Posts about fear and anxiety

Anonymous 2026/09/27 I think I’m emotionally attached to my therapist and I’m embarrassed even typing that. Before anybody assumes something inappropriate happened, it didn’t. She has never crossed a line. She has never flirted with me. She’s professional, kind, consistent, and pr…

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Anonymous 2026/09/22 I have tinnitus. Six years. I want to write about it properly, because everything I found was either a medical pamphlet or someone in crisis, and I'm neither. Forty-one. It started in October 2019 after one concert, which is embarrassingly on-the-nose. Not eve…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 My biggest fear isn’t dying, it’s becoming dependent on my children when I’m old. I watched my grandmother spend the last years of her life needing help with everything and it changed how I think about aging. My mother gave up weekends, vacations, sleep and a …

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Anonymous 2026/10/06 Practical question, and please skip the "mental health is health" line — I believe it, it doesn't help me. How do I tell my employer I need FMLA for a mental health reason? My situation, concretely. I'm thirty-six, I've been at this company six years, software…

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Anonymous 2026/10/04 My father has dementia and fourteen guns in the house, and my brother and I have not agreed on anything for eight months. Dad's seventy-nine. Diagnosed in 2023, moderate now. He lives alone in the house I grew up in, in a rural county, forty minutes from me. T…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’m starting to think I don’t want kids, and I’m terrified to tell my fiancé because we got engaged under the assumption that we would have them. I never lied exactly. For years I genuinely thought I wanted a family because that’s just how I pictured adulthood…

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Anonymous 2026/09/22 I think I'm a bad mother, not in the way people say it for reassurance, and I need to say it somewhere that isn't a therapist's office. My daughter is nine. She is a difficult kid. Diagnosed, medicated, in OT twice a week, the whole apparatus. And I love her a…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 My sister is marrying a man I cannot stand, and everybody thinks I’m jealous because she’s getting married before me. I wish it were that simple. He has never hit her, never cheated that I know of, and he’s charming enough around our parents that they love him…

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Anonymous 2026/09/16 I bought a gun two years ago and my wife still doesn't know it's in the house. We got broken into in March of 2023. We weren't home. They took a laptop and a jar of change and they left the back door open, and my wife didn't sleep properly for about four month…

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Anonymous 2026/10/01 I resent my sister for having an easier life and I have never said that to a single human being. On paper nothing was taken from me. We grew up in the same house with the same parents. But I was the oldest and she was the one with the asthma, and from the time…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I finally got the life I spent years asking for and now I’m scared to enjoy it because I keep waiting for something bad to happen. I got a better job. My relationship is stable. My family is healthy right now. I paid off a big debt. Nothing dramatic is going w…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I used to think emotional affairs were something people invented to make normal friendships sound dramatic until I watched my husband have one. There was no sex that I know of. No hotel room, no kissing, no dating app. Just a woman from work who slowly became …

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I realized during therapy that I don’t actually like my mother, and that realization has made me feel worse than almost anything else I’ve uncovered. I love her. If she were sick I’d be there immediately. If she needed money I’d help. I call her, visit, make s…

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Anonymous 2026/10/18 To my Ex- Ashanté I’m scared that by the time u realise how much this has hurt me, the resentment that’s been growing inside me will have already taken the place of the love and patience I spent so long trying to protect.

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Anonymous 2026/10/06 Every article about content moderation gets one thing wrong, and it is the thing that actually took something out of me. I'm thirty, I did it from 2020 to 2023, through a vendor — not the platform, which matters for about nine reasons. I'm out now, I work in l…

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Anonymous 2026/10/04 I stopped drinking fourteen months ago and nobody threw me a parade, and I want to write about why that turned out to be the good version. I wasn't the kind of drunk that makes a story. I never got a DUI. I never missed work, never embarrassed anybody at a wed…

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Anonymous 2026/10/03 I work in a warehouse where my rate is on a screen and I want to describe what that does to a person over four years. The job is picking. An item on a shelf, into a tote, scan, next. The target where I am is a hundred and eighty-four units an hour. There's a h…

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Anonymous 2026/10/02 I was told for fourteen years that my periods were normal and in March I had a surgeon tell me my insides were fused together, and I want to write down the fourteen years. Thirty-six. Diagnosed with endometriosis in March of this year, stage four, by laparosco…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I secretly read my teenage daughter’s private journal and found out she hates me. I wasn’t snooping because I was curious. At least that’s what I tell myself. She had been withdrawn, skipping meals, snapping at everyone, and I was worried. I went into her room…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I've been a pastor for nineteen years and I stopped believing somewhere around year fourteen. I'm going to be precise, because "lost my faith" is a phrase that covers too much and I've hidden inside it. I don't think there's nobody there. I'm not an atheist — …

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