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Amnesia (or amnaesia) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or di...

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Wednesday November 25, 2009

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  • I'm Bipolar. Now What?

    Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | A Venting story

    OK, so forty years after we knew I had problems, we figured out it's bipolar II.  Better late than never, I suppose, but gee, you'd think someone would have said something.  Oh, actually *I* did, fifteen years ago.  In my diary I wrote, "I wonder if I'm manic depressive, where the manic episodes are mild".
    I told a friend about it, that I had bipolar.  I ...

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  • Terrible Situation

    Saturday, August 29, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I haven't written in awhile, but have a lot to say, and I do know you all will help me.
    I started a new job Monday last week, and I am already being forced to quit before I get fired.  Everyone I work with minimizes my bosses actions, but to me they are a crime.  Here is what happened to me the last two days.  Please feel free to write back and encourage me because I really need...

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  • SECRETS REVEALED

    Wednesday, March 12, 2008 | A Venting story

    tried to write earlier and it won't let me.  keeping it short.  2 choco chip cookies 150  i was baking earlier, i'm not that great at baking cookies, they are never soft enough for me and i generally burn the first batch.  lol  bowl of cabbage 20.  2 chicken thighs with red sauce 200,  3 pretzel nuggets 70, 1 fudge stick 50, coffee with cream 20, 1 orang...

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  • BABY GIRL IS DEAD

    Sunday, October 5, 2008 | A Tragic story

    finally found baby girl by the bushes off the sidewalk and the main road around the corner from our house.  what's really sick is i think i saw her a couple of days ago when i was first looking and thought she was a baby raccoon so i went the other way.  the same thing as with rocket back in january...i couldn't SEE her because she is brown and seemed to blend into the leaves.&n...

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  • here is the deal:  big is missing again.  sorry all the stuff on cats but that is what is important to me that is going on right now.  rescue does take everything over because life has to be the choice over everything else, even forms and things for work...forms can be done anytime and life has to be saved right away or there is death.  all things in the world, are timing...

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  • b flashbacks, windy weather and slow adoptions

    Tuesday, September 23, 2008 | An Anxious story

    ADoptions are very slow.  maybe four calls in four days!  went to r's last night after her church thing.  they are having a four day seminar on "prosperity" is prosperity necessary at all?  because so many people are losing their homes and jobs right now.  biblically it states that rich people don't go to heaven because they are too materialistic.&n...

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  • a long list of things to get done//did adoptions

    Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | An Anxious story

    "Pain happens, but suffering is optional.
    When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter.
    Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering.
    ...


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  • michele fell off the deck and onto the bushes below us

    Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | A Tragic story

    michele, the crippled cat just went out on the deck and right through the fence surrounding the deck!  we are one floor up (second floor!) what the fuck!?  she fell on through bushes below us and check this out WALKED away!  she is crippled and she can still fall like that and be okay?  i was shocked!  there was a huge raccoon outside in a fight with something...then a ba...

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  • 38 DAYS OLD AND doing fine. having a lot of trouble with ds site. it is very slow. the colors aren't showing up and neither is the choices of text. hope someone can write doug and tell him to do something about this.
    a lot of crap going on. 4 raccoons showed up. it used to be two. a big one and a little one. they fight in the trees all the time. i think it is a mother and father and two ...

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  • For 40 % you are: You are a bird! Sweet and adventurous, you are thankful for what you have, and people look up to you.
    15.49 % of 381 Quiz participants had this profile!
    i can use the previous journal entry for a scary story contest, even though its actually true.  and for ghosts fact or fiction on here.
    my stomach is all screwy.  wish this would go away.  its like i'm sort of si...


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