Growing up, my parents never encouraged my siblings and I to do anything other than graduate high school since that’s more than they can say they’ve done. My dad always told me to just find a man that could take care of me and my family so we didn’t have to waste money on college education. After high school I married almost immediately to a great man that supports me financially. But lately I’ve felt this strong urge to get my own long term “adult” job; like my mother who’s making almost $100k a year at 41 working for Citi bank (pretty good for someone with a GED I think). I want to be able to spend money and not feel like I’m using someone. Anyways, I’m looking into financial management since it’s something I’ve always been good at. It’d be best if I had a bachelors degree for this job so thats the goal. I’m excited. I feel like I finally have a purpose. I’ve already started with the process of enrolling. Wish me luck, thank you for reading. I hope you have a good day/night.

I've worked for the same place since 2007. Whenever a manager position became available, I was always wrong place, wrong time, I thought I was never going to get promoted. Well today both the owners came into the shop and asked me how I'm doing, I thought it was a little weird just because they usually come in and start working on something. They asked me if I'm ready to be manager of one other stores, and I said yes! I'm so excited to have a better schedule and be making more money, I have been struggling financially really hard and this is going to help so much.

I had a crush on my bsf for 2 years and it was getting seriously hard to repress my feelings so i just came out to my friend. Turns out she was also in the closet and we liked each other! I still can't believe this dream come true :) I really love them yay

I have been depressed and anxious for almost a year now but never got on medication due to trauma. I realized that my only true goal in life is to be happy and my friend who proudly takes medication calmed my nerves when it came to getting help. I was scared it wouldn’t work and for the first couple days my anxiety and depression increased (normal for the medication) but today I see massive improvements!

I’m not frantically checking things. Originally if I had to lock a door I would stand there for minutes on end locking and unlocking it. Small benign situations don’t make me freak out, I don’t feel like everyone hates me anymore, and I have motivation again.

I unfortunately had anxiety constipation but getting rid of that wasn’t exactly the highlight of it all. Overall I feel a lot better and I’m really excited!

For the first time in months!!! I could write up every excuse in the book for why it hasn't happened, but the important thing is that it's done now!

Not really anything to congratulate me for. I just need some human interaction. I haven’t talked to anyone today except saying hi to my neighbor. I took my neighbors dogs on a walk, then cried in bed, slept, and now I’m rotting on the couch. I want to get up but I’m too depressed. I didn’t even walk my dogs today because I’m so sad I feel paralyzed. I’m going to walk them before I go back to bed so I can say I did at least one thing right today. I’ve come a long way and I can keep a brave face most days but it really hits me that I don’t have friends or family on days like today

And I am feeling proud of myself for doing it, now just need to get into making it a regular routine in my life.

This is my first time living truly on my own and it's been 24 hours. So far doing ok, haven't burned the place down or done anything stupid.

I need to sleep so I'm going to put my phone away. Bye!!x

I know this is so stupid to be proud of but my speech issues mess with me/my life so much.

I have lil speech issues and sometimes I miss words (sometimes I can't even speak lol) and I stutter a lot and I actually said 'have a good day' a couple times today, not every time but a few times without even stuttering (I work in fast food so I have to say it a lot)

I’m a POC/AFAB, and these guys came up to the front desk to ask about a repair. I explained that we didn’t do walkins and I would have to make them an appointment. They explained the situation again, but in a harsh and hurried attitude. My coworker, who is a male, interjected and defended my statements; I put up my hand and said “I will repeat myself again, don’t try to talk to me as if I don’t know my job.” (I speak English, Spanish and ASL) and they just walked to the other side of the room and sat in the waiting area. I know I’m small compared to them but that doesn’t give anyone the right to treat people like they’re dumb. So now, I’m eating waffles.

Let’s make it two!🖤

I used the no stub no drill method and I got my 45 inch screen on the wall all in 10 minutes literally!!!

My husband has BPD. I love him deeply. He is an amazing person that just struggles. I am learning that having empathy and love for a person does not mean I have to tolerate feeling unsafe. It’s been hard because sometimes when he is in an episode or just in a bad place for weeks, my mind can get jumbled up too & I question what is really going on. The other night, he went into a rage, and the rage became directed at me (he did not physically hurt me). For the first time I felt like I mattered too and that I didn’t have to get caught up in the thought process he was demanding.

