Stress Center Peer Support

Irid, Your boyfriend stopped drinking because he was scared and he did want to better himself. He was making progress, but the compulsion still lingers. If he started to worry about something or started to get depressed, he may have started thinking about that drink. One thing led to another and he ...

kmurillo11355 said it best. I am a mother of 2 and have 3 grandchildren. It is so tough when you are home all day with your children. I was lucky but my daughter's second child had collick the first 6 months of her life and is still a handful at 22 months old. It was very difficult for her and for t...

PS meds never worked for me regarding those thoughts, only drugs and alcohol, but I have been clean and sober for 2/12 years and have finally rid myself of all meds. I am working hard and will be okay.
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Thank you all for your posts. I would never talk about this to anyone. They would think me nuts! I was 12 and an aquaintance of 2 of my sisters had died in a car crash. I was so tormented about it for years. (i just came to terms with it recently) I used to get this thought that I wanted to 'f*#*' t...

Hi, I have been slacking of late and can't get motivated. I have had the program since December, and I listen to the tapes, but when I go to do the homework assignments, I get overwhelmed. I start to read what it is I need to do for the week, and It's almost like there is too much information to dig...

Hi, If a person is really abusive, then yet you need to get out or get help. Most of us have people in our lives that don't know they are being verbally abusive. That does not make the pain any less. I have used the tactic of Malikye many times in my life, but it gets you nowhere and just shows how ...

Hi there: I am 45 and have had agoraphopia for years also. I have to go out to go to work or the doctors etc, and I will go places, like a party or whatever if I have to, but for the most part I sit in the house and watch tv. I don't have energy most of the time even to clean. I was so depressed tha...

to bubbly brunette, I get stomach aches. I did not notice until I started going through the program. I then realized that I used to get stomach aches every morning before school. I could not eat breakfast as it really my my stomach worse. I would go to school and throw up on some days and be really ...

Okay so I woke up okay, but then I started thinking. OH NO! not a good thing. It was warmer today and my husband has been spending more time around the house helping out, and he started to cook spaghetti. I got on the phone with my mother. We started talking about pictures I sent my parents that I h...