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There are no therapist or clinical psychologist on this sub answering mental health questions. Do not post mental health questions. This is against rule 1 and they will be removed.
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This subreddit is for questions about psychology topics and human behaviors. It is not for diagnostic or analytic advice on your own or some other persons mental health issues.

We do not allow posts of that nature because:

  1. It is inappropriate to allow someone's personal mental health history be publicly available that may be linked back to them and used to harm them.
  2. No one on this subreddit is qualified to give you mental health advice.
  3. The layperson and students on this sub may unintentionally give you harmful advice because they are not trained. Lot's of well intentioned advice is harmful.

If you still want bad advice after I have just told you why you should avoid it, you should try r/Advice r/selfimprovement r/selfhelp

Even better, find a therapist: https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-find-a-therapist

This sub does allow questions about specific mental health disorders but they cannot violate rule 1.

Please refrain from including your own personal mental health history when asking about a phenomenon. Please refrain from including stories about specific individuals when asking about phenomenon. You are free to give examples but don't ask to diagnose or analyze someone you know.

Examples of how to ask questions about specific mental health topics.

"What different therapies are available for treating OCD?"

"Is meditation an effective treatment for ADD?"

"I think I need to see a therapist, how can I find one?, I do not have insurance or access to care"

But you cannot discuss your mental health history in the post. 

Asking questions if a specific experience you are having is normal violates rule 1 in most instances. You are asking for someone to evaluate you and tell you if you have a mental health problem or not. These types of questions are sort of in the gray area and decision to approve post or not is at the discretion of the mod who reviewed your post.

I would try to rephrase and remove the personal relevance of such questions.

And the last thing I want to mention is about asking non-answerable questions. Such as "why do I like [insert thing]? "

I don't know. No one knows. And if anyone does know, it would be you. You shouldn't expect an answer to these types of questions. And if the posts includes info about mental health symptoms they will be removed for rule 1.

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