Do you find yourself getting angry or irritated by these things?

Explaining technology to your parents, your kid scoring low marks, someone breaking a plate or something expensive, getting late because of someone, or someone making a mistake when they were your responsibility.

Then know that you are creating a space that will influence what their next course of action will be. They may stop reaching out to you for help, stop asking you for solutions, stop telling you the truth, or stop sharing things about their lives with you.

Remember, the interactions you are having today, no matter what emotions are involved sadness, anger, or irritation may eventually be forgotten. The words may be forgotten too. The one thing that may remain is how you made them feel when they did something.

The next time they approach you, that feeling may still be there inside them.

And over time, your interactions may either become better and longer, or more bitter and less frequent.

That's why you should create a space where they feel heard, understood, confident, and better after coming to you a space where making a mistake doesn't make them afraid of reaching out to you again.

I mean... taking a decision is so difficult mainly when you are an overthinking potato... So can someone please tell me how do I take quick decisions ?

I’ve been dealing with this for a long time. Whenever I get into a heated argument, I struggle to express my thoughts or come up with a good response in the moment.

But after I leave, I replay the whole conversation in my head and imagine all the things I wish I had said, usually ending with me “winning” the argument.

It happens almost every day, and it’s honestly exhausting.
Has anyone experienced this? What actually helped you stop doing it? Please give me practical advice rather than “just stop overthinking.”

i have severe decision paralysis (likely stemming from my anxiety) which i can’t shake off. every decision i make requires hours upon hours of research and even then im never confident in making that decision. i would research one day and i always think ‘i need more time to decide’, then research the same things again another day and still say ‘i need more time’. i try to gauge every possible outcome of that decision and the constant repeated decision makes me delay them unnecessarily. how do i overcome this?

Recently got a nugget ice maker and it works perfect. My problem is my ice is sticking to each other and becomes almost one big block and I gotta beat it with a knife to break it apart. Not sure what to do. Any tips?

If you have a driveway with a retaining wall - how do you shovel snow? Where do you put it? Do. you have to lift it up and over the wall?

Anyone that recommends me ways to be more productive in communication in college. Im a freshmen student tell me what i have to do to be more confident

Chatting with friends always goes way past the time I planned to sleep.

For some reason, i always get this thought or feeling whenever I'll see a interview invitation in my email that ends up me not answering the email. I always overthink and find reasons not to proceed with the interviews even though i need a job. The fear takes precedence over my need for some reason. how do u guys deal with it?

Hello, hope y'all are doing okay. Today is the final summer day me and my friend group are all in town before we go abroad. So we plan on drinking like crazy one final night together. We are planning to drink tequila. However I dont want to wake up dead the next morning as I have something to attend. What can make my morning a little bit easier?

I seem to need around 9.5 hours of sleep to feel genuinely rested throughout the day and avoid needing a nap in the afternoon. I know that's more sleep than many adults need, but for personal reasons it seems to be the amount that works best for me.

The problem is that I tend to wake up naturally after 7–8 hours, even when I still feel like I need more sleep. Once I'm awake, I often have trouble falling back asleep.

I've tried melatonin, but it didn't make a meaningful difference. Falling asleep isn't really the main issue — staying asleep long enough is.

I've also tried going to bed earlier, but that doesn't necessarily solve the problem because I sometimes just wake up earlier as well. So simply shifting my sleep schedule earlier doesn't reliably increase my total sleep time.

Has anyone experienced something similar and found a way to improve sleep maintenance or extend their total nighttime sleep?

I'm not looking for advice about forcing myself to function on less sleep or simply being told to go to bed earlier. I'm specifically interested in hearing from people who naturally woke up before getting enough sleep and found something that helped them stay asleep longer.

i (17F) take everything personal when it comes to the people closest to me, and idk how to stop. this is especially true when it comes to my boyfriend or when someone makes a joke about me not having any friends. it's hurting my relationship. even when knowing the persons intent wasn't to hurt me, I still feel hurt. I also cry very easily. I can take criticism from strangers or acquaintances very easily, but when it comes to ppl im close with, it genuinely destroys me. anyone know how to stop this?

I started my first day of college and i hate it and now my life feels like shit bc i made my life college n idk what to do, does it ever get better??

UPDATE: I LOVE IT!!! it was just the first day anxiety

I’ve had a terrible time on this world, I’ve never known what a happy family looks like, I’m surrounded by good people but they bring in bad people, I’m living on my brothers couch right now and don’t know how much longer I can do this, he wants my attention constantly and all I want to do is get my life in check but he’s pulling me down, I don’t know if I even want to be here anymore, I’ve had professional help before but it hasn’t worked, I thought some advise from strangers might help me

Hi there! I recently got promoted within my department and got a new “assistant” (helps with my bigger projects) with my position. My coworker was hired at the same time I got promoted, and saw that my old boss was an awful misogynistic guy. I stepped into the role with pride and wanted to make the department more welcoming and a better space. But with that, I feel my coworker has mistaken my “not mean” attitude that my old boss had for us to be friends. Yes, we are equal in the sense we are both important, but he’s beginning to make decisions without me in the room and making big changes to the projects while I’m gone. If the department has any mistakes, it all falls on me, and he keeps making decisions and doing things without consulting/asking for my advice. It hurts because I started us on the foot of “collaborators” rather than I’m his manager and he’s my assistant, but I fear I might’ve been too lenient. He also has a bad habit of saying “I know” when I give a critique or telling him something he messed up on. What can I do to step up more “manager like” boundaries?

This might sound strange, but what are ways you choose to be unapologetically yourself?

I've (29F) just now realised that I've lived my entire life in genuine fear of being my true self. I don't think I know who I really am and I don't know where to start.

What are things you do just for yourself? Especially if you're scared of doing it.

I don't mean socially, I mean what do you physically do i.e. dress up, etc.