aquarius9

Open Sexual Abuse

Treatments

Group Therapy Somewhat Helpful

Difficult

Reiki Somewhat Helpful

Also interested n wrking with shamanic journey healing. Jst havn't gotten 2 it yet...

\"The Courage To Heal\" Too Soon to Tell

Hypnotherapy Considering

Open Self-Injury

Started cutting when I was 12, used porcelain the first time... ovr the yrs it's progressed 2 othr thngs also.

Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Always thought that P.T.S.D. only affected me sexually, but my family of origin is/was abusive.I'm dropping out of college Mon. 3-26 because I've hit bottom.Seems like every time I think I'm well & it's time to move on with my future more stuff comes up. There are just too many ways to be triggered.

Treatments

Art Somewhat Helpful

EMDR Not Working

I don't want 2b desensitized to my emotions- dissociation/isolation is already one of my personal specialties,don't need to have it programmed n2 me.

Music Working / Worked

Reading Somewhat Helpful

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Working / Worked

A complete blessing no ugly emo backlash wnt 2 learn practice more...

Open Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Female
Type: Genital Herpes

Diagnosed with H.S.V. several years ago while I was still drinking and using.It never gets any easier being honest and telling someone who really likes me.If I have the rite attitude about it, I am grateful-really separates the men from the boys; The guys who really care about me from the ones that just want to fuck: story of my lyfe that's wht guys hve always wnted frm me...

Treatments

L-Lysine Working / Worked

Esp pre-emptively, 4tunately it's all natural & non invasive

Open Family Issues

2 many triangles!Codependent... etc, it never ends with them.I love them,but need 2 luv myself enuf not 2 continue/tolerate in this B.S. Had a legal name change 4 mny reasons, severed all ties & no lngr hve ne contact with ne blood relative. being free can b as painful...Father currently missing:he just randomly appears & disappears,& has/had substnce abuse probs. I believe he's prbly dead~ though i may nvr know 4 sure...

Treatments

Writing Somewhat Helpful

Open Smoking Addiction & Recovery

Started smoking @ 16-have quit 4 brief periods.9mos was the longest.I will smoke even when i don't want 1,out of boredom.Last time i quit i read Allen Carr's "Easyway". Getting ready 2 read it & try again cuz it worked better than nethng else did(9mos).

Treatments

Self-help Working / Worked

Somewhat helpful

Open Anxiety

Mostly relating 2 P.T.S.D., but in other areas also

Treatments

Breathing Exercises Working / Worked

Focusing on 1 breath @ a time helps me not go n2 emotional overload/meltdwn.

Open Sex / Pornography Addiction

My 1st addiction,from childhood. I'm a self diagnosed sex, love, fantasy,relationshit addict & emotional anorexic.Not addicted 2 porn tho,my imagination is almost always better. Perhaps i jst hve a high sex drive...? Hve been abstinent 4 almost 3 yrs

Open Depression

Diagnosed with severe chronic depression, hve experienced symptoms since childhood. Aside frm my drug/alcohol abuse, the 1st & only time i actually tried 2 commit suicide was whn i was 8, still thnk of it regularly. I also exp seasonal affect, it sux. Whn i am depressed i cannot c the bottom of the low I can literally feel it whn my seratonin levels tank... it's dangerous. Thnk it may hve been intensified whn i abused meth & crack/cocaine.

Treatments

Positive Thinking Somewhat Helpful

Writing Somewhat Helpful

Open Healthy Relationships

I anticipate having a healthy realtionship with a certain trepidation: caring carries cost & evn poss. loss. I notice sumtimes that my relationships (of various types, evn jst friendships) can affect my ability to give to & receive frm othr areas of life. I thnk the easiest way 2 describe it is energy dicontinuity... I'm not currently dating ne1 seriously or exclusively, but discovering who i click with & y.

Treatments

Patience Working / Worked

Esp. with myslf...

Talking Working / Worked

Esp. 2 trustworthy & accepting lady friends... but also communicating my boundaries (really difficult) has been integral n cultivating my slf respect. Un4tunately, I can b really agro about that, & it's difficult 4 me 2 discern appropriate assertiveness

Writing Working / Worked

Helps me 2 write a letter or blog... evn if it's nvr sent or read it gets thngs outta my head & helps me keep record 4 retrospect

Open Vegetarians & Vegans
Type: Lacto-ovo vegetarianism (No meat)

To get some solution on being veggie w/o being nutri deficient... how to handle dinner parties with omnivore friends: aside frm starving, & help navigating vague restaurant menus

Treatments

Vitamin B12 Working / Worked