Where are all the professional women?

[GratefulEm]

Where are all the professional women?

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can you give me a quick run down on how to repy to private messages. I've gotten so many and every time I try to reply something goes wrong. I feel so technologically challenged. I want to send you a message.
I just don't get it. Tell me what to click on. Em

[leftyinAsia]

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Coming in so late in the thread I can see what everyone is saying (I am also a libra so we try to find both sides to everything....

I am an RN as well as having a huge overseas roll with a large organization and if what I can say on these boards was made public I might be unemployed so I agree with what Beth wrote... that anonymity is very important to us. I am absolutely honest with myself and others but not ready to be unemployed just yet! I am truly getting my act together and need to be able to read and write here without being public. Seems that I am drifting off what the thread said as well but just trying to justify why I am posting here under some other name, which is not what you implied, versus telling my employer on our Yahoo group! It is a struggle...Tru

[Quiescent]

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Reply to Private Message by clicking on the message and then scrolling down to the bottom of the message click on "reply" you will see the message you are replying to in quotes. You can type your reply and then scroll down to the bottom and click "submit message."

You can look in the top of your message box and you will have a drop down menu that will say inbox and outbox. You can click on outbox to see that, in fact, your message was sent.

I would have responded privately but I didn't want to get lost in one of many:H

Good Luck!

[GratefulEm]

Where are all the professional women?

Don't feel sorry

Hey guys! Don't feel sorry for me. I've really screwed up this month. Big time. I've lashed out at the people I love most. I'm just feeling my way through how to have a son in Iraq (tears in eyes) and maintain my day to day sanity. He wants no sympathy whatsoever from me. I emailed him to keep his chin up and I got back an email that made me cry all over again - don't I know that he's a man, and all? I'm NOT to tell him to keep a chin up. This is after he tells me that he has to keep his body armor on for 3 to 4 days at a time, has a white fungus on his back and needs me to try to get something to clear it up, only gets 15 hours sleep a week and it's 115 degrees most days and they shower once a week. I'm only a month and a half into this program and trying to figure out if a pill is going to keep me from drinking when I'm having a lousy day. Just found out my mother's Parkinson's in going down hill way faster that I'd ever imagined. So I sorta lashed out here looking for some support on how to keep going in my professional life. I know that I didn't say it right and pissed people off. I sounded arrogant. Sorry. I guess I was just wondering how people hold it all together and still maintain a professional life. O.K. - is that better? I'm really not an asshole. I'm just having a really difficult time and sometimes the threads sound trivial. Maybe I just need to find support groups in my community, but this had seemed an easy way to get support for busy people. Guess I just need to put my needs out there. This is like no year I've ever had. I also think that the Topa is making me especially touchy. Honestly, though I'm a very caring person. Em

[KatBlois]

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Hi , newbie here

what kind of threads are you talking about? I'm not a "professional" just a Mom, and use to work in a factory, but I'm into stimulating conversation, and can run mental circles around most people I meet, in my areas of interest anyway. And right now unfortunately, my main interest is my drinking, and how to stop. It hurts to be the way I've become, and I don't like it much at all. I came in looking for support, and maybe some help.

That sounded kind of rude, but it isn't ment to be, just curious is all, what kind of threads are you looking for?

[gabby]

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If the topa is makin ya extra touchy....I bet that will go away. You have a lot on your plate right now. Dont beat up on yourself. gabby

[Quiescent]

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Oh Em......:upset:

I'm so sorry about your son. It must be so hard to know he's so far away with such violence all around. I know you must just want to wrap your arms around him and take him home.

I am taking the topamax also and I am feeling very, very weepy myself. I don't know if it's because I am now dealing with issues that I was drowning out before or if it's the medication but I have always been pretty stiffed lipped, if you know what I mean. Lately I have gotten teary-eyed when I least expect it in front of people that I would NEVER have before!

Watching the people who always took care of us fail right before our eyes is one of hardest of lifes journeys, especially when it's something as painful to watch as parkinson's.

You are in my prayers tonight:l

[mojomuppet]

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well lets see im would be the water treatment lady who spends all her working hours trying to get people to stop poisoning them selves with the chemicals and water bugs and yes even feces that is in our water. i drive more hours to tell these people this than i do actually working.is it tiring ...yes. do they pay me crazy money yes ..do i save lives ...i like to think so. i would say that is prof enough for any man or woman.
now i also drink like a fish,will lock my self in the house for weeks refusing to leave.hubby is 5000 miles away from me,have to leave a life i love and im successful at for a man i love. going to a country i have never been.aned would still be hiding if it wasnt for these woman(and men).
so are we a little caddy at times yes. do we get over it ,mostly. does it matter if someone works at walmart or the mini mart or for that matter mc donalds. i think not.
be at peace my friend hope you have learned a little about us all

:nutso:

[lushy]

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Em, I am so sorry for all your are going through. From what I have experienced there are some funny threads and some very inspiring ones. I am trying for mods right now because abs is not a realistic goal for me at this point but I read the abstaining board posts every morning and find I can relate to a lot of what they say and even some new things that make me think harder about why I feel the need/want to drink all of the time, and inspire me to go some days a week without a drink. It is not easy though as you well know.

I am envious of those of you on here that are "professionals." I have worked at home for 11 years and am desperately bored with my job and do not make enough money but because of my husband's work schedule and my daughter it is hard to find a more fitting job right now.

I pray for your son in Iraq. That pain and worry I cannot even imagine. And I pray you will find the peace you deserve......

[GratefulEm]

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I don't know KatBlois. Maybe I just need to stay away from here for awhile until I get my act together.
I seem to only be hurting people every direction I turn. I think I'll just go away for a month with my animals and try to pull myself together. Animals have never hurt me and I've never hurt them and it's a safer place for me to be right now. Em

[Saint Jude]

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Hey Em, My nephew just went back over to Iraq. Pretty scarey... he still seems like such a young kid to me, I guess a lot of em over there in the middle of all that are. Really doesn't seem right...I can't even imagine what they must endure.

Well I've not been accused of being too serious ...very often. Guess if that's my biggest problem, I can't complain too loudly . Just hope my timing wasn't too bad in this case for you!:l ...

Do take care, Hang in there.. it'll get better!:h Judie

[Guest]

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Em..... Posts often get misinterpreted here and I'm so sorry this has happened in your case. Don't leave! I can't imagine what you are going thru right now and really think you need the support. You have shown yourself to be a kind and caring person many times in the past. Sorry for any needless pain you've endured over the past 24 hours. Gina

[InnerStrength]

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Em, please stay with us. You are so important to us. If you are having a rough time, then I would think that you might need us more than ever, just as we need you around here. Hey, when I started the topa I was extremely emotional too. It got better - please dont despair. I am so sorry about how you are feeling. Message me anytime.
know this. I do care. And you are not alone, ok?
Love you
Jen

[gabby]

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Look at all the support that is here for you Em. I hope you can feel it and stick around. gabby

[YoungAtHeart]

Where are all the professional women?

Hey Em,

You're not the first person to lash out when feeling blue, and you won't be the last. I have (thankfully) lost a few posts into cyberspace, have been caught out in a few others, and have had to make amends for others! I know that when I am down, NOTHING seems profound or interesting. When I'm feeling okay, most posts seem to have value, whether it is profound, interesting or just plain fun. Please forgive yourself and forgive us, as we will also forgive you, love!

Hugs, Kathy:l