Frequently Asked Questions

TakeMyTroubles.com is an active community of diverse individuals improving themselves by releasing and working through their troubles while guiding others in overcoming theirs.

Without creating an account you can view others troubles and comments as well as the resources section. However, to enter your own troubles, comments and ratings, you need to create an account (where you are anonymous).

When creating an account, you specify your user name. To ensure your anonymity (no one will know who you really are), choose a user name that you do not use on other accounts. Your user id is associated with the troubles, ratings, and comments you make.

By having anonymity, where others do not know your real iden****y, you may be more willing and able to share your true feelings, troubles, and problems. By being honest and true to yourself, you will have a more fulfilling experience using TakeMyTroubles.com. Once you are comfortable and secure in your feelings and ability to address your trouble, you may be willing to remove the vail of anonymity and share and ask assistance from your friends, family, co-workers, counselors, or religious leaders.

No. You do need to sign-in when you want to (a) add new troubles, (b) comment on others, (c) rate others, (d) rate comments to your troubles, and (e) manage your troubles in My Account.

The next time you access TakeMyTroubles.com from your machine, you will be automatically signed-in. To accomplish the automatic sign-in, a cookie is kept on your machine that is automatically sent to TakeMyTroubles.com the next time you visit. The cookie does contain unique information - your account name and password to securely let us know it is you.

No. TakeMyTroubles is free to use. TakeMyTroubles is supported by sales of TakeMyTroubles.com products, direct advertisement, affiliate marketing, and access to aggregate data (no personally identifiable information).

First read the Trouble Tree story, the inspiration behind TakeMyTroubles.com. Next register. Then write and “leave your troubles behind”. Just by releasing your troubles you begin to feel better. Your message is sent out to the world where someone is listening. Someone may respond to your message with empathy, wisdom, or nonsense. Amazingly many troubles are magically solved here, just by releasing them. But others need your action. Use some of the suggestions in the Coping and Resources sections. Listen to the responses you receive, the interactions you have with others. What are you now hearing as a result of sending your troubles out there? See How to Use and the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for additional guidance.

Yes. You must be registered and signed-in to write and send your troubles.

When private is marked “yes”, your trouble is not shared with anyone. Private enables you to completely express yourself. But you elect to keep the trouble private, to yourself, because of any reason such as due to the extreme sensitive nature of your trouble or due to your sensitivity of others seeing your trouble. Later, if you wish, you can edit your trouble and change private to “no”, allowing others to see your trouble and rate and comment on it.

A trouble rant is not shared with others. A rant is another form of private. A rant is where you express your raw feelings about a trouble. A rant may include inappropriate language and tone that does not conform to the Community Guidelines. A rant enables you to “get it off your chest”, but without offending anyone (since it is not shared). Later, after you have “cooled down”, you may want to express the same trouble but in a way that follows the Community Guidelines. This way, you can get feedback (comments and ratings) from others to help you through your trouble.

In your trouble, select “yes” for Private or a Rant. Both these settings do not publish your entry. You can edit these settings in your trouble in My Account.

Registered and signed-in members can write comments to a trouble. Please see the Community Guidelines for appropriate comment behavior.

Registered and active members of TakeMyTroubles.com can rate and comment on troubles. People who comment are not paid for their comments. Comments are free - there is no charge to receive comments posted your trouble.

Registered and active members of TakeMyTroubles.com can rate and comment on comments.

Categories are the areas of life that the trouble affects. There are two category sections. Default categories and tags. The default section highlights a few major life categories. Where as the category tags section enables you to “tag” your trouble with specific life categories.

Feelings are the emotions you experience with your specific trouble. The Feelings section enables you to “tag” your trouble with specific feelings. By tagging your trouble with your feelings, you also recognize how this trouble is affecting you. Having this knowledge can help you more effectively deal with the trouble.

When entering your own trouble, use the category and feeling tags to more fully define and express your trouble. After you send your trouble, you can search the categories and feelings tags to find similar troubles, problems, situations. These similar troubles may have insightful comments to guide you through your situation

We encourage you to use the Report Abuse link whenever you see questionable content posted to the site. In your response, please provide information about the item, its ID number, and the reason you find the content questionable.

We encourage you to use the Report Abuse link whenever you see questionable content posted to the site. In your response, please provide information about the item, its ID number, and the reason you find the content questionable.

We encourage you to use the Report Abuse link whenever you see questionable content posted to the site. In your response, please provide information about the item, its ID number, and the reason you find the content questionable.

Go to the My Account section, accessed at the top of the page.

Except for troubles marked “yes” for Private or Rant, all troubles and comments posted on the web are viewable by the public. If I trouble or comment has been marked for Abuse, it is automatically removed from view. Regardless, your personal information is never posted with your trouble or comments, so your privacy is protected.

Select Terms of Use. Accompanying the Terms of Use are the Community Guidelines and Privacy Policy.

Please see the Privacy Policy. You may also want to see the Terms of Use and Community Guidelines.