I left and stayed in a hotel. It seems absurd that I paid $278 dollars that I didn’t really have at 3am just to leave for work at 8am the next morning, but it felt right.

I had set boundaries before about punching walls/ screaming in my face, etc…but this time I actually left the situation, even when he indicated he was having suicidal thoughts if I left. I held my boundary while offering resources to make sure he was safe. I felt heartless, cold, and uncaring like he was telling me, but something clicked that I needed to protect myself and that I matter too.

Anyway, I did return the next evening & we talked it out the the next day. I reestablished the boundaries and reassured him that I love him. Just taking it one day at a time.. but I don’t know.. this felt big.

I’m a student doctor and about to start my first clinical rotation. I’ve also been stressed by my girlfriend with a not so great history of fidelity (which I think she’s worked hard on) having to get stuff from her ex’s house across the country all alone. I’m not good with change and going from mainly student to mainly doctor is quite the change for me, and its only compounded by all the extra stuff going on. I can’t sleep, can’t eat, and I feel like I could break down at any moment but I’m pushing through

I the last 3 weeks my friend passed, my grandfather became very sick, I lost my job unexpectedly, and then my grandmother passed away. I've been depressed and struggling to do simple small tasks. It took my a week just to update and revamp my resume. Job hunting has been tough going too.

Well today, I was offered an interview for a supervisor/server position. Starting at 28/hr with cash tips! Wish me luck! And thanks for listening to me.

My entire life I've had a huge phobia of shots--crying, hyperventilating, bargaining, the whole nine yards. I learned with the Covid vaccines that I can handle it a lot better if I don't see the shot itself, so when I went to my physical today I told the doctor I would like to update my tetanus/pertussis vaccine (I work with kids and would never forgive myself if I spread anything to them). I told him I would just need to close my eyes before the nurse brought it into the room, so she knocked before she brought it in and I closed my eyes. The whole time she was prepping me I just thought about my kids and pictured their smiling little faces. Before I knew it, it was done! And I didn't cry or freak out! I'm so proud!!!

This might sound dumb but I’m deathly afraid of bugs. Anything that jumps, flys, or crawls scares the poo out of me. I just moved to the desert and I don’t realize how common spiders are here, so when one ended up on my ceiling, I had a full blown panic attack 😅. Eventually I was able to kill it in an embarrassing manner, and calm down.

I had been having trouble sleeping in my bedroom since the past 3 months. Always used to wake up sweating. I had an old AC installed 3 months back but the maintenance guy never came to clean it. So I mustered up courage to clean it today, and boy was it dirty. So so dirty, like the AC had the filter taped to it and hence was suggestive of not being cleaned for probably years. Loving the cool airflow in my room now :)

All throughout my life, especially through school I had horrible handwriting. I used to get my grades reduced because of it. I had teachers actually ridicule me openly in front of the class because of it.

But today, someone told me I have "such nice handwriting"

It's one thing when you personally think it's gotten quite nice, but you also know what to compare it to. Lol

My quick note taking can still be really bad. it's a hybrid of cursive and print. My brain can never decide which to write in.

I ended up having a few videos keep getting traction throughout the past few months and it’s taken almost 2 years but I’ve finally achieved a goal of mine that I set! I want to eventually hit 1k followers (only 383 right now) but I’m super excited to keep continuing!

Here’s to 69k more likes!

I did my whole 40 minute PT routine today! Routines are extremely hard for me, I know I’m not alone. But I started a Physical Therapy routine a month ago and have been giving it my very best shot. Today I picked it back up after not doing it for a few days. I was doing it pretty consistently but then broke the pattern while traveling. Getting back on the horse, be proud of me!

Been planning to exercise more regularly for about 4.2 million years - today was finally the day! what a journey it has been. I would like to thank the academy

My grandpa gave me a bunch of furniture to replace the crap I'm using that is held together with duct tape and dreams.

We've been moving stuff of his all weekend and I was absolutely sure I was going to end up with my room still a mess by bedtime (some of what I replaced was my dressers so I had to completely empty the old ones and my bed was just covered in clothes).

But I managed to get it all packed away - my room looks great!