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Posted Thursday September 25 2008, 6:07 pm
i have to do a three page report on AUTISM and how it affects the other people around them and the theory of what causes it and stuff and so far a have found very little information but it would be great if someone could give me the name of a site to go to or like key search words i could try..........thanx it would be a great help
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Anxiety Attacks
Posted Tuesday September 23 2008, 12:43 am
well i have anxiety attacks when i get really stressed out and i was wondering what i should do. i used to cut but i quit so i dont know what else to do. i would sleep but i always hav anxiety when i have lots of hw still to do so i cant sleep and not get it done. talking to my boyfriend can get me through an anxiety attack but i dont want to always have to depend on him or make him feel like he has to always be there in case i freak. we are equals and i dont like feeling like he has to take care of me. we should take care of each other. anyway please give me some ideas and tell me what works for you!!! i think i might start jogging...
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fear
Posted Monday September 22 2008, 11:31 pm
what are possible reasons for me to be in constant fear! not worry just pure fear! like i am scared! my body is reacting to it yet i can't seem to figure out why!!
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Lost
Posted Monday September 22 2008, 11:08 pm
I really feel like I have no direction in life anymore.
17/f. Basically spent three and a half years of high school screwing around, didn't care enough to pass. Was send to a continuation school, worked my butt off, graduated with a semester 4.0, but my cumulative GPA is still a 1.3. There's obviously no way I could get into a college (even the community college in my town is competitive).
I'm so sad and jealous of all my friends who are in college. I don't feel like I'm good at anything. According to all those tests (like the school kind), I'm "gifted" but I feel stupid and like I'll fail, no matter what I do.
I had a retail job, but I quit because I thought I was going to get fired. Now I can...
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Struggling to quit using heroin
Posted Monday September 22 2008, 8:20 pm
I am a 20 year old male, a full time student in college, and a successful, functioning heroin addict. Looking back now, It is hard to believe that I let myself get to this stage. I have always been a good student, my teachers would be shocked to learn whats really going on. In addition to my decent school career, I have a 3.4 gpa and am sending out applications in November, I also work part time. So I have been lucky in the fact that I haven't let my addiction turn me from my dreams to be successful, but I am still an Addict.
I have been using drugs ever since I broke my back on New year's Eve of 2006. It started with pain killers (Vicodin, Percosets, then Oxycotin), but before long it moved to black. I've been extremely successful a...
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why am I such a bad person?
Posted Wednesday September 17 2008, 9:58 pm
it's always been really important to me to be kind and considerate to others, but recently I feel like my compassion for others is completely fake. I work with kids and when one of them falls and cries I act sincerely worried for them and cheer them up, but in my head I want to just tell them to suck it up! And my boyfriend's family is really important to him and they are all very nice to me, so I always act like I love them and talk to his mom when in reality I hate them all and think the mom is an idiot. When my boyfriend gets upset over things I act supportive, but after he is feeling better and he leaves I laugh at him. LAUGH! THAT IS HORRIBLE AND I KNOW IT!
I absolutely hate being around close families too. If I ha...
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Scared....(not sure if under right topic)
Posted Saturday September 13 2008, 10:26 pm
So I'm scared....my mom is at illinois and im in iowa. My brother just left me and im scared to be alone at my house...i have my black lab and 2 knives my brother gave to me.....but i still dont feel comfortable...im scared and im tired of being scared of everything!!what are some easy ways to get me relaxed???I always feel like someone is going to come into the house and murder me....not to long ago my dad called and said he was coming to get us this weekend...my mom ws freaked and so am i.....i've had nightmares of him coming into my house and killing my family and i....and if i think i hear something downstairs i think a muderer is in my house......i cant watch or think of a scary movie ori wouldnt be able to fall asleep for hours.....sh...
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Losing it, completely
Posted Saturday September 13 2008, 7:43 pm
It seems like lately everything has gone wrong. I went from a straight-A honor roll student with a perfect boyfriend, captain and starting setter of the volleyball team, and a generally happy girl to a girl who got cheated on, is failing classes, and doesn't get a single minute of playing time.
I haven't slept in weeks, I'm always sad and crying, I break out every morning, I suddenly thing I'm huge but I can't stop eating, I fight with my parents, everything makes me mad, and it seems like my friends are just passing me by.
I don't have a best friend to talk to about this sort of thing and I'm just so sick of feeling sorry for myself. I've even started having thoughts of what would happen if I weren't here anymore.
What should I do? :(
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oh my god I almost hate my life.
Posted Friday September 12 2008, 11:31 pm
I am a full time student through a community college but since I registered late, it's independent work I do at home. So I'm at home like all the time, my boyfriend works full time (we live together). I can't find a job. My friends and his are all away at school so at night are seriously bored to tears and get very very irritated with each other and frustrated that there's nothing to do. I seriously get so upset that we are such losers...we're only 20 and we live like 70 year olds! The days are just so long and monotonous because I'm stuck at home doing school work (and because I can't drive) and the nights are depressing and boring and awful. The spark is like gone from our relationship, seriously, because we are so pathetic and bored and ...
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prozac and depression
Posted Friday September 12 2008, 9:53 am
Hi im 17/f. I recently went to the doctors because i have bad anxiety and bad mood swings. After talking with him he said i was depressed and decided to put me on prozac. I dont really know much about depression. I didnt think i was depressed but i guess i am. Can someone please tell me more information on depression, and the medicine prozac. Thanks a bunch!!
