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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 8/2/2010 8:34:48 PM
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IwillseekHim
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Hi Pink, I know you are counting the days down now  . How's dd?
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 8/4/2010 3:48:19 PM
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I am doing good, had to take today off from the job, but should be ok by tomorrow though.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 8/8/2010 2:12:50 AM
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Mike, did you get a new job or return to the old one?
I'm doing okay tonight. Too tired to post right now though. Need to go to bed.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 8/8/2010 8:11:17 AM
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Hi Melissa,
The old job fell through because of my back issue. I do have an interview with a different company on Monday. It is also a temp position as well.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 8/13/2010 4:14:04 PM
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I have been feeling much more relaxed the past few days after what seemed like weeks with bouts of anxiety. What changed? A new psychiatrist of all things.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 8/14/2010 5:40:39 PM
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I am feeling quite unmotivated right now and I do not know why.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 8/23/2010 4:30:25 AM
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Hi Roberta, I will be praying for you again. Also, 18 hours is a long time to be on a train too.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/2/2010 6:54:47 PM
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I'm having a bad mental health day. Very down in the dumps and discouraged after getting on the scale and seeing the result of my bad eating habits. Why do I ever bother trying to eat right? It doesn't do any good! I feel defeated and wish that I could just rewind time back to when I was young and never had any problems. 
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/11/2010 12:48:43 PM
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Hi. New here. I have a lifelong history of anxiety problems. I have done well the past few years with medication. Now my doc is weaning me off of it. Of course this would be the time I need surgery to remove a wisdom tooth (i am 52 and the risk of complications are a bit greater at my age). Also, years of being on a sedative medication make it hard for them to sedate me. I will tell the oral surgeon all this of course.....it just all seems too much at times. Of course i pray and trust God......the anxiety, the oral surgery (and paying for it without insurance), my adult children who will help me only if i practically beg and laugh off any concerns i might voice to them. I dont expect them to be my sounding board but I expressed concern to my son, who just sort of laughed it off.......my daughter barely speaks to me, although that is another long story. She wouldnt toss water on me if i was on fire. I find myself at 52.....divorced, alone in a little apartment, with a job that I love but is killing me due to it being night time work and I am constantly sleep deprived. No insurance. Just the loneliness i think is the worst part. Kids who are inconsiderate at best...and ignore me at worst. i was a stay at home mom for years and they had happy childhoods. Their Dad, my ex, has emotional problems . Sorry this is rambling. I am down today. Tomorrow is my surgical consultation. I just have a feeling of heaviness and sadness and a "what does anything matter".........I talked with a friend recently going through similiar struggles and she feels the same. Thanks for letting me vent and any input appreciated.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/11/2010 4:19:37 PM
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Sometimes you just need to let it all out. This is a good place for that--lots of supportive praying people.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/11/2010 8:32:21 PM
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Hi, this is my third attempt at posting this as I can't seem to find the right forum section and keep getting moved around...hope this is the right place 
This is going to sound totally dumb and irrational, I know, but I need to see what people think.
OK - when I was a kid I always said that I'd die before I was 40 (I'm 34 now -eek!). I don't think I actually believed this, but don't know why I said it. Maybe I'd heard about someone else on TV saying it or something...... I never had a dream or anything and it's quite possible I was just attention-seeking :)
Anyway, my parents reminded me of this through the years and laughed it off.
I have a loooong history of depression and ruminations (repetitive thinking). I usually manage this through therapy and medication, however I have been off meds for nearly 2 years since being pregnant and having a baby. I don't want to take medication again and have been doing very well. In the last few weeks, the depression and negative thoughts have hit me hard out of the blue. I am also struggling a little with faith issues and my relationship with the Lord, but am working on that.
I started freaking out about the dying before 40 thing...what if it's true? I am also aware it could be just my mental state causing this and it's not real - just thoughts and a bad cycle of negative thinking.
Yesterday I was talking to my Mom and told her I'll be starting my PhD next year. I told her it will take a 5 or 6 years because I'm only doing it part-time since I have a young child. She said, "You'll be dead before you finish it!" I think she said this just as an expression and had absolutely no meaning behind it, but why did she say that when it's the exact thing I've been worried about?? I got off the phone quickly and broke down.
I am so very worried and I really, really hope this isn't a sign of some sort and as I said, just a negative thought I'm stuck on that has no meaning.
Again, I'm sorry if I sound like a complete idiot, but can anyone give me some reassurance.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/11/2010 11:26:25 PM
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ORIGINAL: dboo
Hi, this is my third attempt at posting this as I can't seem to find the right forum section and keep getting moved around...hope this is the right place
This is going to sound totally dumb and irrational, I know, but I need to see what people think.
