Mental Health Question.?

Wilfredo Muldoon: As a mental health professional with 20+ years experience, now retired, and having worked with numerous clients with your background, I can say that answers for your question would need more information. For example, you don't say what medicine your taking, and how much and when. That is a significant factor here. Also I would want to know your use of alcohol or "street" drugs, if any. You don't tell me what your age is so I can only guess you're in your twenties, but I don't like to guess in this business. Your diagnoses sound accurate or appropriate for your history. The depression and personality disorder and memory problems and eating and sleeping problems sound accurate for your diagnoses. I know you know all this, but I'm simply running through the issues that are and are not there so I know what I have to work with. I will say this, that to find "the answer" here is inappropriate because you have significant factors to work with, and the f! act that you have been diagnosed with a personality disorder strongly suggests a long term treatment. How long depends on numerous factors, including the use of psychiatric medication (which meds and how much) and the coordination or lack thereof between all your mental health workers and psychiatrist. I would wonder if you've been receiving treatment weekly, consistently, over the 5 year period you're speaking of. Many clients do not maintain consistent treatment, and when they stop and restart somewhere else, or even in the same location, that draws out the healing process for a long time. I am sure that your ability to trust people is very "iffy", and the more significant the person or persons, the more difficulty you'll have, so, consistency of treatment is also "iffy". Let me recommend, if you have not so far, that you definitely maintain consistent and frequent (at least weekly) counseling sessions, and always maintain proper medication regimen. If you have trou! ble with the meds, tell the doctor so he or she can alter the ! meds accordingly, but always go to ONE doctor for your psychiatric medications, and stay consistent with treatment. To predict how long it will take you to "heal" enough to feel better is impossible to do on YA, so I can only recommend treatment patterns that I have seen offer the quickest remedying of the situation. Your factors for treatment are significant, so I'd never expect quick resolution, but the more consistent you are, the quicker you'll feel some resolve. One final note here is that your relations with men are more problematic than with just your ex-husband that you say abused you. Be wary of your issues with men. Not all men are abusive, but how you choose men and how you relate to them will be difficult for you and should be a treatment issue. I wish I could say, "Poof", and all your difficulties would be through, but it just simply doesn't work that way. I will always pray you stay consistent with your treatment and reach some notable resolve soon. Go! d Bless you....Show more

Providencia Serpe: I know that healing from abuse can be hard I have also been diagnosed with PTSD from Sexual abuse as a child and an adult. What I have learned and am still learning is that the only way to deal with it and to feel better is to deal with it. Not dealing with it can't help you in fact it hurts more in the long run.I wish that I could just wish it away also it would be the easiest way of dealing with things. But we can't. We have to deal with it. Things have gotten better for me because I have found a great therapist who's always there for me and who really believes that therapy is a team effort. I have both a psychiatrist and a psychologist and we all work together to make sure that I'm on the same page as they are. We talk about my medication and treatment before we implement anything and we make sure that we all agree. Even when I had to be hospitalized last year it was a joint decision. You should make sure that all ! of your doctors as well as you agree on your treatment. Don't leave it ! up to only the doctors it's your life you have to be as pro active as you can. That is the only way that you will start to feel better. You may not be able to control every thing that happens to you but you can do the things that you can....Show more

Ramona Pago: I am on 400mg of Zoloft and 100mg of Straterra.

Samatha Nicar: I am a 60 year old male who suffers from PTSD, Manic Depression, Panic Disorder, and Anxiety Attacks. I take enough meds a day to open my own drug store. What I have learned is that some drugs work and some don't. Talk to your shrink and see if there is a better combination of meds for you to take, I have been this way since the end of the Viet Nam war. Some days I cannot get out of bed. Some days I cannot do enough. Some days are just days. I take the good with the bad. Remember that you are on a roller coater ride when it comes to how you feel. Try to accomplish one thing only. Get the rush when that task is complete. Then try another. S! ometimes one thing is the only thing you can do all week. Sometimes you are a whorl wind of energy.Basically, check into possible new meds. Remember that your alternative to meds and therapy is the worst thing that you can do. Smile just once for me. I have smiled for you. There are always people out there who want to help, just let them in....Show more

