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Close Self-Injury
Treatments
- Outpatient Treatment Program Working / Worked
- I participated in a DBT group for one year. It was helpful. The therapy lays a firm foundation of skills needed to successfully live in the world. Of course in one year you cannot master all the skills but it takes so much time to have these skills to become habit. That is what therapy is for. The time and energy is so very worth it.
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- EVERYONE should be as blessed as I am to have a therapist as skilled, compassionate, sincere, fully invested in me, maintains appropriate boundaries while making that personal connection I need. She is consistantly asserting the expectation that her hope is that one day I will be free of he need to self-injure. At the same time she allows the sacred space for me to truly explore and talk about the role self-injury plays in my surviving in the world. She listens without judgement.
- Red Marker Not Working
- I am just making this connection. I often use pens to write notes on my hands beause with my ADD I lose pieces of paper. For me, marking myself with a red pen was not significantly different. Also, the red marker does not run, or smear as blood does. On the emotional level it is not the same either.
- Rubber Bands Somewhat Helpful
- There is a momentary pain sensation that is satisfying. However, there is no ritual, bleeding and long term pain sensation. Something to continue considering.
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- I have begun openly discussing my cutting with my family and close friends with mixed reviews. Some think I am weak, some think all I have to do is just stop...My friends are compassionate and respect my space and listen when I need them to.
- Tattoos Working / Worked
- I love the tattoos that I have gotten to cover the scars. I do not experience the actual getting the tattoo as a substitue for self-injury however. Right now I have some significant scaring from my self-injury on my forarm. I will not get a tattoo to cover this up because I do not want a tattoo there. I am still considering my options. But at this point I am feeling ok in taking responsibility for my self-injury. It is what it is and I am dealing with it as honestly and as quickly as I can
- Art Working / Worked
- On and off over the past 5 years or so I have done art therapy that is drawing things and bringing them into therapy. This has been sporadic. However it proved helpful. A month ago I shared honestly the full details of my cutting. She was worried and expressed this. Well I again turned to artIn one month I have gone from selfinjury each day to one time a week or less. when I am feel the urge I draw.
Close Bipolar Disorder
Treatments
- Ativan Not Working
- It did not seem to work on me.
- Celexa Working / Worked
- I took this a long time ago and decided to take myself off of meds completely thinking I did not need them. I am back on it and it seems to be helping.
- Depakote Working / Worked
- Loved it but it was a long time ago. my current med prescriber believes in other meds...I am do ok with what she has me on.
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Working / Worked
- Great for aiding me in gaining the skills I need. The most significant thing to come out of DBT is that I have been blessed with a gem of a therapist. She is in this for the long hall with me.
- Lamictal Working / Worked
- Seems to work.
- Lithium Working / Worked
- Love it. When I miss a dose I can tell. When I take it as prescribed it brings my mood more towards baseline. The only thing I do not like is the tremendous weight gain I have had.
- Seroquel Working / Worked
- Along with the lithium it offers stabilization for me. Weight gain...blah
- Trileptal Not Working
- I did no respond to this med unfortunatly.
- Wellbutrin Working / Worked
- Works with celexa to take the depression which can get so dark up a bit.
- Strattera Working / Worked
- Works wonders for my ADD.
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- I am blessed beyond words with my therapist. Need I say more?
- Art Working / Worked
- Gets me beyond my intellect to the heart of my feelings and moods. I have begun a mood journal so that I draw a picture of my mood in the morning and a picture of my mood at night. Tracking it by the numbers was difficult and words well I am very long winded and intellectual...
- Faith Working / Worked
- Not sure what to say here. I find value in sermons I download onto my ipod however when I go to a church people do not seem to greet me or welcome me...
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