively positive way. I’d think nothing of some of those things bothering you. Of course, in the wrong light, we’d all look unattractive to ourselves. (Usually, as they say, we’re not our own “type”.) Nobody’s perfect, yourself included, so understanding that is something everybody must do to accept…[Read more]

I’d take that as a best-case scenario. I would say you totally said the right thing.

Seems like sound advice to me. How did he take it?

The way I understand it, therapists may stray away from working with you if you aren’t on antidepressants. The approach I would recommend is getting a family doctor or the likes to get you a prescription antidepressant and then looking into talk therapy. The combination is usually the best way to get out of those awful depressive states.

While I would agree that a Listener should NEVER be mean to a Venter genuinely looking for help- and I know there are a lot of Listeners that are like that- sometimes the Venter is a troll or intentionally wasting Listeners’ time. I’m not saying to meet hate with hate. I feel the problem comes from people who don’t take BlahTherapy seriously…[Read more]

Anyone can offer a solution to any problem, but the real challenge is offering a solution that one hasn’t tried to a particular problem. I’ll bite. What would you say to somebody who claims that he/she can never maintain friends? That no matter how close they get, his/her friends always leave him/her eventually?

I’m almost always awake these days, with my insomnia. PM me if you want to get personal.

The only chance you’ll ever find somebody you chatted with in the past is to go to the Missed Connections group and put whatever details you remember from the chat into a post. That doesn’t frequently work, but it’s really your only chance.

I’d certainly encourage having a dream journal if you’re the type that believes in dream interpretation or if you have really good dreams. I personally don’t keep one, but I remember the best and worst dreams of mine. I once had a dream I was injured in the neighborhood I lived in as a child (except I was grown up) and the only person I could…[Read more]

I think you’re approaching a metaphorical fork in the road. You have two “roads” to go down. The first option is you do whatever your parents want even if it’s killing you. Start eating more than one meal a day, use some other tactic to handle the consequences, and find a way to make it up to them for what you did before. The second option is…[Read more]