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    About Me

    "When you don't wanna feel...death can seem like a dream. But seeing death-really seeing it-makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous." -Girl, Interrupted. I guess my favorite thing to do is change the about me section on here =]. Most call me Pooka, but my real name is Haley. I'm a photographer, though not a very good one. I do what I can and I learn. I suffer majorly from Codependency and Personality Disorders. I hope one day I can find anyone that I can see face to face and get help from. I joined this site to help others, learn about lives outside of my surreal town, and make people feel better than themselves. I guess it's the same reasons as anyone else has joined. To help and be helped. I base my moods completely off of song lyrics. I'm cool enough to think they speak the exact truth of my feelings. They really do. Please, don't message me asking for a good time. It gets really old and quite frankly, I'm not into that and no matter what happens I won't talk to you after that. Sorry, but it gets old. And don't label me. Yes, I'm fully aware I'm 'emo' but if you wanna stop things like homophobic statements, you can start by stop labeling people. Sometimes I don't respond to messages because I'm having an off day. But if it's anything majorly important or any form of a problem, I always answer. I want to become a psychiatrist when I grow up. I want tolerance...I want to create a movement.

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    "'What would you have said to her?' 'I don't know. That I was sorry. That I'll never know what it was like to be her. But I know what it's like to wanna die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside....to try to kill the thing on the inside.'" -Girl, Interrupted.

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      Mood July 16, 2008 9:28pm

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  • Support Groups

    • Close Codependency

      This is my biggest problem, and also one of the only problems I can't get a lot of help with. I'm very codependent. I depend on people way way way too much. I'm scared of losing them. I'm very overprotective. I care way too much than I should, and I'm scared of it. This almost literally is my personality.

      Treatments

      Music Considering
      Music helps me with everything, but it never helps this.
      Talking Not Working
      No one believes me. No one keeps an open mind. No one listens.
    • Close Families & Friends of Gays & Lesbians

      Im completely for gay and lesbian rights, I'm trying to take action. I once fell for a guy that ended up being gay. It was pretty bad. Ive gotten in so much trouble recently, mostly with my parents, because Im standing up for gays and lesbians. I dont see a difference at all. Really, I dont. Ive seen a lot of gay and lesbian people get so hurt because being gay is considered "unacceptable" by a lot of people. I want to help people that have to face that and more than anything I want to stop it.

      Treatments

      Acceptance Working / Worked
      Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
      Talking Working / Worked
      If someone actually talked.
      Writing Somewhat Helpful
    • Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

      I don't want to talk about it.

      Treatments

      Art Working / Worked
      Forgiveness Somewhat Helpful
      Leave Too Soon to Tell
      I'm gonna leave early to get away. I hope it helps, I really do.
      Music Working / Worked
      Psychotherapy Working / Worked
      Talking Working / Worked
      It would work....just need the right person to talk to.
    • Open Bereavement - Teens

      He's just dead to me.

      Treatments

      Keeping Busy Not Working
      Theres no point in forgetting.
      Music Working / Worked
      Remembering Considering
      Scrapbooking Too Soon to Tell
      Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked
      Talking Working / Worked
      No one talks to me about it.
      Time Working / Worked
    • Open Bisexuality

      I'm bi. Sexually more attracted to girls, emotionally more attracted to guys. Been with 2 girls, more guys.

    • Open Depression - Teen

      The right people leave me, the wrong people stay. I'm too afraid to speak up for myself, so I guess I just watch it happen. It kills me.

      Treatments

      Art Working / Worked
      Lexapro Too Soon to Tell
      Positive Thinking Not Working
      jinx.
      Support from Friends & Family Not Working
      I don't want to be a burden.
      Talking Not Working
      All I can do is write and hope someone reads it. I can't really talk about it.
      Writing Working / Worked
    • Open Eating Disorders

      I was made fun of at one point for having anorexia and bulimia, so I started diet pills as well. I'm probably getting better. No hospital trips yet.

      Treatments

      Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
    • Open Shyness

      I've been getting better...but it comes on strong at the worst points...if I'm with someone I really care about, I just can't talk. I seem ridiculous and I can't help it.

      Treatments

      Self-esteem Somewhat Helpful
      I need someone to help me. I tried on my own and it hasn't worked.
      Self-help Considering
      depends on mood and who I'm with, really.
      Socializing Working / Worked
      good influences.
    • Open Diets & Weight Maintenance

      used to be anorexic, bulimic, and diet pills, all at the same time. more recently I've been gaining weight, and I can't stop myself.

    • Open Families & Friends Affected By Suicide

      me. Many times. Maybe it'll finally work.

