What is Insomnia

Insomnia is characterized by an inability to sleep and/or to remain asleep for a reasonable period. Insomniacs typically complain of being unable to close their eyes or "rest their...

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Wednesday November 25, 2009

Call For Help Stories

  • Something is wrong.

    Thursday, May 1, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    OK this is the third time in a few weeks that I have gotten sick to my stomach. I don't think it's the flu. I went out one night, ate mexican seafood and drank a wine that I have never heard of. I need to stop drinking, I know, but it was a fun night and I was really stressed. I hardly have fun anymore so I thought I deserved some fun. Now I have been sick for days. My doctor is...

    1 Recommendation

    25 Comments

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  • breathe

    Sunday, May 25, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    THIS IS NOT A POEM!!! 
    breathe
    i need to breathe right now
    take a breath
    just sit there and look at where i am
    i am at a good place right now,
    i know that
    i guess i jus take being alone
    and i am alot,
    well i guess not alot
    but the times that i am
    i just cant cope
    idk why
    i just need to breathe
    know that there is another tommorrow
    and i will take part in it
    im tryin and thats all i can say for right now
    sig...
















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    12 Comments

  • I'm losing my husband to Alzheimers big time!!

    Sunday, October 19, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    My husband was supposed to have an angioplasty on his leg on the 28th of this month.  He had one previously and got through it pretty go - a littlle more memory loss but he was forgetting as usual.  He just had another one the other day and I didn't know that he was in the hospital.  I Kept calling his cell phone and thought that maybe he was asleep and wasn't answering and...

    1 Recommendation

    11 Comments

  • HELP!!!!

    Thursday, October 23, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    Geek boy alert: If you met me at a party, you would have no idea that I enjoy finite element analysis-based inviscid flow modelling using computational fluid dynamics. That's because I'm a geek.
    I got lost at the ' if you met me at a party' bit. can someone help me translate the rest into english? PLEASE?!!!!!!

    1 Recommendation

    12 Comments

  • Almost 30, Not Thriving, and FAT!!!!!!

    Sunday, January 4, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    Okay so yeah.. I finally had a realization that I am going to be 30 in 2 1/2 years from now. I have a list of things that I want to do before I turn 30. But I also realized that I am not the same person my husband married 5 years ago. I know people Change in that many years and from pregnancy and stuff - but I can change this. I am going to try and loose 150 pounds by my 30 birthday! That is 10 p...

    1 Recommendation

    15 Comments

  • not sure what to do now so close yet so far!!!

    Sunday, May 3, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    Help!!  I don't know how to handle this, I decided to move into my best friend's apartment. We have alot in common but she has 5 children. I love her children like my own. Her mother called me last night very concerned about my best friend who is bipolar also and drew a swastika on my wall when he got very angry with me. We resolved this issue and our still best friends. She is conce...

    1 Recommendation

    11 Comments

  • Everything is awful right now....

    Monday, June 15, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    Everything is really awful right now...
    Everything....
    People on DS are starting to be rude to me..and I cant deal with that.
    I cant deal with people sending me messages saying im ugly and fat and asking how it was fucking my grandpa?? Seriously..I didnt have sex with him.  I was raped.  I didnt want it.  I couldnt stop it.  I had no control.  Comments like that set me back ...


    1 Recommendation

    13 Comments

  • Overwhelmed

    Wednesday, July 15, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    Yesterday some of you wrote some really sweet and supportive messages in my hug book and in my journal.
    Unfortunately, I have to admit I have struggled to take your comments on board and move forward today. Some bad things happened yesterday and I found myself doing things I am ashamed of but cannot seem to stop.
    I started writing goodbye notes to my friends, telling them what I thought of th...

    2 Recommendations

    9 Comments

  • a friendship is over i'm devastated

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

    I'm devastated.I went to sing Karaoke with my best friend and 2 other people i'm friends with.My friend was really upset because he broke up with his girlfriend and I tried to cheer him up.He was saying before what a good friend I am,but when he went to the bar it was getting late and my other friend was singing then we were going to leave. He said to me "I hate this i'm leaving....

    1 Recommendation

    10 Comments

  • Journal Entry for October 1, 2009

    Thursday, October 1, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    IM TIRED AND I JUST WANT TO GO AWAY FAR AWAY WHERE THERE IS NO PEOPLE JUST MY CATS AND ME. OR BETTER YET I WAN TO JUST HURT MYSELF TONIGHT AND GO FAR FAR AWAY. wHO WOULD REALLY GIVE 2 SHITS ANYWAYS.

    2 Recommendations

    9 Comments


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