RunsFromBugs
07-07-06, 18:09
I've been coming to this website for a long time just to read the posts cause they always make me feel better. Just started posting so thought I should introduce myself.
I'm 28 and happily married. I have a job I enjoy doing graphics and web work for a university library. I have many wonderful friends and family too. I'm a vegetarian and love eating out, watching movies and reading. Outside of my PAs, I consider myself very lucky.
I started getting PAs when I was 13. I was living up north at the time and regularly brought in stray animals at night for fear they would freeze to death if left outside overnight. Naturally, I occasionally got scratched, so when I started getting PAs, I thought I had contracted rabies and was going mad. After awhile, I figured out that it wasn't rabies - took almost a year though - I'm a lil slow. :) Then I started talking about it to doctors but was told that it was just puberty and I would get over it. I went from being a straight A student to getting Ds and Cs by the time I was 15. I finally got diagnosed at 16 and went on meds for 6 months. Felt cured by 20 but they came back in a year. Went back on meds, graduated college, got married, wanted lil ones so came off the meds. Got in a really bad car wreck, moved into a house much further away than we used to live and started getting PAs again. Which is where I'm at now. Working on CBT therapy to get back on the road and be comfy alone again. Right now my husband drives me places and I'm never home alone. We live in a house in the woods and I'm a city girl.
Wow I rambled on a bit there. Sorry about that but looking forward to getting to know some of the people here. Everyone seems so nice. And I want to thank all the people who have posted in the past and also those who work hard to keep those old posts up. They have really helped me a lot (esp the obsessive thought and depersonalization posts) and I'm sure they help a lot of other people too.
I'm 28 and happily married. I have a job I enjoy doing graphics and web work for a university library. I have many wonderful friends and family too. I'm a vegetarian and love eating out, watching movies and reading. Outside of my PAs, I consider myself very lucky.
I started getting PAs when I was 13. I was living up north at the time and regularly brought in stray animals at night for fear they would freeze to death if left outside overnight. Naturally, I occasionally got scratched, so when I started getting PAs, I thought I had contracted rabies and was going mad. After awhile, I figured out that it wasn't rabies - took almost a year though - I'm a lil slow. :) Then I started talking about it to doctors but was told that it was just puberty and I would get over it. I went from being a straight A student to getting Ds and Cs by the time I was 15. I finally got diagnosed at 16 and went on meds for 6 months. Felt cured by 20 but they came back in a year. Went back on meds, graduated college, got married, wanted lil ones so came off the meds. Got in a really bad car wreck, moved into a house much further away than we used to live and started getting PAs again. Which is where I'm at now. Working on CBT therapy to get back on the road and be comfy alone again. Right now my husband drives me places and I'm never home alone. We live in a house in the woods and I'm a city girl.
Wow I rambled on a bit there. Sorry about that but looking forward to getting to know some of the people here. Everyone seems so nice. And I want to thank all the people who have posted in the past and also those who work hard to keep those old posts up. They have really helped me a lot (esp the obsessive thought and depersonalization posts) and I'm sure they help a lot of other people too.