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June 25, 2006, 9:19 pm PDT

thanx all

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For those who medication doesn't work sometimes walking and exercise and improved balanced habits help. Or, leaving an environment if depression environmentally induced... Sometimes, too, depression can be event or situation or chemical imbalance induced. There are theories that a habit of thinking negative whether learned or feeling trapped in a situation can create a chemical imbalance that is not genetic and stress or trauma related. Replaying thoughts of this trauma can even create the same chemical response, physicologically speaking. So, lots of things work to alleviate depression: medication, getting out of a bad situation, healing from loss (with time), creating balanced habits, counseling to sort it all out etc. I guess the secret is to do personal inventory and enlist an expert counselor if you want help sorting it all out. Not sure if a family physician will prescribe psychotropic medications yet might and for sure I would think "would" refer if patient said felt needed a referral. As well, like with a diabetic watching diet, a depressed person has to watch thought diet and be proactive create a habit of positive thinking such as through DAILY positive affirmations cheering oneself on as Dr. Phil began Season 4.

Dr. Phil gives this number at the end of his book on page 255 for a psychologist in your area...

1-800-964-2000 (Referral to psychologist number Dr. Phil suggests)

  

i have to make an appt. with my dr. in the nest few days. i feel a lump in my right breast and i wanna get it checked out.and i will talk to him about it...thanx all again for the advice. i really appreciate  it 

  

i've just been having bad dreams, and can't get it out of my mind i think i really need help. 

  

 thanx    grinny 

 
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June 25, 2006, 9:21 pm PDT

again thank you

  

thanx again guys ya'll have been extra nice to me. i know i can be a pain but its usually for a good reason 

  

 grinny 

 
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June 25, 2006, 9:31 pm PDT

i'm sorry

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i'm sorry you are going through this also. i don't know how it started. i was in children of alcoholics; and things just got out of control; i can't control it anymore, and don't know how to stop. 

maybe when i get some help i will beable to stop 

  

 thanx again 

               grinny 

 
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July 18, 2006, 6:06 pm PDT

hey its been awhile

  

  wow its been awhile since i've been on here. last week i told my mother allthe things that happened to me as a child.  with her boyfriend raping me and hitting me. and all the school i missed and so on.  and she said wow i thought he was just touching you...i had no idea he was doing all that.    

i guess i was expecting more..like oh hunny i'm sorry you went through this.  i don't know it sounds stupid. i'm 34 i shouldn't have said anything to her. but its been eating away at me for so long. that i had to say something. any suggestions?...please anything.... 

  

 grinny 

 
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July 21, 2006, 12:48 am PDT

wow! what a response

hi me again, i never thought i would get a response like that..thank you for caring and giving me feed back. as an answer to a couple of questions; no i've never received help for any of this.  i don't know how to ask for help. spmetimes i don't think its a big deal but other times; it makes me angry. i have daughters and if anyone would ever dare lay a finger on them i would be out of control. you'd have to put me in a straight jacket cause i'm doing some damage. actually any of my kids; i have a son too and i would be devastated if anything happened to him.  

i feel that its a waste of time to get help; like its too late; and i don't deserve it.?! but its all i think about ...its 3:40 in the morning i can't sleep. i told my older sister about what happened to me. i couldn't believe she had no idea that it was going on. 'cause i told her when i was 10. we were sitting in her kitchen with her friends around.  we were talking about things in that nature. nobody said anything so i didn't act on it. and she told me she was molested also, by a neighbor guy, and she was raped by a relative...she said how can it be rape when you didn't know it was wrong? i said because you didn't know it was wrong, you  obviously were too young. and i know who did it. she swore me to secracy(sp?) but i am in awe...i can't believe this jerk, very close relative of ours did that to her ...i started crying. like my family was so aweful that people could do this to them....what is wrong with this world?! i don't know what to do...it'll come out, but i feel she needs help also. she now in her 40's very happy. but she'll never get over this..and i don't know how to help her if i can't help myself. 

