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So overwhelmed!

hmc1018
  • By hmc1018 · New reply June 15, 2013
  • Journal · 9 replies
  • Where do I even start? I have so many medical problems and I'm only 22 years old. When I was 18 I was hospitalized in a psych unit for the first time. It turns out I have schizoaffective disorder-bipolar ...

Quote for the day...

changinghistory
  • By changinghistory · New reply June 15, 2013
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” —William Butler Yeats ...

June 14, 2013

needpeace
  • By needpeace · New reply June 15, 2013
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • I haven't been here for awhile, but I need to talk to people. I only have a two people that I talk to, besides people here. I am suffering from very bad clinical depression. I haven't seen my therapist ...

How does your school deal with a hospitalization?

Absmom1
  • By Absmom1 · New reply June 15, 2013
  • Discussion in Children's mental health · 1 reply
  • My daughter recently spent 5+ weeks in the hospital. We had a re-entry meeting, they said that there was no way my daughter could make up all the missed work so they put her on P/F for the last half of ...

unable to adjust in any job

drbeenakumarisingh
  • By drbeenakumarisingh · New reply June 14, 2013
  • Discussion in Teens and young adults · 1 reply
  • My son ,a 36 year old healthy man can not adjust in any service.He is a mechanical engineer.He had joined & left about 10 company jobs within 5-6 years time.He has a fleaing tendency fom any type of job.He ...

E-Cigatette

Billie_Jo
  • By Billie_Jo · New reply June 14, 2013
  • Journal · 138 replies
  • I've been a smoker for more than 2/3 of my life. I'm not even sure that I WANT to quit, I'm Certain that I Need to though. I have to say, this is one of the hardest things I have ever done. I've been ...

Sleeping my life away

Mollyoryan
  • By Mollyoryan · New reply June 13, 2013
  • Discussion in Wellness and overall health · 3 replies
  • Anyone else feel lIke they sleep to much? I can't seem to be productive in my home unless I use speed. I hate being home. I sleep an unusually large amount of the day. Once I'm up and out I'm fine. But ...

I Switched to the E-cigarette!

claudette725
  • By claudette725 · Posted June 13, 2013
  • Discussion in Wellness and overall health · 0 replies
  • I quit smoking cigarettes 2 years ago with my daughter. We switched to the e-cigarette. Both of us are tar free! The e-cigarette has NO tar or poisons. It's veg. based. I would never go back to smoking ...

SUICIDAL IDEATION STRSS. AND LIES

andee-shannon
  • By andee-shannon · Posted June 13, 2013
  • Discussion in Depression · 0 replies
  • I HAVE BEEN LIED ABOUT FROM FAMILY THEY TURNED MY WHOLEFAMILY AGAINST M. AFTER CARING FOR A DYING MOTHER WHO IS VERBALLY ABUSIVE AMD WOULD NOT TELL MY GIRLS THE TRUTH SO I LEFT HRR SND CALLED HOSPICE ...

What is common to facing cancer and experiencing war?

dribrook
  • By dribrook · New reply June 13, 2013
  • Journal · 9 replies
  • I recently gave a lecture at Walter Reed National Medical Center on the similarities between experiencing war and facing cancer. The similarities are that in both one faces the unknown, have very little ...

Prayers For Oklahoma!!!

ShelaKay42
  • By ShelaKay42 · New reply June 13, 2013
  • Journal · 20 replies
  • PRAYERS FOR OKLAHOMA TORNADO VICTIMS AND FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO LOST LOVED ONES! GOD BLESS AND BE WITH YOU ALL ...

Melt down

Hearttree
  • By Hearttree · New reply June 12, 2013
  • Journal · 18 replies
  • I'm having a melt down today. Nothing is right. I'm tired of fighting the world. I'm not winning ...

Hypersexuality during mania

DarStar
  • By DarStar · New reply June 11, 2013
  • Discussion in Bipolar disorder · 8 replies
  • Are there any other females whose mania consists of hypersexuality and sexual acting out? I've done so much damage to my marriage. I feel it's unrepairable. The guilt sends me into deep waves of depression ...

my sister.

bandgeek7350
  • By bandgeek7350 · New reply June 10, 2013
  • Discussion in Bipolar disorder · 1 reply
  • my sister sarah is 10, and has severe anger problems. i have had the feeling for awhile now that she may be bipolar. sometimes shes like extremely off the wall hyper, and she can be a really sweet girl ...

A Summer Tradition

Billie_Jo
  • By Billie_Jo · New reply June 10, 2013
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • Something I've found helpful, is building traditions, now more than ever. Motivation can be difficult with Any chronic illness. When you don't have a Job, and your children are grown, but you're not yet ...

Does anyone see me here?

ALH2013
  • By ALH2013 · New reply June 9, 2013
  • Discussion in Depression · 10 replies
  • I am thankful for all the people who have added me. Thanks for the support ...

Geodon? has anyone tried it

cw1981
  • By cw1981 · New reply June 9, 2013
  • Discussion in Bipolar disorder · 2 replies
  • hi im a 31 year old female whose suffered from anxiety..depression and bipolar..i just started Geodon last night....has anyone had any positive results to this medication ...

/: Help..

akafroggie
  • By akafroggie · New reply June 9, 2013
  • Journal · 29 replies
  • I've been in so much pain lately its getting to my head and making me extremely depressed, even suicidal. I was diagnosed wit CMT type 2 about 3 years ago. Its getting really bad and i dont know what ...

I am NOT calling anyone out!!

Venedd
  • By Venedd · New reply June 9, 2013
  • Journal · 9 replies
  • I know that with my OCD I tend to obsess incessantly over comments, conversations and what I deem as dumb things I have said to others and dumb things they have said to me. That is why I tend not to write ...

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bandgeek7350
  • By bandgeek7350 · New reply June 9, 2013
  • Discussion in Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) · 1 reply
  • so, my parents divorced when i was 4 m/o and joint custody was worked out.. my dad was abusive. i was going back and forth between homesvand my dad was doin horrible things even before the age that i ...

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