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Open Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

Open Female Sexual Issues

I'm having a really hard time coming to terms with my sexual side...

Open Depression

I've been depressed as long as I can remember...so I have a hard time telling my story. I'm just trying not to let it affect my life.

Treatments

Lexapro Too Soon to Tell

Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful

Open Family Issues

My parents have been divorvced 3 times (same two parents) and my brother and I both have eating disorders and our parents are really controlling. I don't know what to do about it.

Treatments

Family Therapy Not Working

Open Prescription Drug Abuse

so I'm not a hardcore drug abuser--occasionally I pop a couple extra sleeping pills or something than I should, but I'm trying to get help before it spirls out of control...

Open Shopping Addiction

I have always loved clothes: my mother is a designer and so I see clothes alot and I'm an impulse buyer and I just spend...my parents yell at me and I do it anyway. I can't help myself and it's going to be a problem because I'm getting out of college soon...I need help. Lots of it.

Open Panic Attacks

I've just really figured out what these little "freakouts" that I have are: panic attacks. I need to learn how to manage them.

Open Stress Management

Open Obesity

Most of my family is obese, and I am too, although I'm trending down. I'm not listing treatments because the onees I used/use are bad and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.

Open Bipolar Disorder

I was diagnosed as bipolar a little over a year ago. I'm not sure how much I agree with it, but in some ways it's accurate--I just can't tell if the mania I experience is just productivity...

Open Gastric Bypass Surgery

I've considered having gastric bypass surgery, so I think it would be helpful to talk to people that have had it/ are about to have it. I just have to figure out how to make a fine distinction between my eating disorder and the idea of a healthy weight.

Open College Stress

I'm going into my senior year and I'm trying to figure out what to do with my life--I have a lot of options, but with those options come lots of tests, money spending, etc. I'm trying to make it to the top but I don't want to risk my sanity to get it. So I guess I'm looking for help.

Treatments

Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful

I feel like I can't tell my therapist the truth because he can affect whether or not I am able to continue with school. He sidelined me once and I refuse to let him do it again.

Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked

I have amazing friends and we're all struggling and we want to finish together. So we're trying to make it work. My little brother believes in me--just like I've believed in him all this time. We support one another. Apparently I still have alot to prove even though I have done decently well with a mental illness at an Ivy League school.

Open High School Stress

I had a rough time in high school and now I want to help someone else that needs it--I'm now a college senior at an Ivy League school--I want other people to realize they can do the same thing.

Treatments

Psychotherapy Not Working

It didn't work--I was so scared of how it would affect my graduation date that I wouldn't say anything.

Support from Friends & Family Somewhat Helpful

I could be real with some of my friends...but because it was a competitive. It was a residential arts school and so we we competing for the same woodwind parts and stuff. You were never sure if someone would turn on you. One of my roommates did. You just had to watch who you trust.

Open Insomnia

I had insomnia before...but after getting my life in order things weren't so bad. Now it's back.

Treatments

Ambien Not Working

Made me binge eat in my sleep. I woke up in the morning with my head in the toilet and an empty half gallon of Edys next to me. I don't recommend it.

Counting Sheep Not Working

I just get to thinking about other things because I'm a numbers person. Numbers just suck me in...

Music Somewhat Helpful

I'm a music person so generally music is awesome, but because I was a musician, when I should be listening to peaceful relaxing stuff I'm thinking about chords and harmonies. I need to relax.

Rozerem Not Working

It was given to me in an ED treatment center. It did absolutely nothing.

Open Lactose Intolerance

I've been lactose intolerant for about 6 months or so I think... it's driving me crazy. I'm looking for tips to help me survive the holidays.

Treatments

Lactaid Somewhat Helpful

Sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn't?

Lactose-Free Diet Somewhat Helpful

It helps fuel my eating disorder because I cut out alot of things and end up starving, bingeing, then purging. But I can see where it could work for people other than me.

Open Plastic Surgery

I'm contemplating having a couple of procedures done.

Open Abstinence & Celibacy

I'm currently practicing abstinence, but I'm not sure why--perhaps I'm too scared to let anyone know the real me so that they could get close to me and perhaps even love me.

Open Seasonal Affective Disorder