I’ve been awake for 24 hours now; I can’t sleep. Or rather, I choose to suffer because it’s familiar. I am mindlessly scrolling reddit and a post that sounds awfully familiar pops up in my feed. It’s from the Indian Mental Health subreddit . Someone’s in distress, needs to be heard, and is lashing out in pain. This is how I would react under emotional pain. I’ve been through the same journey and I’ve been at the same station, waiting to be heard, understood and maybe even, saved. And I know from experience that no one’s coming.
So I thought I’d redirect his frustration and anger to get him to help himself.
I leave this here as a reminder to my future self to heed to these words.
Mental health discussion is a joke in India
Literally i seek advice about my bipolar and hyperactivity and issues caused by it and would love to share the hardships they’re facing and would love to share some prevention plan n and early symptoms but nah, none of the indian so called “mental” subs keep on removing the posts when someone opens about their experiences
So f" ck off mods, maybe i should post some pseudoscience behind mental health as possessed by RAM or hanuman or whatever fictional characters which are of high demand in India lol
I’ll post my stuffs and suggestions in global subreddit and not on any “Indian” subs, denks
Jai shree Ram (maybe this won’t let them take this post down ROFL)
You sound like you’re in a lot of distress, and I’d like to ask something harsh of you: stop expecting from people, nobody’s coming to save us.
That’s half the battle; realizing there’s nothing out there that’ll help. We gotta help ourselves.
Life gives you lemons? Squeeze em in your eyes and say ‘is that all you got motherfucker?’
I’ve got BPD, ADHD, GAD; I’ve been dealt a bad hand. But I’ll thrive just to piss off the universe.
Lately, I’ve been going through a really bad episode, the whole shebang - unstable emotions, suicidal thoughts, ruminations et. al.
I decided to remedy it. I organized a mental health meetup. Helped me a little. I plan on organizing one every weekend.
Most techniques that claim to regulate the nervous system never worked for me. This time I tried the wim hoff method, and turns out heavily oxygenating my brain calms my nervous system down. It’s the first time a breathing technique worked. 20-30 breaths in I passed out and woke up fine. The key was in lying down first. Ofcourse, it’s not a cure, or even a treatment. It’s a band-aid but heck, I’ll do it a dozen times a day if that’s what it takes.
Another thing that worked for me was wetting a thick towel with mildly cold water and rubbing my face, neck and upper back with it.
I’m not out of the woods. I’m working on finding more tricks and adjusting my coping strategies further.
Personally, for me, I was never self aware enough to even understand what was happening to me. So I started journaling every bodily sensation, emotion, thought and discomfort. It was the single most important thing I did to help myself. Only after I understood the patterns behind my suffering, that I could look at them objectively and start trying to find solutions.
What I’ll ask of you is to journal the same - every bodily sensation, emotion, thought and discomfort AND read up everything there is to on the internet on nervous system regulation, and devise protocols to test every strategy that claims to do it; see what works for you. It’s a long and arduous process, but you’ll be unbreakable when you emerge at the other end of it.
Finally, remember that you’re in it alone, and you can do it. Stop waiting for help, for someone to save you. Heck, if a messed up fella like me is trying, you can definitely do better.
Godspeed.
Categories: Mental Health, EUPD
Publish date: 2026-06-22 12:28:07 +0530 ISTAuthor: AlanWeek: 2026-W26Month: 06-June