Stress Center Peer Support

I have been living alone since 1985, I am almost 55 years old. Obsessing over certain things becomes so intense when you are alone. Is there anyone who can relate with me out there? do you find you think differently than people with families, are treated differently? Feel differently among friends? ...

Slumping again......moved from my homestate in November.....came to Vermont and BOY, it never stopped snowing!!!! I love snow...but when you are alone and are unemployed, have one friend who is 30 minutes away its the pits. All I feel like doing is sleeping and eating and have still have a house to ...

Yes, Depression rears its ugly head often, its a full time job killing the beast. I went into somekind of mental block after I moved by myself from a childhood home I have know and lived in for over 40 years to another state. AND THE SNOW NEVER STOPS!!!! You slump, you get sick, you cant function, y...

I too at middle age made a drastic life direction change myself. A journey, a transition, a move out of state which was intense, I felt like I was floating in a dream....not good or bad, just a light feeling of disconnection from my old life in my hometown of 54 years. I was blocking it all out, I w...

Ah, Genuine ESP? Intuition? Just being on the same thought level. Anxiety.....yes...that aggravating, overbearing emotional sunami we feel. Its just plain annoying. I think to myself....why worry when something didnt happen yet, why are you becoming a basket case and blowing something so small out o...

Mike in my last post when I said "We" I meant Nurses. Some medical professionals may disagree with me wholeheartedly, but the Health care system doe not deal with THE WHOLE BODY/MIND INTERACTION WITH ALL PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STATES. We as humans have the great use of the computer, much like our own b...

Mike, We were taught to respond as non judgemental empathetic, walking zombies. It IS VERY difficult not to react to people who are mentally unstable, terminal illness, screaming irrational juveniles etc.....NOT REACTING IS DRAINING also...because you are withholding a normally inate reaction that p...

Excellent post Mike.....when events are occurring in our lives it takes a strong person to step back, view the situation as a whole, evaluate yourself and your reaction to it all and try to be an outsider looking in. If the view can be taken by one person that way, I think we would be able to FIX wh...

thanks Paisley.......I will try to get that pic of Chubby on here.

I do intense self talking....I find it most refreshing when its positive and reinforceing. I say to myself, I dont deserve to beat up on ME, I am a great person, I do great things, I work hard and I Know it, I pat myself on the back when I am sliding down that slippery slope. We are our own worst en...