Journal Entry for July 2, 2008
July 2, 2008 8:11pm
I feel so much better.
i realized something. I have been "throwing the baby out with the bathwater." WHat I mean is, I have been …
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I am 49, married, first and only marriage, have 4 "children" between the ages of 11 and 20. I started therapy last year for the first time in my life. It has helped me more than I ever knew it could, but it has been a much rougher road than I thought it would be. There were so many things I didn't even remember...
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Journal Entry for July 2, 2008
July 2, 2008 9:43am
I have another appt with my therapist. I always feel like a failure when I need two appts in one week. Things have been escelating lately. She keeps …
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Did you read the post on folic Acid...good stuff, worth reading. Hope you're doing better. with love, Sandra xxx
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your art is beautiful. thanks for all the art you contributed to RAR. you so great!!!
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heyy girl how are you?
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HUGS! I have a new journal entry! I'm getting to where I like writting things out..my sis always said my mouth was like a constant stream of conciousness...maybe I'll put it on "paper" more often! many hugs dd
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Close Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar, trust and abandonment issues, crazy parents. I think my therapy is going really well. I have a good marriage, great kids, but I still need something. I just don't know what.
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- Slow going but probably worth it.
- Seroquel Working / Worked
- started Jan 10 2008 seems to be helping me sleep...
- Wellbutrin Working / Worked
- the only drug that has worked for me. Has helped for 8 years.
Close Personality Disorders
Type: Avoidant Personality DisorderWell, it only lets you pick one personality disorder, go figure. I actually may have at least two, BPD and Avoidant, with other possibles, but that is still under debate.
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- Started therapy for the first time in my life in May, 2007. It's helping.
- Wellbutrin Working / Worked
- has worked for 8 years for depression.
Open Panic Attacks
I have had panic attacks since I was a child. One tdoc told me it was part of a generalized anxiety disorder.
Treatments
- Ativan Somewhat Helpful
- Take it as needed.
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- I've been in therapy since May 2007. I think it's really helpful.
- Seroquel Working / Worked
Open Rape
I'm not really ready to talk aobut all this here yet. Suffice it to say it has happened more than once when I was quite young.
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- my therapist is the first person who I've told about some of these experiences. It's helping a lot. I finally really trust someone.
Open Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) DepressionJust one more thing I have going on.
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- My therapist helps more than anything else.
- Wellbutrin Working / Worked
- have taken this for 8 years. It seems to help most of the time.
Open Anxiety
may as well add this one to the list. I have a "generalized anxiety disorder" along with everything else. WOnder what they will come up with next.
Treatments
- Ativan Somewhat Helpful
- Meditation Somewhat Helpful
Open Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Not sure if this fits me or not but I definately had an obsession. It was pretty weird, actually. Not something I expected at all.
Treatments
- Seroquel Working / Worked
Open Multiple Personalities
I am still finding out who I am. The last year has been a real awakening for me.
Open Sexual Abuse
Only starting to admit to myself some of the things that happened.
Treatments
- Art Working / Worked
- I draw my thoughts as they come up.
Open Schizophrenia
i have dissociative issues. Not sure if I beling here but I read some of the posts and they sound like me.
Treatments
- Seroquel Working / Worked
- works somewhat
Open Physical & Emotional Abuse
This is probably the group I should have joined first. It is the most obvious part of my history that leaves me not whole and full of anger and pain.
Treatments
- Art Working / Worked
- I draw and write out my pain.
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- working through all the past stuff with DNMS (similar to EMDR)
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- somewhat here at DS
