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  • About Me

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    AJ1

    Female, 103
    GBR
    Member since July 31, 2007

    • About Me

      I am working on my A Level Health and Social Care hoping once I finish to step into some line of work with vunerable young people. I have 2 brothers and two sisters. I love to go to the theatre and live life to the max.

      I am working on my A Level Health and Social Care hoping once I finish to step into some line of work with vunerable young people. I have 2 brothers and two sisters. I love to go to the theatre and live life to the max.

    • Interests

      I love to go to the beach and just walk along the sands, I love to sit and read a good book, or watch a film (I like to watch thrillers, chick flicks and comedys), also I love to go running, or find a quiet spot and draw or write stories and poetry

      I love to go to the beach and just walk along the sands, I love to sit and read a good book, or watch

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  • Journal

    • Still Really Confused!

      Mood April 21, 2009 10:45pm

      I really dont get what is going on with this member of staff who works where I have been living over the last couple of years, though I …

    • Help, really confused!!!!!!!!

      Mood April 18, 2009 6:28pm

      If i am honest I just feel really used though these could be the wrong words to use. The reason for this is because a member of staff where …

    • housing manager

      Mood April 8, 2009 6:04pm

      I cant take much more of being taking advantage of by the housing manger who works in the ymca I live in down south.

       

      For the last ten months I …

    • my life

      Mood April 4, 2009 2:58pm

      I live in a ymca in england a couple of months back a new member of staff started here, and in the beginning I tried to be nice to her.

       

      But this …

    • Friends

      Mood December 9, 2008 6:13pm

      Well I am beginning to realize fighting what the doctor said about me years ago is true. What he said is due to my past I was damaged goods and I …

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    • Hug

      From freecannon November 1

      I hope you are doing ok. I know what it feels like to want to talk to someone who will actually listen and respond with encouragement.

    • Hug

      From oilerfan July 10

      hope ur doing well

    • Hug

      From tattyhead184 April 28

      lol The same happened to me tonight so yes - no problem.

    • Thumbs Up

      From tattyhead184 April 27

      Yes - sorry, 10pm in England.

    • I’m With You

      From tattyhead184 April 26

      Can we book a chat for tomorrow - say 10pm-ish?

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  • Goals

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  • Support Groups

    • Close Bereavement
      Type: Loss of a Relative

      In short I have lost numerous people who I was close to: My fiancee was killed on the way home from work by a drunk driver, close friends have been murdered, other close friends and family have died through natural causes, sickness and car accidents

      Treatments

      Helping Others Working / Worked
      Helping drug addicts, alcoholics and prostitutes turn their lives aroundfor the better
      Keeping Busy Working / Worked
      throwing myself into study and work
      Music Working / Worked
      any will do
      Poetry Working / Worked
      Writing poetry
      Talking Working / Worked
      talking to spport worker
    • Close Eating Disorders
      Type: Anorexia

      For most of my life I have struggled with my weight seeing my family big and being told I was fat has not helped this now at 7 stone I still believe I am fat and need to lose weight.

      Treatments

      Talking Working / Worked
      talking to support worker
    • Open Self-Injury

      From the age of six I began hitting my fists into walls and cutting myself, it gave me a release from the pain I was going through at that time and though it stopped in later years I have recently started again.

      Treatments

      Talking Working / Worked
      talking to support worker
    • Open Panic Attacks

      AJ1 hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open Smoking Addiction & Recovery

      have been somking since I was eleven but gave up two and half years ago

      Treatments

      Willpower Working / Worked
    • Open Back Pain

      I have damaged my back several times the first being an absailing which went wrong it took months to recover then, a serious car accident through both of these a various other ones I have been on medication for the last ten years to control the pain, in the future I will have to have surgery but not yet.

      Treatments

      Darvon Not Working
      Feldene Not Working
      Fioricet Not Working
      Hydrocodone Working / Worked
      Ibuprofen Not Working
      Physical Therapy Working / Worked
      Stretching Working / Worked
      TENS Not Working
    • Open Alzheimer's Disease

      Family member had it

    • Open Alcoholism

      aws an aloholic for years but not any longer

      Treatments

      Cold Turkey Working / Worked
      Sleep Working / Worked
      Willpower Working / Worked
    • Open Widows & Widowers

      Five years ago my partner was on his way home from work when a drunk driver ran into him and he died we had been together for 4 years

    • Open Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS)

      AJ1 hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open Sexual Abuse

      From an early age I was sexually abused by my mum ministers and various friends of theirs.

      Treatments

      Art Working / Worked
      writing stories, poems
      Music Working / Worked
      any music will do
      Talking Working / Worked
      talking to support workers
    • Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

      When I was a child mum always told me she did not want me, raised my younger brother whilst she went out, slept or drank. Mums partners hit me for anything: for doing things wrong, for doing things write for refusing to let them hurt me and for not pleasing them and their friends sexually.. Later on in teenage years mum took this over and continues to this day to beat me up

      Treatments

      Art Working / Worked
      writing stories, poetry
      Music Working / Worked
      any will do
      Talking Working / Worked
      talking to support workers
    • Open Healthy Sex

      AJ1 hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open TMJ

      only just found out I have it

    • Open Depression

      AJ1 hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

      AJ1 hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

      Just found out that I have this

    • Open Hepatitis C

      AJ1 hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open Codependency

      AJ1 hasn’t entered any details for this support group.
    • Open Menopause

      I found out only lat week that I am going through premenopause, I am really struggling to get my head around it and it is not helping that other people are telling me I am wrong it what I am going through

    • Open Incest Survivors

      Not rady to

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