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TW - adolescent suicidal thoughts and tendencies, sexual trauma. Hello everyone! This is my first post, so I would like to introduce myself a little and tell a bit of my story! My name is K'Lynn, I'm 27 years young! I have a beautiful family life with my partner and little girl! On to the challenging stuff! I have been plagued with depression and anxiety since I can remember due to bipolar disorder, family trauma, and sexual trauma In fact, at 16, I had planned my death date, April 1st, 2011. All a pun because I felt my life was a joke. but my beautiful baby girl saved my life on March 31st, 2011, when my mother made me take a pregnancy test. My pregnancy was hard. One, because I was 16, B, because I was horribly sick, and finally, because my mother was going through so much stress, she took it all out on me. Well, I finally turned 18, got my own place, and things were good for a while. Till I met Chris, he was sweet, kind, and caring... right? We got married, and things were good for a while, then he decided I was too big and he started starving me, and he never REALLY beat me but he pushed me around and he mentality destroyed me, made me feel inferior, like I was nothing, like I could be nothing without him. We were together for 4 years and 2 days when my 6 year old came forward telling me the worst of the worst, and I'm gonna let your imagination run with you because even this is painful to discuss. It's one thing when it's you, but when it's your baby, you feel like you have completely failed as a mother, and you carry this guilt, even more so because I should have left with what he was doing to me. Anyway, we took care of him But that has left both of us with some pretty nasty Complex-PTSD But 6 months after that battle, I ended up hitting a hog on my way to work one morning. The hogs head ripped my tire well out, and I flipped 6 times, not one air bag deploying. the last time I flipped, I impacted so hard that the car removed pavement off of the road. Well, since that day, I have had horrible issues and chronic pain that I would assume is nerve pain on My left side from my neck down. My arm and leg get heavy . I constantly have pins and needles. Muscle spasms. I get this pin point sting that can be as light as being popped by a rubber band to as strong as having a cigarette put out on me in my foot, the back of my thigh, my back, the back of my arm, and hand. My leg is constantly on fire, be it a cold fire or hot fire, it does alternate, and depending on the day, it can be like a slow coal burn or raging bon fire. I have been diagnosed with degenerative arthritis in my spine with bone spurs, as well as bone spurs in both hips. Fibromyalgia (but the more I look into this, the more I think I've had it for a really long time, and the more I think my mother may as well) I have been looking for a neurologist for months who took my insurance AND does the test my PCP ordered, and I finally found one today. The only downside is I have to travel so far to see him. there really is so much more, and I could go on and on and on, but I want to meet some of yall, tell me about you, why are you here!

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    • Aiya_the_ill

      346d

      Hey, :) Nice to meet you and hear your story! We have quite a bit in common diagnosis wise so I thought I'd share mine :) I have fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, POTS, PTSD, and depression. When I was younger, I got sick constantly with strep, pneumonia, flu, and stomach bugs. I didn't present worrying symptoms of my chronic illnesses until a few years ago. I had sharp and achy pain a lot but I thought I was just out of shape or something. Then, in 2019, I woke up one day and felt absolutely horrible. I had a splitting migraine, terrible muscle aches and spasms, and extreme fatigue and dizziness that just never got better. When I was first diagnosed in 2022, I was ecstatic. I thought that after years of uncertainty, this doctor finally figured out what I have and now I can take meds and get better. I was not prepared at all for them to say that none of these conditions can be cured. With this information, I began to grieve the life I had before. One day, the sky is the limit and I can go into any profession and do anything my heart desires, then the next I am a sick kid whose days are filled with unbearable pain and extremely taxing treatments that failed to help me. This mindset of helplessness, as well as emotional abuse, led me into a deep depression. I missed my old life, and as more treatments failed, I began to lose hope. I decided that, as a last ditch effort, I would get a therapist and if she couldn't help me then I would end my suffering for good. Thankfully she was incredible and helped me navigate out of my abusive situation, process my past trauma, and build up some positive relationships in my life. Now i live with the mindset: what if it turns out better than you could have ever imagined. Life can decline fast which means it can also get better in an instant. I am now working with a physical therapist to get my strength back and I am working towards becoming an EMT so I can help support other people like us. 😁

    • Aiya_the_ill

      346d

      Hey, :) Nice to meet you and hear your story! We have quite a bit in common diagnosis wise so I thought I'd share mine :) I have fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, POTS, PTSD, and depression. When I was younger, I got sick constantly with strep, pneumonia, flu, and stomach bugs. I didn't present worrying symptoms of my chronic illnesses until a few years ago. I had sharp and achy pain a lot but I thought I was just out of shape or something. Then, in 2019, I woke up one day and felt absolutely horrible. I had a splitting migraine, terrible muscle aches and spasms, and extreme fatigue and dizziness that just never got better. When I was first diagnosed in 2022, I was ecstatic. I thought that after years of uncertainty, this doctor finally figured out what I have and now I can take meds and get better. I was not prepared at all for them to say that none of these conditions can be cured. With this information, I began to grieve the life I had before. One day, the sky is the limit and I can go into any profession and do anything my heart desires, then the next I am a sick kid whose days are filled with unbearable pain and extremely taxing treatments that failed to help me. This mindset of helplessness, as well as emotional abuse, led me into a deep depression. I missed my old life, and as more treatments failed, I began to lose hope. I decided that, as a last ditch effort, I would get a therapist and if she couldn't help me then I would end my suffering for good. Thankfully she was incredible and helped me navigate out of my abusive situation, process my past trauma, and build up some positive relationships in my life. Now i live with the mindset: what if it turns out better than you could have ever imagined. Life can decline fast which means it can also get better in an instant. I am now working with a physical therapist to get my strength back and I am working towards becoming an EMT so I can help support other people like us. 😁

      • Kmlb5464

        346d

        @Aiya_the_ill That is absolutely amazing! I love to see how powerful everyone on here is, to here your story has made my day! Thank you for sharing!

        • Aiya_the_ill

          346d

          @Kmlb5464 happy to share :)

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