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  • About Me

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    FFW

    Male, 43
    Sandy, OR, USA
    Member since February 9, 2008

    • About Me

      I'm honest, loyal, caring, hardworking with a quirky sense of humor, usually nice, and confused. I don't know why so many bad things happen to good people. I have a hard time talking to people I don't know, although if I do, you can't shut me up. I think I have pretty good common sense. I see things a little different than other people, which allows me to do what love to do which is problem solve and fix things. The one thing I could not fix was my marriage, not from lack of trying but you can't fix if you don't really know what the problem is. I just couldn't fix something when she would never tell me what was wrong. Communication only works if both parties contribute, most of the time I ended up talking to myself. She would only tell me that I should already know and if I didn't she was not going to tell me, which led us right into a divorce, final in February 2008.

      I'm honest, loyal, caring, hardworking with a quirky sense of humor, usually nice, and confused. I don't know why so many bad things happen to good people. I have a hard time talking to people I don't know, although if I do, you can't shut me up. I think I have pretty good common sense. I see things a little different than other people, which allows me to do what love to do which is problem solve and fix things. The one thing I could not fix was my marriage, not from lack of trying but you can't

    • Interests

      I like anything involving the outdoors, fishing, camping, site seeing, walking on the beach, also riding quads on the beach, all kinds of things. Indoors I like watching movies, racing (car, truck, motorcycle, etc.) and I like to fix and work on things, RC trucks at times but mainly just anything that is broken around the house or someone else’s house, I can fix just about anything. I also love to cook, well I used to, not so much any more, cooking for one just doesn't seam right.

      I like anything involving the outdoors, fishing, camping, site seeing, walking on the beach, also riding

  • Recent Activity

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    Monday

    November 12

    • FFW turned 43 12:00am

    November 10

    • FFW gave prisonerofsociety a ray of sunshine 11:26am

      Does anyone really know who they are? I know I'm not sure, so may not be able to help you with that but…  
    • FFW gave lonelyone72 a "get well soon!" 10:20am

      I like your avatar/photo or whatever you call it, it's just is how I feel.......being put away in a box.…  
    • FFW commented on their journal entry Why? 8:37am

      I know what you’re saying but it is always easier said than done. I do my best but when you’re down…  
  • Journal

    • Computer problems again.....no, still

      Mood November 10, 2009 8:05am

      Well this sucks I just wrote a whole letter why I have not been on and why all my letters I have written on DS have disappeared and it went away. …

    • Journal Entry for October 24, 2009

      Mood October 24, 2009 2:05pm

      so much for that it all went away the whole thing gone, all thoughts and feelings wiped away by a computer glitch. Just my life....................
    • Was it a dream?

      Mood August 27, 2009 10:42am

      I just had the strangest dream, it wasn’t really a dream cause I woke up half way through and it was still going on. I have had these before …

    • keep on keeping on

      Mood August 1, 2009 7:38am

      Nothing new to say really, at least not that I want to talk about right now, but I am still here, and I guess that's a good thing in itself.
    • Sad state of affairs

      Mood March 31, 2009 12:49pm

      I have been gone for a while, someone I thought I could trust I found out I could not and it hurt, a lot. In my profile the first two words in how I …

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    • Hug

      From lonelyone72 November 17

      Thanks for the hug. xxx

    • Thanks

      From cynthiadean October 25

      Hi FFW hope you are doing ok today, just wanted to say thanks for accepting my friend request, hope to talk to you more about depression and trying to deal with it. Take care from Cynthia x

    • Flower

      From yumyumello August 29

      hOpE You aRe Ok mY fRiEnD :) , xo

    • Ray of Sunshine

      From kc67 August 7

      hllo sunshine:):):)

    • Flower

      From lifeinjustice July 25

      Thank you for your support, it does truely help knowing that there are other people out there who know what your going through because alot of times it seems as if nobody understands

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  • Goals

    Progress

    10 %

    Goal End Date is May 22, 10 177 more days.
  • Support Groups

    • Close Breakups & Divorce

      I met my now ex-wife in 1999, dated for 2 1/2 years before moving in together. We bought a house together in 02 and wed in 03. I was making good money when we met and continued to do so. In 2001 I injured my back on the job. I was not able to return to work and had two surgery's. I received workman's comp. for over five years, a considerable amount and I gave it all to my wife. She owned her own business(where I helped as well)and made very good money. But when my checks ran out so did she.

