u/Remote_Inevitable494

I‘m a musical theater singer and I know I sing well. but in lessons, I make so. many. mistakes. We’re working on a really tough song (No Good Deed) and I‘ve yet to have a performance-ready take yet. I can do each section well on its own, but when I put it together I find it so hard to not run out of stamina and so I end up pushing through, losing breath, pulling up too much weight, etc etc.

And then I see my favorite Broadway stars totally soaring in their performances and I think to myself, “how are they so good? Do they also have cracks, moments of poor placement, spread vowels, jaw tension, etc etc? Am I just a terrible singer?“

Yes, I know there are numerous clips out there of Broadway singers messing up, but it feels more like the exception than the rule. Do they have tough voice lessons or is it just us amateurs?

I just feel like I’ll never get to that level :(

I have MTD and am in recovery. went out with a friend at a loud cafe and we hung out for about two or so hours (obviously I wasn’t talking for two hours straight tho).

Theres this feeling in my throat like it’s numb or there’s anesthesia. I can trill through my range just fine and I sound the same but there’s this weird sort of “swollen” feeling and I’m wondering if it means I’ve damaged something.

help 😰

Please no witty “take downs” and “gotcha comments.” And please no circular reasoning like, “Allah is the most just or Al-*insert one of the 99 names* because he said so.” Justice has to mean something and just repeating that someone has an attribute doesn’t convince anyone that those attributes are merited.

Can someone please help me understand this? Parts of the Quran say Allah seals people‘s hearts, and that those same people will be punished.

How could someone be punished if Allah willingly misguided them?

Feeling really far from Islam right now and need help 😞 I don’t know if I can stay Muslim even though I’m trying with every fiber of me to do so.

Please help yall

Without fail, I vomit each and every single time I take spravato. I’ve been doing treatments for months. It tastes absolutely disgusting and the nausea is killer, and then, after the second spray—bam. I always vomit.

Yes, I’ve tried zofran, tried eating crackers, tried not eating, tried wristbands—everything. But the vomiting is still a constant.

Has anyone else had this problem and is IV ketamine a better option? I heard that also causes vomiting but I imagine it would’ve be as bad because you can’t taste the injection?

I dread spravato every single week

I see this all. the. time (on here as well). People replying with some snarky comeback to someone expressing doubts about a particular religious tenet.

What exactly are these Dawah bros style rebuttals accomplishing for our Ummah? How is this bringing people closer to Islam?

I’m saying this as someone who DOES have some pretty mainstream views: I believe hijab is mandatory, marriage is between a man and a woman, I believe in Hadith, etc etc.

But when someone comes on here arguing something which I find textually invalid, what good is it to go all Mohammed Hijab takedown style on them rather than understand where they’re coming from and offer gentle insight? How hard is that?

The transformation of faith into an intellectual showdown disgusts me.

I have OCD and am also struggling with faith. I felt desperate so I came to Reddit for some support around my doubts, and while most were kind, I still got a few condescending “LOL imagine thinking x” or other such comments. Do these people feel more holy? Do they think Allah has rewarded them for their “Dawah?”

Anyway, feeling further from Islam today and there’s nowhere to go with this loneliness. Everywhere I turn, I feel alienated 😔

I’m a soprano and I’m making a list of all the musical theater rep I wanna work on with my teacher. For reference, have a special love for more contemporary musical theater songs (think Schwartz and beyond), particular those which are very mix-belt heavy (as opposed to golden era musical theater which is very head dominant and more classical). I don’t like things that are too poppish (think Hamilton), but some pop-quality is ok.

When He Sees Me from Waitress

Monster from Frozen

My House from Matilda

In My Dreams from Anastasia

The Life I’ve Never Led from Sister Act

Me and the Sky from Come from Away

Heart of Stone from Six

Times Are Hard for Dreamers from Amelie

The Wizard and I from Wicked

Breathe from In the Heights

Requiem from Dear Evan Hansen

She Used to Be Mine from Waitress

I’m Here from The Color Purple

Could anyone add songs that might deploy a similar range and techniques?

please help yall

I gained 8 pounds within a few months of being on 50 mg of sertraline. 8 POUNDS.

my psych insists it’s not from the medicine but I strongly believe it is.

And before that, i gained 7 pounds on Lexapro (which I was on for a year).

has anyone had this experience, and has their weight come off after you quit Zoloft?

I haven’t quit yet. but Ive been exercising nearly everyday this week and eating very healthy. Normally I would lose weight quickly this way, but I stayed exactly the same. this is scaring me. Can I go back to my old metabolism?

please help yall

I gained 8 pounds within a few months of being on 50 mg of sertraline. 8 POUNDS.

my psych insists it’s not from the medicine but I strongly believe it is.

