My dad is an alcoholic and was arrested a few years back and i was his one phone call from the station. My parents are divorced and i was home alone at my grandmas house so my mom came and picked me up and ...

My name is Ashley, I am 20 years old. Still very young and have a lot to learn, that is what brought me here. My boyfriend, Michael, is 27 years old, lives with his grandfather and just recently finished Cosmetology school. I have known him ...

I have known my husband for over 10 years. In this time there have been many problems with our relationship, and he has a history of drug and alcohol abuse. Although he has stopped taking drugs now and modified his alcohol intake considerably, problems have ...

My grandmother (mother's mother) was diagnosed with schizophrenia back in the 1960s. Although diagnosed, she was harmless and loved her family. My father passed away five years ago. My mother's father died when she was 3. She married my Dad at 18. Since ...

I am 40, professional and from the outside, I'm sure it seems as if I'm doing fairly well. I'm in a job that should be a "dream job". I have been happily in therapy for a long time and I believe I'm pretty self-aware. However, ...

My husband and I have been married for about 3 years now. Our communications skills are less than that to be desired and our fights can be explosive. Most of we fight about is drinking. He has been alcoholic for a very long time. Recently, ...

Well I have been suffering from severe mood swings. I will go from being happy to being sad for no apparent reason. I can't stand to be alone because it makes my mind wonder and I start to have suicidial thoughts. I have recently harmed ...

Around a month and a half ago, my friend introduced to a new drug i hadn't experimented with called spice. We went outside for a smoke and i treated the substance like marijuana. With it being "synthetic marijuana" i assumed that would be appropriate. Easy ...

Ok so my boyfriend and I have been dating for over a year. When we met it was love at first sight (as cheesy as it sounds) and I knew I wanted to be with a man like him in the future. We met ...

In college about 5 months ago, I tried smoking marijuana and had a bad experience. When I woke up the next morning, and for the next few days, I felt very odd and just didn't feel like myself. I was also getting randomly ...

It feels like NOTHING is real, but...that doesn't depress me. Shouldn't it? For the past few months (and nothing I can think of significant has happened in the past few months, at least nothing out of the ordinary) i've begun to feel as ...

I've never been really close to my mother. But just about a year ago we became even more distant, being that my brothers ex girlfriend has been living with her. My brother is in prison; he and his GF are no longer together. My mom ...