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Months prior to my experience, I had gone through an abortion...
After feeling a really sharp pain in my head, I suddenly found that I was unable to control my arms and legs with my thoughts...
This experience happened in the middle of the night...
At age 32, I had the diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythamatosis...
I was admitted to the hospital with bilateral pneumonia and acute kidney failure...
I died twice the night I had the heart attack...
My brother Bruce, my dog, Candy and I went in my truck across town to teach a friend how to cut roof rafters...
Labor Day weekend in 1995, I had been depressed for multiple reasons and suffered from depression and anxiety...
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After separating from my husband and experiencing a reoccurrence of my painful, undiagnosed illness, I fell into a deep depression...
“It will be OK...
In May 2017, following a life of childhood physical and mental abuse that and continued throughout my adult life, I embarked on a spiritual journey in an attempt to make positive change and overcome a lifetime of depression and anxiety...
The room was very cold...
