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Hello everyone. I'm really stuck here. I had been, not getting better, but coping better for the past few years - keeping my head down and getting on with life. But keeping up the act is hard. I need everyone to think i'm fine. Sure they think i'm a bit to quiet, a bit too to myself, but they think ...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to which alternative medication is best at taking the edge off of dysthymia. I've tried St. John's Wort and although it has had some good write ups, it had no affect on me. I've heard some good things about 5-HTP in treating dysthymia, but i would r...

I'm a wolf. We're a werewolf. But she hides me on this shore. She protects me and hides me with shame. She hides the beautiful beast and terror that i am. But when she's alone. When we're alone. Such terrible things can happen. But I need these things. I know she needs them too. If she were to leave...

I allow the rain to fall over me, to bathe the stains and wish them gone - to wish them back. He's coming towards me. The passing glimpses of light return my clarity and kill the demon's seductive whispers. He's standing here. To forget the regrettable memories - the scenes that flash and block my s...

The smooth creases of character that dress their faces are of a seductive concept. Idle fingers rest on courses of flesh, in likeness of worship. Groping, surely, with perverse hope to be more than the passing infatuation of an older man; to be more to the man, too afraid to say - and with it passio...

[/b]I crash the rocks together.
Each one an elusive being,
alone in actions of binding.
By vexing desires
their rootless forms are far
too set to change;
and both too challenged by the sea.
I fear sex is all it could ever be.

Good evening, Jess. I feel a familiar understanding to your situation. I too had "friends" like this. I gave them everything they needed. I cooked them dinner when they were tired, I dropped everything when they called out of the blue because their plans were cancelled or because they need...