What is the hardest thing you ever had to get through in your life?

Right now is the hardest time of my life, through a combination of unforeseen health problems and stupid moves on my part I've lost my job, my home, my transportation, my phone, and some self-esteem and self-respect. I'll get through it all. This is no pity party. I just hate the struggle. All I want is my chance to get my foot in the door of some place, business, institution, and earn my pay. That's all. dr...

I still can not get through that my grandpa have passed away when i was in singapore. He passed away in Nov. last year, but I didnt get to know it until Dec. when I came back home in Tianjin china. So sad...and I still very miss him.

It has been a number of things for me: losing my mom to cancer, realizing I was not going to make it through graduate school, having a nervous breakdown, losing friends over things that went nuts, and so forth. I work through them the best I can. After my nervous breakdown (earlier this year), I placed myself into therapy and changed prescriptions. It has helped. I still have rough days, but better than they were. As for my mom, I miss her every day.

My daughter had skin cancer several years ago. She had several surgeries and now people look at her like she has a disease. Its been very hard to see people walk on the other side of the street to avoid her. I think how other people treat her is wrong. People can't catch skin cancer. Sorry to hear about your dad.

I think every one of life's trials can be just as painful as the next, and there isn't a "scoring" system either. A person who loses a loved one can be hurting just as much as the person who is losing their home to foreclosure and vice versa. If I had to choose the most painful thing it would be when things are so bad (for whatever reasons) that you don't even have a shred of "hope" anymore.

I had a very hard time when my father passed away 27 years ago, when I was only 11 yrs old. I was also "Daddy's Little Girl" since I was the younger daughter, so it made it even worse, and I cried every night for weeks. I still have a hard time with it, especially on Fathers' Day, the day that he had his stroke. Lately, the hardest thing I've had to deal with was losing my husband's maternal grandmother, a week after our youngest daughter turned a year old, in 2005 and then losing my favorite cousin last year. Of course, these were all parts of life but they were very tough to go through. I handle things well up until the actual service, then I really lose it. I tend to keep myself busy trying not to think of the service, doing whatever needs to be done & making arrangements, then it's like I come back to the "real world" at the service and it just hits harder.

this coming fri the 5th will be 13yrs since my dad passed i was 14 and the oldest of 5 when we lost him and i think till this day i still have not gotten over it, i too was "daddy's little girl" he by no means was perfect but i looked up to him and smired him as if he was. i remeber the day we heard the news like it was yesterday from what my mother was wearing the way the room looked etc and the wake stay with me even more for when i walked up to the coffin i saw a man there that resembled my dad but didnt actually seem/look like him , i remeber leaning over him and my tears were dropping onto his face washing away some of the make up, i made a bracelete actually 2 one i layed in his hands and the other i kept for myself, that was most definetly the hardest thing in my 26 1/2 yrs of life i have ever had to go through and in away still going through.

This is going to be long. Im still going through the hardest thing I have ever had to go through. Six months ago I started freaking out in school-I couldn't concentrate, I rewrote my papers and didnt turn them in, I organized everything, counted...I knew something was wrong so I went to see the counselor at school. She was a wonderful person. I was in psychology that year and what we were learning at that time fell into sync with all my symptoms. I have OCD. Shortly after coming to terms with that I started having panic attacks when I was unable to organize things and do my rituals of counting, etc. I have an anxiety disorder too....In the past six months ive regressed in this order-Five high school classes to three due to the overwhelming disorganization in some of my classes, driving home in between classes to use the bathroom ( no public restrooms), almost failing that year because I felt like I would have a heart attack if I turned in my work, I stopped going places like Target, etc because id have a panic attack due to disorganization. Long story short im barely starting to recover now. I havent gone to any place not open twenty four hours a day since april of 2007. I dont buy anything unless its offline or from a place open twenty four hours a day, I do things repitively until it feels just right. Its been such a hardship. The worst part of it is halfway through all this I adopted hoarding too (physically pains me to throw things away)...Half the time I just want to give up because ive become so isolated but I also dont want to lose my loved ones. Their frustration adds to my being easily distraught and strung out. It's a daily battle.