I have been spending the last week getting ready for a garage sale.
If you have ever had a garage sale you know that what seems to
start as a simple "throw some things on the lawn" ends up as a
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I’ll bet if we polled everyone in DailyStrength who has “panic
attacks” we would get lots of different answers. Panic attacks are
typically very frightening because the symptoms are physical,
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How do you convince your family members that your sexual
orientation is not "just a phase"? The short answer is: you can’t.
If a family member is telling you that liking women (if you’re a
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Surprisingly, this is a question that I am asked often. Typically,
the people that ask me are dealing with severe mood disorders such
as depression and bipolar or had a single
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This is such a great question about the underpinnings of panic
attacks. It’s very similar to the whole chicken and egg scenario. I
don’t know if I would answer this as one question. Rather
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"As if he had some control over his time of death, I get angry
at him when I talk to him. He was stung by a bee, went into
anaphylactic shock and cardiac arrest. But it's like I am blaming
him for
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I have been quietly celebrating Judge Walker’s ruling last week
where he called prop 8 unconstitutional. In his prolific 100+ page
ruling he outlined in great detail what I have always known in my
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"I was divorced 5 years ago and suffered terrible depression. I
have been depressed and in therapy for the past 5 years, too, as
well as depressed probably since being a little girl. Well, within
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"How do I handle the relationship I am in when the woman I am
with has been a lesbian for 15 years but still won't come out in
public. She is only affectionate when we are in private. I have
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Recently, I had to cope with the death of my beloved dog “Etta.”
Etta was an eleven year old half golden and half lab mix with a
huge smile. I got to share the last 5 years of her life.
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"My husband has been dead for 4 months. He had two children, I
had two children, we were married for 15 years. The youngest child
is 21, the oldest is 35. For the first couple of months after
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