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My Experiences With Bullying

By Glides · New reply May 19, 2013
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 May 18, 2013
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 ...

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 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 ...

Thank you for your imput

By dhexton · New reply March 7, 2013
Journal · 10 replies
I feel like this is a community that I can discuss my frustrations and get feedback with out feeling that i am "stupid" for what I say. I have never gotten so much support than I have here. My family ...

Medication cheeper if you go through the drug company?

By dhexton · New reply March 6, 2013
Journal · 12 replies
being unemployed and no health insurance I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting help from the drug company's ...

looking to get intouch wuth the people what the bleep do we know

By dhexton · New reply February 26, 2013
Journal · 5 replies
trying to get in touch with the people think its called capture light entertainment. want to make a film so that I don't have to explain my condition to everyone i meet especially employers in thinking ...

Mother's Suicide as Adult Daughter (18+ only)

By lara17pla4 · New reply February 22, 2013
Discussion in Feeling better: What works? What doesn't? · 2 replies
Hi, I'm new here. I found in the past (about 5 years ago) that telling my story online and meeting others who have experienced something similar. I lost my Mother to Bi-Polar disorder when I was 27. Three ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Lindsey Miller

By John2 · New reply February 6, 2013
Journal · 13 replies
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 featured in our Q&A series ...

The Best Die Earliest

By Glides · New reply January 22, 2013
Journal · 3 replies
I know, I'm the guy who complains about how awful he is repeatedly to vent, sending all you fine caring folks into a panic. Today I'm going to talk about something different, because for once I've pulled ...

We're hiring!

By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
Journal · 0 replies
Hello everyone, We have a position open with our engineering team at Inspire, and I'd like to share the job description with you in the event you know just the person we're looking for. We found our most ...

how to survive after finding husband who committed suicide

By RanaeKris · New reply November 14, 2012
Discussion in Remembering the person (or people) who died · 3 replies
Woke and found him Aug. 26th, 2012. Am struggling getting the imagery out of my mind. My one son saw him as up, due to my screams. Wish I never screamed. I cutted him down and with four between the garage ...

Still the Same

By Glides · New reply October 15, 2012
Journal · 3 replies
Writing for the hell of it. Still alone and miserable as always. I'm really convinced that I'm involuntarily celibate and/or love-shy. Not doing anything social outside of school, no one wants to be friendly ...

Disabled

By Glides · New reply September 27, 2012
Journal · 12 replies
Long story short, I was helping my uncle move some furniture today. And normally I would be able to, I'm of average strength, but since my psoriasis is worst on my hands, I could go for more than a couple ...

General State of Confusion

By Glides · New reply September 8, 2012
Journal · 4 replies
I haven't posted here for a while, due to yet another ban threat after my last post was misinterpreted, and someone thought I was insulting him. I wasn't, long story short. Just like the last time, I ...

Getting Numb

By Glides · New reply August 27, 2012
Journal · 10 replies
Lately I've been getting more and more apathetic about pretty much everything. My grades are slipping, what little social life I had before is almost gone, I just hate being around people now, hurts too ...

The Talk

By Glides · New reply August 25, 2012
Journal · 2 replies
Looks like my little drama with the high school chick finally came full circle. My own mother actually called me just to tell me that she was several words which I can't actually post here (I do like ...

Pretty Girls and Psoriasis

By Glides · New reply August 20, 2012
Journal · 17 replies
I didn't know what else to call this. And I'm still trying to figure out what to type here. I've gotten comments about the whole lack of skill talking to the opposite sex thing ("They only hate you because ...

Noticed Something

By Glides · New reply August 19, 2012
Journal · 1 reply
When I'm not complaining about something, people don't care. It's not like I'm any better, nor is anyone else on this site. I guess we wait for people to explode before we pretend to comfort them. I'm ...

Yet Another One Of Those Entries

By Glides · New reply August 18, 2012
Journal · 6 replies
Having girl trouble. I posted this on another site, so it's going to sound stupid. But I don't know what to do. "The girl I'm going to talk about is someone I've known for literally almost my entire life ...

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The Dougy Center Support Community connects teens, young adults and their families who are grieving a death for support and inspiration. This community is sponsored by The Dougy Center, an Inspire trusted partner.