I’m really struggling and I can’t tell anybody so I don’t burden them

Need Support

I’ve been struggling with my mental health for about three months now and it’s been getting worse, I’ve started self harming and have attempted multiple times in this period.

But I can’t tell anybody.

Everybody around me is under so much stress, my parents are having marriage problems, my friends are all studying for exams, everybody is already stressed out and I don’t want to burden them with this.

Usually I’m really close to my mum and would tell her if I were feeling down but I can’t, like I literally don’t have a chance. By the time she’s home it’s midway through the evening then she’s always busy with my siblings or with my dad, I literally don’t have a chance.

And I even if I did I don’t know how I would approach it to her? People say that ‘you need to reach out’ but I literally can’t. I have nowhere to reach to, I just want to feel normal.

Posted Mar 4, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

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