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My 17 yo daughter used to have acne. It was severe and persistent and she did a lot to try and get rid of it, unsuccessfully. It really took a toll on her emotionally. I was supposed to give her a ride one day and before we were to leave she asked if she looked okay. Her face was bare and she said she wanted to try and go to class like this. I didn’t want anyone to make fun of her like they had before so I suggested she put on some makeup to cover the blemishes. She was really hurt, cried and ended up taking herself to school. I forgot about this until she brought it up now, when her skin is clear and beautiful and healed. I love her regardless and I have loved her in all forms, I just wanted to protect her. AITA?

Edit: 49M

Is it an immune system overreaction towards unhealthy cells, or an attack against completely healthy cells? If the former, what causes the disproportionate response and inflammation? If the latter, dear God just why? Is my immune system defective or just too good at its job, which one is more accurate?

Edit: if it helps, I’m thinking of IBD.

Broad topic, so this is more of a seed for discussion rather than my solidified understanding. One example I’ll provide is food banks. Let’s say there are government facilitated food banks in a city, and someone who needs them doesn’t go to them. They starve. It doesn’t mean that food banks are evil; however, I do believe it to be an error on the administration’s part nonetheless. They should correct something on their end so that people who need their programs attend their programs, which introduces conversation about accessibility, removing of barriers and social stigma, etc. What to do, what not to do? Can everyone be helped, and does everyone want to be helped?

Maybe someone’s a very esteemed thinker and writer in their class, but they can never express their thoughts productively because the instructor forces oral presentations for any sharing of ideas. Anxiety gets in the way of things and the student’s true talent is never unearthed. Some of you will say that this challenge is beneficial for the student, that it builds resilience and teaches them how to be comfortable with discomfort. Others may say that there should be an accommodation, especially when it comes to education, to track success as accurately as possible.

I don’t know that my examples are good examples. If anyone else thinks they have a better way to phrase my question, go ahead by all means. I hope you can catch my very general drift and this can be a meaningful discussion.

I apologize if the question is insensitive or shortsighted. It comes from a place of curiosity and nothing else. I would think that existentialism has great overlap with emotions and mental state, and thus groundbreaking discussion could be carried out here if we took pride in this similarity.

Or even content with them, possibly. It just feels like every little thing, at least in my experience, is another avenue for pessimism. I can’t think of the last time I spent time with my loved ones and didn’t bawl my eyes out afterwards just because I could. I’m tired of ruminating but I also don’t have the energy to find light and acceptance in notions I cannot accept. What’s the least stressful thing you can do for your nervous system during these trying times?

I wasn’t allowed to post this on r/existentialism. No mental health content allowed.

first month 10 mg, increased dosage per my tolerance. :)

If you’re wondering, it did help me tremendously. Haven’t broken out since, at least not yet. A bit of redness on my cheeks still, some scarring as well. I’m grateful for the transformation and hope you all can get to where you want to be on your journey with minimal difficulty.

I hope this is the right place for my question. If I’m out of line, kindly redirect me. I’d like to speak of this topic more as it pertains to rhetorics, and I hope the sensitive nature is not taken at face value but rather approached from a purely analytical lens.

Allah has forbidden suicide. Allah has also made it clear that if someone was in an impaired state of mind, their sin may be waived or the like, He knows best. We are just made aware of the possibilities.

Suicide is evolutionarily against the grain. It defies our very nature and the laws that bring us to survive and reproduce and survive again. Bottom line, as well as biologically speaking, survival is very significant and the termination of one’s own life is very unheard of.

Can we then arrive at the conclusion that all individuals who commit suicide are in an impaired state of mind, if humans by design are built to live? If all affected are in an impaired state of mind, are all cases of suicide not something that is within the parameters of Allah’s mercy?

In fewer words, I don’t believe there is anyone who commits suicide who is not mentally unwell.

If this resonates with any of you in a painful way, my door is always open to conversation. May Allah protect all of you, and may Allah forgive me if I have made any error in my representation.

Hey all I hope you’re doing well, I’ve been in remission for this phobia for quite some time now. Exposure therapy truly is the gold standard treatment and I know that thought in and of itself can feel hopeless for the masses of us that struggle on a deeper level. It took getting badly sick myself for me to have a more level headed analysis of this irrational fear, but I believe in the power of baby steps and think that building up confidence in safe and then gradually uncertain environments is the move rather than throwing ourselves into the highest dial and never again. My time here is done, I’ve never posted but I read a lot of your stories to catalyze my own perseverance (sidebar: this subreddit did more harm for my nerves than good and I know I’m not alone in that thought. if you feel like you aren’t getting anywhere in your recovery and you’re in a slyly toxic support group, that may be why). I wanted to contribute something meaningful for you all if I could, in the same vein of that exposure therapy I was talking about earlier. One of the ways in which I overcame my anxieties was by making light of them. Laughter heals more than we know. I wrote a story for my creative writing class and put a lot of reallyyyyy visceral and repulsive imagery of getting sick in there. I never claimed to have the best humour. Anyway, I wrote it with ease and that’s kind of when I knew I had power over myself, that perhaps I’ve always had power over myself if only I’d let myself believe it sooner. Would it be anything anyone here is interested in reading so it all seems less intimidating? No censorship whatsoever, which is intentional.

You can 1000000% overcome this. For those of you who feel less confident, a small act of defiance towards your phobia everyday goes a very long way. It is not time that changes things, it is doing things that changes things. Small things and big things alike. God bless.

“It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.”
- Bojack Horseman