It took me years to figure out exactly where my disorders came from. What fueled them exactly? What issues were they tied to ( Read more... )

It seems that wherever kids are and fun is to be had, there is a constant cry of "five more minutes"! Five more minutes in the pool, five more minutes watching television, five more minutes to play the video game ( Read more... )

Photographs were an integral part of my recovery journey. In the hopes of helping me to identify the circumstances around some of my first self-injury episodes, I was tasked with pouring over hundreds of photographs that my mother, myself or other family members had taken over the course of 36 years ( Read more... )

For the last ten months, I have been involved in a verbally abusive relationship. It sounds funny to say, but I have never been treated so well and so poorly by the same person. When I first met my "friend", he was the most attentive person I had ever met. I have never had anyone pay as much emotional or physical attention to me as he did. We spent ( Read more... )

One of my "friends" continues to bring up a mistake that I made about a year ago (long BEFORE I ever knew him!). I have admitted that mistake, apologized profusely for it and worked very hard to make amends. In my mind, I have done all that I can to right that wrong ( Read more... )