Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

If you constantly find that you’re rubbing people the wrong way, take a look at this list and consider if you’re doing any of the following seven things.

Is it hard for you to accept help when you need it?

My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much." It's BS.

No energy at 3PM? The mid-afternoon slump is a well-known phenomenon.

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

Sometimes you have to let go of your dreams. As the years go by, you come to the realization that who you are now is pretty much who you’ll be forever.

Would you really rather not get older?

The only thing worse than being in a bad mood, is dealing with someone else’s bad mood.

As a person who writes about relationships for a living, I might be one of the people least in need of all this well-meaning advice, which usually amounts to clichés and can even veer into the territory of outright insults. What I need – what most of us need – is for people to hear me, and to trust me.