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So I was offering some advice to someone recently and made an analogy I will share here. This story follows two people who enter a marathon. The first person enters the marathon as they do every year and they manage to come in first place beating last year's time by seven seconds. All the people at ...

Wow, this sounds so familiar. I don't take care of others for a living but I try my best to take care of my wife who has suffered from depression for years and as such I have to try to keep the smile on otherwise she will get worse. while in reality I just want to sleep forever and hide from everyth...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I know many people read these things and don't know what to say but I appreciate being in the thoughts of those people as well even if they don't put it in writing. I don't plan on giving up.There certainly are days when i don't really want to live life the way it is...

Hi there, I read your post and thought I would reply. Unfortunately I do not have an answer to your question but I will say this. I was abused by many different people whom I believe are all dead now but the whole time they were alive I did and said nothing to confront them about their abuses. I t a...

Hi everyone, Not sure what I hope to get out of posting here but it can't hurt I guess. First off I will just say that I have for some reason, no concept of paragraphs. never have, so bear with me ok. I guess I only recently got to the point of serious depression and anxiety. I have struggled with b...