Swithun

Open Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)

Open Keratoconus

diagnosed in 2004. I miss my good vision!

Open Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) Depression

Over 35 years of chronic depression in a family where depressive disorders are very common. Several bipolar diagnoses as well as those of us who are all depression with no manic side.

Treatments

Effexor Working / Worked

it was the best I'd been on but was starting to lose it's potency like all of the others at the end. stopped taking it cold turkey about 3 years ago due to circumstances beyond my control. I wouldn't mind trying to get back on it if I could ever get health insurance again.

Elavil Somewhat Helpful

I can't remember but I think this was another one that had an effect for a time but then felt like nothing.

Psychotherapy Not Working

Didn't work. after 6 years it ended badly and my life is worse than ever. I think I had the wrong therapist for my needs.

Seroquel Somewhat Helpful

Worked for a little while, then leveled off

Support from Friends & Family Not Working

Very profoundly dysfunctional family. Everyone is estranged now since the death of my parents and brother's suicide. My friends have all drifted away. I'm alone in the world.

Trazodone Somewhat Helpful

worked a little then leveled off

Writing Too Soon to Tell

Open Insomnia

Treatments

Ambien Somewhat Helpful

worked for while

Counting Sheep Somewhat Helpful

counting backward from 1000 actually

Lunesta Somewhat Helpful

worked for a while kind of.

Sonata Not Working

didn't really work.

Trazodone Not Working

didn't work

Open Sexual Abuse

Treatments

Art Not Working

Can't stick to it and always afraid of revealing too much

Talking Not Working

Family didn't believe me when we were growing up, and my therapist never discussed it much

Open Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety

I've been diagnosed with Anxiety but not Agoraphobia although I believe I have been advancing in it for years.... actually decades. At present I'm living with an elderly Aunt and Uncle and rarely leave the house, or even my room very much. I'm trapped and frustrated with myself for not being able to "get on with it"

Open Panic Attacks

Treatments

BuSpar Somewhat Helpful

worked for a timev

Effexor Working / Worked

last med I was on before I lost insurance, medical support

Klonopin Somewhat Helpful

worked for a time

Psychotherapy Not Working

after 6 years I ended up worse off than ever and leaving therapy on bad terms. I think I had the wrong therapist

Seroquel Somewhat Helpful

worked for a time

Trazodone Somewhat Helpful

worked for a time

Xanax Working / Worked

worked but I got addicted and got in trouble with it

Zoloft Somewhat Helpful

worked for a time

Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

After a lifetime of emotional abuse I am a ruin with a ruined life and no hope for the future. I can't figure out how to turn it around and to get out and start living again. I'm trapped.

Treatments

Art Not Working

I can't stick with it and feel good about what I create. I still expect it to be rejected.

Leave Not Working

I never got away successfully I let them drag me back in and now I'm stuck.

Music Somewhat Helpful

Psychotherapy Not Working

6 years of therapy got me nowhere but worse off.

Talking Somewhat Helpful

Open Loneliness

i can't stand the isolation any more.

Open Bereavement

Treatments

Crying Working / Worked

Getting Angry Somewhat Helpful

Grief Counseling Not Working

didn't work. mutated into years of therapy that didn't work

Keeping Busy Working / Worked

It worked when I had something to do and to look forward to.

Pets Working / Worked

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

Reading Working / Worked

Support from Friends & Family Not Working

Talking Working / Worked

Time Not Working