Sam

I ran away when I was 9 and again when I was 16. I had problems at home, really bad relationship with my parents, and was admitted to a psych ward for 3 days for being suicidal.

I've come a long way from that and I am a completely different person. No, I'm not suicidal anymore. I want to learn how to shoot so i can defend myself and because going to a shooting range seems like a pretty fun activity. Would I be able to buy a gun? Or would I not pass the background check? I live in CA.

My left arm has been hurting since last night. At first I thought I slept on it wrong, but it's only gotten worse. It started out in my shoulder and it's traveled down to my elbow and wrist occasionally too. Now it's my shoulder again, and also up into the left side of my neck. It really hurts, and it isn't the first time it's happened either. Sometimes it throbs. I'm 18, slim build, work out once a week.. And I really don't eat all that well if at all since I'm broke. Help? :/

I was laying in bed thinking about my friend and just out of the blue, a kind of vision or thought popped into my head and informed me that I'm going to hell, that it didn't matter what I did or tried to change about my life, that I was going to go to hell.

I'm terrified; eternity without God? Damned in a horrible place with the worst creatures ever? Burning forever, never able to escape? I'll be the first to admit all my mistakes, I pray to God everyday, I wear my cross everyday, God means so much to me he's the whole reason I'm still alive today. I just can't believe this it's really eating me up inside. What do I think of this?!

Whenever I have these kind of sudden thoughts they usually turn out to be pretty accurate, that's why I'm freaking out. Please be respectful with your answers, thank you...

My boyfriend and I broke up about two months ago, and it's been eating me up inside. He broke up with me over a fight, and I still don't know why he did that. He's 18, I'm 17, and I'm just wondering what might he think if I wrote him a love letter, basically telling him that I'm still in love with him dearly but I realize my mistakes and that it's over. (Not begging him to come back, no no not that desperate!)

Pretty much it's a goodbye letter, saying all the things that are still locked in my heart. I'll keel over if I don't get some kind of closure...

We have talked since our breakup: I went to his house to get a piece of my clothing and he texted me last weekend and we had a casual conversation. I did apologize for my mistakes.

My boyfriend of 4 years and I just broke up 2 months ago. He deleted my number and me off of his facebook and we have absolutely no contact. Every waking moment I think of him until I go to sleep, I compare almost everyone with him, even my girlfriends. I stay busy, but everything I do makes me wonder what it would be like if he was there with me.

I feel like he's completely forgotten about me and moved on already, since I know there is another girl he is trying to get involved with. There is another guy trying to be with me too, but I'm in so much pain I just don't know what to do. The thought of him being with someone else rips my heart out. (The other guy knows about how I'm feeling, I'm not leaving him in the dark.)

How do I stop these emotions, or even get through them or over them? I don't want to dwell on the images of him being with somebody else every moment of the day. I need some help :( Any advice?! :(

I have a prepaid, Verizon phone. For months I've been getting phone calls from a restricted number, but when I pick up, no one answers. For a while, I wasn't able to pay for my phone so it was deactivated and I wasn't able to text or make and receive phone calls, but I still got a call from this restricted number -- twice. Of course, when I answered it no one responded.

I have reactivated my phone, and a few weeks ago the number called again, but this time I decided to let it go to voice mail. However, unlike every other call that I let go to voice mail, it just continued to ring. It rang for 15 minutes straight, and when I answered it, no one responded. Has this happened to anyone else? What could it be?

My boyfriend and I have been together for four years, on and off. Since august of this year, we began dating exclusively. A few weeks ago he got a new job and ever since then I have seen little of him. We used to talk almost everyday and see each other a few times a week, but now we would be lucky to see each other once a week and I haven't heard from him since Monday. For the past few weeks it seems like we hardly talk and hardly see each other. I tried to talk to him about it but he said he can't help it that his boss calls him in so often. He had one day off this week, but chose to hangout with another friend. I want to know if he could really be that busy with work? Is he so busy in fact that he can't even shoot me a message once every few days to see how I'm doing?

