Stress Center Peer Support

I am not asking for investment advice. The people who have replied don't know that they don't know. I am professionally forbidden from discussing investing in this matter so I will end this topic

I have been a stockbroker/financial advisor for 24 years. The current market situation is very stressful. No matter what I do I can't find investments that don't end up losing money. Everytime a client talks about losing some of their retirement money I get a pain in my stomach. Everytime I see that...

I got married when I was 37. I had given up looking, and I was going to dog training class when I met him. Do what you are interested in. I used to put up with some really awful men. I was so desperate not to be alone. I put up with them telling me I needed to loose weight, when at the time I was ab...

Dear schnauzermom and everyone else, I work with my husband and he always knows all the gossip. I keep trying to distract him to change the subject. Its often hard to not join in. We had an incident that was really traumatic. An assistant was hired that immediately started breaking all the rules. Pe...

Paul and Pecos. My sister died last November. I thought I was okay but I broke down after a few weeks.I was with her for a few days and then her son and I made the decision to remove life support. Her husband had died a few years earlier in a fishing accident. My niece went over the deep end. Would ...

When I graduated from a prestigous university and my first job didn't work out I moved home. I got a job as a restaurant hostess. Every night my father would come home from work and yell at me. I think he was frustrated and disappointed that I didn't have a good job. He didn't have the opportunity t...

Dear Tena, I think you have the classic caregivers stress. I deal with this a lot with my clients. I do financial planning and I help people figure out where to get the money from. Go to the internet and look up the National Association of Eldercare Attorneys. Because you live in the family home and...

I am not afraid of many things. I can fly, drive cross country in an RV. I compete with my dogs and when they win I am happy and when they lose I am unhappy. I often feel that the judges didn't like me when I lose. Often I judge all the performances myself, (I am qualified to do so) and when I feel ...

YoYoYoMonica, Wow, do you have a lot on your plate. I took cymbalta for knee pain and being depressed from not being able to walk without pain and it worked great on the pain and it elevated my mood. Your MD would know what you can take now with your diagnosis, it might not include cymbalta. I read ...