      Treatments

      Couples Counseling Not Working
      She set it up and I went to mine and she went to hers, then when we were supposed to go together, she refused. I paid for it in advance, and she never would go with me. What a waste of money that was, she said I was the one who needed to go not her. I tried.
      Effexor Somewhat Helpful
      I dont know if it is this drug or another one but if I miss a dose I have bad withdrawal symptoms.
      Forgiveness Somewhat Helpful
      Helpful, as long as I admitted that I was the one who was in the wrong. She said she never did anything to be forgiven for.
      Leave Not Working
      When ever we had a dissagreement she would turn it into a fight and when it got so far out of control I would have to just walk away. No, solved nothing it always turned back to the same fight at a later time, she would not discuss the matter, I was wrong and she was right end of discussion. So the same thing would happed over and over again.
      Love Not Working
      I loved her, she loved my money. It worked for her! Me, not so much. If I had only known from the start.
      Pets Somewhat Helpful
      It was the one thing we did have in common we both loved animals....and yet she found some way to argue about that too. Believe it, or not. I still find my dog to be a good companion, with a lot less arguments .
      Reading Working / Worked
      Well, she read lots of books, self help books which she applied to me. She underlined the parts I needed to read that proved her right and ignored the rest. Didn't work for me at all, I found the parts she did not underline more interesting.
      Support from Friends & Family Somewhat Helpful
      My family was supportive and still is, they helped me through it with what ever I decided to do. They knew I wanted my marriage to work and tried to help me to that end. My wife, she always told her family the worst about me mostly lies and what truth there was, was taken out of context, not geting my side of the story at all, she made sure of that. So they supported her as any good family would, but knowing only half the story. Which wouldn't have been so bad if that half would have been true.
      Support Groups Too Soon to Tell
      First one, we'll see. It does help to talk to someone once in a while.
      Talking Not Working
      I wanted to talk, she said she didn't have the time, and when she did it was not a conversation. I could not work things out with her when she thinks she is always right and is not willing to at least hear me out before making up her mind and shutting me down. I thought women always wanted to talk thing out and discuss your feelings, not this one.
      Time Not Working
      Time only made things worse, I thought in time we could work things out. The more I tried, the more she pulled away and resented me for wasting her time and her life. I never considered trying to save our marriage a waste of time, but apparently it was to her.
    • Close Depression
      Type: Clinical (Major) Depression

      Recently divorced, my dog had to be put to sleep, perminate disability, family members passed away, my truck was stolen, and my father had triple bypass surgery that he was not supposed to make it through. That was just in the past year. Before that was no better. Struggled with depression for most of my life. I just want to love and be loved instead I hate my life and everything in it, things weren't ment to be this way, I don't know what to do or how to change it so things just stay the same.

      Treatments

      Celexa Not Working
      Took for about five months, no help.
      Effexor Too Soon to Tell
      It does something not sure just what yet. It seamed to start working in the first couple of weeks but then the anxiety got considerably worse and now I am tired and sleeping all day and night. I seam to only be up for about 8 hours a day for the last 3 to 4 days thats not right at all I dont know if it is the Effexor or something new I have to worry about. The medication is stepped up over 4 weeks with every step up things get more strange. I really want something to work maybe it still will.
      Positive Thinking Somewhat Helpful
      Prozac Somewhat Helpful
      Worked for a while, but don't care for the side effects.
      Psychotherapy Not Working
      Armed guards escorted me everywhere, totally unwarranted. Said it was standard procedure. Never went again, how embarrassing.
      Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked
      They try, their hearts are in the right place.
      Trazodone Somewhat Helpful
      Helps me sleep not much else.
      Wellbutrin Not Working
      Tried it, didn't seam to do anything.
      Writing Working / Worked
      I write notes and journals but don't quite see benifit to doing that. Update: it sometimes helps just to get it out when there is no one to talk to.
      Zoloft Somewhat Helpful
      Presently taking, helps but not really good enough to get my life back. Update: 10-08 stopped taking and replacing with Effexor
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