ikesrecovery59

@ikesrecovery59 (8)

United States • Age 77

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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How to distract ones thoughts from committing suicide...

megs85 @megs85 (3142) • Australia 18 Dec 06

Besides looking at your child (a very big reason not to kill yourself), what can you do to try and maintain a grip on reality and sanity, and hold onto life even when you dpnt feel you want to?

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ikesrecovery59 I prayed! for peace for myself. There's a scripture in the Bible that says the god of peace will give you peace, and it isn't the same peace that the world gives you! That is the one thing he will give instantly! Suicide thoughts are hard to deal with, I know,...

19 Dec 06

Suicidal Thoughts...Ever Normal??

Jshean20 @Jshean20 (14348) • Canada 18 Dec 06

I'm just wondering how many of you think it's normal to have suicidal thoughts sometimes. I'm not talking about actually sitting down and planning it out and actually coming close to commiting suicide, I'm just wondering if it's...

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ikesrecovery59 I have had thoughts of suicide, and as a teen, tried two different times, and then once when I became an adult. Yes, I have been diagnosed as being bipolar. Thankfully, I'm on the low-end of bipolar, but it still affects the way I think at times. I still think...

19 Dec 06

narcotic addiction pls help.

drzishankhan @drzishankhan (38) • India 16 Dec 06

dear people, i am a new user of the my lot community.i feel it is really a very great opportunity for people like me to share their views without being actually getting identified. i dont know how to start but i really need some...

help me

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ikesrecovery59 Dear Doctor, As a recovering addict/alcoholic myself, you need AA or NA! Detox centers are just a bandaid for the moment. (7 days) Get a NA (narcotics anonymous) book, and go to 90 meetings in 90 days and the first 90 pages of the NA big book. Also the big...

16 Dec 06

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Are you a total home loving person, and if so why?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 14 Dec 06

Do you love being at home more than anything else? So many people today seem to prefer to be out and about doing a million different things, and the person who openly admits to staying at home and loving it most of the time is...

home

homebody

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ikesrecovery59 Yes, I do love being home. I love my husband, and we are more friends then we are husband and wife. It is like I am hanging out with my friend. Our kids are all raised, and it's just the two of us, and our two cats. He is on disability and right now I work...

15 Dec 06

How much trouble should you put up with?

rhinoboy @rhinoboy (2129) 14 Dec 06

My extended family seems do dump all of their problems on my wife and I. They have various serious troubles like alcoholism, debt & finance trouble, mental health issues etc. My wife and i don't have these problems, but only...

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ikesrecovery59 Personally, as long as you allow your extended family to dump on you, they will. I am sorry to say this, but I know from experience. I am a recoverying alcoholic of 8 yrs., and know that we alcoholics do not like to take responsibility for ourselves. As long...

15 Dec 06

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Stress

Shannanw @Shannanw (39) • United States 13 Dec 06

I have many stressors in my life. I live in household that contains a lot of stress. My husband thinks he is the boss and everyone should bow down to him. I hate this kind of life yet I can not afford to live it. My children are...

life

relationships

stress

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ikesrecovery59 Your life you have now sounds like the kind of life I had with my first husband. If it wasn't done his way, it was wrong. He wanted to move to the mountains, isolated, so he could raise his kids the way he wanted to. Well, I am no longer married to the fool,...

14 Dec 06

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My Family - I can't seem to stop enabling them

linda345 @linda345 (2661) • Canada 10 Dec 06

I have a very mixed up family. My oldest daughter is a 20 year old single mom. My 19 year old son is a drug addict and an acholic. My 15 year old is in foster care because we both decided it would be for the best. She also has...

family

kids

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ikesrecovery59 Hi Linda, I too am bipolar, and wasn't diagnosed while I was raising my kids, therefore there are a lot of dysfunctional behaviors with my kids today. However, they are starting to grow up and move on with their life instead of being in their childhood....

11 Dec 06

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