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Iam so confused right now
Posted Thursday September 11 2008, 10:48 pm
Iam 19 years old female and i just graduated high school last year and i moved out ot my mom 's house and into my cousins house and iam much happier at my cousins house than i was when i was living with my mom in high school and i have a much more structured envorment at my cousins house than there was at my mom's and now i've realied iam a lot happier in a structured enviornment. I might better explain to you what it's like at my mom's and what it's like at my cousins.
when iam at my mom's house my mom and i always get into fights last weekend she got so mad at me she through a chair on the kitchen floor and broke it into 4 big pieces and when i tried to call my cousin to come and get me she snatched the phone from me and s...
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do people ever overcome eating disorders for good?
Posted Thursday September 11 2008, 9:15 pm
i'm 15 and i've struggled with bulimia for like 2 years. i was just wondering if people ever truely overcome them and don't do it anymore?
i mean i am not nearly as bad anymore because summer wasn't very stressful, i didn't over eat because i was at my friends house all summer so it was good. now i'm back home, back in school, and stress is back. family problems are also getting worse, so to deal i use bulimia. it may sound weird but it feels like a release. i don't want to let go of it.
also i just always have my mind set in it. like even if i'm not throwing up as much i still think about the calories, when someone says diet i think that means i shouldn't eat, and when i'm walking i think about the calories b...
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group therapy
Posted Thursday September 11 2008, 7:19 pm
okay so im being forced join this intensive outpatient therapy shit and i really really dont want to go. so i have to go to group therapy for three hours, four days a week. they gave me all this information about it and papers i had to fill out and i was reading some one of them and it said that i didnt HAVE to do it if i didnt want to. i want to take that opportunity and tell them that i dont have to do it but i dont want to be wrong! im only a minor (im 14) so does that mean that if i dont want to participate i dont have to? even though my parents are making me?
thanks in advance :)
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saying no
Posted Thursday September 11 2008, 5:34 pm
I have a hard time saying no to guys when they want to have sex and i was wondering could it be becouse i was molested by my dad when i was 3.
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schizophrenia
Posted Wednesday September 10 2008, 8:49 pm
is anyone here schizophrenic? it was one of my vocab words and the definition is "a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements." what do they mean by different elements? like you're living in two different worlds? i once saw a movie associated with someone who is schizophrenic, but what is life like?
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living in the wrong time
Posted Tuesday September 9 2008, 8:27 pm
ever since i can remember i've felt like i'm living in the wrong time..like i feel like i shoud live in the 80's or 70's. i am obsessed with everything from back in those times and always wish so hard that i could live then instead of now. i feel like back then everything was much easier and relaxed and there wasn't as many world problems and stuff as there is now. all of my favorite movies, music, and actors are from back then but then it sucks becuase the actors are older now so it's weird since i'm just a teen..i just feel like iwas meant to live back then. sometimes i even get depressed about this and people ask me what would make you happy? and really what would make me happy is living in the 70's or 80's but i know that's impossible n...
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add medicine
Posted Tuesday September 9 2008, 7:56 pm
I just started concerta or something for ADD today. i am having really bad headaches is taht normal the firrst few days?
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Sister on Drugs, Mom in Disbelief.
Posted Monday September 8 2008, 8:11 pm
Okay,
For almost 3 years now, I have spotted all kinds of signs my younger sister whom is now 19 years old is on drugs. I found a crack pipe in her bedroom, Ciggeretts, empty bottles of alcohol, A bong, and I even found Marijuana pictures posted on her Myspace photo albums. However, Whenever I tried to mention it to my Mother on how much it really bothers me and that she is doing drugs my mother always seems to be in disbelief. She told me that my sister uses the empty bottles of alcohol and the pipe as well as the bong for "Room decoration" Now I am smart enough to know that is just complete crap. (I am 23 years old) It's fustrating too because I really care about her but whenever I try to ...
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Where do I go from here?
Posted Monday September 8 2008, 5:56 pm
Growing up, the cornerstone of my being and identity was thus: Do good, and good things will happen.
I'm a religious guy, and I always, always, do what I think is right.
Up until 7 years ago, no matter what happened or whatever came my way, I stood my ground and persisted.
Then I met a person, who I thought I could trust and trusted me. And this person, in time, wronged me in response to me doing what I thought was right. And in the process, they tore the foundation of my self-belief down, and made me out to be essentially a bad, horrible man.
Traditionally, it's been my experience that karma, or justice, always does its thing. But in this case, there was no vindication for me.
I've recently checked in on ...
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emotional periods
Posted Monday September 8 2008, 4:39 pm
so when im on my period i get SUPER emotional.
normally im really good at hiding my feelings.
butt if something isnt big but it just upsets me a little i start crying.. like MAJORlY.
to where i cant even hold it in.
&& some of my friends have even called me bi polar..
like today i was wearing a thong.
and i started my period.
so i got a pad from a friend.
then at lunch i freaked out thinking it was going to go through.
then my friend made me laugh so bad. (:
butt then after i was done laughing, id start crying again.
so any ideas? PLEASE&&THANKYOU
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