Thread: Do i NEED help?
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Old Apr 17, 2014, 09:34 PM
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Thank you for your reply. What is it that you are suffering with? What sort of help did you receive and how did you come to tell your family?
hey sorry just saw this. My current dxs: generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, major depressive disorder. i also have obsessive & intrusive thoughts consistent with OCD, no compulsions though. I have a bit of body dysmorphia, but that's low down on the list of things i worry about..

I basically spent freshman year of college super miserable, and realllly homesick, so i think my mom picked up on that. finally one day i just broke down and told my mom how sad i was.. i didn't feel safe being on my own. Bc i was going to school in Massachusetts but my fam lives in Jersey, we decided it was best i take some time off. i took a semester off and did a whole bunch of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. this helped a bit, but only up to a point. I decided to transfer colleges and thought that with a change like that, i could potentially be okay. welllll that's not what happened. I then spent 2 years at Boston U. at the end of my 2nd year i really fell apart. my best friend and i got in a HUGE fight and she moved out. 2 months later my bf dumped me. so i was all alone in this apartment up in boston. at this point in time i was also weaning myself off of Klonopin. i got HORRIBLE withdrawals. shaking, loss of appetite, super panicky. one night after binge drinking (i do the same as you. binge drink, then feel horrible), actually it was after a cinco de mayo party we had haha, i had the worst anxiety attack i've ever had. usually marijuana can stop my panicky-ness, but even ripping a bong didn't help. LUCKILY i had an appointment with my psychiatrist that day. i told her that i felt horrible & have never been this bad. because i drink and smoke a lot of weed she suggested i go to a rehab. i had the doctor call my mom, because i was too ashamed of telling her any of this :/

but, turns out rehab wasn't right for me.. i was the only one there whose main problem was mental illness. basically, i was a depressed pothead sitting with a bunch of chronic alcoholics and heroine addicts. so i came home for a bit and saw my primary psychiatrist, she recommended a 4 week intensive in-patient Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) program at a hospital in Connecticut. i went, ended up staying for 6 weeks, and have been doing DBT since (this was last summer). DBT has helped enormously. lemme know if you have anymore questions, sorry i kind of was just rambling on.. i'll remember to check this thing tomorrow. Good luck
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