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About Me
kittys
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About Me
New motto: When the stuff hits the fan, don't stand in front of it with your mouth open!
New motto: When the stuff hits the fan, don't stand in front of it with your mouth open!
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Interests
Music, dancing, horses, cats, GARDENING!! All things Irish and Celtic
Music, dancing, horses, cats, GARDENING!! All things Irish and Celtic
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Support Groups
Close Breakups & Divorce
Divorced summer 2006 after husband's last psychotic break brought me into his paranoid delusions. Broke my heart -- I really love him, and we were married for 25 years. But personal safety turned out to be where I draw the line.
Treatments
- Massage Working / Worked
- Amazing release of long-held grief! Totally unexpected for me, but as the therapist said, "we hold our issues in our tissues".
- Pets Working / Worked
- Couldn't get by for long without my kitties!!
- Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
- Supportive counseling helped me to see my part in the relationship, and helped me to see what I needed to do.
- Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked
- Everyone else was like "what took you so long??"
Close Diets & Weight Maintenance
Following decision to divorce, I decided the time had come to reclaim the person that I had been prior to marriage. This included shedding 110 extra pounds gained. Now a year later, I am down by 75 lbs!
Treatments
- Avoid Certain Foods / Chemicals Working / Worked
- Cut way down on wheat products. Most "quick eats" include wheat, so this reduces what's available! Find it also has reduced the chronic diarrhea I'd been having.
- Eat Less Working / Worked
- Using the Jenny Craig program, which is priomarily about portion control. Never hungry, common sense approach, includes increasing to a more active lifestyle.
Open Bipolar Disorder
My ex-husband was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder 20 years ago. I have first hand experience of his struggles with this -- and our eventual divorce because of it. ALSO, ironically, I work in the mental health field and feel that the world would be a better place for us all if people could TALK openly abut their symptoms and what works for them!
Open Eczema
Used to have really bad itchy, runny excema on my hands for about 10 years. The only mainstream thing that seemed to work was oral cortisone -- then I found Evening Primrose Oil. Cleared it up completely and has never come back!
Treatments
- Evening Primrose Oil Working / Worked
- Worked when nothing else did! Excema has never come back after taking it for about two years.
Open Food Addiction
kittys hasn’t entered any details for this support group.Open Family & Friends of Bipolar
Last 18 of the 25 years married to my ex, he was BP. Still love him, can't live with him any more!
