Ginag
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| Rank | Senior Member |
| Online Status | OFFLINE |
| Member Since | 07/20/2009 02:50 AM |
| Last Online | 05/22/2013 05:28 AM |
| Website: | ANXIETY |
| Blog: | ABOUT ME |
| A little about me: | Hi I AM NOT A DR. I AM NOT A PSYCHITRISTS. I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR. I have just spent a lot of time with each. I am just a regular gal. I am here to listen, refer, support, and learn. I am a Christian. I believe in the power of free will. I am not here to convert. I respect each persons right to choice. I have had depression since I was 8 years old. I had the beginings of arthiritis and FM since my early 20's. Like any other untreated condition, they progressed. As an adult I was diagnosed with Factor V liden, and essential tremors. For all thoes years I lived in confusion. I didn't understand what was happening to me. I believed the worlds ideas of what that was. All I got from that was low self esteem and a lot of sadness. Chronic is a four letter word. Friends and family grew weary of the longevity and reptition of my conditions. So did I. I am now 61 years old. I have been to Dr.'s and counselors and had tests beyond immagine. I have tried many medications and suffered from the side effects. What all came of that was I learned I had to be my own advocate. I had to fight the fight for my rights to be heard, believed and respected.Dr.'s are not Gods and need to be accountable. I have had many times where I hit bottom with my anxiety and needed to be hospitalized. I thought if the problems would just go away. I learned that what I needed to know was: I was thinking strange thoughts. Thoes thoughts are normal for anxiety. They are symptoms. I am actually acting normal for someone with anxiety/ depression/ pain. Anxiety spiral has a pattern. I can recognize the downward motion. I can stop the downward spiral early on. Have an intervention plan for when the symptoms begin. Don't wait till I'm neck deep in fear and sadness. Take my meds (Xanax)early as I spiral. Take the edge off. Have resources such as MDJunction. Know my illness. Learn from others experiences. Say it out loud. Use descretion, but find someone. Talking helps defuse the situation. Find your higher power. Turning it over dosen't change the situation, but it frees us to see the options available to us. My spirituality opened the door. It gave me the strenght, determination, discernment, and focus I need. MDjunction gave me the support and advice and empowerment to believe that I could be my own advocate. "GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE. THE COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN. AND THE WISDOME TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE." |
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 | ~ Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness in you , even when you don't see it yourself ~ |
| Welcome to the incontinence group, Gina! Sorry I haven't welcomed you sooner, but I'm glad you chose to join us. I hope we can be of some support and encouragement to you. ~Mary |
| Thanks to all my friends for their help and support in getting my book published. Dream of a lifetime! psychopathbook.com by jct |
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Gina
This Diary is just a tunnel vision report of my life. I say tunnel vision because it's just the narrow way I saw it. There is no input from anyone else here. It's just how I remember it.
This Diary is just a tunnel vision report of my life. I say tunnel vision because it's just the narrow way I saw it. There is no input from anyone else here. It's just how I remember it.
| Title | Date | Views | Comments |
| Just when you thik you kow it | 04/28/2013 | 42 | 0 |
| Who said that? No one EVER told me that. | 01/31/2013 | 75 | 1 |
| New level of recovery. | 07/05/2012 | 167 | 1 |
| Addictions | 01/27/2011 | 195 | 3 |
| The 5 stages of grief | 11/02/2010 | 267 | 1 |
| The stages of grief | 11/02/2010 | 229 | 0 |
| Recovery | 08/29/2010 | 174 | 0 |
| 5 years later | 08/02/2010 | 186 | 0 |
| A long journey to nowhere | 08/02/2010 | 220 | 1 |
My Health Topics Contributions
I started discussions in the following health topics:
Anxiety and depression, ANXIETY support, depression E Ts, Dysfunctional famlies, E T s, Esential Tremors, essential tremors, Essntial tremors, et, ET s, ETs, FM, Insomnia and tremors.
Anxiety and depression, ANXIETY support, depression E Ts, Dysfunctional famlies, E T s, Esential Tremors, essential tremors, Essntial tremors, et, ET s, ETs, FM, Insomnia and tremors.
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My Recent Posts
| Hello Everybody. I'm new. | 05/22/2013 | ||
| wanted to introduce myself | 05/22/2013 | ||
| Will changing my schedule help... | 05/17/2013 | ||
| What's Happeing? | 05/17/2013 | ||
| What's Happeing? | 05/17/2013 | ||
| Selegiline HCl (Deprenyl. Elde... | 05/10/2013 | ||
| Thyroid disease and essential ... | 05/10/2013 | ||
| More Sad News | 05/10/2013 | ||
| More Sad News | 05/10/2013 | ||
| More Sad News | 05/10/2013 | ||
| Do you ever find yourself shak... | 05/10/2013 | ||
| Do you ever find yourself shak... | 05/10/2013 | ||
| Thyroid disease and essential ... | 05/09/2013 | ||
| ET in Wisconsin | 05/09/2013 | ||
| ET in Wisconsin | 05/08/2013 | ||
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