Why do you come to PC?

... to take advantage of the opportunities for growth.

I came here because I was in the depths of despair and guilt over my mother's death and needed an outlet for my pain. My friends and family did not understand what I was going through. Although I have not yet found anyone who can relate to what I have gone through I am so grateful to have met some wonderful, compassionate, caring people here. I grew up in a family that did not communicate very much and reading others post their deepest, darkest thoughts and pain with such openness and honesty has inspired me to be more honest about myself in real life. I have also learned that you never know what is going on in someone else's life..so I guess I am more understanding now.

I decided to join here because I needed to chat with people that understand. Sure my guardians try but there is something in talking with people that have some of the same stuff that I am struggling with in my life.

I'm here because, no matter how common it is for a teenager to feel this way, I feel completely messed up and alienated. I have also always been able to speak more easily to online people than those in real life, so by coming here I hoped to share my thoughts and situations and get some help. I really also enjoy just being here. Everyone's so nice, and caring... reading old threads of people who help each other makes me feel a bright flash of joy, no matter how short it is. I also have an interest in Psychology and workings of the mind, so I often read the threads in a variety of disorders to try and learn about them.

I want and need support in my life. This site helps, no doubt, as long as you choose the right people to be around.

I come to TRY to lend support, because thru the years I've been so messed up in different ways that perhaps I can help. I've been thru therapy off & on all my adult life and have learned alot. I just would like to give back what has been given me.

I've been here longer than most here.....came here in 2004......just after my mother had her cancer surgery, I had been in the medical hospital for asthma/bronchitis from the smoke of a forest fire, my mare delivered my wonderful foal Izzy......& my mother wasn't doing well after her surgery.

With all that was happening in my life, the stress was causing a serious case of anorexia to start up again...I cound the ED forum here & it was nice to have others who were struggling with similar eating issues.

Little did I realize that within 2 months, I would be in the throws of a serious trauma with the home care person who manipulated her way into caring for my mother.......I landed in the medical hospital because of the anorexia & the trauma really messed me up & then my mother died that January from her cancer. I was left dealing with the anorexia & PTSD from the trauma. When I finally got home from the hospital myself, it was nice to have PC to come to because on top of all that, I had a seriously bad marriage I was had been dealing with for years.

Just really needed a place to some & share my emotions & the anorexia issues, the PTSD.....& what little grief I felt over the anger I really felt toward my mother.......a couple of years later........

PC was with me all the way across the country when I left my husband, bought a farm in KY & drove 2100 miles across the country in the medium sized moving truck I rented to bring what things I could fit in there. Every evening in the hotel, it was so wonderful to check in with PC....kept me sane those 5 days of driving to have something to look forward to in the evening.

There have been many who have come & gone since 2004 (wow, I'm been here 8 years now).....but there are many who helped me through the those difficult years along with getting settled in my new farm.

My major depression & suicidal years were from 1994-2000, so I wasn't at PC during my really DARK years....but the beginning years had their own kind of darkness, so PC really helped me through.

Then I realized how much help everyone was to me, that's why I love being a help to others as much as possible here.....try to use some of my many years as experience to help others.

PC has helped me beyond my wildest imagination.....we never know what life holds for us....it's wonderful to have a place to talk the things through & also get others ideas from other's experiences.

PC has been a wonderful experience, a great help, & hopefully I am a help to others who are in need.

I don't know.

Probably some help and support when my close friends and relatives aren't there or can't help me when I need it the most...

I started out coming with questions. Now I feel like if I've got anything to say... if it can help somebody, then that's what's up.

I think you have great insights, bb. You're the type of person I wish my son could just hang out with and talk about life and managing MI and stuff.

hoped to find a cure for my problems