xXforeverOaOchildXx’s Profile

Open Eating Disorders

I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA ON AND OFF SINCE I WAS 13.

Treatments

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

MY COUNSELORS ARE REALLY SUPPORTIVE BOTH WHEN I SLIP UP, LIKE NOW, AND WHEN I'M DOING WELL.

Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked

MY FRIENDS ARE REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF MY ISSUES

Open Self-Injury

I first cut at 13 years old. Stopped fully May 1st, 2008. The last time I self injured though was June 12th, 2008. Those 2 dates are important because the first is the date I stopped cutting and the second is the last date I ODed.

Treatments

Group Therapy Not Working

It made me worse because I was around more people who self injured so it wasn't a positive environment for me at all. Plus I was the worst cutter there, and I was the only one who was mandated to cover my arms because it might be "triggering" to the other patients!

Outpatient Treatment Program Not Working

It made me worse because I was around more people who self injured so it wasn't a positive environment for me at all. Plus I was the worst cutter there, and I was the only one who was mandated to cover my arms because it might be "triggering" to the other patients!

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

it depends on the therapist you have... some therapists have worked really well with me. Others not so well.

Red Marker Not Working

Rubber Bands Not Working

I WOULD SNAP THEM SO HARD, I WOULD LEAVE MARKS ON MY WRISTS.

Squeezing Ice Working / Worked

Talking Working / Worked

Open Teen Anxiety

I GET REALLY ANXIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING

Open Bereavement - Teens

MY GREAT UNCLE JUST RECENTLY DIED OVER THE SUMMER. HE DIED FROM DEMENSIA AND COLON CANCER. I HAVE ANOTHER GREAT UNCLE WITH COLON CANCER AND HE'S AN ALCOHOLIC, WHICH DOESN'T HELP HIM MUCH.

Treatments

Pets Working / Worked

BEING AROUND ANIMALS DIVERTS MY ATTENTION FROM BOTH MY EMOTIONAL PAIN AND MY CURRENT PHYSICAL AILMENTS I'M EXPERIENCING.

Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked

MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE REALLY SUPPORTIVE.

Talking Not Working

I LIKE TALKING AND LEARNING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MY RELATIVES THAT I NEVER KNEW AND IT HELPS ME TO GET THROUGH THEIR DEATHS A LITTLE EASIER.

Open Pet Bereavement

I'VE LOST A LOT OF PETS IN MY LIFE AND IT USED TO HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON ME, BUT I'M DOING A LOT BETTER. I'M HERE TO SUPPORT ANYONE WHO'S LOST A PET

Open Families & Friends Of Addicts

MY MOM USED TO USE CRACK AND SHE USED TO ABUSE ME. I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS ADDICTED TO VARIOUS DRUGS AND I HAVE AN ADDICTION TO CUTTING.

Treatments

Abuse Counseling Working / Worked

I TALK TO MY THERAPIST ONCE A WEEK ON WENSDAYS.

Patience Working / Worked

I TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHY MY MOM IS THE WAY SHE IS AND WHY MY FRIENDS ARE THE WAY THWY ARE. I'M TRYING TO STOP CUTTING. I HAVEN'T CUT IN ABOUT TWO MONTHS.

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

I SEE A THERAPIST.

Talking Working / Worked

I TALK TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND I PRAY TO VENT MY ANGER AND FRUSTRATIONS.

Writing Working / Worked

I KEEP A JOURNAL, WRITE POETRYY, AND TALK ON THE INTERNET.

Open Family & Friends of Bipolar

MY MOM IS BOARDER LINE BIPOLAR AND I HAVE FRIENDS WITH BIPOLAR. I ALSO HAVE BIPOLAR

Open Family & Friends of Cancer Patients

MY GREAT UNCLE GEORGE HAS COLON CANCER.

Open Family Issues

I GREW UP IN A VERY ABUSIVE HOME AND I'M STILL GOING THROUGH IT.

Treatments

Family Therapy Not Working

WE'VE BEEN TO FAMILY THERAPY WHEN I WAS YOUNGER BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.

Music Working / Worked

I LIKE LISTENING TO MUSIC. IT CALMS ME DOWN.

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

I HAVE BEEN IN THERAPY SINCE I WAS ABOUT 13.

Talking Working / Worked

I TALK ABOUT MY FEELINGS TO CERTAIN PEOPLE.

Writing Working / Worked

I LIKE TO WRITE OUT MY FEELINGS AND FRUSTRATIONS AND I WRITE POETRY.

