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Comment on Allah’s Promise: A Journey Through Bipolar Disorder by Julie Wilson

Julie Wilson — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:52:29 +0000

Salam alikum Sister:

Thank you for sharing your story. I have a Muslim friend who I suspect is Schizophrenic. I know that people in the Muslim community have deserted her or see her symptoms as a sign of moral weakness. I cannot dessert her. Allah swt put her in my life for a reason. Now my child is being tested for serious problems, and I can say that Allah swt puts people in our lives for a reason. I’m sorry that your journey took so long, but I’m sure it made you stronger. May Allah bless you.

Comment on Allah’s Promise: A Journey Through Bipolar Disorder by Nadia Shah

Nadia Shah — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:39:26 +0000

Thank you so for sharing your experience. You display a great deal of strength and resilience. May Allah bless you inshAllah.

Comment on Allah’s Promise: A Journey Through Bipolar Disorder by Asim Hamid

Asim Hamid — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:32:32 +0000

Allhumdullah, Im so happy to hear that you are better now. I really do feel that people in the muslim community need organizations such as MH4M. People don’t understand that mental health and physical health are both equally important.

Comment on Forgiving Your Parents & Learning to Move On by Peace

Peace — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:21:51 +0000

Jazakallah Khair for a great article.
Whilst I did not suffer violent abuse from my parents, they often fought and rarely had time for my sister and I. As I got older I was told that my anger and anxiety issues was because I was just ‘mad’. So I grew up thinking and believing that. I am still always trying to please them. Constantly. I am almost 30! Please tell me what I should do.

Comment on Help! Someone’s Invaded My Marriage by Stressed

Stressed — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:01:24 +0000

How do I deal with my passive-aggressive mother-in-law?
My relationship with my mother in law is dragging me down. She routinely criticizes, slights, and insults me. This is usually done in a sly enough manner that it’s hard to challenge her behavior directly without feeling as though I’m overreacting. It’s her attitude that’s the problem. She has been condescending and catty from day one of our marriage. I believe she lives under a lot of self-imposed guilt and when she sees me being happy and carefree, it activates her anxieties and she wants to bring me down.
Also, I think she is jealous of no longer being the most important woman in her son’s life, and perhaps of the popularity I have with the rest of their family as well.

I don’t think I can change her and I don’t well see how I can avoid her, either. I think it is better for me to put up with some unpleasantness than to come between my husband and his mother whom he loves, and who has been a good enough mother from all I can tell.

Also, I have excellent relationships with the rest of my in-laws, and a complete rupture with her would mean at least a partial rupture with them, which I don’t want to make.

I don’t feel I can change her or cut her out of my life. The question is, how to tolerate this persistent unkindness and persecution without letting it poison me? As it is, I dread seeing her days before I do and fume over her cattiness for days after I’m exposed to it. It seems silly that a few snarky remarks over an occasional weekend that take her a few seconds to deliver should cast a pall over so many days of my life. This is especially frustrating because I have a wonderful relationship with my husband. I want to revel in these things without becoming brooding and resentful over a nasty person who doubtless makes her own misery and needn’t make mine.

Also, I never wanted to be one of those clichéd women who are always griping about their mothers-in-law, and now look at me.

Comment on 10 Ways to Avoid Marrying the Wrong Person! by mm

mm — Tue, 01 May 2012 02:10:58 +0000

im a victim of child abuse and rape and have problem with relationship, being having pre-marital sex with someone who left me and married another woman. now recently divorced with someone who i thought i can love and will love me, yet i am still unhappy and fearful. where do i go from here..

Comment on Forgiving Your Parents & Learning to Move On by ral

ral — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:57:15 +0000

Please help me if my husband is a very strong headed and easily anger person who refuse to give me a second voice and expects me to obey him totally.

Should I leave him

Please help.

Singapore

Comment on What Not to Say! by DaMore

DaMore — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:10:03 +0000

Jazak’Allah Khairan. Your articles are in deed very inspiring, educative and interesting. I am happy to have the opportunity to read from knowledgeable scholars like you, and I pray Almighty Allah continues to crown your efforts, and bless your deeds. Thanks for sharing these wonderful articles with us.:)

Comment on Sr. Hosai Mojaddidi by alina

alina — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:20:59 +0000

Salam, I’ve been suffering from depression for 5 years and its getting worser.please can u help me.jazakallah

Comment on Is Social Media Harming Our Mental Health, Researchers Wonder? by medhani

medhani — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:25:22 +0000

wow thnx for every teachin