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Welcome
Judy
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 10:30 AMre: Welcome
marley75
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 10:41 AMThank you Judy! I am so glad I found this site and can read and share with others who have this illness. Thank you for calling me brave. I have never felt more scared in my life, and the hospital stay saved my life. I had a plan and everything. Thank the gods for my therapist (who practices the EMDR) for she knew I meant that I was done with life and immediately sent me to the hospital to be safe. Everyone there was very nice and helpful. When I left, I was so sick from detoxing from the klonopin withdrawal and had no idea how long that would go on. I am finally off that and weaned down to the 50mg of zoloft and the trazadone is basically for sleep....
again, thank you for commenting and welcoming me here :)
re: Welcome
marley75
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 10:49 AMBy the way Judy, I love my EMDR!! And it is so cool how it works and how it helps you process what happened.
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Judy
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 10:53 AMYes, I've found that to be true, as well. It's almost like magic, how it works, isn't it? I guess more and more therapists are starting to get trained in it. I would guess some of the slowness of its acceptance has been that sounds a little hocus-pocus, but my therapist decided to check it out and now helps to train others, she's so convinced of its usefulness.
I hope you'll keep writing here and let us know how you're doing.
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Merely Me
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 10:29 PMHello and welcome!
I am happy that you have met Judy...she is a wonderful resource and support here on My Depression Connection.
I want to commend you on all that you have survived and how much you are working to help yourself. Managing depression can seem like a full time job with all we have to do to stay afloat.
I was sexually molested too as a very young girl and I can tell you that this sort of thing stays with you and is very difficult to get past.
There are three time lines we have to deal with in our life...the past, the present, and the future. Sometimes it is overwhelming to deal with right now...as we have so much past baggage to deal with as well as worries about the future.
I want to hear more of your story. You have a courageous spirit and I feel that our other members can learn a lot from hearing about your experiences.
Thank you for joining our site. I hope you find healing and connection here.
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marley75
Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 01:02 PMThankyou! I work hard every day to fight my depression and PTSD symptoms. I am so glad I found this site to hear other people's stories and to work on my own. I will post more. It is so good to get it out :)
I am sorry to hear you were molested as well. It is more common than people let on and I believe that most mental illness is triggered by some sort of childhood/teenage trauma. Keep on keeping on!
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Welcome to our site, Marley. You'll find a lot of supportive people here and many who are going/have gone through what you're dealing with. It sounds like you're doing everything right. You're the only other person here that I know of who is doing EMDR - it's kind of hard to describe, isn't it? But it works so well. As you probably know by now, it isn't an instant cure, but it peels away layers of trauma one by one. I take Klonopin to sleep, tried Trazadone for quite a while and it kind of quit working. I'm on Wellbutrin and Zoloft, but am coming off the Zoloft because it left me feeling totally numb, so am increasing the Wellbutrin instead - we'll see what happens.
If there's any information or help you need, be sure to let us know. Thanks for sharing your story - I think you're very brave.