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Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

Physically and emotionally abused by my father. The physcial abuse stopped i think during my high school years. The emotional abuse continues to this day. I think thts just who he is.

Treatments

Abuse Counseling Working / Worked

Forgiveness Considering

Leave Working / Worked

GOT OUT OF THAT HOUSE!!!

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

Talking Working / Worked

Open Personality Disorders
Type: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Was diagnosed with this last winter, along with PTSD. Understanding this disorder really helped me understand myself; never realized that the feelings of extreme emptiness and loneliness, the general detachment and isolation, feeling different from everyone, my failures at relationships, were part of a disorder, that other people experienced these things too, and I wasn't as weird as I thought!

Open Sexual Abuse

i'm here cause i think i may have been sexually abused as a child, but can't remember specifics, so trying to figure out what happened. need some answers.

Treatments

Talking Working / Worked

What I have gained from listening to and talking to survivors in this group. It has helped to validate some of the thoughts that I have and has helped alleviate some of mt fears about addressing this issue

Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Diagnosed with this last winter. Read Judith Hermans book on PTSD "Rauma and Recovery" and understood myslef for the first time. Pretty much all my other "disorders" "illnesses" whatever you want to call them fall under the scope of PTSD. Initially had trouble accepting the diagnosis. Me? Traumatized? But once I read the book I knew

Treatments

Reading Working / Worked

"Trauma and Recovery" by Judith Herman

Talking Working / Worked

Open Anxiety

OCD obviously falls under the realm of anxiety, but also suffer persistently from generalized anxiety disorder. barely know what it is not to be anxious, sometimes don't even realize that I am, it just feels like baseline. Don't really have panic attacks except when my depression and just general anxiety get more severe. Smoking pot also has recently seemed to trigger panic attacks for me.

Treatments

Klonopin Working / Worked

No side effects, heard w/drawals are bad, but never really exprienced much of anything, but did never completely stop taking the drug. An excellent short term solution for anxiety, although I now have built up quite a tolerance. I take 6mg on a daily basis.

Open Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Diagnosed with OCD at 17, although I can remember behaviors from early childhood that probably would've fallen under this category. My primary obsession was with cleanliness, although several years later, after having gottenthe OCD under control, it came back in the form of exercising/eating/body image obsessions. Kinda a cross between OCD and exercise bulima. Currently not my major issue, altho it creeps into so many aspects of life I couldn't say its gone altogether

Treatments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Working / Worked

Eh...hated it! Didn't work initially as I was too anxious to really focus on practicing it. definately have used the technique on my own, but tend to do thngs within my own time frame and when I don't feel forced

Luvox Working / Worked

used after initial diagnosis, approx. 8-10 yrs. ago

Zoloft Working / Worked

used after initial diagnosis, approx. 8-10 yrs ago

Open Rape

CAN'T RIGHT NOW. WILL UPDATE LATER. MAYBE TONIGHT JUST SO DRAINED RIGHT NOW

Open Female Sexual Issues

Open Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

an mri during a recent hospitilization for an acute headache revealed a dural sinus thrombosis (blood clot in one of the main veins that drains blood out of my brain). i also recently found out i tested positive for the Factor 5 Leiden genetic mutation.i am terrified of developing another clot. this is all so very new to me and i'm just trying to learn as much as i can about my condition and am really hoping it isn't going to be permanent

Treatments

Coumadin Working / Worked

finally at therapeutic INR w/ warfarin but VERY concerned about side effects. i am exhausted ALL the time, an avid exerciser who has been told to restrict certain physical activities which i have little energy to do anyway, possibly becauseof this medication

Heparin Working / Worked

pain in the a$$. i was hooked up to a constant IV drip when i was on this med

Lovenox Working / Worked

after the first shot, giving yourself the needle wasn't half bad!

Open Military Families

i'm technically not military family but i am in a realationship, some sort of relationship, with a man who is currently serving in iraq. this relationship really started while he was overseas and is a challenge, to say the least, and a huge learning process for me.

Open War in Iraq

my sort fo boyfriend i guess you could call him, is there right now

Open Eating Disorders

Open Fibromyalgia