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Age: 16, Location: India

When were you at your weakest:
i am always at my weakest and most vulnerable when i feel like people can easily take advantage of me. when people can break my heart and not care. when i have to be strong when i most want to bread down and cry or punch the person that pissed me off

When were you at your strongest:
i was at my strongest when i could look back and see that i have my family and friends for guidance. when i knew that they didn't expect anything from me... i was just enough

How are you feeling now:
i feel confused. but better, realising that i've once been worse

Age: 27, Location: Belgium

When were you at your weakest:
When I was starring my teenage years. I was taken advantage of,sexually. When I was 19, I fell for someone, but he just ended up using me. I did something I never could have imagine I would do, I still feel such shame thinking about it and I hope God will forgive me. He made me perform oral sex on him. I have never felt more betrayed, ashamed, used and misled then I did then. I never wanted anything to do with him ever again. The pain I felt and STILL do is indescribable. NO ONE should ever feel that kind of hurt.

When were you at your strongest:
I 'survived' a broken relationship. My ex fiancée broke the engagement and all my dreams and hopes were shattered, as if I didn't mattered. He left me, dumped me like a bag of trash. And it came all of a sudden. I survived that. I stayed strong, I had my family and friends who comforted me, and I know that was my strongest time.

How are you feeling now:
Tough question. How I'm feeling now? I do feel blessed & surrounded by my closest relatives and friends... I have everything that I need. I have a roof over my head, food in my stumach... I have freedom to do what I want whenever I want. But still... Lonley: I haven't got a partner, on who I can depend, to share my intimate feelings with. I feel as if I'm not worthy of having one. There is a void in my life, that I can't fill. I always dreamed of being a young mother. I am 27, almost 28. I have no one or nothing that really matters - no one that I can take care of. Lonley. Wanting to share my love with that special someone - before the love I have will flow away..

Age: 53, Location: Ontario, Canada

When were you at your weakest:
At 17,in the woods behind my house, being raped by a stranger who attacked me from behind. He grabbed me on the sidewalk at night and threatened death if I didn't co-operate.I have never felt so completely helpless and terrified. It felt like my brain was exploding, yet I knew I had to hear his demands to stay alive.I vowed later to never let a man have that power over me and it helped me cope. I decided I wouldn't let him have another minute of control over me and refused to live my life in fear.

When were you at your strongest:
When I was raising my 2 daughters.I knew it was the most important job I would ever have and I put all my heart & soul into helping them become good people. It worked.

How are you feeling now:
I have struggled with clinical depression on & off for 40 years. The last 2 years have been my darkest. After trying just about everything I have just recently found an anti-depressant that works for me. For about a month I've been feeling better and I'm able to function and experience moments of enjoyment. Awesome!

Age: 54, Location: Cincinnati

When were you at your weakest:
At one time I was weak when I couldn't control my own feelings. I was letting other people control me over my feelings, what I should do. Giving me bad advice based on there own situations. Later realized that they were not true to themselves, so how can they give advice period.

When were you at your strongest:
Caring for my aging Mom. When she passed away in 2008, having to deal with all the preparing and still greiving at the same time.

How are you feeling now:
I feel really good. What makes me keep going from day to day is that God wants me to stay strong no matter what I'm going through. I surround myself with positive people, not negative ones. I praise God for being the light in my heart.

Age: 36, Location: k.c.mo.

When were you at your weakest:
about 3yrs.ago.me and my children had to stay in a homeless shelter.stayed there 6mths.

When were you at your strongest:
now.got a good job,nice place,money in my pocket.

How are you feeling now:
BLESSED!!!!!!!!!!!great.faboulos.awsome.

Age: 53, Location: hesperia ca

When were you at your weakest:
after my mom died. i will never have closer. i take full blame for her death.

When were you at your strongest:
in high school

How are you feeling now:
depressed. not only do i miss my mom but i miss my love michael jackson

When Were You at Your Strongest?

Age: 28, Location: New zealand

When were you at your weakest:
When I was under the power of an alcoholic, emotionally abusive male

When were you at your strongest:
Being an independent woman, working hard, studying and looking after my children all at once :) I am a woman and I am strong, happy, independent and I will make it!

How are you feeling now:
Like my own person..like I don't need man..like I can achieve anything I put my mind too.

Age: 43, Location: greece

When were you at your weakest:
when my husband took ill with cancer. he was my whole world. And having to tell my 5 children their father is dying.

When were you at your strongest:
After my husband died realizing we are now on our own and my kids rely on me they were very young aged from 4 to 16 god must have given me the strength to get by such a difficult time.

How are you feeling now:
I feel really good now watching my beautiful children growing into young men and women and realizing every where you turn there is always somebody worse off. we are very close and i will always hold their hand threw life.