Case 249
I slit my wrists and took pills. I did it in front of my husband, and was hospitalized.... After getting out, I became severely depressed, blaming myself and believing that God was going to punish me by striking me dead for real and sending me to hell. Since then, not a day goes by that I don’t think about death. I am very fearful because I don’t know where I’ll end up.... I think [...]
Case 248
More than four years ago I broke up with a girlfriend.... She became sick with jealousy, and hounded me and wouldn’t leave me alone. So I mustered the courage to end the relationship.... A year later I made friends with a girl... and before long she became my girlfriend. My relationship with her is unique and beautiful. There’s no doubt I love her very much and don’t want to let her go. We have plans [...]
Case 247
I was abused when I was five years old. Growing up with alcoholic parents was a living hell. Now I am happily married.... However, my parents are still alcoholics. Now they are raising my younger sister’s daughters because she is a drug addict.... When I went to visit them today, I found my mother inebriated with the two-year-old beside her, and my father behind closed doors in the bedroom with the six-year-old! I believe [...]
Case 246
I am twenty-four years old and have a Bachelor’s degree in public accounting. I have been going with my boyfriend for almost a year. He is doing his internship in medicine. I love him much more than I could have imagined. My problem is that he is arrogant and says things for shock value. He has become very irritable with me and everything about me annoys him. Now he is annoyed that I don’t read [...]
Case 245
I got married without loving my wife. We have been married for two years. When we were dating, her companionship and friendship seemed to be sufficient for me to come to love her some day; but it hasn’t happened that way. I live frustrated because I didn’t have the courage to back out of getting married before it was too late. We talked about it, but seeing her cry makes me feel that I was [...]
Case 244
I am a twenty-six year-old woman, and the only time that I saw my biological father was when I was six or seven years old. My mother and my maternal grandparents raised me. I suffered a lot over not having a father in my life.... He went to another country after the last and only time I ever saw him, and has never returned. About a month ago he made contact with me on the [...]
Case 243
I was married for two years. From the beginning of my marriage, my husband was very violent. He would hit me because of jealousy that was unwarranted.... One day he hit me and left. The same thing happened over and over again. It was a revolving door. When he would get angry, he would leave. He didn’t care about anything. The last time we separated, he once again hit me and left. I never wanted [...]
Case 242
I met a neighbor and allowed her to use my name various times to borrow money.... The issue is that she has defaulted and made me look bad. Neither she nor her husband nor her daughter will speak to me anymore, and I am left holding the bag with the moneylender. It has turned into a huge scandal. I’m desperate; I don’t know what to do! She won’t come up with anything. She just says [...]
Case 241
I am thirty-one years old.... The problem in my life is the lack of money.... I got married a year ago, and I thought I would never have children; but now I am ten weeks pregnant and I want to put my baby up for adoption. I want to give my child a family that has good economic resources so that he or she will never lack for anything.... My child will need a lot [...]