      Treatments

      Patience Not Working
      things seriously only got worse.
      Talking Not Working
      No one will talk to me about it. Or anything.
      Writing Working / Worked
    • Open Parenting Teenagers (12-18)

      I'm a teenager, just wanted to see parent's opinions

    • Open Dizziness & Vertigo

      We're not sure what it is yet. I can barley hold my head up sometimes, and sometimes it just lets itself go on its own. Sometimes I can't stand up.

    • Open Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling)

      Only my eyelashes now. The bottom ones are almost completely gone. sometimes scalp.

    • Open Alcoholism

      1 hospital trip. Unusual.

    • Open Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

      just....my parents don't believe me. no one really does, but its there. it really is.

    • Open Phobia

      I have a huge, huge fear of rejection. Its impossible for me to defeat. Its...even happened a lot to me before. Its scares me. And I'm scared of spiders. A lot.

      Treatments

      Acceptance Working / Worked
      The only real cure.
    • Open Abstinence & Celibacy

      well now I just feel like an idiot. but I can't leave this community yet. I need to remind myself of my hypocritical-ness.

    • Open Family Issues

      a lot of fights. too many.

      Treatments

      Music Working / Worked
      Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
      its all she talks about, my therapist
      Talking Working / Worked
      if someone talked to me....
      Writing Working / Worked
      poetry
    • Open Stress Management

      I need to learn how to handle things...I break down at the wrong times, and I'm sick from stress.

      Treatments

      Music Working / Worked
      Patience Working / Worked
    • Open Peptic Ulcers

      I got it from worrying about a lot of things, I was put on prevacid and pepcid, and I've gotten a scope. The results aren't back yet

      Treatments

      Pepcid Somewhat Helpful
      Only helps sometimes
      Prevacid Somewhat Helpful
      I don't cough up anything or any blood when I'm on it, but I can get some sharp pains.
    • Open Teen Anxiety

      just stress in general from school and relationships...its gotten me sick and out of control.

    • Open Sexual Abuse

      my aunt....I think she tried doing something when I was around 7 when I was about to take a shower...its hard to date people partially for this reason....

      Treatments

      Music Working / Worked
      I don't think about it often, just when I'm asked to hook up. which isn't often. Music helps me forget again.
      Talking Considering
      No ones tried it. But a few friends know, they don't really care and I don't expect them to.
    • Open Hyperlexia

      I don't know what to say...its a huge problem I have I guess, but the doctor recommended not to put it on my records, so it gets harder.

    • Open Coming Out

      I'm bi....its easy to tell people at school, especially because right now I'm really sure of it...but telling my parents...I just can't do that.

    • Open Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

      not sure, really...they found cysts on my kidney, but I need to go back a few times, my dad has a problem with this, too.

    • Open Family & Friends of Bipolar

      my ex best friend is bipolar, and this other girl I know claims she has a problem with it...

    • Open Asthma

      I have bronchial spasms and asthma and need a couple inhalers....it might be worse or better. We don't know.

      Treatments

      Pulmicort Somewhat Helpful
      Take it in the mornings. It helps at the moment, sometimes, but it doesn't get rid of the breathing panic attacks.
      Xopenex Somewhat Helpful
      its an inhaler. it doesn't work until a little while after I inhale it. supposedly I can't take it for 4 more hours, but I need it more between that period of time. but if I take it more within that time, my heart beat will get faster. easy overdoseage.
    • Open Family & Friends of Cancer Patients

      the father of my ex neighbor and what we consider to be our family was diagnosed with multiple Miloma, I think thats it. He lives in New Hampshire, but since early October he's had to go to Arkansas for treatment. He's the best man in this world.

    • Open Self-Injury

      it hurts.

      Treatments

      Psychotherapy Not Working
      It just doesn't help me.
      Rubber Bands Somewhat Helpful
      That kind of pain scares me. Its weird, but it just does.
      Talking Somewhat Helpful
      Usually just makes me feel worse, though no one really knows about it that cares a lot.
    • Open Panic Attacks

      It just...comes out of nowhere, usually. Sometimes I'll be thinking of something, and out of no where I'll feel smothered, hollow and lost, like I'm being slowly killed and falling. Then I'll have the most violent attacks ever. I'll shake and my legs will kick and my arms will move literally everywhere until I can grab hold of something and keep that grip. It usually lasts no longer than 5 seconds. When its over, I hyperventilate. It happens usually 2-3 times, I know its gonna seriously hurt me.

    • Open Internet Addiction

      I've avoided joining this community for a while, but I know its something that affects me. The computer for me is an escape, mostly from my family. I don't like being forced to be around them. I don't like hearing them fight. I don't like being around when theres too much to take. I'm an independent person and I express a lot of creativity and give and take advice. I need this, its my only escape. It keeps me busier than music can, and it helps me mature more. I need this.

