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    • 26 Ratings
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    Is Sadness a Mental Illness?

    JANUARY 26, 2012 1:48PM

    By Diane Barth


    Topics: grief, depression, sadness, diagnosis, dsmv, psychiatry, medication, psychotherapy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 2126 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The Almost Child

    JANUARY 24, 2012 2:22PM

    By Lesley Clark


    Topics: cancer, death, dying, doctors, kids, love, life, happiness, sadness, children, female, ovaries, cyst, illness, sickness, childbirth, friendship

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 676 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Happy Dreams, I Love You, God Bless You

    NOVEMBER 6, 2011 10:00AM

    By Charleen Earley


    Topics: alzheimer, death, sadness, love, memories, family, open+call, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 50 Ratings
    • 2035 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    16 Years with an Alcoholic

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 9:04AM

    By Lunchlady 2


    Topics: joy, sadness, seaching, finding, children, hate, family, love, pain, life lessons

    • Editor's Pick
    • 76 Ratings
    • 2632 Views
    • 101 Comments
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    Uninvited

    AUGUST 12, 2011 7:43AM

    By Joan H.


    Topics: depression, sadness, disappointment, fighting the demons, he is always waiting

    • Editor's Pick
    • 32 Ratings
    • 2283 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    When Your Step-Children Ignore You

    DECEMBER 27, 2010 8:55AM

    By Deborah Young


    Topics: step-children, blended families, dysfunction, sadness, family, a holly-jolly christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 92 Ratings
    • 3924 Views
    • 136 Comments
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    When Your Child Dies

    NOVEMBER 12, 2010 3:39PM

    By Lunchlady 2


    Topics: family, never the same again, sadness, love

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1413 Views
    • 59 Comments
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    Under my skin

    NOVEMBER 5, 2010 11:24AM

    By Jowita Bydlowska


    Topics: death, grandmother, immigration, love, loss, grief, sadness, tattoos

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1051 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Mom's Treasures

    OCTOBER 13, 2010 8:34PM

    By Ivy Anne


    Topics: mink, memories, china, sadness, saying good bye

    • Editor's Pick
    • 45 Ratings
    • 11482 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    Genuine Grief is No Illness.

    AUGUST 24, 2010 7:56AM

    By RARobertsJr.


    Topics: grief, sadness, broken heart, recovery, caregiving, listening, zen, compassion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 75 Ratings
    • 2669 Views
    • 96 Comments
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    Six Children

    JULY 21, 2010 1:34PM

    By Chuck A. Stetson


    Topics: adult children, real families, parenting, sadness, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 57 Ratings
    • 2643 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    As tears go by

    JUNE 24, 2009 9:58PM

    By emma peel


    Topics: tears, sadness, peace, emily dickinson, marianne faithfull, tears of a clown, smokey robinson and the miracles

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 825 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    How This Christmas Was Ruined

    DECEMBER 1, 2008 1:21AM

    By qcbucki


    Topics: mother, family, holidays, siblings, arguments, sadness, christmas angst, hurt feelings, disagreeing, mental pains, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1208 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    My friend died...and now I feel so old

    NOVEMBER 25, 2008 8:21AM

    By Kristi Myers


    Topics: death, christianity, mourning, friends, sadness, cystic fibrosis, cf, young, chuck, terminal illness, chronic illness, belief and religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2206 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Dying a little every day...

    NOVEMBER 17, 2008 6:19PM

    By apple guava


    Topics: decisions, uncertainty, relationships, grief, sadness, loneliness, divorce

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