OK - when I was a kid I always said that I'd die before I was 40 (I'm 34 now -eek!). I don't think I actually believed this, but don't know why I said it. Maybe I'd heard about someone else on TV saying it or something...... I never had a dream or anything and it's quite possible I was just attention-seeking :)
Anyway, my parents reminded me of this through the years and laughed it off.
I have a loooong history of depression and ruminations (repetitive thinking). I usually manage this through therapy and medication, however I have been off meds for nearly 2 years since being pregnant and having a baby. I don't want to take medication again and have been doing very well. In the last few weeks, the depression and negative thoughts have hit me hard out of the blue. I am also struggling a little with faith issues and my relationship with the Lord, but am working on that.
I started freaking out about the dying before 40 thing...what if it's true? I am also aware it could be just my mental state causing this and it's not real - just thoughts and a bad cycle of negative thinking.
Yesterday I was talking to my Mom and told her I'll be starting my PhD next year. I told her it will take a 5 or 6 years because I'm only doing it part-time since I have a young child. She said, "You'll be dead before you finish it!" I think she said this just as an expression and had absolutely no meaning behind it, but why did she say that when it's the exact thing I've been worried about?? I got off the phone quickly and broke down.
I am so very worried and I really, really hope this isn't a sign of some sort and as I said, just a negative thought I'm stuck on that has no meaning.
Again, I'm sorry if I sound like a complete idiot, but can anyone give me some reassurance.
Hi dboo,
For what it's worth I used to say the same thing. Back in my late twenties and early thirties I would tell people this on occation (dying by 40). I somewhat believed it at the time. It was based on my life style. Years later my boss reminded me of it after he had returned to the company I work at. He said "I thought you were supposed to be dead by now." It seemed silly when he said it, mostly because he remembered and because I was now in my late forties at the time. I'm 54 now, hehe.
Now I say I won't make it to 60. At some point I may get it right.
I just became a Christian last year and if theres anything I've learned it's that God has a plan and a purpose for each of us. You obviously know that it's not how long you live but what you do with the time your given. I wasted 53 years outside of Christ. My therapy came from a bottle and in a bar room. My feeling of dying by 40 was just a plain stupid thought and statement reguardless of my actions to make it true. Yet I repeat it now by saying I may not make it to 60.
I actually believe it but do not dwell on it. It's not rational and as you point out, just bad thoughts. I can't get the lottery numbers right either and have no other psychic abilities.
God has given me a new Christian friend, Christine. She resides in a state run nursing facility. Christine is battling cancer for the sixth time (over a 20 year span). When I first told her of my new faith she told me she was also a Christian and that she praises God for each day that he gives her. How ridiculous my thoughts and words are in comparison.
It turns out, dboo, that in trying to answer you I found my own answer. I need to start praising God for each day and to fulfill the purpose he has for me. And maybe I'll return here in 6 years and wonder if I'll reach 70 (no way).
Peace and Love, Dan
I will pray that your depression is relieved.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/12/2010 1:14:36 AM
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dboo
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Dan, thank you. That was a great post.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/13/2010 3:11:01 PM
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Hi dboo,
I just wanted to tell you that you're not alone in your thoughts. Dan2430 has had similar thoughts and so have I. When I was in college and became a Christian, I just had a "feeling" that I would die at 33--the same age Christ died. I didn't really believe it, but it was always there in the far recesses of my mind. Now I'm 46. That just goes to show you that our thoughts have no power of their own. However, it's not healthy to continue to concentrate on that thought. Perhaps, when it occurs to you, you would find it helpful to remind yourself that it's up to God how long you will live. I have found that I have to talk back to my anxious thoughts or they just multiply. Also, I would imagine that your mom said that only because it appears to be a running joke. God bless.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/13/2010 4:59:08 PM
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Patriciahere
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Growing up I remember my father saying he would not live past 58. After he was 58 he would say "any day now..." He died at 78.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/16/2010 12:59:25 AM
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Hey all -
I was diagnosed with clinical depression at 14.
I have struggled with it ever since.
I am nervous about this winter. I always get bad in winter.
Any tips for keeping away the blues?
I've thought about investing in one of those sunlight lamps but they are upwards of $180!
-reba.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/16/2010 9:46:10 AM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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Hi Reebz and all the new folks!
Reebz, can your insurance cover the lamp at all? It could help.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 10/16/2010 3:40:05 PM
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I don't have insurance.
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