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Dearest Amy, after a particularly long and difficult day, I can really feel your pain. Really. I'm praying for you.
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Praying for you Amy.
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Praying Amy!!!
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Oh, Honey...thanks for updating us...and know you have so, so many sisters right in the trenches with you...you really do!!! I call mothering special needs kids "extreme motherhood"
I will be praying for you...Please keep reaching out!!!!!
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Adding in my prayers for you.
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Amy, I will continue to pray for you!
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Dear Amy,
Praying for you and for ALL of your needs! 
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Amy dear... lots of hugs and continued prayers for you.
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Amy,
I appreciated your humanness and honesty especially as I was having my own day of disillusionment  yesterday.
Funny how with all this beautiful fall weather and cool breezes so many of us are feeling down and fretful and disillusioned.
I'll pray it gets better, dear. Here's a warm (((HUG))) just for you. 
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Praying, Amy.
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Amy,
I'm praying for you, too. BTDT many times. Your original post said that you wouldn't consider meds because others you knew had trouble getting off them. I just wanted to encourage you to make an appointment with your dr. (if you haven't already) and prayerfully consider all options for helping you feel better ~ including medication. I have 7 children and have suffered from postpartum depression/anxiety with many of them. I didn't treat it the first time and suffered through it miserably. I only had 2 young children at the time, I wasn't homeschooling yet, and what I was feeling wasn't properly diagnosed either. After my 5th baby was born, it hit me again. After suffering for 3 months, I saw a dr. and finally decided that my children deserved better than what I was able to give them: there were more of them, they were older, I was homeschooling by this point ~ they needed and deserved a healthy mother and my dh needed and deserved a healthy wife. I, too, was adamant about refusing meds but I ultimately did it for them. I was a new person by the end of the week. I had no trouble whatsoever getting off them, and have been on and off anxiety/depressions meds a few times since then, never having any trouble weaning from them. So, now you know someone who's had success taking and getting off meds! I always tell my friends that are going through this ~ if you had diabetes or asthma or whatever other medical condition, of course you'd take your medication. Diagnosed anxiety and depression are no different, no matter the source of the problem. I'm so very thankful there are meds available to help. I'm sorry if I'm on a soapbox and I really don't mean to offend. Amy, I will continue to pray for you and will ask God to give you wisdom and discernment as to what you can do to feel better. and more
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As always, you're in my prayers...
I was just reading a book by Teri Maxwell of MOTH called Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit. I've reread this book many times. I like it because she talks about she was able to deal with her own debilitating depression without medication. It might give you a little inspiration anyway.
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Praying for you, dear Amy.
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I am still praying, Amy! Trust in God. He LOVES you so much and *wants* to heal you. Trust in His mercy.
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amyable wrote:
Ladies, I'm "coming out of the closet" to #1 thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers. I can't express what they mean to me. Well, everything. There I *can* express it.  and #2 because I'm desperate. There's a song my dh is always quoting that goes "If I were twice the man I am I'd still be half of what you need." I feel like that is my life (replacing man with "woman" of course I'm just not cut out for this impossible job of homeschooling/mothering a bunch of high/special needs kids without support. I beg God daily for guidance and/or help and none is forthcoming. I feel like he's been silent in my life for years.
I want to change but I don't know how. I want and pray for "things" to change and they don't. I don't know what to do. I still need that miracle.
I don't expect an easy life, but "impossible" every day just seems like too much to ask of anybody. I just want my family to be happy.
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Thank goodness we have each other to pray through such difficulties. Amy, you know I'm praying for you and I thank you for your many, many, prayers for me. I recently came across this word, longanimity, which means:
Extraordinary patience under provocation or trial. Also called long suffering. It is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. It includes forbearance, which adds to long suffering the implication of restraint in expressing one's feelings or in demanding punishment or one's due. Longanimity suggests toleration, moved by love and the desire for peace, of something painful that deserves to be rejected or opposed. (Etym. Latin longus, long + animus, soul, spirit, mind: longanimitas, long suffering, patience, forbearance.)
From Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
The context in which I read it, and I need to go find it again, the word was also combined with the concept that the pace of our spiritual growth is from God...we need to say yes to Him yet our yes doesn't speed up or move along our growth. This was reassuring to me...that my ongoing suffering isn't my failure but my cross to be carried as long as He wants me to carry it.
I'm also reading Peter Kreeft's Making Sense Out of Suffering - again.
Praying for you as you discern God's will...and for blessings through your long suffering.
Love,
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