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Making the Best of a Bad Situation

"Making lemonade out of lemons" was an adage I had heard all of my life, but until I was faced with what looked like the worst nightmare of my life, it really had no meaning ... Read more... »

I Grew Up in Poverty

I grew up in poverty, in a family of 9 children in rural Maine. We had a small sustenance farm with animals and a very large garden. I have no memories of being hungry, but ... Read more... »

I started out as a very troubled child. I had many problems and brushes with the law because of it. I was constantly battling my parents because I thought I was always right. School ... Read more... »

Being Teased and Taunted

I grew up mostly in Alexandria, Minn., but moved to Ada in the 6th grade. When I was young I was a very emotional child. I was put into a special class, even thought I ... Read more... »

Jennifer’s Story

I think my problems started at age 3, when my father passed away. My mother said I almost had a mental breakdown, I quit talking, and was in my own little world. That only lasted ... Read more... »

Torture

In the realm of pain and anguish Begging for release of Death, Lies the child with brutal mother Battered day by day with stealth. All who know the gentle lady See her kindness shining bright, See the woman love her children See ... Read more... »

My New Life

At the age of 23, I woke up one weekday morning with the feeling that something was wrong. I searched my mind. Oh, yes. I remembered. I remembered that I was living a new life; ... Read more... »

Only 16

I am currently 16 years old and live in New Jersey. When I was 6 years old, my parents got a divorce and I moved around New Jersey and New York State a few times. ... Read more... »

Losing My Mind

I was born three months premature, along with my twin sister. I guess you could say that I was a fighter from the start, weighing in at only 1 lb. 9 oz. I was ... Read more... »

Through It All

What happen to me is not really unbearable under normal circumstances but coming from dysfunction in most areas of my life it was what most would call unbelievable. I'll begin at the age of 8 because ... Read more... »

Bird in the Invisible Cage

As I watched my 68-year-old father hug my 16-year-old daughter at the airport, my stomach tightened around the bag of worms, renewing that old, buried feeling. My son waited patiently for his grandfather to ... Read more... »

Schizophrenia’s Voice

I would perhaps start with explaining that everything that I say is honest and true, the reason being that some of it may be unbelievable, but then I find many of the stories I have ... Read more... »

A Long and Arduous Journey

I was born in a small town in Florida during the late 1940s. My mother had undiagnosed and untreated schizophrenia and my father was a man of some power within the community who was ... Read more... »

Twenty Years

I grew up in Temple, Texas with a family that had not noticed early signs of my mental illness. Parents divorced and I went to Florida. I found support with my sister Lisa; I felt ... Read more... »

The Real Me

Everyone who cared had tried to help me for so long, but nothing was working. The elders of my church, although they placed no confidence in psychology, didn’t know what else to do. They offered ... Read more... »

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
-- Woodrow Wilson

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