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It's not a rhetorical question.
It's just, I don't know _anyone_ who I can honestly say is happy with life or who doesn't get depressed from time to time.
It just seems like the only happy people that exist are those who are incapable of comprehending and seeing the world for what it is- basically children and people who are mentally retarded to an extent(not using that in a derogatory sense).
Is there anyone here(I ...

My dearest friend has a 22 year old son diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. This diagnosis was made after he completed high school and explained a lot of issues we all saw as he was growing up. I am hoping that he will get the help he needs to lead a happy and productive life, but for the last 5 years, he has been living at home, rarely emerging from the basement where he palys ...

Columbia University has correlated depression and suicidal thoughts in teens with inadequate sleep. I think this is relevant to adults as well and I couldn't help but share the article I found.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/national/article_e368dfec-b9cd-5f66-8bbf-67436e159d82.html

"Gangwisch and colleagues studied data from 15,659 U.S. students, who were in grades seven to 12 between 1994 and 1996, and their parents."

"Teens whose parents let them go to bed past midnight were 24 percent more likely to be depressed and ...

What should someone do if they are experiencing warning signs of STDs due to sexual abuse?'

And, they think they may develop an STD?

In other words, what should someone do if they are experiencing warning signs that an STD may develop?

Marks of 'dentyty lend over a capsule separatyng from masks of exystense by takyng wounds and gyvyng to , the audyence. A seryes of deep and orygynal 'ntervals once you decyde on your next own self flagelayshun as vysual wounds heal and blystered skyn renews... wyth a new lyfeform. The last portrayed deyty, 200 pounds of drag, abandoned by order and gang raped -- an act whych reclayms vyolence as a rytual form of psychosexual ...

n'a world of vampyres
stytchyng lyps are savyours
when lyfe starts to fade
away lyke dust, forgotten landscapes
emmerge

she lusts for your dreams
lyke a snake, venemously poysed
engulfyng all that was sharp and edgy
only a beauty, can be so cruel
n'a world of bondaged desyres
suckyng your dreams dry
shynyng lyke a bryght lyght
for a dead nyght

Clad'n a sagyttaryus blossom
burnyng, faythfully, deep wythyn
recognyzed by artyfycyal smyles
a character was wrought
from the skeletons of a dream long 'gnored
thys skeleton now old, now cold
has rejuvynated, to hunt
vyyng for recognyshun wythyn the labyrynth
now forgotten realm of 'llogycal beauty

sleepyng dreams fall back to slumber
our memoryes fade lyke dust
waytyng for the ryght moment
to return 'nto the stream of everyday,
mundanynyty
seekyng a shattered release
a ...

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Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum and also new to therapy for my childhood sexual abuse. I was in complete denial of it being abuse for more than 10 years and I just came out about it recently after having a flashback and really going downhill only since november or so. I'm kind of a person who when they see a problem I gotta fix it and this is one thing that I can't ...

Well as I mentioned in another post, my ex BPD girlfriend borrowed $2200 dlls, said she was going to pay every month , then we broke up and so far 4 months and nothing.

So based on what the psychiatrist told me, and what you told me I believed she wasn't going to pay so I stopped contacting her and asking for the money.
Well, on November was my birthday and she sent me a ...