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I Feel So Lonely and Have No Friends — The Quiet Isolation That Doesn’t Look Like Loneliness From the Outside
Emotional Wellness
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I Feel So Lonely and Have No Friends — The Quiet Isolation That Doesn’t Look Like Loneliness From the Outside

Saying “I feel so lonely and have no friends” often sounds dramatic, but the truth is much quieter. Loneliness rarely announces itself. It appears in the way you scroll through your phone hoping someone will message you, even though no one does. It appears in the way you walk into your apartment and the silence feels heavier than usual. It appears when you realize the people you talk to aren’t people you confide in. Loneliness isn’t always about lack of company—it’s about the absence of being emotionally held. This essay explores the painful, invisible experience of lacking meaningful connection in a world where everyone else seems to already belong somewhere.

Dealing With Anxiety and Depression at the Same Time — The Emotional Double Exposure No One Sees
Emotional Wellness
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Dealing With Anxiety and Depression at the Same Time — The Emotional Double Exposure No One Sees

Dealing with anxiety and depression at the same time feels like living in two opposite emotional climates that somehow coexist in the same body. Anxiety tells you everything is urgent; depression tells you nothing matters. Anxiety pushes you into constant motion; depression pulls you toward emotional stillness. Anxiety fears the future; depression feels trapped by the present. It’s not dramatic—it’s disorienting. You wake up with a racing mind inside a heavy body, wanting to move and withdraw at the same time. You’re both overwhelmed and numb, restless and fatigued, wired and hopeless. This is what the world doesn’t understand: the suffering isn’t in each condition alone, but in the contradiction between them.

What Does High-Functioning Anxiety Feel Like? — The Quiet Panic Behind a Controlled Life
Emotional Wellness
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What Does High-Functioning Anxiety Feel Like? — The Quiet Panic Behind a Controlled Life

High-functioning anxiety doesn’t look like fear. It looks like waking up early because your mind finished the day before you did. It looks like responding to emails immediately because the idea of an unread message feels like a debt. It looks like being the reliable one at work, the considerate friend, the person who always “has it together,” while privately suspecting you’re one inconvenience away from unraveling. If regular anxiety feels like drowning, high-functioning anxiety feels like learning to breathe underwater, convincing everyone—including yourself—that this is just how you naturally move through the world. This is what it actually feels like from the inside.

I Feel Unmotivated to Do Anything — When Everyday Life Feels Like a Mountain No One Else Can See
Personal Growth
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I Feel Unmotivated to Do Anything — When Everyday Life Feels Like a Mountain No One Else Can See

“I feel unmotivated to do anything.” Most people never say it out loud; they just live the symptoms. Sitting in the parking lot after work for an hour because going home feels like another responsibility. Letting dishes fill the sink and telling yourself you’ll get to them “tomorrow,” though tomorrow has already happened three times. Waking up with good intentions and ending the day feeling like you’ve run a marathon, even though you barely moved. The smallest tasks—sending a text, replying to an email, cooking a meal—feel disproportionately heavy. This isn’t laziness. It’s a quiet collapse beneath the weight of responsibilities, disappointments, and unspoken emotional fatigue. This essay explores why motivation evaporates, why shame follows so quickly, and why feeling unmotivated is often a sign of overwhelm, not personal failure.

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