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About Me
I really appreciate nature and I have a deep love of music and the arts. I am a romantic at heart and love going to the theater and concerts and visiting new places. I find my greatest joy when I am with others and especially when I feel I can help someone. I currently have started a blog providing resources and insight and working as a teacher and advocate for those who are recovering from Mental Illness and I am writing a children's story that teaches coping skills. I am passionate about helping others feel loved and see their worth and value. I have struggled with depression and OCD most of my life and only recently have I felt that I am finally getting the help and healing I have so desperately been searching for. I wanted to share in my journey of recovery which I identify as learning to cope with the struggles and live a fulfilling life with my limitations. View my blog at :http://journeyofrecoveryfrommentalillness.blogspot.com/
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People, Traveling, Music, Theater, Movies, Nature, Singing, Reading, Crafts, Health, Watercolor Pencil Drawing, Writing, Family History, Temples, Mental Illness Advocacy.
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Close Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) DepressionI am just now recovering from a very low period with my depression which left me isolated and homebound and not working since the first of July. My mood has its ups and downs but I am feeling hopeful and starting to have better days.
Treatments
- Celexa Somewhat Helpful
- I have been on this med for over a month now and I am starting to see my depression lift. I feel the change in medication is helping but it is still too soon.
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- I started in October meeting with a new Therapist and I have felt very good about the work we are doing.
- Writing Working / Worked
- I have started writing and I have found writing has been very healing for me and provided me great perspective and a way to validate my feelings and at times a had a great calming influence.
Close Hypothyroidism
I am still struggling to get my Hypothyroidism under control. I have been strugging with severe fatigue and my hair falling out and it effects my depression. Since being diagnosed each blood test shows my thyroid still failing instead of improving. I am currently looking for a Doctor because I just recentally moved and I hope he/she will be able to help me manage this.
Treatments
- Armour Thyroid Not Working
- This is supposed to be the best Thyroid medicine to take. Especially if you are into Naturopathy like I am. However I have not noticed it helping me and I hope it is just the dosage that is wrong.
Open Physical & Emotional Abuse
I was and still continue to be hurt by my family. I have been trying to heal the past but it is difficult when you continue to have daily experiences that reinforce the pain.
Treatments
- Crying Somewhat Helpful
- I try so hard not to cry and I have found this makes things worse. I believe crying is a powerful release and way of cleansing the pain.
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- I have become brave and shared my experience. Each time I share I find that I feel better and I am able to get support and a better understanding. I thought in sharing once it would be over but I have learned healing takes time.
- Writing Working / Worked
- I have been working on writing my experiences and grieving..writing my losses and then writing what I have learned..this has been helping me connect with my heart and innerself which I have suppressed and havent been able to do for a long time.
Open Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
My OCD is surrounded around physical and moral cleanliness. The fear of hurting others, children, intimacy, body fluids, intrusive thoughts. I have cleaning compulsions, eating compulsions, avoidance and guilt compulsions to name a few. I find I struggle with different parts at different times and it comes and goes. It is a silent prison and I have been trying to break the silence and love myself and not be ashamed of these limitations my ocd brings.
Treatments
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Somewhat Helpful
- Learning more about my innerself and different ways of thinking has helped.
Open Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
Oh how I hate this condition. It makes me feel so unfeminine with all the side effects that come with it.
Open Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis
I have been in a lot of pain for a long time now and been in and out of hospitals. I just went through a series of tests and have finally been diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. I feel overwhelmed and dont know where to go from here. But I am grateful to finally have a name to this terrible pain.
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Open Sexual Abuse
I was sexually abused. I have struggled with feeling clean and loveable ever since.
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