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girlieB
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. -Robt. Frost
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About Me
PLEASE, NO MORE FRIEND REQUESTS! I have to take care of the people I already know, and who know me.
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Staying healthy, learning more about nutrition and exercise...getting active again, and taking care of the people around me.
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Close Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) DepressionI believe it started over ten years ago, creeping up on me; now it's a full-blown case of major clinical depression. I'm just beginning to get a grip on everything it does to me.
Treatments
- Celexa Somewhat Helpful
- For the first six months of treatment; then it stopped having any effect on me.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Too Soon to Tell
- Effexor Somewhat Helpful
- It's working...slowly, but surely. It's gotten me closer to having better days, overall.
- Meditation Too Soon to Tell
- Positive Thinking Somewhat Helpful
- But it doesn't come easy, and I'm out of practice. Still rather difficult.
- Writing Somewhat Helpful
- I don't keep a journal yet, but writing here on DS has helped me get my feelings in order---expressing things to other people always helps you organize your own thoughts about what's really going on. It might not work that way for everybody, but it has for me.
Close Anxiety
Anxiety came on after the other depression symptoms started to show---the simplest thing would set my heart racing. After about seven years, it turned into full-blown panic attacks, with terrible problems getting to sleep. Have had some good luck with Effexor, and Zopiclone sleeping pills, as well as Lorazepam when needed.
Treatments
- Breathing Exercises Working / Worked
- The same as breathwork---I've known for years about the power of controlling your breath can also help change oxygen levels in the body---it's not a cure-all, but it can help until I see if things will get worse or not.
- Breathwork Working / Worked
- When I feel an attack coming on, I breathe deeply and count very slowly, til I feel some subsistence of the anxiety.
- Meditation Too Soon to Tell
- Positive Thinking Too Soon to Tell
Open Stress Management
Onset of panic attacks about ten years ago, only a matter of months before the depression really revealed itself for what it was. I was raised in a house with two alcoholic parents, and although there was no outright abuse, there was an awful lot of neglect, favoritism, and a disturbing lack of affection. I was called upon to be very mature and to act like an adult, at a very young age. Lots & lots of negativity in the air, too. I realize I need to get better at banter & verbal self-defense.
Treatments
Open Bereavement
Type: Loss of a ParentLost my mom at 24 to cancer. What an evil it is. Lost my father-in-law to it two years ago, it was so devastating to my husband's family. I had to be there to help, physically and emotionally, and then, everyone turned on me. Not only had that experience brought back all of the emotions from losing my own mother, it cost me the love and respect of my in-laws, too...and all I did was help. It is so painful now that hardly anyone talks about it.
Treatments
- Crying Working / Worked
- At the time--but I always did it when no one else was around.
- Grief Counseling Working / Worked
- Went to two sessions with my mother-in-law, to be supportive and at her insistence. Then she suddenly stopped going with little explanation. It helped me more than it helped her, I think.
- Prayer Working / Worked
- I turned both situations over to God. I cannot heal people. He can.
- Remembering Working / Worked
- I try and tell and re-tell heart-warming stories involving these people. I've seen it help.
- Time Working / Worked
- The pain comes and goes.
Open Families & Friends Of Addicts
Mom & Dad were alcoholics. 4 kids; I'm the second oldest---my next sister is handicapped---so things weren't easy. Had to be a mini-adult from the time I was 4. Mom's passed away, Dad's recovering, but still in denial about the damage he's responsible for...we're not allowed to discuss it at all.
Treatments
- Al-Anon Working / Worked
- "one Day At A Time In Al-Anon"-wonderful book a friend gave me----I really should go to meetings to get the full benefit.
- Patience Working / Worked
- I'm naturally patient. Was able to get him to seek help in the first place, 19 years ago
- Talking Working / Worked
- When I meet someone I know will understand
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