Thank you everyone for the support.

I'm sorry this reply is so late; I didn't forget about all of you lovely people but was instead in inpatient treatment for the last week or so. It was an awful transition from being entirely housebound to living with 2 roommates, being surrounded by nurses and doctors and therapists and other patients 24 hours a day--not to mention any means of communication with the outside world--but I seem to have come out of it alive and better than before. That, or the hospital wanted to get rid of me because they didn't know what to do with me.

Thanks, muncie, for the advice. I am supposed to start college this fall and I was hoping that school would be a good "change of focus" for me. But I've frightened my parents so much with my behavior lately that they want to keep me home--which is understandable. Either way, I need to find something to keep myself occupied.

So, right now, I have to be sure and get the mail EVERY day (therapist's orders!). I'm pretty embarrassed about this "assignment" because it seems like a trifle, and I have to keep reminding myself that it's OK to start small. But still. It gets to me sometimes.

Anyway, I will try to keep better updates with how I'm doing if anyone cares to read them. Thank you all for your patience and understanding.