I've been looking around this weekend = check this out = it's called the chronic pain and illness lifeline... See what you think...

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http://members.tripod.com/~Catnip100/intro.html</A>

Here's what their intro. says:

When I became disabled, I felt like my life was over. I thought I was worthless and that there was no way for me to give anymore. Worse than anything I had ever known, when I entered into the medical field as a "patient", I felt exactly like I was being treated as a criminal. I was now a defendant and the "medical personnel" were the state prosecutors. Everything I told them was questioned as if I were lying. They never seemed to believe the truth of what I said. It was like they twisted my words to mean something in the medical field that was the total opposite of the truth. And then, I didn't just feel like my life was over. I thought I was in hell.

I also felt very alone. Having been a nurse for 10 years and always being on the 'patients' side, didn't make me very popular with some of the 'God Complex' doctors, but when I became a patient I felt that what went around came around and that I would be treated the way I had treated others. That didn't happen.

But I found the internet and met LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people who were just like me! Living in pain and feeling lost and alone. Lots of them had college degrees or were in the midst of a great career and pain brought their lives crumbling down. Well I got as many of those people together as I could and we started this website. Our Mission is that of helping others feel not so alone. And to help educate others about chronic pain so that they wouldn't have to waste as much time as we might have just searching for answers.

They also have help for free most times during the day..

Still come here, too, though, OK?

Fondly, Peanut

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