Open ADHD / ADD

I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD WHEN I WAS 13. MY YOUNGER COUSIN ALSO HAS ADHD. I HAVEN'T BEEN ON MEDS FOR AROUND A YEAR AND HE IS STILL ON MEDS.

Treatments

Adderall Working / Worked

WHEN I WAS FIRST DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD, I WAS GIVEN ADDERAL. IT SEEMED TO WORK. I DON'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. I THINK I'VE GROWN OUT OF IT.

Open Anger Management

I USED TO HAVE A REALLY BAD ANGER PROBLEM BECAUSE OF MY ABUSIVE HOME LIFE.

Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

MY MOM HAS BEEN PHYSICALLY ABUSING ME SINCE I WAS IN FIFTH GRADE AND SHE'S BEEN EMOTIONALLY ABUSING ME FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER.

Treatments

Abuse Counseling Working / Worked

I TALK TO A THERAPIST

Art Working / Worked

I USED TO DRAW VERY ANGRY, SCARY PICTURES. IT SEEMED TO HELP ME.

Group Therapy Working / Worked

WHEN I WAS IN GROUP THERAPY, IT HELPED ME TO KNOW THAT I WASN'T ALONE.

Leave Working / Worked

I LIVE WITH MY GRANDMOTHER NOW AND MY MOM AND I GET ALONG WHEN WE'RE FAR AWAY FROM EACHOTHER.

Music Working / Worked

I LISTEN TO MUSIC A LOT TO CALM ME DOWN.

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

I SEE A THERAPIST ONCE A WEEK.

Talking Working / Worked

I TALK TO FRIENDS AND CERTAIN FAMILY MEMBERS.

Open Families & Friends of Gays & Lesbians

I HAVE A FEW FRIENDS WHO ARE GAY AND LESBIAN AND A COUPLE OF FRIENDS WHO ARE BISEXUAL. IT DOESN'T BOTHER ME. I DON'T TREAT THEM ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN ANYONE ELSE.

Open HIV

ONE OF MY VERY DEAR FRIENDS HAS HIV. AT FIRST IT SCARED ME. I'M NOT SCARED AND I DON'T TREAT HER ANY DIFFERENTLY.

Treatments

Talking Working / Worked

I TALK TO MY FRIEND ABOUT HER CONDITION AND I MAKE SURE SHES DOING ALL RIGHT.

Open Accidents

I WAS IN A HEAD ON COLLISION WITH MY GRANDMOTHER ON DECEMBER FIRST. I HAVE RECURRENT NIGHTMARES AND FLASHBACKS. THEY SCARE ME. I DON'T WANT TO DRIVE ANYMORE.

Open Homelessness

for about the whole month of December, I was homeless. I had to run away from my abusive mother. I had nowhere to go. It was a very traumatic experience for me. I got through it though.

Open Rape

I was raped by my mom's boyfriend at the time when I was 8. I almost got pregnant b/c I got my period b4 that happened. I was raped in an alley walking home from a friend's house. I was raped by my boyfriend at the time when I was 16.

Treatments

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

Rape Counseling Working / Worked

Talking Working / Worked

Open Brain Injury

BECAUSE OF MY HYDROCEPHALUS, I HAVE POOR BALANCE. BECAUSE I HAVE POOR BALANCE, I FALL A LOT. I HAVE HAD A LOT OF CONCUSSIONS.

Open Panic Attacks

I GET PANIC ATTACKS A LOT ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M FACED WITH A SITUATION I DON'T LIKE OR I CAN'T CONTROL.

Treatments

Effexor Not Working

I USED TO TAKE EFFEXOR.

Open Insomnia

EVER SINCE I WAS IN THE CAR ACCIDENT WITH MY GRANDMA, I GO THROUGH MAJOR PERIODS OF INSOMNIA.

Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

EVER SINCE I WAS IN THE CAR ACCIDENT WITH MY GRANDMA, EVERY TIME I EVER GET A CHANCE TO SLEEP, I HAVE HORRIBLE RECURRENT NIGHTMARES OF THE ACCIDENT. I ALSO HAVE FLASHBACKS WHEN I'M AWAKE.

Treatments

Art Working / Worked

Music Working / Worked

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

Reading Working / Worked

Talking Working / Worked

Open Scoliosis

I HAVE AN EXTREMELY MILD FORM OF SCOLIOSIS; IT'S SO MINOR THAT I DON'T NEED SURGERY.