    • Open Depression Supporters

      I've been through a lot, more than I'll probably ever tell anyone, and I know there are people that have it way worse. I can't even imagine how bad that must be, and I'd do anything just to make sure that they'll be okay. I want to help the people around me, but they don't know that I'm here for them. I'm trying everything. I want to help people and hopefully save their lives. I don't want people feeling alone at all, it's very hard.

      Treatments

      Crying Somewhat Helpful
      Music Working / Worked
      great for letting out emotions, at least for me.
      Patience Somewhat Helpful
      Talking Working / Worked
      I'll help anyone thats willing to vent to me, no ones really done that with me until I joined this site, and I know it's hard to deal with.
    • Open Depression
      Type: Clinical (Major) Depression

      I guess I learned some life lessons way too early. Ive felt the worst things at incredibly young ages. There were some people that I thought I just couldn't live without. I had begged them all not to leave me. But every single one so far that I begged left. I no longer know how to talk about my problems with anyone, Ive held everything in for so long people have tried helping, but I was very scared that theyd leave, and that Id be wasting their time. It really does hurt me. More than most know.

      Treatments

      Lexapro Too Soon to Tell
      Meditation Not Working
      my OCD and paranoia get in the way.
      Positive Thinking Not Working
      jinx.
      Psychotherapy Considering
      I can't open up. I'm too scared. It just isn't working for me.
      Support from Friends & Family Not Working
      I'm too scared to open up to them. Some of them really try to get me to, but I just can't. I'm afraid that they'll think I'm complaining, or that somethings wrong with me. I don't want people talking behind my back. And I'm so scared that they'll leave me, so at risk of getting hurt I hold a lot of it in.
      Writing Somewhat Helpful
      I sometimes write poetry, and these journal entries. The journal entries are my only form at talking about my problems, honestly.
    • Open Insomnia

      "Days, you say they're way too long. But your nights, you can't sleep at all. Hold on." Good Charlotte. Not a good band.

      Treatments

      Counting Sheep Working / Worked
      just count numbers, don't let myself make it past 17 or I'll start over.
      Music Working / Worked
      very helpful, calms me down.
      Reading Working / Worked
    • Open Epilepsy & Seizures

      They started off as violent panic attacks. One night I went to the hospital and we asked the doctor about what this all could be. He said they were panic attacks, but it was dangerously close to a seizure. He suggested that some of them were not panic attacks but were seizures.

    • Open Separation Anxiety

      I can't be away from people I love for long at all. I start crying after about an hour. It tears me apart sometimes.

      Treatments

      Music Working / Worked
      keeps me thinking. keeps me motivated.
    • Open Healthy Relationships

      I'm not in a healthy relationship, but thats my own fault. I'm codependent and I know just the right way to fuck things up because of that. I want a healthy relationship, so badly. I'm in a great relationship, and I am in love with him. But because I fucked up we can't see eachother. I want to change.

      Treatments

      Patience Not Working
      I can't wait on my own.
      Talking Too Soon to Tell
      No one talks enough about it.
      Writing Somewhat Helpful
      It would help if he read some of them, but part of me would never want that. I can't decide.
    • Open Personality Disorders
      Type: Dependent Personality Disorder

      Just....a couple different disorders.

      Treatments

      Talking Somewhat Helpful
      I write. It's hard for me to talk face to face with people.
    • Open Coma

      In the 8th grade I overdosed right before school. I realized something was wrong and barely made it to the nurse. I could barely speak, I was unaware of my surroundings when I was awake. The nurses have to wake you up after class is over which is 45 minutes For 2 hours they couldnt wake me up While I was out, I was aware of my surroundings-I could hear the classes change, I could hear the nurses calling my mom. I could see the chair and the wall in front of me. But for a while I couldnt wake up.

    • Open Schizophrenia

      I hear things sometimes. When I was younger I would see faces. I could swear that some of my dreams are reality, but I have been proven wrong. It's not a very huge problem, but it's still there.

    • Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

      I have flashbacks all the time. To the moments that made me decide my previous suicide attempts. To the beginning of my hospital trip due to alchohol intoxication and the aftermath of it. I can no longer sleep a whole night through. I wake up at least once and can't fall asleep for at least half an hour, sometimes I get flashbacks then too. The flashbacks are horrible. I can feel the feeling I had at the moment back then, only it's worse during the flashbacks.

      Treatments

      Music Somewhat Helpful
      helps me forget a lot of the time.
      Talking Working / Worked
      I kinda keep quiet about these types of things. Or at least, I try to.
    • Open Breakups & Divorce

      I'm scared.

      Treatments

      Love Working / Worked
    • Open Restless Legs Syndrome

      I get such a weird sensation. I need to walk, kick, jump, run, anything. It doesn't go away for about 40 minutes, though I don't get it often.

      Treatments

      Lexapro Working / Worked
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