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Laphin

690d

I’m 39 years old female, have ptsd, bipolar disorder and panic disorder, Some of the workers don’t believe my depression.

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    • Jazzyy

      534d

      @Laphin honestly sticking up for your self in small acts at first help

    • peachy45

      535d

      Hello same issues here my Dr won't listen my family thinks I've lost my mind I even asked my family if they could help me financially they laughed and didn't speak to me for a few yrs

    • Overcomer

      538d

      Why Laphin do they think you are not depressed?

    • Jazzyy

      539d

      Hi laphin I have bipolar depression and PTSD and even my family who were my abusers don't believe me so I get it

    • Araya

      690d

      I'm driving right now but will share when I get home

      • Laphin

        690d

        @Araya thank you for telling me your life story, I was rape by another military member back in 2015. Today I live with my bf just got out from the military been together for three years and living together with a cat we rescue. He got kicked out from a family home . But now he is happy with us.

    • Araya

      690d

      my story isa long and twisted story

    • Laphin

      690d

      Any tips how to ignore some of the workers talking behind me and saying I’m fake my panic attacks?

      • Jazzyy

        534d

        @Laphin honestly sticking up for your self in small acts at first help

    • Araya

      690d

      I am 42 years old and sometimes my own story is hard for me to believe but I have had professionals say the same thing to me I even have one tell me that was surprised I hadn't killed myself yet. I suffer from PTSD, clinical depression and insomnia

      • Mystique

        690d

        @Araya care to share your story? I’m 42 as well and have PTSD depression anxiety insomnia I suffer from panic and anxiety attacks. A lot of times when I share my story with people they usually say something along the lines like “ wow you haven’t lost your mind” or “wow I would’ve liked myself already”

        • Araya

          690d

          @Mystique I spent most of my 20s traveling the United States living in several different states I did this by being an exotic dancer. That was a lifestyle that comes with a cost. I was raped and attacked twice leaving clubs. And around the time I ended up in Colorado my defenses were down, I wasn't as strong as I once was mentally or physically. when I met a man that would forever leave his imprint on my life. I would spend days chained to a toilet only feeding me bits of food. He he sexually abused me for years but the first thing he did was get me addicted to methamphetamines and move me all the way out to California. It started small he would throw a sandwich at me if I didn't get his order right or smack me in my face if I said something he didn't agree with. That's when I started to see myself fading away and this scared little girl taking my place. The breaking point was when he threw me off a two-story balcony. There's much more to this, stories before this story life has not been kind to me. In my late twenties and an early 30s I spent creating a family. And then when I hit 40 my whole life changed the trauma of all that he had done to me flooding back and just overcome me. When I had my second child I suffered severe postpartum depression, it didn't help that at the same time my father became sick, dementia. As well as the fact that my second born will also be diagnosed autistic and I don't know if it was the stress of all that or if it was my past trauma but I lost my mind and left my husband got a divorce but it's not something I regret it's just something that I didn't know I needed

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