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I quit smoking 5 weeks ago

I know there's a group on here that deals with the likes of me as a recent quitter and if you are out there "Help me, please"

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I'm In Love with Michelle Obama for the Longhaul and I don't care if the...

I know, call me "crazy."  But I am head over heels in love with her. It was almost on first sight.  I'm sure some of you will say it's just fantasy, projection, and probably, if the truth were told, a...

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Bi-Polar Disorder Destroys a Family

My wife has been a volatile person for many years. Mood swings were common, but my daughter and I assumed that maybe it was menopause. The hot flashes had been going on for years. Two auto accidents,...

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An update on my health + a note

I have just written an update on my health situation (see this post for background info) twice now, and both times I lost the post. It is now 11:23 AM and I started about an hour ago. I'm sitting here...

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Bi-Polar Disorder Destroys a Family Update: We need Help, Please!

In my last diary, I had filed for divorce from my bi-polar wife. My attorney filed with the court immediately based upon mental abuse. This type of filing would have bypassed the 6 month separation...

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Bi-Polar Tragedy: I need a Christmas Hug!

My wife has been a volatile person for many years. Mood swings were common, but my daughter and I assumed that maybe it was menopause. The hot flashes had been going on for years. Two auto accidents,...

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My bullying story: The Day they broke me

Bullying is a strange thing to live through.  The years of accepting it as a facet of life is near soul crushing, and trying to lift the guilt and shame and humiliation of it all from your back is...

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My Life as an Aspie: Panic, Worry and Fear

Hi, everyone. I owe an explanation as to why I removed the other 4 Aspie Diaries..When I read the diary regarding the Facebook trolling posted by weatherdude, I flew into a panic. It was something I...

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I'm coming out.

Author's Note: As usual, I apologize for the sloppiness of this diary. I sincerely hope you are able to read and comprehend it. My mind has 3,000 things running through it, and I'm doing the best I...

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I Have Obamacare

A couple of months ago, I posted a diary here titled, "Let Me Die?"  I was uninsured and had been hit by a bus.  Somebody called 911, and the hospital performed surgery on a leg that had bent in a...

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The Coop: a haven for the very, very nervous

Do other Kossacks imply you are a concern troll?  Do you find your "but what about voter suppression!" posts being scorned?  Do you remember going to sleep on that Tuesday  night in November 2000...

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Mitt Romney's "Anxiety" Clause. What a D***

This is what made me mad on Wednesday; when I finally got around to reading the transcript. "We're going to have to have employers in the new economy, in the economy I'm going to bring to play, that...

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Paul Ryan Should Know How This Feels

" She can come on down here and say all that to my face, then. I've got my cell-phone back on now." Phyllis Montana-Leblanc provided one of the few tension relieving moments in Spike Lee's excellent,...

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Anticipation

I know most of you feel the same way I am feeling right now.  My fiancee is in our bedroom unable to sleep because the anxiety is getting to her.  No matter how often we check the polls we cannot know...

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Anxiety and Elections Here at DKos

Yesterday a worried first-time diarist was hounded to the point of deleting his diary and posting a second diary to apologize for the first. To their credit, Kossacks quickly assured him that some of...

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Quilt Therapy: The Siblings' Quilts

For some it is music, for others getting out in nature, still others enjoy pets or a hobby. Each of us has our own way of restoring peace. My places of refuge are my quilting and writing, and I used...

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Quilt Therapy: Stitching Things Back Together

I, for one, am not sorry to see this year come to a close. For me the year brought something I never experienced before, an anxiety disorder accompanied by panic attacks. One of the panic attacks was...

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Peavy Arboretum: Street Prophets

Recently I visited the Peavy Arboretum in Corvallis. It ia very lovely area filled with trees, native plants and birds.Peavy Arboretum(40 acres) is an arboretum operated by Oregon State University and...

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Deinstitutionalizing Harry

This past week, Mother Jones‘ Deanna Pan posted a great, although brief, timeline of deinstitutionalization in the United States’ mental health systemi, running from the 1st mental patient admitted to...

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Never Take Away Someone's Hope

Since being laid off in 2008, for the first 2 years while looking work, I've gone through an escalated bout of depression and anxiety. After exhausting all my unemployment benefits and my life's...

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