r/helpme

174K archived posts · Jul 2010 – Sep 2026

Get Help, Give Help

r/helpme

Going through a tough stage in your life? Need advice, support, or just someone to listen? Tell us, and we will try to support you—whether that's in making a plan to turn things around, getting directions to another sub, finding resources, or just talking it out. We encourage you to both ask for help as well as help others on this sub. Don't be afraid to reach out. *NOTE*: The advice you may receive here is given by redditors, not verified professionals. Take everything with a grain of salt.

Created Dec 9, 2008

73KMembers (last snapshot)

174KArchived posts

Going through a tough stage in your life? Need advice, support, or even just someone to listen?

Tell us, and we will try to support you. Whether it means helping you make a plan to get your life out of the gutter, find directions to another sub, find resources, or just talking it out.

Please don't feel afraid to open up and share your story with us. We encourage everyone to both ask for help and help others here.

RULES

NO ASKING FOR MONEY/FAVORS: This subreddit is based on support and advice. Posts made for the purpose of obtaining money or getting people to do things for you will be removed. Including: research, surveys, polls, referral codes, signups, followers, fundraisers, rent/bills/purchasing goods or services or sharing financial situations to solicit donations by implication For donation subreddits: r/gofundme, r/charity, r/Assistance, r/donate, r/borrow, or r/donation. For favors: r/Favors, r/RandomKindness, or r/Assistance
No Witchhunting, Brigading, or Sharing Sensitive Info.
Reddit doesn't allow witchhunting, doxxing, or sharing sensitive information of people. Posts or comments that contain this will be removed regardless of the subject topic. Please do not post the names of users, accounts, businesses, or people to doxx or target. Also no phone numbers, email addresses, or addresses. Or asking people to report or contact. Rule 3 Content Policy https://redditinc.com/policies/reddit-rules
No Soliciting DMs. Posts or comments that solicit DMs are not allowed. We encourage all our users to be open about sharing what they need help with in their posts, and having respective discussions in the comments. This is a community space, not somewhere to find patrons privately.
Be Considerate. Please be considerate, and follow common Reddiquette. Even if a comment is meant to help, if it is attacking someone, or is otherwise unproductive, it will be removed. And of course, no harassment, or spamming replies to comments you disagree with. This is a community, so treat it like one :)
No Provoking, or Trolling. Any "troll" posts or comments will be removed. This includes posts that are outlandish, fake, or meant to provoke.
No Encouraging or Assisting Suicide. We allow users to discuss suicide and suicidal ideation, but encouraging people to commit suicide, or facilitating suicide in any way will result in your comment being removed.
Use "Suicide or self harm" or "Graphic" Flair when Appropriate (with NSFW tag). Some users may not want to read posts that are graphic or about self harm or suicide. If you are posting something that includes this please add the appropriate flair to your post, and mark it as NSFW.
No Self-Promotion or Advertising. As rule #1 says, we are support and advice based. You are not allowed to advertise or promote yourself.
No Crossposting or Hyperlinking. Any posts made to this subreddit should be regular text posts and not links or cross-posts. .
No Political Discussions. This sub is not for this.

Note: The advice and help in this subreddit is not professional by any means (this includes advice by moderators). Take everything with a grain of salt.

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