Since may is mental health awareness month and is almost ending. I thought I’d come here share some stuff I’ve been struggling with so you don’t feel alone! I struggle alot with misunderstandings and being afraid to openly share stuff. I also struggled so much with family issues and still do now. I also have sleeping problems which affect me a lot. I also struggled with sh. I have high anxiety and depression but I am learning to cope! I also struggle with adhd which is commonly misunderstood in my family. I also dealt with toxic family members. I don’t have parents which Defo took a whole toll on me… I got separated from my siblings. I still feel like no one understands my mental health had made it alot harder to care of stuff including myself. So if your struggling DONT BE AFRIAD TO REACH OUT. reaching is gonna make it easy for yourself and all the people around you. Please don’t just sit there and struggle alone. REACH OUT!
Love to see the awareness!
I personally struggle very badly with my mental health
I want to reply but don’t know how after reading this. I got adhd, depression, add, and trichotillomania from my father (he’s awesome tho). Because of my trichotillomania I’d pick my eyelashes out and it got to the point where I picked all of my eyelashes out (right before my birthday) i started having bad thoughts about offing myself but told myself how bad everyone who cares about me would feel and how I haven’t finished the anime and manga I’m reading and watching. My mom kept commenting on my eyelashes and it made me really self conscious about myself (she’s awesome, she says she can’t help it). My friends were awesome and said that it’s not noticable because I’m blonde even though my eyelashes are really dark. I haven’t picked any out in months (except for a really long one that was poking my eye) and I was so happy when the first naturally dropped eyelash fell off a few weeks ago. Ask for help if you need it, and just saying positive things about yourself will tell your brain that it is true, and think of the good things in life. Also remember that you will always think that others look better than you, it’s a brain thing, you are pretty!
(I have mdd,gad,schizophrenia)
I’m proud of you for not picking out any more eyelashes! Keep up the great work
as someone who also has trichotillomania im so proud of you! im struggling real bad with it rn bc of all the stress ive been under lately so its comforting to hear a happy ending
I recommend fidgets, I have fidgets everywhere around the house. Crocheting also helped because it gave me something to do while watching TV instead of picking my hair out.
ty for the suggestions, ill def be getting some fidgets and putting them in regular pulling spots. ive also found crocheting and knitting has helped a lot and has been improving my mental health
I hope you are still doing well
Those thoughts will do you in! I retired from working as a psychiatric mental health practitioner and still wish I was working! 
Anyway, it might be helpful, since your parents are awesome, to ask them to write down one ( or several) things that they like about you on a card. When those thoughts come, read those to yourself.
You have to retrain your brain. Those thoughts are not the REAL you.
Hugs.
On Valentines day during Covid my mom wrote good traits about me and my twin on hearts and taped them to our door. She did the same to my brother but he destroyed them all.
Your brother destroyed yours too? 
By the way, tell her you need an updated one. 
Some of ours, he had really bad anger issues. He goes to therapy and I kinda think some of the issues would be his undiagnosed (at the time) autism.