Congrats Nolaguy! Great story and progress!

I started here on DS about a year ago due to my separation and now divorce - I was depressed, hurt, angry, and felt really alone and isolated. It took some time but towards the end of last year with support from friends on here I felt I really turned a corner and have been doing much much better since. I still feel alone and out of it at times too, but overall I'm doing so much better and having fun here in HS. I'm also having more fun out in life too which is a great feeling. Eventually I hope I'll find someone new to share it with as well, but for now I'm enjoying getting myself back, and raising my 2 sons.

I think a lot of us joined DS for some reason other than the HS board. I came for the Physical and Emotional Abuse group. I needed to get out my marriage, and the wisdom and strength I got from that group are valuable beyond measure. I got out, and, like arem, have been enjoying getting my (awesome)self back! Now I'm mostly here on the HS forum, which is a great sign of success for me!
Congrats on how far you've come!

NoLaGuy,

NoLaGuy, I think the majority of the people have come to DS for the same thing.
There are only two battles that I have almost everyday that can't be rectified, because they are warts on my butt that won't go away no matter what I do. I've given them names, though I can't repeat them here.
All other aspects of my life are coming together in a matter that would be expected.

Glad things are getting better for you.

I just came here for a taco and 99 cent burrito. Did I wander into the wrong room?

I came to HS from another forum I was a member/CL on a few of the sex boards. They revamped that forum and IMO screwed it up so I left there and came here.

I started out on that other forum in the Pet's section as a CL on animal rescue, pit bull rescue and the wildlife rescue/rehab boards. I found the depression board and suicidal feelings board over there when our youngest son was in bad emotional shape and suicidal. When I was dealing well with the problems we were having with him, I eventually joined the sex boards over there and was on them for about 10 years before joining HS here. Yes, when I joined the sex boards on the other forum, I felt like I graduated in a sense.

I came here because of a medical issue I have had for 3 or 4 years , its like MS , I get the leg paralysis occasionally, which confines me to bed , the last time was 17Months long, never had a thing wrong with me for 45 years then this ! but I am not ready to die just yet, so I gravitated to this group, which has kept me sane, no doubt :-)

it varies for me. the original reason i joined ds was because it is basically the only active board out there for hypermobility syndrome. so that was my first group. shortly after i added fibromyalgia, sexual abuse, celiac disease for my hubs and kids, parenting, etc.

i have my up days and i have my down days. i found this group because of satcom.

I came here because I wanted to learn more about healthy relationships and healthy sex since hooking up with someone who has a far more diverse sexual background than mine. This group so far has been really fun and everyone has been really nice to me. And I've learned some new things thanks to some really old threads that I've read!! :D

nolaguy - I'm glad your battle has gotten easier!!!

I used to talk anonymously online with a friend I made on a gaming site about pretty much everything under the sun... until he decided he wanted to make things less anonymous, and I had to get a restraining order. I found DS looking for a way to get that back, and I've always spent more time on HS than my other groups.

I came here for Bereavement, because I was having a hard time dealing with the fact that my dear brother departed this world...

After weeping with the folks in there for a month or so, I figured...got to rejoin the living sometime, so I came here and found it a lot of laughs.

Welcome, nolaguy!

I came for support through my divorce from an abusive woman. Then i stayed for friends that have become most like family to me. Then my brother took his own life Christmas day 2011. So i am around for both giving and receiving support. I have lived through more pain and anguish then most people could dream of . I have though MANY times of taking my own life since life has been so hard that I figure whats the point in living it.

Just a small laundry list .
With a wife that suffered from BP and BPD for 18 years and used her i9llness as an excuse to abuse me and our children. .
Lost a child to miscarriage.
Filed bankruptcy 3 times now do to over whelming medical bills from Ex-wife.
Have a child that is ADHD /Bi-polar
Brother commited suicide.
Forclosure of my home stopped only by bankruptcy.

So I have only listed a few things I have been through and why I am here for support. The HS group is mostly made up of good friends and some like family to me and a lighter side of why I am on DS. :)

Divorce after Twenty board is boring - so I'm just poking around and found you guys.