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I was horribly abused as a child. Physically and emotionally. On a weekly basis from age 6 until age 15. I went into a shelter for abused children and then to a foster home. After I was in Foster Care I began to exhibit more symptoms of PTSD, Social Anxiety, Panic Attacks and OCD plus Fibromyalgia. It was 1987. No one understood or had any clue as to what was wrong with me. Now with 20/20 hindsight I see I had Fibromyalgia symptoms way back then. I can trace flair ups as far back as when I was 7 years old. That was when my first big trauma occured. After too many traumas built up, I got worse