what led you to choose your screen name ?what brought you to the site

Donnak what a really good idea, my screen name comes from a movie, I know some of you might of seen this movie and others of you might not of but I got it from the movie a little princess and a quote that has really stuck with me. And this is how it goes.

Miss Minchin: Don't tell me you still fancy yourself a princess? Child, look around you! Or better yet, look in the mirror.

Sara Crewe: I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. All of us. Didn't your father ever tell you that? Didn't he?

So that is where my screen name come from

Princess

Mine was a nickname from my high school days : ) All but forgotten except for a few close friends.

i'm boring, mine was my email.....of course there is a story behind it that i won't go on about.....what originally brought me to the site was chronic pain and there are people here and they know who they are that helped save me back when and continue to do so. i have made great friends here. great idea donna, keep them coming you sassy chick you!!!

Donna, I smiled when you said you truly are a princess, now that I think about many people have said that to me and it makes me feel good when people say that.

And to what brought me on to this site is support mainly for self harm but now I get support for other things as well.

What about you?

dear Donna, lol! in the very beginning i thought your name was donnak, litterally and that you must be a male hee hee i had a hard time figureing yours out isn't that funny i can be so litteral sometimes! my handle stanisz is in honor of my mother who i just realized is 100% pure Polish and i am very proud of her for this not that it means anything at all,but she was always ashamed of being Polish and i want her to be proud of her heritage. Stanisz is the Polish spelling of my middle name Stanish which is my maternal grandmother's name. i actually never gave it much thought when i named myself and didn't think i would be communicating that much with others.

what brought me to the site was searching for info/support for my son in regards to his schizophrenia and i have found help and support for that and other issues beyond my wildest imagination and also developed a whole other prayer life around it too!

thanks for asking, what a great topic.

I play an old samick guitar that I got from John Frusciante when he came to play either at the MEPS center, or walter reed while i wuz recovering one time. (i forget where really, blame the lesions)

He got it from someone in the group kansas. I got a picture of him in his apartment with the guitar on his couch, and there is a video on utube somewhere of kansas playing with my guitar in the back ground for a couple bars during a song. I studied music theory while at AU, and used to be able to play really well before my condition got so bad.

so 'rocks a samick guitar' is my name on here, and utube. used to be tuesdaynightmusicclub, cause that is the name of the music group that meets at Eleanor's, a bar in Oakdale, Long Island, sheryl crows first album, and i was tuesday night music club on utube b4 two mean roommates took down my videos, closed my email, and bid on my ebay items.

I found this site after relentless searches for epilepsy groups in my area, and other social peer to peer connections outside of the hospital, or medical field. On the night I found this site, I wuz pretty close to, er, um, well, you know...calling it in.

I am relieved that there wuz more support out there, and I did not feel so alone. I found people in cities i used to live in, but no one even close to me, so that is a drag.

Thanks for everyone's support, you great bunch of awesome "couch trip" fill in actors!