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NavyBlueFlower
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Through crisis links
Newbie Hub / by NavyBlueFlower
Last post
 November 22nd, 2015
...See more I journal on patientslikeme.com and I've been coming off of a couple of medications and was in crisis last week, so I clicked on a few links on PLM and that's how I learned about 7cups.
Getting over breakup & move from city to country
Depression Support / by NavyBlueFlower
Last post
 November 22nd, 2015
...See more Hello all. I've met a few of you in chat. I'm a 51-year-old woman, 52 next month, and yes, that is a recent picture. (It was just done professionally.) My two issues are that they guy I've been in love with (in the back of my mind anyway) for 25 years (and who has in the past expressed the same feelings for me) married someone else in October 2014. He married a lady who shows me up in every way - thinner, younger, better skin, has a Ph.D., makes at least 80K, has a book for sale on Amazon that retails for 80 bucks, blue eyes, lives in the same city as the guy. So my second issue is that I was so depressed about it in 2014 that I moved from Toronto, a city I know and love and have lived in for 30-odd years, to a small northern-Ontario community where my parents live. I'm now living with my parents in order to take care of them in their old age and infirmity - my dad has Alzheimer's and my mother has mobility restrictions. I drive them around and do stuff around the house for them. But I miss Toronto like I never have before, and I miss my old apartment, and I am looking forward to getting back there some day. I'm usually bummed early in the day about this guy, mainly because I don't enjoy what I do for a living - writing reports for a psychologist, dry, insurance-case reports that follow a formula and are heavily legalistic. In addition, the psychologist I work for is very difficult to work with - always telling me what I'm doing wrong, adding tasks that I can't bill for, asking me to switch reports I'm working on when he makes another report a priority. If I had my dream job, I would be a writer for a TV series, or I would make my own short films, or I would be a paid travel blogger, but I'm too old to be hired on a series, and the other two dream careers will have to wait until I retire. Anyway, that's pretty much me. Heartbroken, but going on. I've struggled with depression my whole life, body image issues, basically I'm addicted to looking as good as I can and getting the compliments, and this guy who broke my heart gave me the best compliments I've ever had. As I write this, I'm about to take a trip with my family to Cozumel, so I'm looking forward to that. I make decent money with the psychologist, so that's not an issue in my life, but I don't have a workplace pension and have to save most of it if I want to retire on a decent income in Canada. Nice to meet you. I tend to be wordy in my writing, so if you've made it this far, good for you.
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