As well as pride month! But I wanted to draw attention to this month's lesser-known purpose.

To the men in my follower count, don't forget you are loved, you are adored and you matter! No matter your sexuality. Your feelings are valid and it's okay to cry.

To the nonmen in my audience, reach out to the friend you think may be going through something, or tell your male friend how much they matter to you. Even if they don't show it, they'll appreciate it.

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I've been in a bit of a funk lately. Depression at it's peak, and I'm trying to get my medications straightened out so I can feel human again. I wanted to ask all of you if you've ever been depressed. Not only that, but (if you don't mind) what caused said depression? Do you suffer from it constantly, or just off and on?

I was telling my therapist about my writing (in very vague terms) and how I really enjoy 'rage against the heavens' as a trope (see also bellikos rising against their creators in that EQ expansion) and they started connecting it to my parental issues.

And it made sense and yet I had never made that connection. It's so weird to observe my own habits and thought processes like that.

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Hello everypony! I've really been enjoying how positive this community is, and I guess I wanted to let you all know a bit more about myself. This will be the first time I (or any of us) have talked about this online, but call me emboldened by anonymity. Here goes:

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To avoid confusion, I'm going to refer to my half-sisters by the initials of their first names, K and D.

It all started in the final week of November when K announced on the group chat in Messenger that there's going to be a family gathering in D's house on December 25th. Because of that, negative assumptions were running around my head and it made me go through depression that was worse than I could've ever imagined.

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Any of you heard of this indie game called Mind Scanners? Markiplier made a Let's Play of it:

Anyway, it is a psychiatrist simulator (for lack of better words) that takes places in this dystopian future, where you scan your patients' minds, declare them sane or insane, and use all sorts of gizmos to cure your patients of their insanity should you declare them insane.

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Inspiration hit today as I was reading the next story I am reviewing and preparing for an upcoming meeting with AANE. Decided to create a Discord, and once I got that all sorted out I thought... Why not an accompanying Reddit to go with it? So I've created both:

Autism Allies - Reddit
Autism Allies - Discord

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... I mean, we had it coming.

Our relationship has been growing increasingly toxic as of late. He would always be approaching me for help with his emotional problems (sometimes contacting me in the middle of the night) and I would be there to provide comfort and reassurance the best I could. But when I would be the one approaching him with my anxiety issues, he would shrug me off with a, "That's nothing. Don't worry about it."

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I just wanted to share my feelings real quick. I love mlp and everything involved but hate myself for not having friends. It's not normal to be stuck on the internet, or at least online, without friends? Not even here do I have friends. Lol.
(this felt rewarding but i might delete later)

YOU BETCHA IM DELETIGN THIS LATER

I've been struggling with depression since 2014, after graduating from college in 2013. My course deals with a lot of politics and international relations and I honestly did not see myself working for the government.

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It's because I had mental health issues that needed sorting out. Plus, there's all these fanfics I've been reading that I felt needed to have their own TvTropes pages it's just ugh! And real life! How can I forget real life?! Do you know how hard it is to get up out of bed some mornings? Sucks having OCD and bipolar, you know.

Phwoo, okay, needed to get that off my chest. Now, hopefully, I should be in working condition in no time.

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Good evening,

Some of you might already know this, but on Tuesday, I tried to end my own life, for the second time. The first time I tried was six years ago, when I was 14. I took a bunch of sleeping pills, but thankfully not enough to kill me. I spent a good 40 hours in the emergency psychiatric ward until I was discharged earlier this afternoon.

My suicide attempt on Tuesday was a desperate cry for help, and thankfully it was heard.

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Hey, everyone. Noah here.

I caused a bit of a ruckus three days ago, when I said that I'm leaving fimfiction for good. I just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that I am okay.

I didn't fabricate the fact that I need to take some time to fix my tech addiction, but I realized that I can't just go cold turkey with social media; I need to learn how to use it in moderation. I am seeing a "tech addiction" counselor and it is helping somewhat.

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Sidious is a sadistic psychopath. Vader has borderline personality disorder and clinical depression.

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This is going to be a slightly different post than usual. There is no story update to provide here. This blog post is mainly to tell everyone who will read it to keep their worth in mind when approaching any situation. I will do that by providing an example of my own life.

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I wanted to talk about a realization I’ve had about depression, and specifically the suicidal side of depression. I want to start a discussion on this because it’s hard to talk about being suicidal, and that’s a problem. The main thing I’ve come to realize is that we only use one word, “suicidal”, but it means many more than one thing.

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Okay, short version; Work has been having me work a LOT, IRL life stuff, my mental health taking a nose dive for a bit, and my computer needing a replacement part...AGAIN.

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Hello everyone, Noah here.

First, happy birthday, Mom! You turn 47 today. I wouldn't be where I am today without you. I love you so much.

My depression is, well its not worse, but it hasn't really improved that much. I've been sporadically posting on X.com and my discord server, but I am trying to get chronic tech dependency under control. My therapist thinks I can do it.

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Hello, Noah/Clockwork here.

Happy Mar10 day to all who celebrate. If you are reading this, odds are we just had daylight savings time. This means I beat winter depression! Woohoo!

This past fall and winter were one of the worst in my life, and I am happy to be (mostly) better.

My Clockwork advice? Exercise for 30 minutes six times a week, and one day a week with no internet connection.

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Hi everyone.

Last year, you may remember someone commenting on my story 'Apeejack' harassing me, demanding that I take it down because it was "against [their] privacies" and because it was a disgusting story that had no right to be on here? And then she started arguing with a moderator trying to get them to delete it because it had gotten a load of downvotes and again was "against her privacies".

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