I have a very close friend of mine who is desperately confused about his salvation. I have tried comforting him and reading scripture and praying and singing and everything I can think of. He is still under the belief that he lost his salvation. I am frightened for his health because he has suffered in the past from stress-related illnesses that severely effected his health, and he suffers from several other health problems. If he keeps up like this, I’m worried he’ll die because of how insecure he has become. He acts as if at any second God is going to kill him for being unfaithful. This has been ongoing for weeks now.

What more can I do to help him? Is there anything else I can do?

I wrote this story about middle school age girls who are popular and are leaders of the Social Committee. This is the first chapter of it. I would love your comments. This is a story aimed at fans of the clique and the ashley’s and other books like that.

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“Quiet girls! The meeting will begin now!” said Miss Lewis to the conference room of hopeful girls. Ellie’s heart jumped into her throat and her best friend Melinda squeezed her hand nervously. Miss Lewis cleared her throat and ran a hand through her short black bob.
“This is it El! We have it in the bag!” Melinda whisper-yelled. Melinda and Ellie had been friends since they were in designer diapers. They have also been co-chairs of the Harbor Day School Social Committee since they were allowed to be in it. Harbor day was ruled not by the cheerleaders and the jocks, but the girls in the social committee, mostly the chairs. They planned dances, picnics, and about everything else it HDS. Ellie had no reason to be nervous, but her heart was going super-speed anyway. The room quieted down as Miss Lewis cleared her throat again.
“Hello girls! Welcome to the meeting for the Social Committee. It is so nice to see that you girls are so interested in school spirit! Last week during Campaign Week we teachers saw so many prestigious ways that you girls would make Harbor life such a socially lovely place!” Miss Lewis smiled. She had slight lines on her mouth and eyes, as well as a perfectly pressed suit. She fished around her briefcase for a piece of paper that would reveal the fate of Ellie, Mel, and the rest of the girls. No guys did the Social Committee, instead claiming a spot on one of HDS’s many sports teams. So the cozy office-like space was filled with designer clad (or crazy thrift store clothes in Ally Moore’s case), perfect hair, and ambitious girls.
“Here we are,” Miss Lewis adjusted her glasses, “I will read the ten names off of the list of the girls on the Committee. The girls not on the Committee will leave so we can move on to our meeting.” Mel smiled from ear to ear and crossed her fingers.
“The Social Committee is, Ellie, Melinda, Gina, Emma, Olive, Penelope, Jenna, Sierra, Lola, and Brie. Congratulations girls, and good job trying, non-members you may go.” Miss Lewis pursed her lips and watched the rejects go. Ellie’s heart hadn’t returned to normal speed yet, they hadn’t decided the chair. Hannah Jane stood up and ran out of the room with tears streaming down her face. Madeline and Leah stood slowly wanting to hear the co-chairs and be the first to report.
“One step down, we just have to make chair Mel,” Ellie said half relieved.
“Were going to get it El, don’t stress!” Mel squeezed her hand.
“Ladies, quiet please!” Miss Lewis cleared her throat. Ellie looked up through her blonde bangs at the white ceiling. Her heart was racing on overtime and she found herself tapping her Juicy Couture terry-cloth flat on the tiled floor.
“In this envelope are the names of two girls that the teachers think make suitable leaders of this committee. They are kind, smart, social people who want to make going to HDS an enjoyable experience. Each girl will receive a key to this office and a badge stating that they are a committee chair,” Miss Lewis said, each word seeming slower and more tormenting than the last one. Mel was trying to be nervous, but Ellie could see she had stopped trying to control her tapping flat.
“Our first Social Committee Chair,” said Miss Lewis, carefully opening a cream colored envelope, “is Miss Ellie Avalon.” Ellie took a breath of relief but was still half stressed for her friend.
“We are so going to rule!” Melinda whisper-yelled.
“The second Social Committee Chair is, Miss Olive Oregon!” Miss Lewis was the only one clapping at first. The rest of the girls were shocked and lightly tapping their hands together like polite golf spectators. Melinda was smiling at Ellie in a way that looked painted on and stuck. Olive stood and smoothed down her plaid knee length pencil skirt and ruffled red blouse. The only sound was of her four inch Louboutin pumps on the cold white tiled. Ellie remembered the necessary acceptance speech and stood. Her walk up to the front of the room was a lot less noisy and next to Olive she looked plain in her J Brand skinny jeans and Free People loose top. Ellie couldn’t speak. This was Olive, who went from a genius loser who sat in the library during lunch to and equal genius fashionista who is bound to take over the world. She was in Student Government, Student Leaders, Harbor Day Politics Club, Debate Team, and now Social Chair.
“Hello girls, my name is Olive, and I want to bring a fresh outlook on this committee!” said Olive to the crowd of awestruck girls. Ellie glanced at Melinda, whose good hearted smile had turned into pursed lips and blank eyes. She then glanced at Olive and she swore she could see an evil spark in her new co-chair’s dark eye.
I just live near san francisco so i though harbor from that. And ya that is what i was aiming for (like whats in the clique books). JSYK im aiming for the clique book type of thing but a little different.
Ok seriously, thats what i’m aiming for! And i happen to like clothes so i wanted to incorperate it into my story. Sorry for the girl who answered about me making the smart fashionista mean, but she is the antagonist in the story so i kind of had to. lol

In the episode “Stress Relief”, in season 5, Andy is watching this movie with Jack Black in it, and Jack is in love with this old woman. What movie is he watching?