Rosalia Hibler: I am so very sorry that you are suffering so much. I wish there were magic words that would make the pain and bad memories go away. You need to have you Dr. re-assess your meds as certain anti-depressive meds can certainly affect sleep and memory. You may need to try a different combination or new meds entirely. As far as the abuse goes, sometimes a support group can help. Then you will not feel so alone and others who have been in the same situation can help in terms of what they themselves found helpful. I know that it is easy to say, but you have to let go honey. I was abused by my ex-husband ! for 9 long years and I have no doubt that I too am carrying a lot of ba! ggage. But you have to let it GO, think of it as a cancer. Dont let him continue to win which he is, by you feeling this way. Sometimes a change of Therapist can help too. Please know that there are people who care and understand and you are not alone. Take control of your life. Good luck....Show more

Rufus Plough: You say you are on high doses of meds. Has it occurred to you that one of these might be making you feel worse? If you can edit your question to add details (what meds you're on), I can try to advise you then....

Alden Soldano: Have you tried empowering yourself? Try taking karate lessens or something of the sort to learn how to protect yourself. Try some assertiveness classes, too.

Dalila Yoon: Licensed counselors are only mans knowledge not Gods. If you want a free faith based counselor just ask me for the site they work out of.

Chris Wilczewski: I am so sorry that you feel so bad. I wish I had a great answer for you, but I do! n't. The counseling and medication are probably the most important things you can do for help right now. Have you ever read a book called, "Man's Search for Meaning?" It's written by a man who survived Nazi concentration camps during WWII. He talks about helping others as a way to ease our own pain. This book has been very meaningful to me, and maybe it would help you, too. I will pray for you,God Bless...Show more

Davida Gisriel: I'm so sorry.. Sometimes meds can have bad side effects and make you feel even worse..I am not advocating going off them totally, but maybe a reduction in them by your attending doc.. As for how to deal with the memories of your abuse, it's really tough. Maybe join a group for abused women. They hold meetings and talk about their abuses and you might be able to identify with them and vise versa..They may have valuable suggestions to help you and you might even be able to help somebody else eventually..I know how hard it is to deal with the m! emories of bad events that have happened to you and I too have had some! horrible things happen to me and all in a short period of time. A sexual assualt by a stranger, and the court dismissed the case. A guy I was dating who just suddenly flipped out one night and I had to get a restraining order when he kept calling and threatening to kill me and my dogs, and blow up my house. The judge took the restraining order off. I was robbed of $20,000 worth of jewelry by a trusted friend who I had to prosecute. I did get my jewelry back thank God.. And I ended up being unjustifiably committed to a horrible state mental insitution in 2003, which was the worst 4 days I ever spent in my life! It's too long to go into, but I was not mentally ill and yet this happened. I was kept there 4 days, and then sent home. I cannot get that experience out of my head no matter how much I want to..I have prayed for amneisa even. So, how does one forget horrendous events? I guess you can't. But, if kept busy with other good things in life, and being with good and ca! ring people, I find I don't think about it as much. Night times are the worst since I live alone with only my 2 dogs. Sometimes the memories of that place come flooding back into my head at night in bed, and I have to force myself to read a book or go on the computer and get distracted. It's been 4 years now, and I'm not letting it ruin the rest of what life I have left. I always say, things happen for a reason. Sometimes we have no idea at the time, why. Later the answer may come and it might just be that we can help someone else by our past experience. That is turning a bad negative into a good positive in my book.. I hope you can somehow get yourself to a point where you'll be able to deal with the past and not let it ruin the rest of your life. You can e-mail me anytime if you'd like to talk> Scorpiosweb@Aol.com I hope this helps you a bit and God Bless.. Joanie...Show more

Johnnie Pummill: Have you ever considered E.M.D.R? This type of therapy set me free. I was! no longer a prisoner in my own mind after a few treatments. I highly s! uggest you do some research on it. Good luck. Just google E.M.D.R. recovery therapy.