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My Experiences With Bullying
- By Glides · New reply 11:56 am
- Journal · 22 replies
- Lessee here...general verbal abuse from both students and teachers throughout elementary school. Middle school: transferred to a preppy private school and was beaten and humiliated almost daily, distinctly ...
Five million
- By Brian · New reply yesterday at 4:06 pm
- Journal · 205 replies
- Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...
Natural Things to Help Relieve Stress
- By chaplainstevens · New reply May 7, 2013
- Journal · 4 replies
- 1. Soothing Music 2. Exercise 3. Give and get hugs 4. Sex (Yes sex) 5. Singing 6. Meditation 7. Prayer 8. Screaming ...
Where does your hope go?
- By InkBlot520 · New reply May 7, 2013
- Journal · 2 replies
- I hope that the weather will be right tomorrow. I have so much to get done. I hope to accomplish it all. I hope I can relax and let myself be for just an instant, when the mind is on roller coaster creaking ...
You are NEVER Alone
- By chaplainstevens · New reply May 5, 2013
- Journal · 3 replies
- Psalms 27:10 "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up." Never in history has there been a time where parents have forsaken their children, as there is now. Poor little babies ...
I Didn't Ask to Be SICK!
- By chaplainstevens · New reply May 5, 2013
- Journal · 13 replies
- Sometimes we try and make folks that are SUFFERING villains, I get soooo tired of Word Faith preachers telling sick people "If you had faith you wouldn't be sick" I recall Fred Price and his wife BOTH ...
Hello...
- By silver2row · Posted May 5, 2013
- Discussion in Aging · 0 replies
- I have noticed, that w/ time, my body does not heal as fast when I injure myself being active. I like to still run and keep up w/ vigorous activities, i.e. running, playing soccer and training. I know ...
A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School
- By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
- Journal · 84 replies
- As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...
The Power of Forgiveness!
- By chaplainstevens · New reply May 5, 2013
- Journal · 2 replies
- One thing I have learned from working at a Psych Hospital is reading a patients charts (background history) explains a LOT, we ALL have baggage in our past and often that baggage dictates our emotional ...
Thyroid Lobectomy Rundown.
- By InkBlot520 · New reply May 3, 2013
- Journal · 3 replies
- Unfortunately, what I had written in the waiting room and pre-op of hospital had been deleted. I would have really liked to post what it was like from experience rather than memory. The thyroid lobectomy ...
7 Steps to Spiritual Renewal
- By chaplainstevens · New reply April 30, 2013
- Journal · 13 replies
- 1. Use personal prayer and/or meditation. This is quiet time to start to develop time for yourself and to assess how things are going in your life. Even Jesus needed to get alone and meditate. Jesus even ...
The Stigma of Mental Illness and Veterans
- By chaplainstevens · New reply April 29, 2013
- Journal · 7 replies
- I am a disabled vet that has been fighting with the VA for over 10 years about disability benifits, a lot of our vets come home with PTSD and a host of other issues THEY themselves do NOT really understand ...
Pain and Depression go Hand in Hand
- By chaplainstevens · New reply April 28, 2013
- Journal · 6 replies
- I have lost two good paying jobs because of my Sarcoidosis; I also had to care for my dying mother that had bone cancer, renal failure, and Dementia. Needless to say all of these things affected me and ...
How Long?
- By chaplainstevens · New reply April 27, 2013
- Journal · 5 replies
- I have been struggling with Sarcoidosis since 1997 (When I was diagnosed) I have Sarcoid involvement in my Lymph Nodes, eyes, liver, kidney, gums, bones, joints, and now it seems to be affecting my muscles ...
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When you say nothing at all: Living with an invisible illness
- By John2 · Posted April 18, 2013
- Journal · 0 replies
- From: John Novack, communications director, Inspire Dear members, I'm writing to share with you a new column on the Stanford University School of Medicine "Scope" medical blog: "When you say nothing at ...
The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD
- By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
- Journal · 16 replies
- Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...
Attitude Adjustments
- By chaplainstevens · New reply April 14, 2013
- Journal · 8 replies
- I have run the emotional gambit with Sarcoidosis and the distress and pain it has caused me over the last 12 years. I have been on Prednisone, Methetrexate, Rituxin, Plaquinil, and lately Remicade....nothing ...
I see through ur eyes.
- By Hue · New reply April 13, 2013
- Journal · 5 replies
- I'm very faithful in a sense. I'm loyal to friends to the very end. I lost a friend Roger a Vet. I feel his lose today. I now there was nothing i could have done, but i feel i could have done more some ...
Depression and Faith
- By chaplainstevens · New reply April 8, 2013
- Journal · 133 replies
- I think we have a tendancy to be overly judgemental of people that are depressed, as though it is due to a lack of faith, many of you have never served in combat, worked in a prison, worked in a Psych ...
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