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I am always writing about my grief journey. Every day, I must look for happiness, to avoid depression. I decided to make a list of some of the things I do, to look for happiness. As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 10:01 PM PDT
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There is a well established literature of mental illness. Some examples that spring immediately to mind are William Styron’s Darkness Visible, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and Oliver Sacks’ Awakenings. These works describe far better than I could the...
by bisleybum
on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 10:04 AM PST
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I have been overwhelmed with the support I have received from the community and staff, to I want to provide you all with an update. It’s Friday, and the phone call we have anxiously awaiting, knowing it will come, knowing what it will be, now will not...
by bisleybum
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 02:44 AM PST
with 9 Recommends
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My heart is aching: Sherman was the best cat on the planet - I reminded her of that fact at least once every single day. And yes, Sherman was a she. I didn’t give her that name, but even though it was a bit quirky I think it fit her dignified, yet fun...
by coltanman
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 06:38 PM PST
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I reach behind my chair to a small lamp stand where my son recommended I hide my car keys in the event that my granddaughter might decide to take our car for a joy ride, when I remember that she will no longer be doing any such thing. I clean a really...
by bisleybum
on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 08:44 AM PST
with 16 Recommends
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BiILLIONAIRE EGOMANIACS by Carol Wolman, MD A few egomaniacs are destroying our world. They are devouring our minds, our pocketbooks, our individuality. Some of them believe they will be raptured by Jesus, even though they are disobeying everything he...
by cwolman
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 03:58 PM PST
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Lincoln in the Bardo �by George Saunders, esteemed American short fiction author —�can we consider it a�fantasy? The winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2017,�routinely included on the list of ten ...
by DrLori
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
with 35 Recommends
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I have health problems that I have been trying to get a diagnosis for, this has been ongoing for years. I am also feeling extended grief for the death of my parents. Mom from lung cancer in 2004, and my father, in 2015 due to multiple organ failure,...
by Cmae
on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 10:17 AM PST
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Charlie has been gone for one year this month; my love passed at 6:06am, January 21, 2023. This year was very emotional time, especially though the holidays, and I've come to the realization that I owe so much to everyone's effort to grant Charlie with...
by Steven Park
on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Damned natural obsolescence Any adult who adopts a pet has intrusive thoughts about how quickly it will age and die. Worse than that is anticipating the pet owners’ dilemma of mercifully killing it when its remaining life becomes nothing but pointless...
by stlmoz
on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 03:18 PM PST
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One year ago tonight, a cold-blooded hate crime, a carefully-planned terrorist act, was carried out by a coward with two ghost guns and wearing safety gear at a beloved local gay bar in conservative Colorado Springs. 17 people were injured and 5 people...
by rflctammt
on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 08:44 AM PST
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Good afternoon everyone. I’ve been a long time “lurker” on this site. Occasionally I comment on a story here and there, but mostly, I come to read and learn from you all. You are a wonderful community in the sea of insanity that this world has...
by Psychguy09
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 10:02 AM PST
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The following is a social media thread that was sent to me. I took the individual posts and put them together in a scrolling text video.�
This person, Josh Weed, is a psychologist and he talks ...
by jtg
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 08:13 AM PST
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I reckon this is what they call ‘survivors guilt’. Their names and faces are burned into my minds eye, as their pictures adorn a wall in my study. Today, as I do semi regularly, I stand in front of each one and close my eyes, in remembrance and prayer....
by Tevye
on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 03:52 PM PST
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Briefly, from J IMENA * email: Resources on how to talk with children during times of crisis �
by mettle fatigue
on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 04:05 PM PDT
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About a minute into the tape of my father’s funeral there’s the sound of a door slamming followed by a sort of voiceless commotion. Faintly, if you’re listening for it, you can hear someone gasping for breath. That’s Dad’s eldest son John just getting...
by freewayblogger
on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 11:55 AM PDT
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Mistress Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells And pretty maids all in a row. Old English nursery rhyme “Contrary” could have been my sister Mary��
by Diana in NoVa
on Tue Sep 12, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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My heart is aching as I write this. Our beautiful Nora died on Sunday. Those of you who follow the Good News Roundup have known Nora for several years, because I always gave her credit as a “co-editor” for the good news stories about cats that I...
by arhpdx
on Tue Sep 12, 2023 at 05:25 AM PDT
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Hi friends. I am now in Somerset, PA. I will be attending the services tomorrow, a dozen or so miles away at the Flight 93 National Memorial, for the third year in a row. Being in the presence of and offering my condolences to the families and friends...
by Tevye
on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 02:14 PM PDT
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I don’t know where to start. My son had to be rushed to the hospital last week with kidney stones...Stayed a week including cardio problems….could not remove but inserted a stint or tube or something and another developed and been to the hospital three...
by Vetwife
on Mon Aug 28, 2023 at 08:39 AM PDT
with 470 Recommends
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