Depression Support Group
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Doctors and chiropractors and physiotherapists say they do not know the cause for scoliosis. I asked my doctors, they all said the same thing. Can you explain why scoliosis is or isn't my fault and if i may have worsened it?
I feel guilty because from 16 to 19 years (I am 21 now.) I had underweight of only 55 kg as a male due to anxiety and psychosis in school. There were some days when i didnt eat anything at all. Nothing. It was pure horror. Now i take sertralin and olanzapin and my weight is very normal.
As i remember i was also sitting weirdly incorrect at the pc while playing pc games quite excessively and also in school, for many hours. Plus a probable lack of nutrition, maybe lack of calcium and minerals? Don't you think that all this may have caused or worsened my scoliosis?
It was detected at the end of when i was 19 years old. It is a mild S curve on both ends 20°. Soo and since i have ocd and anxiety and me being a gullible person i can hardly think of something else. Please relieve me of my burden for i fear to have caused or worsened my scoliosis, even if it is just any bit of degrees that i have worsened. Please tell me...
Underweight, lack of nutrition, poor sitting habits or maybe it was because i ate quite a lot the first time i took olanzapin? They said i gained like 10 kg in a week because my parents and me went to some restaurants to gain weight fast. My mother also said in one other week i grew like 2 cm. Was it just the growth spurt? But then why did not someone else get it, but me?
I know i've asked multiple times but it can't be helped... i want more answers. Can you just repeat your opinion if you did already answer... is this even in the realm of my fault? Did i cause my scoliosis? Did i worsen it? Thank you for your patience.
I try to forget it but the question comed back when looking in the mirror and thinking about the past... did i eat unhealthy things? Or was it the other factors i mentioned? If it is just genetic and a birth defect, then why did my scoliosis only appear when i was like 19 years old or a little earlier? Before that, my back was straight and not curved! This is a support forum after all. Please be kind with me. :S
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This site is not a Diagnostic tool, you can't get the answer that you want here because the answer you want honestly doesn't exist. As Research and Genetic Testing continues they'll learn more about this condition, but that's the only way Dr.'s will ever be able to say why Scoliosis happens.
You might want to talk to your Therapist or Psychiatrist, whoever you see for your Psych meds and see about learning some coping skills and/or mindfulness exercises to help manage the OCD and its overwhelming tendencies. Lessening the compulsion to "know" the answer to this unanswerable question is probably what you should actually be focused on.
Take care.