PatientsLikeMe : Chelena's Mood Conditions Profile

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Status: Member since: 04/08; Last updated: 11/18/09; Last login: 11/15/09

Chelena: Sex: F; Data Quality: 3 stars; Mood Community; Depression: 2; Emotional: 2; Compulsion: 1; Anxiety: 2; Mania: 1; Physical: 1; External Stress: Severe; Rx Therapy; 54 F; Function: Moderate; Distress: Moderate; See profile

Chelena: Female, 54 years; Sacramento, CA

Condition History: PTSD, Depression

Profile Activity: 1591 Views

About Me: I've always felt that I lived more in gloom and darkness than in the light. My earliest memories from age four and five are of feeling lost, alone, anxious, & confused. My mother was severely depressed when she was carrying me and her marriage was falling apart. I think had I been born and raised today a pediatrician or doctor would have diagnosed me very early with depression and PTSD. I had asthma from birth, went bald at 5YO for a year & was paralyzed during that time for 6 weeks from the waist down, quarantined in the hospital and never diagnosed, not even for a severe mental collapse. More…