thank you seeker and skeezyks for your responses! i am seeing someone at school and i am going to continue seeing the psychiatrist and possibly a therapist at the same place. i guess it just takes time with talking it out and things like that! i am scared of the possibility of repressed memories and i certainly dont want to create false ones

those articles are very helpful, it does sound like that could be me! in fact i was talking about this with a family friend the other night.

thank you for your compliment by the way, seeker. i wouldn't call myself intelligent, however since my family wasn't very supportive about this until recently i had to do a lot of research on my own. for the longest time i thought i was going crazy!

thank you and good luck to you both! and happy new year!