  

 grinny 

 
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July 21, 2006, 9:05 am PDT

thank you

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It sounds like you've really answered your own questions about getting help. It's something you think about all the time so therefor it's worth it. Whenever a problem impacts your life to such a degree that it is sometimes or frequently all consuming...then it's time to start thinking about a different way to handle it by getting some help. Why wouldn't you deserve to get help? We punish ourselves way too often for things we simply do not have control over...abuse being one of biggest things I'm referring to. This problem appears to be affecting your sleep, possibly your relationships with others, how you perceive yourself as well as others, and may even impact your children if you're not careful.  

  

I'm so sorry this happened to your sister as well. Perhaps when you told her at 10 years old she pushed it way back in her mind. It might have been happening to her as well and children are not equipped to handle such things so pushing it back into her mind might have been her self-defense mechanism in order to be able to handle the information. We often block out unwanted memories because they are just too painful to bear. 

  

Molestation is wrong regardless of the fact that a child may have been groomed to the point of "giving consent" so to speak. A child cannot give consent but the molester will justify his actions by stating that the child wanted it too. What has happened is the child trusts this individual to such a degree and has been brainwashed into believing that it's ok. This is why young girls early in their teens should not be hanging around with older men. Regardless of the fact that these girls are older and have greater cognitive skills...they are easily manipulated by the attention of man and that is how the abuse occurs...ie: statutory rape. 

  

Honestly you really need to help yourself before you spend all your energy in helping her. This is not to say that you can't make efforts to help her. Perhaps you two could help each other since you both have apparently gone through similar experiences. Maybe the both of you could go to counseling. Either way however...in order for you to be able to effectively move on, and by this I don't mean "get over it"...I mean come to terms of acceptance and forgiveness of yourself since it appears that you blame yourself on some level, it's important to get the appropriate help. 

  

You are the one however to make the decision on how much this affects your life. You are in more control than you think you are. Love yourself enough to allow yourself to receive help and therefor mend the wounds that have broken your heart and your spirit for so long. 

  

You're worth it. 

i guess sometimes i just need someone to tell me that its ok to get help, and not be the one to do the helping.  its ok to think of yourself once in a while. and do something for yourself.  i will try to get her in counseling. she lives in fla. but we can work at it. i appreciate all the help and support i've received on my problem. and hope i can be of some help to some  of you in the future... thank you  again for everything. it makes me feel good that i have friends like you to get through a difficult situation. 

  

         grinny 

 
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July 25, 2006, 5:18 pm PDT

just a thought

friday is my daughters b-day she'll be 14. i wanted to give her enough to make her happy. my husband and i argue about things like this all the time. usually i spend about 200 a peice. it sounds like alot, but i don't think it is. i mean we really don't have it to spend but shes our daughter. i love her i want her to have things i never had when i was little. we didn't have birthdays because we never had the money. my parents were divorced when i was 5.  my dad would buy me something. i remember one year i got a rose watch. it was beautiful. i loved it. its the only thing i can remember getting. but seeing the way she treats me, actually all my children. having fits because they can't have something right at that moment. shes going to the beach for a week, with her friend and her mom, i'm giving her spending money, i bought her an mp3 player, i bought her the bras and underwear she wanted, flip flops, 2 bathing suits.  its not much but it adds up. i get nothing but cap from all three of my kids. i get so tired of it... any sugg? thanx for listening
 
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August 12, 2006, 1:26 pm PDT

haven't been on in a while

hello everyone, how are you doing? things are ok here...been down alittle and sad, frustrated i'm at a loss of emotion. is that possible? don't know where to go from here. i just don't know....pleas help

 

  grinny

 
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September 14, 2006, 8:48 pm PDT

hi everyone

ok this is going to seem weird...but i just found out my sister was or is bi-polar and she wants me to get to see a dr. because i have the same symptoms as her. like everyday she thought of suicide and some days she was full of  energy and the next day she'd be depressed. and just didn't know how to function.  we also believe our dad was bi-polar. but there is no way to find out. i just don't know why i feel like that half the time.  or most of the time. its so hard to be cheerful for a family when i don't even want to be onthis earth...i feel i'm worthless like i don't deserve to live. what am i doing here? why am i taking up space for someone more desrerving than me? can anyone help?

 

             grinny

 

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