And before that, i gained 7 pounds on a different SSRI (which I was on for a year).

has anyone had this experience, and has their weight come off after you quit Zoloft?

I haven’t quit yet. but Ive been exercising nearly everyday this week and eating very healthy. Normally I would lose weight quickly this way, but I stayed exactly the same. this is scaring me. Can I go back to my old metabolism?

Disclaimer: please no condescending conservative sentiments, like “well non Muslims deserve torture.“ I’m in a very fragile emotional state please be sensitive in your responses. 🥺

I really need help. I don’t know if I can stay Muslim because I feel so unsettled with parts of Islam. But I want to love my deen the way I used to. 💔

Context: I was born and raised Sunni Muslim. I consider myself fairly moderate. I’m definitely not of the “everything is open to interpretation” camp (no disrespect, just offering background), but I’m also not of the “anything the majority of scholars say is a fact” camp. I do take a number of minority positions and I’m willing to reconsider mainstream majority views if textually and scholarly evidence supports it—even if those scholars are few in number.

But today, a thought popped into my head and it really terrified me:

“Are my kind hearted non Muslim friends going to hell for a good-faith misbelief???”

“Well disbelief is a sin,” says the mainstream shaykh online—but the disbelief discussed in the Quran are those of tribes who got messengers and very clear evidence before them, who then chose to reject out of arrogance and defiance. There are people like this still, for sure.

But then there are people who are just… misguided. Or have disagreements. Or just dont know. Or were raised a certain way. etc etc etc. These people aren’t kufaar in the way qawm Nuh etc were. Are they all gonna be tortured just because they weren’t convinced by a narrative? And they just genuinely didn’t know any better? These people aren’t trying to “commit the crime of rejecting God’s bounties“ or however mainstream conservative scholars oversimplify them. its genuinely just an intellectual error and nothing more.

This thought turned into endless spiraling and I can’t even feel my own limbs from anxiety.

Please, please help. Is there a supported basis to the idea that Allah is NOT throwing good people in hell for disagreements and mere misbeliefs? All the shaykhs online are making it sound like the only exception to “non Muslims are going to hell” are those who never heard about Islam. But what about those who heard but just didn’t agree or didn’t know any better? There are plenty of intellectual reasons why a person may not believe in a faith, and it may not have any resemblance to those kufar described in the Quran.

I’m terrified that my best friend, a non-Muslim, is going to hell even though shes one of the most incredible activists I know who’s done so much to benefit the world. I can’t live with this thought.

Please help me feel a little safer 🥺

Is that it? I pour my darkest secrets to someone and we share some of the most tender, vulnerable, and powerful moments together--and what am I to them? A number that gets filed away once I'm gone.

Is that what we are? Numbers?

Do therapists ever think about us after we're gone? Do we leave an imprint on you the way you guys are forever sacred to us?

My T almost lost me. She was worried sick about me and showed it very clearly. She saved my life multiple times. She was the first person I'd ever trusted. The first person I disclosed my trauma history to. The person who kept telling me how much she cared about me, who laughed with me for hours, who let me show her all my artwork--everything.

The thought that after all this, I might just only be a footnote, devastates me.

Yes, I know it's super subjective. But in general, what do folks consider to be a "high note?" And what would be seen as a high belt?

I can mix belt up to an A5 (on a good day - usually I belt up to a G5). But would people consider a belt on an E5 "high?"

I can sing up to a D6. And I can trill and hum up to an F#6. But when I sing a Bb5, is that considered "high?"

In February, I resumed voice lessons after a year or so of no singing due to MTD. The lessons are going great and I'm learning so many new techniques to release tension. That said, after 45 minute lessons, I often feel vocally tired afterward. Not in pain, and not tense or tight either. Just fatigued.

Is that concerning? My voice itself doesn't change. I just need some gentle rest for a few hours to a day to feel back to baseline.

I was doing laryngeal massage for my MTD. My SLP said I was being overly gentle and it was ok to add some more pressure--and she demonstrated the amount of appropriate pressure. I practiced it with her and it went really well in session. Been doing in on my own for a couple of days.

The massage I do is back and forth movement of the larynx, massaging the larynx downward, and gentle circles around the larynx to loosen things up.

Today, I think I made have accidentally put too much pressure? I don't think I did because it was the same as what I'd been doing for days. But then afterward, one of the sides of my larynx started to feel sore and throbby. I tried heat and ibuprofen, which helped moderately. It's still there though, and it's worrying me.

My voice sounds the same and I'm not having breathing or swallowing issues. The right side of my anterior neck is just sore and tender (right next to the scm). And it feels like I notice the throbbing more when I speak.

Could this be damage? Now what?