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Struggling to pray salah, any tips?

Struggling to pray salah, any tips?

As someone who has been seeing different therapists for the last ten years, how do you as a therapist look a patient in the eye, and tell them that the reason they see the worls as a "bad place" is because of the patient's trauma, and that the world is actually a good place to live in? How PRIVILEGED and NAIVE do you have to be to gaslight yourself, and to gaslighting others to make the patient think that the world being a dangerous place is "all in their head" and a "trauma response"??? Do these privileged pos not understand that people are literally dangerous, especially strangers, and that our pattern recognition actually helps us see signs and red flags that the therapist and other neurotypical coded people do not see? Most of my therapists have been white or white adjacent and they act shocked that I, a mixed race black woman, could be going through daily violence abuse and disrespect by most people around me, especially in my physical area where people are racist af. Let's be honest, these therapists lack empathy and are so sheltered they gaslight themselves into thinking poc and woc don't know what we're talking about, and the world is according to them a safe place to be in. POS!!!

Salam. So basically I have ocd that had been getting worse. I talk to myself out loud in public over and over again, usually saying the same prayers repeatedly and asking God to cleanse me and protect me, I think because I never feel safe and feel like I'm going to hell. I haven't been praying salat very much. I don't know if I have schizophrenia, but yeah these are my symptoms. People at work are scared of me because they see me whispering to myself over and over again. I am peaying and I fee like I'm "talking to God." Please tell me that I don't need to pray obsessively, especially out loud. I do this before eating as well (saying bismallah) and it scares and confuses people.

Edit: Do we need to talk to God all the time? Do we need to constantly ask for protection? I feel like I am always hearing waswasas.

Salam. So basically I have ocd that had been getting worse. I talk to myself out loud in public over and over again, usually saying the same prayers repeatedly and asking God to cleanse me and protect me, I think because I never feel safe and feel like I'm going to hell. I haven't been praying salat very much. I don't know if I have schizophrenia, but yeah these are my symptoms. People at work are scared of me because they see me whispering to myself over and over again. I am peaying and I fee like I'm "talking to God." Please tell me that I don't need to pray obsessively, especially out loud. I do this before eating as well (saying bismallah) and it scares and confuses people.

I feel bad for typing this on jummah but I feel like it might help me heal to be honest. I have suffered from OCD practically my entire life. Praying salat triggers it, along with duas. My ocd is tied to cleanliness, relationships, and prayer. I obsessively compulsively pray and I havent prayed salah in months because of the sheer stress and exhaustion I face. People dont understand, it makes me want to cry and scream. I am planning on starting a new medication but idk if it'll help. I don't know if I falal under the guidlines of those who do not have to praya since I have been mentally unstable. I have trouble maintaining relationships and following through on things. I feel miserable. I tried following christianity and jesus, and that actually stopped a lot of my ocd symptoms. However, I don't think jesus is god so I went back to Islam. But my ocd is tied to islam, I think only those who have ocd will understand the tremendous mental suffering I go through. Please help and please pray for me.

I feel bad for typing this on jummah but I feel like it might help me heal to be honest. I have suffered from OCD practically my entire life. Praying salat triggers it, along with duas. My ocd is tied to cleanliness, relationships, and prayer. I obsessively compulsively pray and I havent prayed salah in months because of the sheer stress and exhaustion I face. People dont understand, it makes me want to cry and scream. I am planning on starting a new medication but idk if it'll help. I don't know if I falal under the guidlines of those who do not have to praya since I have been mentally unstable. I have trouble maintaining relationships and following through on things. I feel miserable. I tried following christianity and jesus, and that actually stopped a lot of my ocd symptoms. However, I don't think jesus is god so I went back to Islam. But my ocd is tied to islam, I think only those who have ocd will understand the tremendous mental suffering I go through. Please help and please pray for me.

Not only was there a paycut in my district, but on the last day of school, my co-teacher decided to humiliage me in front of all the staff during a meeting. She made long eye contact with me when she shared out to everyone, "This is my last year here, and I want to thank Ms. A, Ms. B..." then she turned away from me and said "and EVERYONE who helped out!" I could feel people staring at me, as she didn't thank me her co-teacher who helped her. I did as I was told, I followed her comments and feedback, yet she made an attempt to publicly humiliate me in front of everyone. I always took time to ask her about her life, help with grading, provide more than what I thought was expected of me. It was at that moment that I realize, no matter how much you care, it might never be enough for the bitter. When that meeting was over, I walked out and didn't even say goodbye. I was mentally rehearsing how I was going to thank her for everything, and how I was going to keep in touch. Then after she did that public display of humiliation (she sometimes would humiliate me in front of the kids but I brushed it aside), I cut ties with her. It's very sad how little respect there is in this profession from staff and students alike. I have also been threatened by a parent who wanted to fight me because her kid kept getting in trouble for fighting the other kids, and a few weeks ago the school prinicpal hit me with a rolled up piece of paper because I was standing in his way. The upsetting experiences I faced made me realize I need to put myself first and be in environments where I am safe and respected.

I understand that it's normal for couples to fight. But I think the amount of times Hana and Caleb would fight, and what they were fighting about, was too much.

I love love love the reboot, but when I try to watch season one of the original series, I get really bored. Like very bored. And I want to like it, because I like the reboot so much, and I heard the original is amazing, but for some reason I just cannot love it that much. Any advice? When does it get better lol.

So I rewatched the show and I still don't know what Andrew did? Like he was writing in his diary about how he hated the girls, got arrested, but was actually trying to help them? If that's the case, why write such nasty things about them in his diary?

If you could have anything (new) to the bratz universe and dolls, what do you want to see?

Okay I understand the grooming in the show was wrong, but I found out today that it was LEGAL in the show because the age of consent is 16 in PA. So technically...the age gap relationships WEREN'T by definition inappropriate (even though Ezra*barf* abused his power so Ezria is still bad)

EDIT: Guys I clearly said Ezra abused his power, yes I think he and Aria are inappropriate, I mean all age gaps (as there were many) in the show

Well! I made posts about my horrible working experience at a previous school. I then started working at a different school since January and loved it. However, me and some coworkers got laid off, and I have been bitter. I spent years putting my work into this thankless field. I came into teaching wanting to help children, and I am realizing that I am not needed. Admin treats me as if I am easily replacable, the teachers and admin are alright but gossipy and catty at pretty much every school, the kids are so disrespectful these days that this job makes me feel as if I am nothing to the children or to the staff. I feel like this career was a mistake and a lesson and a blessing at once. Now, I no longer feel like I need to do this career to feel like a "good" person, and I'm going to pursue the things thag make me happy.

Looking for teaching jobs in Japan, the rates are lower than what I make in US. Looking for comparable or higher rates. Any recs?