“17 year old , girl, Pakistani, college student. am 17 year old, fighting through suicidal thoughts all the time. I have planned many suicide attempts since childhood but was never that serious and committed on doing it. Some days ago , I really gave up , wrote goodbye letters to my closest ones, offered salat ... Read More
I am a 15 year old American female, I reverted to Islam around a year ago, and I love it, but my parents don’t know. This will be my first Ramadan, and I don’t know what to do about it with my parents. I cannot wear hijab, or even dress as modestly as I want, ... Read More
I am 37 years old, male dealing with PTSD, my story and my trials are closely related to religion. Response from your friends at Stones to Bridges: Assalamualaikum brother I can understand that PTSD is a difficult journey, but in Islam, every moment of patience is rewarded, and every struggle is known by Allah. That ... Read More
Salamu Alaikum. I’m a 15 year old Pakistani male living in the United States. My family is semi-religious, we dont pray as much as we should, but we’re very close to our Islamic values and adhere to almost all Islamic laws. We fast during Ramadan, we give zakaat and sadaqa, and we’ve gone for Umrah ... Read More
This is something difficult to talk about but I need to get it off my chest. I’ll get straight to it; about a year ago I came to the full realization and had accepted that I might have been sexually assaulted during my childhood. It still doesn’t exactly make sense to me because you would ... Read More
Salam I’m 25 F , as long as I remember , I had moments of intense sadness from when I was roughly 15. I have strong family history of mental illness severe ones in fact and the first time I got diagnosed with an illness called dysthymia was sometime in 2020. I was in disbelief ... Read More
My (22F) story is so unique it feels like it could only happen to someone like me. I’ve never met anyone who’s gone through anything remotely similar. In Norway, when ordering a SIM card with a subscription, a great credit score is essential. The system allows someone to purchase a SIM card under their name ... Read More
After writing my goals for 2025, I decided to watch a video on abundance and reaching my potential by a muslimah creator. Suddenly, the video triggered me. It was about how everything you want in life can be achieved and how there’s no such thing as luck. The people who seem “lucky” and get everything ... Read More
I feel like I’m starting to lose my mind. I’m a 22 year old Muslimah who deeply loves her religion, but I’m getting so angry, beyond angry and I feel guilty for feeling this way. I’m exhausted by the constant discourse about us having to control our sexual desires, while non-Muslims can have sex freely ... Read More
Ok I was very stupid when I was 10 but I can’t change the past. Let’s go (Reminder, I STILL have not gotten help) I was an overachiever, straight A student, good at swimming, did a little archery. Even when I was younger, I think I was battling low self-esteem. I think in my mind, ... Read More