I am depressed.... My parents died when I was a child, and it has taken a great deal of effort to succeed. I got a degree in my chosen field, but I haven’t gotten a job in spite of the fact that I have applied in many places.... I feel like God has abandoned me. [...]
I feel very lonely and left out by everyone, with the exceptions of my husband and my parents. When I was fifteen I made the mistake of gossiping about a friend. My childhood friends and neighbors began to pull away and have since not talked to me, except for saying hello and goodbye. I began [...]
I am eighteen years old, and what I love to do the most in the world is to help others. That is what I want to do in the future. In spite of everything, I always smile when I am around people. I make the effort to encourage them so that they will feel good.... [...]
My problem is that I’m thirty-nine years old, I’m single, and I don’t even have a girlfriend.... As a child I contracted polio, and my right hand and leg are affected. That’s why women don’t want me.... I can’t even get a job because I am handicapped. I am educated and have degrees, but even [...]
I got married when I was nineteen without knowing that I had a hereditary disease called hemophilia.... But everything was fine until I had to have surgery on my knees. Since then my marriage has been an odyssey. I suffered depression for the first time, and even tried to commit suicide by swallowing poison. Now [...]
I feel enormous pressure in my chest. With no father and a mother that wanted to leave me with other people, I had a confusing and painful adolescence. A single mother at eighteen having suffered infidelity and lack of stability, I now live with a man who left his wife but doesn’t want to marry [...]
A girl from my past, who I have always been in love with, showed up again. She told me that she was married and had a daughter, but that the marriage was solely for the purpose of getting her a visa to another country, and that when she had it in hand, she would get [...]
I am depressed and I don’t know how to get over it. I have no desire to go on. I don’t want to live anymore. I want to die. I’ve tried to commit suicide, but something always stops me. I feel that I have a miserable life. Dear Friend, We are very thankful to hear [...]
I am twenty-one years old and a law student. Since childhood I have always been timid.... I have not had a girlfriend because I am not very sociable. I don’t like to fight or argue, and I always try to overlook others’ offenses.... Ever since the fifth semester of my program they began to require [...]
There is turmoil in my country.... I see the injustice and, even though I call out to God, I mourn because evil people get away with what they do and good people are arrested, deprived of their rights, and flee from the country. My heart breaks, and I weep over what is happening: for those [...]
