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If you really like math, you could always wander off to Khan Academy and watch some videos/do some of the exercises. I have always been absolutely awful at math but KA really helped me out, and they cover all of the basics as well as some of the more complicated stuff.

I spend quite a bit of time online (who on Reddit doesn't?) so I know of some other educational sites that could help you out in some small way if Khan Academy doesn't, but I doubt you'll end up needing them. :) Good luck!

You're drowning in negative thoughts and self-hate, but there IS a book I've read that helped me with those same issues.

The GOOD book. Have you accepted Jesus Ch--nonono I'm just kidding.

There is a good book on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that turned a lot of things around for me. Here's the link to it on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-Handbook-David-Burns/dp/0452281326

You DO have it within you to become loveable, smart, successful, beautiful, and wanted. Definitely not all at once, and a lot of those aspects will need to begin inside of you. You need to love yourself before others will see how much there is to love you about you, too. You can do this. It takes work and commitment. Learning to love yourself when you've got a past as dark as yours, a past that didn't teach you HOW to love yourself, is a hard road to walk. I'm walking it still myself and I'm nowhere near the end, but I do know I'm better now than when I started, and tomorrow I'll be a little bit closer to the end of the road because I'm not done walking, I'm not giving up.

About the book: it's cheesy as fuck, and the author (if you see his picture) has a seriously disturbing abundance of forehead...but what he says about depression, and how it's primarily driven by our own negative thoughts, is just completely mind blowing. I understand the exercises may seem silly at first, but do them exactly as he says to do them and you may be surprised at how light you feel afterwards.

PM me if you feel you need any help with the book, or anything else. Hope things improve for you, stranger.

Real friends? There are 2 people i actually met in person off of Reddit. I don't remember if they came from needafriend or not.... but they became my best friend for like 2 years. Hung out with them in person a few times. sadly one I haven't heard from since last spring..the other not since last fall. Other than that...there's like 1 or 2 i still get private messages from that i had known through reddit a few years ago.

Is it worth it? well honestly I have no other choice when it comes to friends..here's my situation... I have 24% lung function. I don't have a drivers license. I can't really walk to any stores. i'm pretty much isolated. I am married but my husband is gone most of the time to work and college. I pretty much sit at my computer all day. None of my neighbors talk to me. I have no IRL friends around here that want to hang out with me. I've tried meetup.com, nextdoor.com and other sites to try to make friends but nothing has worked. I've tried other social media sites like FB and IG... none of those have really worked either..any friends i made from there... pretty much drifted away. So..yea.... i'm 35 years old..and i have no one except my husband.

Well the easy way is to start the text with an # but I also use Joey which has a bunch of formatting tools build in

Like this and ~~this~~ ^(and) >!this!<

You can make all sorts of things, it's especially useful on mobile because formatting text is a bit of chore

Edit <strong>Joey for Reddit</strong>

I was in your shoes 20+ years ago. This book helped me immensely

Kind of. They are making a series of animations that follow the game's storyline called Alice Otherlands, and started working on a full feature movie too. There still might be a game, but i'm really not sure about that.

Are you talking about this ifriend https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifriend.app&hl=en&gl=US ? I've been thinking of getting it because I feel less anxious talking to virtual friends than real people

Yes please: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.friendr.venn

And also we are live on Product Hunt today so if you want please support us and give your feedback about Venn :)

People don't know what your insecurities are so it is possible that it isn't personal.

How people are treating you aren't always a good reflection of who you are as a person.

https://www.amazon.com/Advice-Not-Given-Getting-Yourself/dp/0399564322

Check out this book. I'm still reading it but I find it quite inspiring.

Hey I also love photography, though I'm still learning. https://unsplash.com/@josekbono

I also love IoT, I've done a bunch of projects on top of this idea, we could talk about that any time.

I'm 26, birthday was last sunday.

Have a nice one!

>She is angry at me all the time, which is understandable,

She has depression, she can't gain the motivational strength to be happy, supportive, or carefree.

Just don't tell her about your bullshit, it's like telling a dog with no legs that your big toe hurts.

She has depression, you can't fix her. You can only suggest to her to change her diet and get out and get some exercise.

Make sure she is getting yogurt, folic acid, fiber, and B and D vitamins and keeps the sugar and caffeine low.

Try to help her get and stay on a schedule of waking up and eating and sleeping at the same exact times everyday. Schedules are super important to maintain mental health.

This is all you can do.

Since she's home all day ask her to take this free online class maybe it will give her some insight into her neurochemical situation.

Also make sure she understands that the marriage is not the problem, obviously the guy is good to her and puts up with her bullshit, she's the problem, she has to fix herself.

Also you may suggest that she start taking Acetminophen once or twice a day and see if it alleviates her depression. Depression is caused by an inflammatory auto-immune response.

Make sure you take care of yourself, keep schedules, keep your diet clean, don't end up like her.

Hey again! Since we got so much positive feedback, we decided to launch the site on ProductHunt. If you could support us there and upvote it, that would be great!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/one-minute-anxiety-helper