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Tell me about it. I am not a vet and haven't personally lost anybody in combat, but this weekend has been really BAD for me. I don't know what's going on. It gets under my skin every year. This year worse than any before. I can only imagine how it effects those with a more direct connection. :(

There's always tomorrow. Don't worry. I can't speak for the others, but there is no judgment whatsoever coming from me. I understand the struggle. Considering how much passive aggressiveness I encounter on a daily basis, I don't think it's even all that uncommon.

Yeah, it's that way in my family. There's a part of me that wants to trace a lot of things back to my grandmother. She grew up with a raging, alcoholic, physically abusive, spouse battering father and they were also dirty poor and starving. So considerably adverse environment. I wouldn't doubt...

Don't worry about it ;), it's my fault. There's probably no reason you should know what I was talking about. Hyperemesis in pregnancy. It's extreme "morning" sickness where you can't keep anything down at all. Another one of those things that happens to practically nobody else... well, except...

I don't really have any answers for you, but I have had some thoughts about this, too. I'm not a touchy-feely person, never have been. Sexual activity often gives me a headache. (That didn't used to keep me from avoiding it, but now I avoid it like the plague, too :/) I became physically ill...

I am a stay home parent. My son is almost 3. I haven't been doing very well over these 3 years, but I'll tell you, kids force you into action. I'm usually dragging, but I have yet to find the opportunity to withdraw. You don't feel like making lunch? Oh well. You've gotta put something together...

I don't know whether it will help or not. I'm not very far along my own attempt to say. I got a similar idea in my head and have been trying to learn a new skill for about a month. I'm getting better at it and that does feel good. It's a good feeling when something clicks and you can feel...

I've had similar experience. All of the therapy talk doesn't play out well in my real life. It has taught me to somewhat calmly state my own needs, though. That's something big. I lost a friend when I decided to start saying no. Sometimes yes, people will be offended. That's the consequence of...

Aha, collecting! That's a good one @itsKismet ! It doesn't have to be much of an investment, either. For several years I collected tins- little candy tins, hot chocolate tins, small cookie tins, etc. They're typically only a couple of dollars- and you usually get some mints or something out of...

@Simply Simon I am a southerner, although I'm also kind of an allovertheplace-er, I know what you're getting at. But it has been my observation that this: Is not a black-white issue. It's a hispanic-non hispanic issue. Blacks and whites may sit around, just feet apart, holding open contempt...

I completely relate to this. When I was raped I fought until my clothes were off. Then I shut down. It was almost like I was outside of myself for the remainder. I never gave consent, but I gave up fighting. And until recently I wouldn't allow myself to call it rape because I didn't fight to the...

^This. Honey. Hormones. Make you f*cking crazy. I hated my husband with a firey passion while I was pregnant with my now toddler. I couldn't stand the smell of him, the sight of him, his voice. Everything he did made me roll my eyes in disgust and think about how childish he was and what a...

Because this from the article: "Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation." Is, and always has been, so untrue for me I don't know if any of my thoughts on the article itself have much meaning. Obviously my perspective is quite...

I find myself doing the same thing. All the if onlys and shoulda-couldas and the comparing myself to people. And thinking I might as well not bother because it's going to suck. I'm terrible about that. I don't know how to stop that altogether, but a way to fight it is this: think really hard...

Actually, I know a girl who goes on day trips with her husband. That's their hobby. And it's a good one. I used to do it, too. It's fun to go drive through the country and visit towns you would have no reason to ever see otherwise.

Unless you're thinking along the lines of professional ballerina or olympic gymnast you're not too late for anything! I collect hobbies. You could just do that. LOL. Scrapbooking, beading, painting, video games, knitting, hiking, container "gardening" (or killing), sewing, creating recipes...

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After I posted last I was thinking of some other things and then forgot to add them, but I see others already have. I spend a lot of time scouring government job listings and I do come across quite a few for journalists. That's not to mention that security analysts and intelligence analysts...

Not necessarily a career change, maybe a job change. If the one you are in is really never going to provide adequately for you then you can take your 10 years of experience somewhere else. Are you from the US? Either way, you can apply to jobs back in your home country. I don't know much about...

That is great! Yes, please share! I'm working on the public servant part, just haven't gotten a job yet. lol I can imagine the relief. I can't imagine how they ever expected us to get jobs that would actually pay for themselves...

I agree with others because this is a PMS symptom for me. I didn't realize it until it had been going on for years and years. Now I try really hard to keep to myself and keep telling myself that it will pass when it pops up. It used to be friends I assumed had grown a sudden dislike for me, or I...

My nightmares are usually the first type. Unrelated to things I experienced personally, but horrible and graphic. I don't know, there could be some symbolism I'm missing. They are also typically recurrent. I'll go several weeks or months waking up from the same nightmare every couple of days...

Oh, hey @imok ! You must be the one who started the sleep-related thread I just read. Welcome to the forum! I know how it can sound, but what @Junebug is talking about has been my experience, as well. I went through several periods of many years with constant suicidal thoughts. They began as a...

I don't know if it's exactly the same, but similar: I am that way when I'm alone. For a while my husband had been coming home from work at midnight so that worked out perfectly. But just recently he's been moved back to alternating shifts and is now on nights. I hate it. I stay up until I can't...

I always liked that song. One year, it must have been 9th grade chorus class, I had an assignment to create a piece of art that expressed the feeling of a song. I used this one. That was one dark, messed up picture. If I hadn't been in such a bass-ackward country school at the time I probably...