Introduction Thread

[Millennium Gaydar]

Hello, I'm Chelsea. 16 going on 17. I am currently going to a alternative school that let's me work on what I feel like working on my own time. I am diagnosed with anxiety disorder and depression. I am currently taking Prozac. I enjoy art and documentaries on just about anything. I also like anime, though I'm a pretty boring person. My fave colour is blue and my fave animal is a puffin. ^^;  

[Funspoiler]

Hello.
My name is Tyler.
I am fifteen years old, and I attend a public high-school in South Texas.
To save my typing on what my major malfunction is, let me just repost this picture.

One will often ask, 'Tyler, how are you avoidant, yet dependant?'
Well it's quite simple.
Being the pathetic, yet brilliant man I am,
it's the only way I can get people to talk to me.
By being a d**k.

Anywho, I enjoy quiet.
Or movies, reading, writing.
Something I can do without always needing another person.
Mostly due to that I've never really had 'another' person,
other than what I've been told is fake.
But yeah, that's me.
Hello people.  

[SwanGirl92]

I haven't been accepted in yet but i'll still introduce myself. I am Brit. I'm 20 years old. When I was alot younger I was diagnosed with clinical depression and ADHD. I will just say my background stories I have aren't pleasant. I will be making a journal in here and posting that story.

My interests aren't that much. I play video games all day and wait for my husband to contact me. He is in training for the army. I enjoy anything to do with horses. That usually takes my mind off of things though I can't get to any stables.

Anyway, this is me in a nutshell. It'll be easier to know who I really am in my journals that I'll be posting.  

[a-little-piggy]

My name is Kimi, I have ADHD OCD and depression that comes and goes.

I've been told that I have anxiety although I'm not sure if it's related to the other conditions.

For me ADHD consumes my life, I've just been put on meds for it though. I wish I found out about it sooner because I'd have done A LOT better in school. I'm glad I have found out about it before university. It's so hard for me to focus, even when friends are talking. It really pisses people off and they think I am rude because of it sad

The OCD is purely illness phobias like, if I take medication sometimes I think I'm going to die and I spend HOURS researching side effects and interactions. Or I get a bug bite and I waste time researching that. Needless to say I have a lot of useless knowledge. These fears come and go depending on situations in my life.

I'm going through therapy now so at least there's that. biggrin

I'm interested in video games (mainly mmorpgs rpgs and fps) music (i play the piano and sing) and computer art. I want to go to school for all 3. I'm also very interested in health and wellness. Which may be a good thing that my ocd has taught me.  

[Appomattox]

Funspoiler

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Thank you for that moving introduction. Reading all these useful tidbits about you has helped me to better understand you as a person. Surely this knowledge will help me in the future.

You're a very special boy, Tyler. All of those disorders you have truly make you unique. Your never having a real person saddens me and makes me yearn to engage in conversation with you.

It really was a pleasure.  

[Giovanna_Deiderich]

Hello, hello, hello!

I'm Giovanna! I have Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder...uhm. I am also a student who is going to specialize in Music Therapy. I major in Fine Arts with a concentration in psychology.  

[PrimaryXylem]

Hi. My name is Jennifer. I'm 17 years old and I'd like to become a doctor someday, preferably a psychiatrist. I am very interested in psychology and psychiatry, but since it's such a wide topic, I only know a minority of what there is to know. To be perfectly honest, I barely know the basics, but I love learning. sweatdrop

Today, on February 4th, 2015, I was diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I am surprised that this diagnosis has previously surpassed me and the people whom have tried to figure me, or rather my problems, out. I have shown the signs (such as horrible nightmares, troubles sleeping, the consant feeling of anxiety, the Depression, the flashbacks, the nonstop daydreaming, the hypervigilance, and the avoidant behavior towards situations similar to those that caused my PTSD), but I don't blame anyone for thinking that it was Depression alone.

I'm not sure how I feel about the diagnosis yet, I'm glad that I'm now able to deal with the problem because I actually know what the problem is, but I also feel a bit scared and broken because I'll actually have to face it. I almost want to end the therapy sessions and just hide away, but I know I can't do that, because I'd let people down. Even though none of us knew that it was PTSD, I was still getting emotional support from people, especially from my mother and boyfriend. I'm so lucky to have them in my life. heart

The cause of my PTSD wasn't one or two incidents, it was a huge amount of traumatic events that happend to me over and over again throughout many years. I think of myself as being experienced at the young age of 17, almost too experienced. I wish my younger self wouldn't have had to grow up so fast, I wish she would have gotten a more normal childhood, a childhood in which she hadn't been mentally, verbally, emotionally, and physically abused or isolated. I can't tell you about these events in detail, because I don't want to relive them. When I'm reminded of them, I get scared and really, really upset. I'm hoping that someday, I'll be able to think about these memories and not feel the way that they make me feel now. I'll do this through therapy, lots and lots of therapy.

Wish me luck. emotion_bandaid