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If you think you may have a Borderline Personality Disorder, please read this link shared here. Also, Topic Overview.
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The link is the application and at the top of the page is a short clip that gives an overview of the job.
Because it's phone,internet, and computer work, where you live doesn't matter.
So if interested, submit your attached application soon!
http://thedisabilitydigest.com/DSH-Agent.htm
DebbieView Thread
It doesn't cost anything to sign up. My friend created a website to raise money for an elderly person she knew who has cancer and needed help with transportation and a few other things. A goal amount was listed and it's only taken a month or so to raise enough money for her friend.
So have a look at the website to see if maybe it could be helpful for you, your loved ones, or any cause of your choice.
Go to www.gofundme.com for more information.
DebbieView Thread
To find one of these centers in your state, go to the above link and click on your state. It will have a list of all CILs in or near your area.
It can be best explained if I just copy a portion of the email I got.
"Centers for independent living (CILs) are private, nonprofit corporations that are in large part run by people with disabilities for people with disabilities for people with disabilities.
CIL's provide services to help you maximize your independence, and help with accessibility to your community and in my opinion are one of the best resources to help you maximize your disabled life.
Centers are funded in part by the Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Independent Living Branch, to provide, among other things, several core services that for the most part are FREE:
These are some of the core services you will find at your local CIL:
Advocacy for disability related issue including housing. Note : CIL's do not offer housing, they only serve as an advocate referring to the best housing solution in the area.
Independent living skills and training,
Information and referrals to valuable services in your area,
Peer support (support groups, match up w/other with disabilities, transportation assistance)
helping you transition to and from an institution or rehab facility back into society,

And Sometimes more ... Depending on your local CIL you may also find, Legal Aid services, Access to treatment options, Grant writing assistance View Thread
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
The list starts in 2012 and goes all the way through 2017!
Remember thought, they are just estimated dates that could change depending on patent litigation and/or other red tape.View Thread
I'm so tired of fighting, all I want is peace and to find maybe a glimpse of happiness hidden in these shadows. ~by me ~mc~
http://morgalis.com/bipolar/10dep.htm
View ThreadI'm so tired of fighting, all I want is peace and to find maybe a glimpse of happiness hidden in these shadows. ~by me ~mc~
"Mental health recovery is an ongoing journey. There are good and bad days, and the recovery process can be challenging. While managing a mental health condition is an important part of your life, it does not have to define you. Your unique talents and abilities, your hobbies and interests, and your meaningful relationships are all immensely important as well."
http://www.choicesinrecovery.com/aboutView Thread
--The Butterfly Effect
- If someone says you must join or you'll lose your other Medicare benefits, it's a scam. The Medicare prescription drug benefit is voluntary. It supplements your other Medicare benefits.
- If someone claims to be calling from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and asks for your bank account, credit card, or life insurance policy numbers, it's a scam. SSA will never ask for that information.
- It's illegal for companies or organizations marketing Medicare drug plans to come to your door uninvited or to send you unsolicited emails. Companies and organizations can call to promote their drug plans, but it's illegal for them to sign people up during those calls. They must also obey telemarketing laws: it's illegal to…
- Call before 8 am or after 9 pm
- Call people whose telephone numbers are on a state or the federal "do not call" registry (with some exceptions)
- Call people who have asked not to be called again
- It's illegal to require anyone to join a drug plan in order to get a prize or gift.
- Only plans approved by Medicare can be marketed as Medicare prescription drug plans. Approved plans will have a seal on their materials with "Medicare Rx" in large letters and "Prescription Drug Coverage" in smaller letters under that.
--The Butterfly Effect
If you are struggling, please talk to someone. There are good and kind people in this world. There is love to know
Seems like a good time to share this link.
There is a ton of information and resource links and phone numbers for anyone who needs them. Not just for the US but for many other countries as well.
Also a very good page to share and pass along to others, you never know who may need to see or be reminded of such things...so please pass it forward.
Much love to you all and stay safe!
~With Love~
~mcView Thread
If you are struggling, please talk to someone. There are good and kind people in this world. There is love to know
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson
If you are struggling, please talk to someone. There are good and kind people in this world. There is love to know
A good resource for the friends and families of people who who have taken their own lives.
Here's also something I received that I wanted to share below, it really gave me a new perspective and opened my eyes to some things I didn't see I have been doing.
~SHARING IS CARING: I'm sharing this post from a Second Firsts email from CR, and I know that some of you will not yet be ready to hear this, but I feel it's important to offer hope and different perspective for when you do arrive at this stage.
What if I told you grief is addictive, even though it is something we did not ask for, or wanted in our life? What if I questioned your need to shed your identity of loss from your life? Would you question this email? Would you stop reading? Would you protect your grief even more?
Before you make any decision let me explain... When we have been hit by grief, and we have no choice but to go through this horrible world of pain and helplessness we learn new ways of surviving. We learn to live within the darkness. We learn to use our loss as our first name.
We learn that we had no choice but to feel hopeless. And we are told that there is nothing we could possibly ever do to feel better, as time is the only way out of this pain. So while we wait for time to heal us, we got comfortable within our grief.
We looked in the mirror and we only saw uncertainty married with a disadvantaged life. Somehow the image in the mirror is now used to living in this space with dimmed lighting, merely surviving and making the most of what little life has left behind, on its way out the door.
But guess what happens during the time of grieving? New habits emerge that were never there before. New beliefs are being cemented in your brain about who you now are. You create this story of a new life.
You write the story of a new you, using the proof that has surrounded you. Out of necessity grief moves in, but out of habit grief never moves out.
Don't make the mistake, and forget that life is more than just pain, more than just surviving. Don't become addicted to living your life hiding in the darkness under your identity of your loss.
Life can be more addictive than grief. But it has to be lived, experienced and felt once again. Will you turn on the lights in your life by choosing life over your grief? ~View Thread
If you are struggling, please talk to someone. There are good and kind people in this world. There is love to know
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