I know your first response is bound to be nothing, but stay with me. Over the years there have been many studies and surveys
all designed to prove, and finding the negative aspects of smoking. Has there ever been a single studie or survey to show the positive aspect of smoking? for instance years ago just about everyone smoked, it was the social thing to do. In those days there was little anti social behaviour, fighting in the street was rare, there was no such thing as road rage and stress related illness was the preserve of the rich and famous.
Has there ever been a study to see if there is a correlation with the above list and the fact that so few people smoke today. What do you think?
It is clear that most of you have not read the Question through.

Marvel E: No I’m not an idiot! If you can’t answer a question without being insulting, don’t bother.

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Scenario:
A man and woman have been married for over 10 years. The woman really enjoys getting massages from her husband. The woman expects to get a massage – at least a short one (10-15 minutes), if not a full hour – every other day (15x/month) to help her cope with the stress of work, kids, carpal tunnel, physical relief, whatever. The man doesn’t particularly enjoy giving the massage, but he does it because it makes her happy.

Three times per month, the massage is long enough and timed right enough such that it actually leads to sex. This is the only sex they ever have, and thus gives the man incentive to give more massages, but the percent chance of the massage leading to sex is small. Only a 1 in 5 chance, or 20%.

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NATURAL FOOD STORES SALE THIS PRODUCT FOR STRESS RELIEF, AND THEY SAY IT IS SAFE, BUT HOW SAFE IS IT IF CONTAINS ALCOHOL?
I am concern about the effects of alcohol since it is suposed to spray on your tongue the alcohol will go direct to your bloodtream and could cause dehydration, right?

withdrawal from opiates!Well a few days ago one of our friends slipped him a yellow pill without my knowledge. He asked for it. She gave it to him. I sorta knew cause i had my suspicions. So any ways here is my problem. He wants to start taking the percocets again. I went threw hell when he went threw withdrawals. I was in the hospital with him on my birth day i was pissed. So now he wants to restart taking them for stress relief!I am not really happy about him restarting them. He hasn’t restarted taking them yet. So what i need your help is to tell me what is bad about percocets. Cause that’s where i need some help. I need help fighting this & giving him this info. I cant do it myself. I think his addiction is still within himself sense he got that pill from our friend & wants more. I told him he is hooked & needs more. I told him this is his addiction talking. I told him i need to put my foot down & not let him get these pills. He is not in no pain. He just wants them for stress relief. I told him go take a walk or go do some yoga or something stress relieving. Not taking these pills again!
i believe the dosage is 5/325. He smokes pot & its not helping relieve his stress.

He says he has plans and hopes on using his musical talent as a dj to to help support our family. I teach dance and do odd jobs here and there at home on my computer for a freight company. I’m the one that takes our son to school and picks him up because my husband has his license suspended and is not able to drive until he can pay off the debt and re establish his license. He is waiting for a check to buy some dj equipment to begin pursuing his dream. I respect his wishes and I’m hoping it works out for him; however, the time he is home he sits on a chair all day long playing a video game. I’m talking hours and hours, occassionally he gets up and cleans the house and cooks us dinner. This is something I appreciate. It bothers me a lot though, that he sits around all day long playing video games. If he’s so passionate about his music career, he should begin making some moves now, passing out business cards and so forth, but he seems so much more passionate about playing video games than anything else. I understand this is a form of stress relief for him…I just wish he’d pick a more productive hobby. He has plans on renovating the bathroom so I am happy about that. But I have anxiety about him not having a job. He says he wishes he hadn’t gotten laid off and is sad about getting laid off due to the bad economy. should I just sit back and allow him to do what he is doing as a stress relief and not btoher him? It bothers me because I feel it is so immature.
He has gotten business cards, but has not passed them out, they are just sitting there. I was the one that went to a couple of places and passed them out. I worry he is leaning too much on his unemployment checks and not having a back up plan. I just don’t understand how he can sit on a chair all day playing video games knowing he has no job. I don’t know what to say or do. He was a hard worker for two whole years waking up every single day to go to work. he says to just trust him, but deep down I don’t see the motivation to make things happen.

Have you known people to get over stress related illnesses by taking Zoloft?

Also,does Zoloft help with anger?

Stress is another contributing factor for insomnia. A person who is all stressed out will usually experience insomnia. He or she will not be able to relax him or her. This may be due to the fact that there are so many things that are running through his or her mind. Another is that his or her heart is pounding like crazy for no reason at all. Stress can trigger some parts of the body to initiate. It can also initiate emotional causes. But the thing about stress that is most unavoidable is its ability to rob you of your sleep. Tossing and turning will never help you even if you know that morning will come in a few hours. Being all stressed out will make you worry about everything else. You begin to worry about what is going to happen the next day and at the same time you worry that you cannot sleep well.

Yes, you can have a prescription drug for this. But it will most likely end up as an alternative. There are other methods of being able to sleep. If you are someone who is all stressed out and you are having some trouble sleeping, then you might as well look the one listed here to make you sleep soundly.

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