Open Sexual Abuse

I WAS SEXUALLY ABUSED BY ONE OF MY MOTHER'S EX BOYFRIENDS. HE ALWAYS USED TO EXPOSE HIMSELF TO ME WHEN I WAS LITTLE AND I JUST RECENTLY HAD TO STAY WITH HIM BECAUSE OF THE CAR ACCIDENT AND HE STILL CONTINUES TO EXPOSE HIMSELF TO ME. NO ONE KNOWS THOUGH.

Treatments

Art Working / Worked

Leave Working / Worked

Music Working / Worked

Open Arthritis - Juvenile

I HAVE JRA IN MY RIGHT KNEE FROM THE CAR ACCIDENT.

Treatments

Naproxen Working / Worked

IT WORKS, BUT IT GIVES ME REALLY BAD STOMACH ACHES.

Open Infertility

I GOT PELVIC IMFLAMMATORY DISEASE FROM A RECENT SURGERY. I'M OKAY NOW, BUT THERE IS A HIGH LIKELIHOOD THAT I WONT BE ABLE TO CONCEIVE.

Open Aneurysms

my grandma found out she has a brain aneurysm in 2005. She is doing quite well as far as that goes. It's too small to do surgery so in the meantime, her doctors just do routine tests to check on it's size.

Open Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis

I was recently diagnosed with Crohn's disease in February of 2008. I have already had 2 er visits in 2 weeks. i have only had 2 flare ups though.

Treatments

Lomotil Not Working

it's what they gave me in the hospital...didn't do a thing!

Open Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

My brother died of SIDS the year before I was born. Even though I didn't get to meet him, I miss him very much and I wish I could meet him. He was such a cute baby! He would be turning 19 this year. His name was David. Everyone called him Baby David.

Treatments

Prayer Working / Worked

I pray a lot hoping that my brother hears my prayers. I know he watches over me. Im his baby sis.

Open Bipolar Disorder

I have had bipolar since I was 13. I'm almost 18 now. I'm not medicated.

Treatments

Abilify Not Working

didn't work

Depakote Not Working

didn't work

Geodon Not Working

didn't work

Group Therapy Too Soon to Tell

I start on 2/20/08

Lamictal Not Working

didn't work

Lithium Not Working

didn't work

Risperdal Not Working

didn't work

Seroquel Not Working

didn't work

Trileptal Not Working

didn't work

Open Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling)
Type: Trichotillomania

I DO THIS WHEN I GET REALLY STRESSED OUT AND CAUGHT UP IN A MOMENT I CAN'T HANDLE

Open Adoption
Type: Open Adoption

MY GRANDMA IS GOING TO ADOPT ME! I AM 17. I WILL BE 18 THIS YEAR. OH WELL. AT LEAST SHE IS GOING TO ADOPT ME! I AM SO EXCITED!

Treatments

Prayer Working / Worked

I PRAY THAT THIS TURNS OUT TO BE FOR THE WILL OF GOD.

Open Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

I WAS RECENTLY OFFICIALLY DIAGNOSED WITH OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER. I HAVE MAJOR OCD WITH BRUSHING MY TEETH. THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER BRUSHED MY TEETH FOR WAS 30 MINUTES STRAIGHT! THE MOST TIMES I'VE EVER BRUSHED MY TEETH WAS 30 TIMES IN ONE DAY! SHEESH! I GO CRAZY WHEN I DON'T HAVE TOOTHPASTE! AND I GET THIS NAGGING URGE TO CLEAN THINGS A WHOLE LOT. IT IS VERY ANNOYING.

Open Chronic Pain

I HAVE CHRONIC TUMMY PAIN ALL THE TIME BECAUSE OF CROHN'S DISEASE.

Treatments

Heat Too Soon to Tell

Open Hodgkin's Lymphoma

A very dear friend of mine named Alesha, has Hodgekin's Lymphoma. She is almost 17 years old. She is a fighter and the strongest person I know! I have learned so much about life in my short time of knowing her! I LOVE YOU ALESHA!

Treatments

Chemotherapy Working / Worked

Alesha has been undergoing chemotherapy for 6 weeks now.

Prayer Working / Worked

Praying for her healing is the only thing that keeps me strong! I LOVE YOU ALESHA!

Open Migraine Headaches

I was born with hydrocephalus. I didn't start having problems with migraine headaches until I was nearly 18 years old.

Treatments

Imitrex Working / Worked

PRN no more than twice a day

Topamax Working / Worked

50 mgs twice daily