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What you were able to do with that abused poor little ferret, to turn it around, shows what a loving, patient, big-hearted person you are. Enjoyed the peek into your place in the world! You do have a nice way with words, friend.

....depression and PTSD eloquently with your words. You have a gift that can show others who don't know our dark world what it is like inside the pain of darkness and old demons. HANG ON. Pet your ferrets. Scream into your pillow. Cry it through (afterwards, I feel a tiny sense of relief). Take care...

I know it seems its never going to get better, I feel that way too, but I try to remind myself, at least for me, it comes in waves...sometimes I'm reasonably okay, sometimes I don't think I can go on. Before all the tragedy struck my life, I was working a job I loved, had friends, worked a 12 step p...

...I've felt that way too, that I should just be alone or will always be alone. But maybe, as a friend said, I should just refine my selection skills. I was abused when I was young and think I pick jerks sometimes as a way of abusing myself. People sometimes show you signs of who they are in the beg...

Welcome. I'm pretty new here and am also going through a rough patch. The people have been very supportive and caring. Hoping you have a good day.

My boyfriend just dumped me...it is soooo hard to deal with depression and sad or bad events all at once. My boyfriend was slightly unfaithful to me, carrying on online, and I tolerated it, now I'm in so much pain from the break-up and angry with myself for not getting out earlier before I got in so...

...a nice way with words. This post is kind of like a freewrite poetry. Full of melancholy, but so beautiful at the same time. Rich words my friend. You are not alone, you have us. You have your family. Good for you for embracing the "visitor" and accepting. I fight it, with all my being, ...

...could you maybe look at really nutritious/healthy food, like fruit veggies and water, as a purification mechanism? Talk to yourself as you eat that I am purifying my body with this nourishment? Like positive affirmations? I am becoming healthy whole and a new person....I am freeing my body of the...

...I knew how to fall out of love. I've got a book I've read, but doesn't seem to be working.

Right now I'm just struggling to manage enough self-love to get through the day.

I know somewhere in my mind I am a reasonably decent human being deserving dignity, respect, and kindness, but feelings sometimes overwhelm that. I've lost my life preservers one by one. It doesn't help the cruel way he dumped me or that he's already "replaced" me...I feel like I am dispos...

I ate some crackers a bit ago, the first thing since Saturday lunch. One time many years ago I was down to 80 pounds. Then I was horribly obese. Went off medications, lost forty pounds in one month. I understand what it is to hate your body inside and out. Can you manage to fix something to eat you ...

I tried pets. I had to give them up. I tried friends. I was betrayed and badly hurt. I tried living to make a difference, only to be disappointed and disillusioned. I tried God, only to conclude if there is a God, God can't or won't help and whatever is in control of the universe is not good or cari...

Please change that one word...I would hate for you to get banned from the site...you said it was your last resort...you are one of the few ones who has responded to my posts and cared enough to offer support.

I appreciate that, more than you could know.

I don't know what you did, but I have found apologies are healing for me and the person I wronged. I let guilt from wrong actions teach me to do better. I wish some of the people who hurt me would apologize and just acknowledge what they did to me, but they don't. Some people refuse to accept respon...

At least your dog will never abuse or mistreat or intentionally hurt you, and will never judge you! So talk to your precious pup all you want! 1) Is your dog well behaved? I used to take one of my dogs to a nursing home to let folks pet and love on him. Your local animal shelter can link you up with...