LS, I'd like to make a suggestion: in your posts, you say over and over again "this is so hard," "too much has happened," "I feel so bad," "I'm so stressed," etc.
I'm not disputing the truth of any of these statements, truly I'm not. But telling yourself over and over again how bad things are is not a recipe for making them better. I'm NOT asking you to suck it up and ignore feeling bad. I'm not discounting your suffering. I'm suggesting you alter your self-talk a bit. See if you can skip some of the negative comments. You don't have to replace them with positive comments, just stop telling yourself how bad it is, how bad you are, how awful you feel, how you're broken, etc. When you have those thoughts or want to post those things, just say "STOP!" to yourself and don't do it.
If you heard a little child saying those kinds of things to herself over and over again, wouldn't you suggest that she stop? Are you really doing yourself any good dwelling on everything that's wrong?
Re thyroid: there was someone on here whose wife had some experience with thyroid problems. The doc said she was within normal limits on the chemistry readings, but looking at the symptoms, she was out of balance and SOMETHING helped. Can't remember the details.
LS, take the time to read this article that was posted elsewhere:
