mmfan07

Open Anxiety

I've dealt with anxiety for years. Probably since childhood. I grew up with my grandparents who were pretty strict but I'm grateful for it cuz it gives me strength now. I have panic attacks especially when I'm by myself and all alone. I have no friends really where i'm living now but I do have a job. I'm constantly paranoid of my health and afraid of dying and leaving my husband and family alone. It makes me greive like you greive for a loved one who has passed away. I feel like I'm in a nightmare and I can't wake up.

Treatments

Breathwork Working / Worked

BuSpar Not Working

i felt weak. i didn't like it at all.

Open Self-Injury

I started cutting myself around the age of 12. I felt like seeing blood coming out of me made me feel alive, because I was so numb on the inside. I have plenty of scars from burns and cuts. They'll be a reminder to me forever. Sometimes I'm still tempted but I try hard to resist temptation.

Treatments

Rubber Bands Somewhat Helpful

Okay I read about this in a magazine so I tried it. I put a rubberband (a small, thin one) around my wrist so whenever I felt like cutting, I'd snap the band.

Open Cervical Cancer

Go for a colop next month. They don't think its cancer i'm just scared.

Treatments

Colposcopy Too Soon to Tell

Open Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

I have rituals that I do before bed. Everything is done repeatedly! Sometimes I repeat conversations in my head! I touch things, i say things repeatedly, I have to double check myself, I analyze everything to death! It's controlling my life! I feel if I don't perform these rituals something really bad will happen to me or my family!

Treatments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Considering

I can't afford it really but I think it would help.

Paxil Considering

I heard it helps.

Zoloft Somewhat Helpful

Eh..it didn't really do much for me.

Crying Working / Worked

Crying always helps.

Open Financial Challenges

I'm in a lot of debt and I'm at a job that is just totally burning me out. If I quit then we'll really be in the hole.

Treatments

Debt Consolidation Working / Worked

Well at least the phone calls stopped...

Open Bereavement
Type: Loss of a Friend

Over the past year I have experienced four friends passing on....two were murdered, one committed suicide, one just died of cancer. My heart is in misery. I can't even work. I'm not taking any meds. I have a doctors appt on the 27th. I feel like I'm losing it.

Treatments

Crying Working / Worked

It always helps to cry.

Prayer Working / Worked

God hears me.

Psychotherapy Considering

Open Stress Management

I have panic attacks when I'm in grocery stores! I have them at work. Something has to change!

Treatments

Anger Management Considering

Hi my name is April and I have an anger problem.

Open Infertility
Type: Other Uterine Issues

I don't know if my pap will be abnormal forever or not.

Treatments

Folic Acid Too Soon to Tell

Provera Too Soon to Tell

It's worked before. We'll try it again!

Open Panic Attacks

I get scared for no reason at all and start to freak out. Then I go "numb" and I start thinking about all my "sins" and wrongdoings. I feel like I'm dying and I have to confess everything that I've done in my life. Most of the time my husband is with me when this happens so he takes the brunt of this awful disorder. It's controlling my life.

Treatments

Paxil Considering

I've heard this works

Psychotherapy Considering

I can't exactly afford to pay a shrink but I need to do it.

Xanax Considering

It makes me feel like a zombie.

Zoloft Somewhat Helpful

Eh...it didn't really touch me.

Marijuana Somewhat Helpful

I used to do it but recently its thrown me into panic attacks.

Prozac Working / Worked

It's helped with the anxiety.

Open Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

Well it hasn't been RULED OUT yet so...

Open Insomnia

I've struggled with this since I was a teen. I usually don't get to sleep till almost dawn and then I sleep all day. It suuuucks.

Treatments

Ambien Considering

Lunesta Considering

Open Phobia
Type: Hypochondria

Scared of dying. Been this way for two years

Treatments

Acceptance Not Working

I tried accepting that everything happens for a reason and not to fear things I can't control but...no go.

Hypnotherapy Considering

Heard this works.

Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

I was raped twice in the year 2006. I was assaulted by my husbands ex-friend last year around the same time. I believe it was July/August. I still have flashbacks but they're not as often as they were.

Treatments

Art Working / Worked

I love to paint. EVERYTHING!

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Considering

Paxil Considering

Rape Counseling Working / Worked

Supportive Care Working / Worked

Crying Working / Worked

It helps getting the anger and frusteration out.

Open Sexual Abuse

I've dealt with sexual abuse since the age of 10. Its hard to get over this and it follows me around everywhere I go.

Open Schizophrenia

I haven't been diagnosed but I experience paranoia and.."voices".

Open War & Terrorism

I'm angry about the war and fear for our men and this country.

Open Military Families

My grandfather (who adopted me) was in world war II in the Navy. My uncle just retired from the Navy as well. My cousin died in Vietnam in 69 I believe. I was not allowed to go because of my heart murmur.

Open Separation Anxiety

I'm scared that something might happen to me or him (my husband.)

Treatments

Crying Working / Worked

It helps to get the anxiety out.

Pets Working / Worked

I love my kitty and my guinea pig.

Open Hypochondria

See all my support groups? That should be an explanation. So far so good though I have had real issues but it turned out it was nothing. thank GOD! I just worry too much.