I'm 5'6, 105 lbs, and am literally skin and bones, with the exception of a little bit of a tush. I used to think I was beautiful, I used to starve myself partly because I didn't want to gain weight and partly because my adoptive dad would get pissed if he caught me in the cupboards. I have had many people tell me how unhealthy I look, have been asked if I was anorexic, and even had a few complete strangers come up to me in stores and just begin lecturing me (not exaggerating) about how unhealthy and inappropriate being anorexic is. For the past 3 years I have been pushed around in high school about being so skinny, always being referred to as "twig girl" and shoved into lockers for others to get by at passing period since it's difficult for me to stand my ground -- again literally.

I'm tired of all the hurt and assumptions people have made about me. Lately I look in the mirror and the beautiful young woman I saw has been replaced by a repulsive, bony girl who I no longer recognize. I don't believe in myself anymore. I feel like gaining weight might help me gain some confidence as well and honestly I just want to be beautiful again. I eat and eat (before my dad gets home from work at 5) and exercise a little to keep my muscles strong. Yet no matter what I do I never gain anything.

HOW DO PEOPLE GAIN WEIGHT? I don't want to be twig girl anymore...

I am a female and joining the navy. I'm 17 and a senior in high school. I'll be graduating in June, but I won't turn 18 until next September. The recruiter is coming over to my house next Wednesday for me and my parents to sign the papers saying I'm part of the navy. Yes, I have their permission to join and are supporting my joining but they are not supportive in any other way. They accuse me of being a prostitute, put me down, and blame me for many of their misfortunes. What I would like to know is will I be automatically emancipated once I have officially joined the military? Do I still have to live in their house and be required to obey them after enlistment?

My period ended on Thursday and all was normal. On Friday evening my husband and I had unprotected sex and of course he gizzed in me. Today, Sunday, I bled some brownish blood in the morning and have been spotting some pinkish reddish blood all day. No this wasn't my first time having sex. I have been taking birth control pills for a week and a half (we aren't ready for a baby) although I haven't been taking them at the same time everyday. What could be going on?

For the past year or so, I've been having dreams about the person I love. Yes yes this is normal but what I don't understand is how in every single dream I have of him, however he feels towards me in the dream is how he feels towards me the following day(s). It's not vague either, the dreams give me his specific feelings towards me and they are always accurate. I haven't seen him for a long time, so in place of seeing him, the dreams started happening. It doesn't happen with anyone else, just about him. Is their any explanation? Besides the possible "wow, you're one crazy b*tch."

Whether its meaning to or not, the promise is broken. How will God feel? Will he forgive me for it or is it unpardonable? What if this promise was broken more than once?

I have done witchcraft in the past. I did it because I felt it was my only way out of a problem. I repented, accepted Christ and have been baptized. All this was a year and four months ago. I fully intended on leaving that crap alone and never going back to it when i repented, hence my use of the word "repented". But now I'm afraid I've fallen back into sin. I've been messing around with demonology and I'm aware of how serious this can be. I asked a spirit to help me with a problem, but I don't know what God thinks of me now and I don't know if He will forgive me. I don't like what I'm doing and it feels wrong, really wrong, yet something keeps pulling me back. I don't want to be involved with any of it and I want to be a follower of Christ, and away from all of this. I love Christ and want to be in heaven some day. I don't know if God will forgive me for this, for repenting but then repeating my sin later on. Could someone please explain to me if He will forgive me for this sin? I fully intend to repent my ways, for good and forever and I knew what I was doing was wrong even before I did it...

Ive done witchcraft before and some of the spells didnt work. Ive done some black magic and white magic. I felt awful so i stopped and repented my ways and i havent done it for a year and a half. Now i find my problems are worse than before and im tempted to go back to witchcraft. I did a few spells in black magic... will God forgive me for this? Even though ive already tried to repent but fell back into sin? I know this doesnt please Him and im terrified. As soon as ive solved my problems, they are rather big so if you wud like to judge then here is not the place, i will stop immediately and not go back to it.