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I am blessed everyday to have a son who knows how to comfort me and make me smile. I've lost my favorite cat recently and I was depressed and melancholic the whole week. My son gently touched my head and spoke about how I feel. It was like he was able to read my mind and say exactly what I...

Deep breathing and light meditation usually do it for me but there are nights when I really just can't sleep. I don't want to take any medication for it because taking medications make me more anxious. I work in the day and on those bad nights, I'll go straight to the office with hardly any...

Yesterday at church, the pastor asked those who have been hurt by someone to stand up. I did stand up. Then he led us to a prayer to release the anger and hurt in our hearts and to forgive the person who had wronged us so we can be free. I can't. I mean, I'm no longer mad at my ex but I don't...

I do feel your disappointment and depression @Sweed1 , but there are things that we can't control, including how other people behave. When you said something about people who won't even look at you nor say something when you're supposed to be on a conversation because they're fully engaged on...

I think you're putting too much pressure on yourself by trying to learn to drive in 30 hours to pass the test and get your license. It took me a year to get the courage to apply for a license. I am usually a fast learner but driving is just too much for me. It was easy to drive when I have the...

I'm scared of dentists, too, and of what goes on inside the dentist clinic. Even having my teeth cleaned scares me because it can hurt. I've also had bad experiences in childhood when I had two molars extracted in one visit. I collapsed the next morning! But you can't avoid dentists completely...

No matter how bad a working environment can get, there's always something you'll miss about it when you finally leave a job and the life that you've been accustomed to for years. I imagine that this is even more difficult for most retirees who have worked for most of their lives with a group of...

I don't have too many friends offline or online. I think friendships can only truly blossom if the parties give a lot of themselves to the relationship and open up a big part of their life. I can't. That's why my siblings are my best friends. My friendships with other people aren't that deep...

I've been carrying guilt for a lot of things that I failed to do and for some of the things that I did in the past. If I try to relate all of them, it will probably take up 1 gig of space. What hurts is that there is no way to undo them or make up for them. Some of them aren't even my fault...

My mom died in her early 30's due to two successive strokes. She wasn't even hospitalized and things just happened fast. She was the first one in her family to die that early because of it and she wasn't even overweight. I'm looking at her bloodline because I seem to take many of the physical...

I drink at least a cup of green tea a day because it supposedly has potent antioxidants which can work at keeping cancer at bay so I'm happy to hear from @AngelaMc that it can also inhibit fibroid cells. I hope that this post won't be taken as a plug yet again for 'organic apple cider vinegar...

Besides taking time out for myself (which isn't very often), I find that I can relax naturally by shifting the focus from myself to other people or things and basically just letting go. There are days when I let my child plan how we're going to spend the weekend then I let him take over. The...

Wow, you're hubby is such a sweet and understanding guy, you can't let him go! It feels really good to learn that your marriage had survived all this time without sex for two years. I hope you do get the help you need. In all honesty, you're not alone in not wanting to have sex. I don't have a...

I tend to eat mindlessly when I'm mildly anxious. Eating brings me quick though temporary comfort and relief and foods are always within easy reach. But in really stressful and scary, life-or-death situations, I can go on without food for a time. I've gone hungry and sleepless while anxiously...

No, I don't think it's a good idea to tell people you hardly know that you are suffering from social anxiety. Not every one understands what social anxiety means but they can jump off right away and judge you for being different. I wouldn't risk that. In fact, I wouldn't want to call attention...

No, no, no, no, no. I watched the very last of my family of goldfish die in her old age - 5 years old. She was the mother of two baby goldfishes which died about six months ahead of her. Their father died a year ahead. It was heartbreaking to see her take labored breaths on the bed of the...

I can't imagine how painful it must have been to have a mother like that. Seems to me like she's waiting for you to tell her that you hate her because of what she did to you when you were a child, but you never did so she feels more guilty than ever. She doesn't deserve you and your love and...

My faith in someone bigger than myself, God, has helped me deal with a lot of things that are happening in my life. I grew up as a Catholic with all those traditions and rites. Four years ago, I became a fundamentalist Christian and it set me free from many hurtful memories and discrimination...

I guess the reason why my life almost stopped when my Dad died was that he was the only one left for us and he had taken care of us for so long. I've lost all of my grandparents earlier and my Mom when I was in my teens. He held our family together. Death is permanent separation and though our...

I try to avoid both face-to-face and online confrontation because they're both negative to me and leave me feeling bad hours and even days after they happen. The consequences for losing one's temper or exposing oneself too much can be worse offline, though, so I tend to 'speak' more freely...