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PityGirl 
2:08pm, July 11, 2008
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About Me
PityGirl
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About Me
I'm just a girl. I just graduated high school, and am currently looking for a job, but no success so far. I've been struggling with a lot of issues since I was a small child. I'm in all kinds of treatments right now, and am actively working on improving my quality of life.
I'm just a girl. I just graduated high school, and am currently looking for a job, but no success so far. I've been struggling with a lot of issues since I was a small child. I'm in all kinds of treatments right now, and am actively working on improving my quality of life.
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Interests
It's safe to say that I have no life. I had friends while in school, but now I don't see any of them. I don't go out much, in fact it's a rare ocassion when I do. I mostly sit at home and get on the internet and talk to some online friends. But when I do go out, I go to the movies, or to eat, shopping, and sometimes mini-golf.
It's safe to say that I have no life. I had friends while in school, but now I don't see any of them.
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Close Food Addiction
I have been a slave to food for as long as I can remember. Preoccupations with food have run my life since the age of 12. I've gone through phases of not eating food, eating very little of it, or eating and then purging. I am currently an emotional overeater. I want to work on giving up my addiction to food.
Treatments
- Prozac Not Working
- It has helped with my depression but I think it played a part in increasing my binge eating behaviors.
Close Eating Disorders
I started fasting and restricting at the age of 12. By 13, there was so many situations where I had to eat, so I began to purge everything I ate. During this time I would also fast or restrict now and then. Around age 17, I began to restrict regularly and lost weight. I was feeling very depressed and was missing alot of school so my parents forced me to get OP treatment. I worked on my mental health, but I was not and still am not ready to let go of my eating disorder.
Treatments
- Dietitian Consult Somewhat Helpful
- It worked, it helped keep me on track and eating healthy for a while. But then I went back to restricting and I stopped seeing her altogether because I didn't want to eat "healthy".
- Lexapro Not Working
- Helped with my depression in the beginnning, but then as they increased my dosage it stopped working.
- Outpatient Treatment Program Not Working
- My treatment consisted of seeing counselors, dieticians, psychiatrists. It just didn't work for me because I didn't want to get better.
- Prozac Somewhat Helpful
- It helps a great deal with my depression. This med has been FDA approved for binge-eating disorder..but I have a suspicion that it made my binge eating worse.
- Psychotherapy Not Working
- At the time I was forced into couseling and outpatient treatment, I was really pissed off and refused to cooperate with the counselors. So needless to say, it didn't help.
- Zoloft Not Working
- It made me VERY suicidal.
Open Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) DepressionTreatments
- Effexor Working / Worked
- I took it for about 3 months, and it worked wonders for me. But then my mom made me stop taking it abruptly.
- Lexapro Working / Worked
- In the beginning, it worked GREAT. I was so happy. But never quite as happy as I could be. So the dosage was increased, and I found that as the dosage got higher, it would work less and less. I stopped taking it altogether.
- Prozac Working / Worked
- It helped me ALOT with my depression. I have a completely new and positive outlook on life.
- Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
- It helped me to talk about my feelings to someone, but that's about it. My therapists haven't been very helpful in helping me figure out what is causing my depression or how to fix it other than with meds.
- Remeron Somewhat Helpful
- Helped with the insomnia not much with depression. Then again I didnt take it long enough to see results. About 2 wks.
- Trazodone Too Soon to Tell
- So far, it has caused drowsiness, dry mouth. And this morning..I have a hangover and headache.
- Zoloft Not Working
- It made me VERY suicidal.
Open Anxiety
Treatments
- Lexapro Somewhat Helpful
- Helped minimally for anxiety.
- Positive Thinking Not Working
- I just don't know about this whole positive thinking thing. It's kind of hard to think positive when you are so depressed, so positive thinking didn't work at all for me.
- Remeron Not Working
- Helped with insomnia.
- Zoloft Not Working
- It made me VERY suicidal.
Open Diets & Weight Maintenance
Treatments
- Counting Calories Somewhat Helpful
- It's helpful to see how much you've eaten, but it can get very obsessive.
- Eating Healthier Foods Working / Worked
- When I was seeing a nutritionist I was eating healthy foods, and I did lose weight the healthy way.
- Eat Less Somewhat Helpful
- Obviously if you eat less and exercise more you will lose weight. But it can be taken to an unsafe extreme, and there are those horrible hunger headaches.
- Hoodia Not Working
- No weightloss, and horrible headaches.
- Slim-Fast Not Working
- Didn't help me lose weight. And it's not as filling as a meal.
Open Insomnia
Treatments
- Ambien Working / Worked
- Yes, it helped me sleep. It was great. But I often abused it.. taking it and not going to sleep, or taking it during the day. So yes, it works, but high potential for abuse.
- Lunesta Working / Worked
- Helped me get right to sleep and appeared to be non-habit forming.
- Rozerem Working / Worked
- Put me to bed. Again though, I started abusing it, taking it during the day. So I was only on it for about 2 weeks.
- Trazodone Too Soon to Tell
- It makes me sleep after about an hour. So far I hate the dry mouth side effect. In the morning I wake up with kind of a hangover headache, and I still feel kind of clumsy or "out of it".
- Melatonin Somewhat Helpful
- It was too weak for me even when I took two or three 3mg pills. Its natural and OTC but just not strong enough for me.
