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I went away to come to Life!!

Billie_Jo
  • By Billie_Jo · Posted 12:55 am
  • 5 replies
  • Hi Everyone.... First, let me apologize for my random absences.... That's why some of you have my email, and even phone to text.... I kind of have a habit of disappearing for a time, then popping back ...

Celebrate With Me!

jmills
  • By jmills · Posted yesterday at 7:02 pm
  • 5 replies
  • I finished my OS3 Exam 3 parts 2 and 3 today!! All done with in-house exams, woohoo!!! Now I just have a neurobio miniboard next Tuesday and a cumulative miniboard next Friday. One...More...Week...I can ...

Mental Health

NubianaLove
  • By NubianaLove · Posted May 16, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • Does anyone suffer with depression? How do you all deal with it ...

Lady Passed Over Rainbow Bridge Yesterday

gentle-huggies-annie
  • By gentle-huggies-annie · Posted May 15, 2013
  • 12 replies
  • Hey, Y'all... Some of you know that Lady's daddy is an ex of mine, and is now my roommate. I knew Lady, a mostly white Shih Tsu with bits of grey and tan (kept in a short puppy cut), when she was still ...

I'm Back

jmills
  • By jmills · Posted May 12, 2013
  • 9 replies
  • Sorry I've been gone, I haven't been feeling well. I wound up staying with my brother's godmother for a few days, but then my dad came up to take care of me, so I'm back at my apartment now. He cleaned ...

New column: National Pain Day

John2
  • By John2 · Posted May 10, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • From: John Novack, Communications Director, Inspire Dear members, I'm writing to share with you a link to a new column, "National Pain Day," that I think you'll find interesting. You can read the column ...

Do you Feel Like JOB Sometimes?

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · Posted May 9, 2013
  • 15 replies
  • Job has no idea there is a devil trying to destroy him. And he assumes it is the Lord, Job is partially right. Why? Because the Lord allowed the devil to attack him! Look at verse eight: “Hast thou considered ...

RE: My Life as a Man...

silver2row
  • By silver2row · Posted May 9, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • Hello, I have recently started doing things online. I started website(s). I think this is healthy. I have not received any "hate mail" or negative emotions from anyone regarding my sites. This is positive ...

Wonderful

blue_bird
  • By blue_bird · Posted May 9, 2013
  • 1 reply
  • What a wonderful place I have found on this website. Everyone is so supportive of everyone else. I'm excited about meeting everyone and sharing the good and the bad. Humor is everywhere and you must laugh ...

Aspirin can help you out too.

newzbug
  • By newzbug · Posted May 7, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • Acetaminophen for Disturbing Emotional States? In a laboratory experiment, acetaminophen modified how people responded to angst. Neural circuits mediating physical and social pain (e.g., responses to ...

Where does your hope go?

InkBlot520
  • By InkBlot520 · Posted May 7, 2013
  • 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 ...

It's late again

Bumblebeenc
  • By Bumblebeenc · Posted May 7, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • It's late again And there will be no sleep The hurricane beckons me And there is no where to hide And I think of him The lightning strikes Then I think of me My soul is lost And I think again Am I really ...

Help with getting parity for mental health

crazy4years
  • By crazy4years · Posted May 7, 2013
  • 1 reply
  • Ran across a link in MHA's newsletter today that I checked before but wasn't in the frame of mind to muddle through then. You know what I mean? Of course you do. Anyway, it is a link about telling your ...

Easiest

blue_bird
  • By blue_bird · Posted May 6, 2013
  • 11 replies
  • I've been thinking about suicide today. I think it would be the easiest thing to do but my husband would be hurt and he doesn't have a supportive family. The others that I love can rely upon each other ...

Inspire has connected me with people who already have "inspired" me!

Jujusings
  • By Jujusings · Posted May 5, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • It might be because I have ADHD that I've jumped around from group to group reading others stories, so hey ADHD might not be so bad after all! I've already been uplifted and inspired by other moms with ...

Side Effects

jmills
  • By jmills · Posted May 5, 2013
  • 5 replies
  • Apparently, shaking is a side effect of a few of my medications. Just great. My handwriting has gone to crap! I'm sick of all these side effects, they're the worst part of the whole thing, I think.That ...

I am an empty shell of a person

MeganJoyce
  • By MeganJoyce · Posted May 5, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • I am in currently in school and this semester I felt no motivation in any of my classes and everyday i felt as if i was going through the motion and I was doing nothing and I just felt pointless. I discussed ...

Natural Things to Help Relieve Stress

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · Posted May 5, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • 1. Soothing Music 2. Exercise 3. Give and get hugs 4. Sex (Yes sex) 5. Singing 6. Meditation 7. Prayer 8. Screaming ...

Mother of BIPOLAR TEEN

Alegnabell
  • By Alegnabell · Posted May 5, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • At my witts end, feel like I have tried everything to help my daughter, but there is only so much one can do. She is 15 and can't go to school because of all the side effects, paranoia, anxiety, adhd ...

Read Psalm 13

chaplainstevens
  • By chaplainstevens · Posted May 4, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • if you are in pain and contemplating suicide I understand...read Psalm 13 David felt the same way too...but David realized in the last verse that he could trust in the salvation of The Lord to help him ...

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