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Hi all, i would like to tell you my story, so you can get to know me. i have called myself step up because i felt it time i do something for myself, but i suppose i already am, by continuing to get through each day! i have been diagnosed Clinical Depressi
Hello everyone, This is my first time contributing. I am what may be known as a high functioning depressed human. That means I get up and go to work every day (I work full time) I care for my teenage son and run a household, you know the usual stuff
Hey, everyone... Especially those I've been talking to lately on this fourm...I've been hospitalized. I went on a 1 hour pass to my home to make sure everything was fine so I decided to hop on here and let you guys know that I'm in a hospital. I have a ph
BIRTHDAYS Hi all, every birthday month, since my youngest child died, & left me alone, suicidal thoughts intensify as i reevaluate if i can push through another year (does anyone else get that?). I have one living child, a 25yo son who lives away &
Hi there, how are you?This is my first time posting so I hope I am doing it correctly. Would love to know if anyone out there can relate or give any adviceI have a 2 year old son and after a lovely relaxed pregnancy was very unexpectedly diagnosed with pn
Just had a 😱 frightening experience. Went to fix some broken chimes. Thought it prudent to clean them out before i sat them on my lap in case there was a spider. One seemed clogged up so when the pipe-cleaner didn't fit I sprayed surface spray down the pi
Hey All, just spent 2 hours writing a really heartfelt response to question and right at the end when I was finally ready to press post it went to save and came back with only half of what I wrote! There was a message about a fault. What do I do? Ca
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Being someone who is often plagued with the dread of leaving the relative safety of my home front,I am pleased to say that i've had a small breakthrough with these feelings of being out and about.Today I had a skin-cancer checkup appointment (which I kept
Hello,It took about a year until my first bipolar 2 diagnosis (waiting for a second opinion, I don't trust my first psych) and I am still at the beginning to learn to live with bipolar, treatment for childhood trauma and PTSD, depression and anxiety - qui
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