I have a great husband (20 years) and two lovely teenage daughters (16 & 19). I am thankful for having a good life and being able to cope with bipolar disorder. God has helped me immensely in this past year. He has helped me to become more content with myself and my husband. He has given me strength to start losing weigh and excercising. I have my bad days, but I am looking forward to many positive days. I am now attending 12 step groups and consider myself to be addicted to binging on food or alchohol. My husband is an alcohol abuser and I am working on fixing just me. I am able to change me.
I have a great husband (20 years) and two lovely teenage daughters (16 & 19). I am thankful for having a good life and being able to cope with bipolar disorder. God has helped me immensely in this past year. He has helped me to become more content with myself and my husband. He has given me strength to start losing weigh and excercising. I have my bad days, but I am looking forward to many positive days. I am now attending 12 step groups and consider myself to be addicted to binging on food or alchohol.
Include gardening, bird watching, spinning, zumba, swimming, walking, eliptical, weight lifting, eating healthy, church activities. Hanging out with friends and enjoying my family. Also like some crafts, cooking, decorating, auctions, taking classes, and music.
Include gardening, bird watching, spinning, zumba, swimming, walking, eliptical, weight lifting, eating
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LoriWantsHealing wrote a journal entry: Content 11:19am
Hello All, Today I feel completey content. I love moments or days like these. I have had some tough things…
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November 6, 2009 11:19am
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Today I feel completey content. I love moments or days like these. I have had some tough things recently, but I am wading …
October 24, 2009 1:21pm
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Praise God. In my last jounal entry I was hopeless about resolving difficult problems with my sister regarding dysfunctional …
October 21, 2009 5:27am
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This worry is not produtive, I am jounaling here and then hopefully putting ti to rst and turnng it over to the care of …
Saw your mood was very sad. So here is a hug to make you feel better.
Here is a moment of peace. With peace, we can accept everything.
No, I am not on Facebook. I have enough trying to keep up with emails and DS, LOL. Wishing you a lovely weekend.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!
Hope you have a good one. It's my son's birthday tomorrow. He will be 18.
Sending some peace your way. I have realized that without peace, we have nothing. It stabilizes us. Thinking of you and hope you are doing better.
I have had bipolar disorder for 20 years. I have been in treatment and have a decent life. I do have a dispostion towards depression which is treatment resistant. I feel it is at times very lonely to have this illness for both me and my family. I try not to let my difficulties affect my family too much, but they do. I have tried in face to face support groups and found them to be unhelpful. I am hoping to connect with others and share encouragement and honesty regarding a hidden illness.
My daughter Emily has analpylactic (life threatening) reactions to fish and seafood. Her throat and lungs swell and shut down. These incidents have been very scary and people usually blame her for getting exposed. One time it happened from Ceasar salad dressing which we didn't think about having anchovie paste in it. Recently it happened by mistake with Chinese take out that some fish got in her box. It's very frightening and she could die in minutes with out epipen and emergency room.
I grew up in a completely codependent family where you had to earn love. I had 3 siblings and I was the youngest. My sister was the favorite and is still trying to be at age 45. I am not playing the game anymore, but I miss my family of origin and struggle with maintaining any kind of healthy relationship with them. I know if I play the codependent game, I might at least be in the running for love. Now, I am mostly in the running for no love and dislike.
I have two daughters, Emily (16) and Sara (13) and and exchange student, Theres (18). All of the girls are good, but I have my times of stuggle. I really pressure myself to be a healthy parent, because I came from an extemely dysfuncitonal family. I get stressed setting limits, making sure I'm there for them and quesioning myself..I am trying so hard that I am hard on myself.
My weight is out of control. I don't know how to get this much weight off. I am exercising and cutting back some on food. My medications add to weight gain and hunger. I hate to think about what this weight is doing to my health. I pray to be able to make the changes to lose weight.
I am currently at high risk for cancer. I just got good results from a biopsy! It was benign. I do not have to see my breast doctor for 6 months.
My oldest daughter, Emily, suffers from depression. She was hospitalized for major depression. It took about 6 months for her to recover, but she is currently feeling well.
We have too much debt. We pay off things and then charge them back up. We are now enrolled in Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. We are making good progess, but it will take about 2-3 years to get out of debt. Just looking for others who are working on debt clean up.
My husband is searching for a woman in the personal ads under casual encouters. I found out. I think he has not told me everything
My husband was diagnosed with moderate to severe Emphysema today. I am scared. He smoked pot a lot when he was young, but does not smoke anything anymore. He has not seen a specialist yet. He wants me to act like it's not big deal. He also works in a factory around fumes. I'm so scared for him. I am mad that we have to pretend it is nothing. Then we can not communicate about it or suppport each other. No treatments yet.
My 14 year old, Sara, was burned on her palms when she touched a hot oven as an infant. She had to have skin grafts and now needs surgeries for banding and contractures. She is very sad about her burns and feels I don't understand. She was in my care when she touched the over and I wasn't watching her closley enough. With her most recent surgery she almost overdosed on tylenol because she has so much pain anxiety. Any help I can get here would be wonderful.
I have migraines induced by weather changes and hormones. I have at least one a week recently. Migraines are very lonely and painful and they keep me from things I need to do.
My 14 year old daughter may have anorexia.I have discovered that Sara has been not eating the lunches I pack for her. She also doesn't eat breakfast. Sometimes she gets out of eating dinner. I found her listening to a song repeatly. The song was about feeling unpretty and deciding not to eat. I asked Sara and she thinks she is becoming Anorexic. She is 5'9" and wheres a 7/8 junior. Please tell me how to handle this. She is in counseling.
