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An early night.

By cinny58 · Posted 11:51 pm
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I am so exhausted. Too few hours of sleep. Tomorrow is my 54th birthday and I wish that everyone would just leave me alone. I don't want to celebrate it. I am done with that. My partner of 17 plus years ...

Lost in Time

By SurroundingHope · Posted 8:19 pm
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My birthfather and step mother send me videos and pics of them. Good right? Not to me.. They live in a different country from me and I cant even see my new little siblings grow up. When i meet them ill ...

Scars New and OLd

By CaseyFacey · Posted 7:27 pm
Discussion in Self-injury · 0 replies
Hi my Name is Casey im 24 i was diganosed with bi polar and depression and anxiety at 13 ive always had a hard time coping with my life my childhood was pretty good but i still had problems up until about ...

calm after the storm

By hkfg81 · New reply 5:12 pm
Journal · 2 replies
For anyone here suffering from an eating disorder... I know what you are going through. I am in remission now but at age 16-18 I was anorexic. I dropped so low that at 18 I was told that I could die without ...

12:13am

By cinny58 · New reply 5:06 pm
Journal · 1 reply
I have a hard time sleeping. I am so exhausted throughout the day, but when it's time to go to bed, I am wide awake. I met with a new therapist today. I don't know if I like her. I didn't feel that instant ...

Poem... Her Final Day

By hkfg81 · New reply 5:02 pm
Journal · 10 replies
THIS POEM IS ABOUT MY PERSONAL LIFE EXPERIENCES WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND LOW SELF ESTEEM. THIS IS NOT MEANT TO HURT OR INSULT ANYONE HERE. THIS IS A FORM OF EXPRESSION FOR ME. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO READ ...

Overcoming your fears

By Soapyman1 · New reply 4:55 pm
Discussion in Anxiety and phobias · 1 reply
Please always remember that fear can be a powerful motivator, rather than a painful detterent!!! Also.... Failure, no matter how large it seems is only temporary, success, no matter how insignificant ...

It COULD be worse. You could be ME.

By Sandyzk12 · New reply yesterday at 5:56 pm
Journal · 11 replies
Taking control of your life in times of severe tension and pain is something we do automatically - we adapt or we perish. Here is the piece of my life I wish I could forget and which I hope will help ...

codependency

By drrah · New reply May 14, 2012
Discussion in Co-dependency · 1 reply
The membership literature notes codedependency as a diagnosis. It is not. That is, it is not listed in the DSM IV, therefore not professionally recognized as a mental disease,disorder or defect. The reason ...

Texas Day Three

By kaseymathews · Posted May 14, 2012
Journal · 0 replies
Read about my conference talk at the National Association of Neonatal Therapist (NANT) conference! http://www.kaseymathews.com/texas-day-th ree ...

31 weeks

By Alicesmommy87 · New reply May 13, 2012
Journal · 6 replies
Well I am going to be 31 weeks along with my pregnancy and everything is looking up for me. I am sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have had no access to a computer for a while. My FM is ...

59 More days to go....

By Alicesmommy87 · New reply May 13, 2012
Journal · 9 replies
Well I am counting down the days until I meet my litte girl. I am facing a lot of hardships and hard realities in this whole thing and it is so hard and frustrating I wish that it would be just simple ...

Poem: stitches

By hkfg81 · Posted May 12, 2012
Journal · 0 replies
I'll tear my chest open So you can see my heart It's covered with so many scars It should've already fallen apart But somehow I keep it together Sometimes it's hard to hold in place Pain has become the ...

"Life after Death" aka The Elastic Woman Fights Back.

By Sandyzk12 · New reply May 11, 2012
Journal · 6 replies
It has been around 6 months since my life was forever changed by a nasty set of coronary arteries. I went back to work within a month of surgery and was relocated (politically correct term for GO! DO ...

Texas Travels!

By kaseymathews · New reply May 9, 2012
Journal · 1 reply
I feel so honored and blessed to meet all these folks involved with preemies! http://www.kaseymathews.com/texas-day-tw o-finally ...

Inhale... Exhale

By PrincessM · New reply May 9, 2012
Journal · 5 replies
Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else. It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells “can’t”. But you don’t listen; you just push harder. And then you ...

I'm so over panic attacks

By aealmon · New reply May 8, 2012
Journal · 1 reply
I searched the internet again trying to find out the best way to communicate in a relationship. I didn’t find the answers I was looking for. Wait a minute! I found nothing that related to my situation ...

E.F.T Tapping World Summit 2012-Online & Free

By CaliforniaDreamer · New reply May 8, 2012
Journal · 4 replies
E.F.T (emotional freedom technique) is a powerful tool. Something that helps with emotional issues, and works on physical illness and pain as well. Its a gentle tapping on the acupressure meridians on ...

I need lot of support and prayer for a friend

By sham1313 · New reply May 8, 2012
Journal · 33 replies
cece is inthe method-this hospital and was told some very bad news.today i have to back up some and let you know she is a die-a-bet-ic and only has one leg to do that and a stupid nurse put her in her ...

My boyfriend left me because he blames me why he is in the mental hospital.

By webby · New reply May 7, 2012
Discussion in Suicide · 8 replies
I went to ICU in the local hospital that day frantic, crying, scared and in love with a man who had attempted suicide now going on three times that I heard of since, meeting him only 3 months ago. I didn't ...

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