What was the most difficult experience you've ever lived?& how did you manage to overcome it?

Answer 1

After years of sexual abuse as a child, I finally had a nervous breakdown when I was about 23. I ended up seeking counseling and treatment for chronic, low-grade depression.
I went back to school, became a teacher, and am happily married with two beautiful girls.

Answer 2

the first 18 years of my life was the most difficult

standard teenage angst perhaps

and i did not overcome it

it overcame me

and there was nothing grueling or unusual about it

but for me, parts of it were arduous

doing The Landmark Forum in 1984 was a turning point and

how i viewed ALL OF IT shifted bigtime - almost like a

religious conversion but this was an

ontological shift in the domain of Being not belief.

and most of the neurotic meaningful suffering drifted away

and i was left with a kind of Zen nothingness

from which to create and choose what i could create

in terms of making my own circumstances and the ones that simply were there for whatever reason

and create i did and i have chosen to live and have a life that

I love

my teens is such a distant memory

Answer 3

I was in a very abusive relationship with two of my children's dad. First I had to get away. We went to the local women's shelter. I sent my middle daughter to live with HER dad. I thought she was safe there. Me and my other two kids moved to a new home, in the same town where the middle daughter was so I could at least be close to her. She went through a horrible emotional period. Over the last 7 or 8 years, her body grew up but she stayed 8 years old emotionally. The guilt from that was terrible. I basically ruined all of our lives! But with counseling and lots of prayer, things are better. She moved back in with me recently! We are all safe, and are making some new and much better, and blessed choices. It has been so difficult! The abuser is in the federal pen for 13 more years! I am attending the local university. The kids are better...and I have a wonderful man in my life who is a great father and WANTS to be her for all of us.

Answer 4

one of the most difficult experiences i have ever lived was when i lived in chinatown NYC during the attacks on the world trade center, september 11, 2001. i managed to overcome like many other new yorkers: volunteering and helping. it was very important for me to be with people, with life in other words and not by myself.

Answer 5

A very dear friend took her life four years ago. It was absolutely devastating because she was my age, it was a long-time friendship (9 years), and she often confided her problems in me. It was also completely unexpected - she seemed to be doing well in so many things. I was there at the funeral to support her family, I gave the eulogy (only managed to get out about five sentences), and kept up with her parents, grandparents and brother.

Surviving it came from faith and from letting myself treasure our friendship. I also began writing down my memories of her. I had thought about publishing them - I still might. It seems too raw still to do it, especially since her family will not recover, not for a long time. Her poor dad, he's not the same. Her death absolutely destroyed him.

Time helps, faith does (although suicide is a difficult subject to broach) because it reminds us of the purpose of life, and mostly being able to share memories of her with her family.

Answer 6

Taking my son and leaving my abusive, alcoholic ex-husband. I had been a stay at home mom for 5 years, and my job skills had become outdated. When I left, I had no current job skills, no money, and no place to live. Thank God for my mom. My son and I lived with her for 18 months while I brought my job skills up to date, obtained full-time employment, found daycare for my son, and got us our own place to live. My ex was extremely upset when I left, and for awhile, made my life almost as miserable as it was when I was married to him. I finally ended up getting a restraining order against him. Even though we have been to court countless times, getting him to pay child support has been, and continues to be, an uphill battle. But, it has been almost 7 years since we split up, and I am now re-married to an awesome man. He treats we like a Queen, and treats my son as if he were his own. Because of the love and support of this man, I was able to quit my full-time job and start my own medical transcription business. It is possible to get out of an abusive relationship; I know because I did it. But it takes alot of determination and perseverance.

Answer 7

being court-martialled and close-arrested for months for the offence never committed. Iam yet to overcome the trauma.Iam devastated.

Answer 8

Losing a parent. I don't think I ever overcame it. I managed it by being grateful for the family I have left. :)

Answer 9

you name it- alcoholic family member who finally hit rock bottom, my child who was born mentally retarded, and a beloved mother-in-law who died suddenly. Honestly the one thing that helped me make it through was the love of my Lord and Savior Jesus!!!