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    The Great Recession: Now It's Personal

    JANUARY 12, 2012 12:20PM

    By Cedar Burnett


    Topics: childcare, healthcare, ulcerative colitis, chronic illness, anxiety, money, middle class, recession, economy

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    • 55 Ratings
    • 3541 Views
    • 82 Comments
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    In Defense of Taking Psych Meds

    NOVEMBER 17, 2011 6:29AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: pray away the gay, abilify, lunesta, ambien, mental health, belief/religion, stigma, mental health, anxiety, panic disorder, depression, pray away your troubles, no stigma, getting help, suicidal ideation, suicide, antidepressants, cymbalta, mood disorders

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    • 67 Ratings
    • 1862 Views
    • 85 Comments
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    Really, Really Crazy

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 7:58AM

    By Joan H.


    Topics: anxiety, dysfunctional families, still wonder why it's called the r wing

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    • 2 Ratings
    • 653 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Are Eating Disorders and Shopping Disorders Connected?

    AUGUST 16, 2011 2:43PM

    By Diane Barth


    Topics: health, anxiety, depression, impulses, feelings, buying, diet, weight, hide, secret, binge, compulsive shopping, eating disorders

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    • 12 Ratings
    • 2733 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Abandoning the abandon

    JULY 26, 2011 11:56AM

    By Jowita Bydlowska


    Topics: life after quitting, addiction, open call, alcohol addiction, overdose, anxiety disorder, anxiety, angst, prozac, quitting

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    • 15 Ratings
    • 1064 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    An Angel in Bennigan's

    JUNE 4, 2011 5:57AM

    By Kim Brittingham


    Topics: anxiety, panic attacks, health

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    • 30 Ratings
    • 4907 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    My Friend Has Anorexia and I don't want her to die

    MAY 12, 2011 7:52PM

    By Colony of Losers


    Topics: comedy, open call: pop culture saved my life, colony of losers, depression, anxiety, politics, mental health, depression, family, belief/religion, colony of losers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 2366 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    Boy Needs Friend

    MARCH 25, 2011 9:36AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: special needs children, adhd, anxiety, therapy, social skills, parent-teacher conference, school, boys, friendship, niobe way

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    • 32 Ratings
    • 1736 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    My Daughter is on Zoloft

    MARCH 5, 2011 1:33PM

    By caroline marie


    Topics: adoption, ptsd, anxiety, zoloft

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    • 70 Ratings
    • 3266 Views
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    Come Out: The Face of Mental Illness

    JANUARY 2, 2011 7:16PM

    By Colony of Losers


    Topics: politics, schizophrenia, harvey milk, depression, anxiety, colony of losers

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    • 75 Ratings
    • 2762 Views
    • 89 Comments
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    Have Yourself a Merry Little Apocalypse

    DECEMBER 20, 2010 7:11PM

    By Monsieur Chariot


    Topics: news, fiction, tt, manners, holiday from hell, open call, passion, fall in love, love, vivacity, depression, bombs, snuggie, camouflage, holocaust, self-destruction, self-destructiveness, bacchanalia, rage, vengeance, scapegoats, mobs, lynching, veils, masks, disguise, madness, anxiety, fear, poise, style, panic button, panic, flaming cocktails, absinthe, sackcloth and ashes, bunker, cocktail party, post-apocalyptic world, revolution, doom and gloom, gun owners, liberals, homosexuals, abortionists, muslims, politics, comedy, civilization, the end of the world, destruction, apocalypse

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 769 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Children are dead and all we have left is fashion statements

    OCTOBER 20, 2010 11:06PM

    By Colony of Losers


    Topics: cognitive behavioral therapy, cbt, comedy, family, books, ether, mushrooms, drug abuse, unemployment, anxiety, colony of losers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1252 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Permission to Panic

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 4:46PM

    By Colony of Losers


    Topics: colony of losers, anxiety, depression, friendship, family, love, weddings, the godfather opening scene poetry, family, community

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 3334 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Choke Porn Philanthropy and Journalistic Ethics

    JULY 19, 2010 1:47PM

    By Colony of Losers


    Topics: josh martinez, usa, canada, harper, obama, politics, pornography, comedy, deep throat has a new meaning, word of bernstein's wood, anxiety, colony of losers, chicharones, jayson bare, jayson blair

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    • 12 Ratings
    • 3450 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Alex and the Wonderful, Stupendous Very Good Day

    MARCH 30, 2010 2:26AM

    By GirlyBoyMama


    Topics: gender spectrum, family, transgender issues, ocd, anxiety

    • Editor's Pick
    • 61 Ratings
    • 2519 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    I'm Still Standing

    FEBRUARY 16, 2010 9:18AM

    By marytkelly


    Topics: mri's, neurosurgeons, neurologist, stairmasters, anxiety, neurosis. what about bob, syrinx, spinal cord surgery, fear run amok

    • Editor's Pick
    • 53 Ratings
    • 2169 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    where do you put a panic room in a studio apartment?

    DECEMBER 15, 2009 9:10AM

    By mistercomedy


    Topics: anxiety, humor

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 6377 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    Coca(ine)-Cola and Other Remedies from the Bad Old Days

    JUNE 13, 2009 6:02PM

    By Ellen Hawley Roddick


    Topics: quiet desperation, anxiety, menopause, depression, phenobarbital, pentobarbital, morphine, opium, chloroform. marijuana, codeine, quaaludes, barbiturates alcohol, dexedrine, methamphetamine, amphetamines, cocaine, heroin

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1355 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Hard feelings, Adventures in Unemployment, II

    JUNE 10, 2009 12:02PM

    By Dragonfly


    Topics: uncertainty, anxiety, fear, jobs, unemployment, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1474 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    A Brief History of Anxiety

    MARCH 9, 2009 10:26AM

    By Juliet Waters


    Topics: canadian writing, anti-depressants, patricia pearson, anxiety

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