We ARE Strong

[Guest guest]

I agree with you both, Tigger and Marti. In my case, I kept a lot to myself

growing up and I was convinced I was some sort of freak, but didn't have

anyone to talk to about my secrets. I wasn't abused or anything, but I was

scared a lot of the time that my quirks would come out and everyone would

think I was loony. So, I think I basically had the anxiety and depression

going back to at least 6th grade, but because no one chose to recognize it,

and I didn't know what to call it either, it got swept under the rug. So,

those scars built up. When I began counseling it still took me years to

share my deepest, darkest secret with a counselor, but when I did, I knew

that it wasn't as big a deal as I had made it as a child, and it felt like a

big weight lifted off my shoulders. But still, the scars were there and I

know thats what added to this whole FM deal.

I could have turned to alcohol to comfort myself, but I had my best

friend, food. Ah well, maybe I'm not so strong after all.

Jeanne in WI

> My psychiatrist said after many sessions of my telling him the story of my

> life, that he was really surprised that I wasn't an alcoholic, or drug

> user, or hadn't been in a psychiatric ward somewhere. I agree with him.

> there were times I thought I should go in for a while myself. I have felt

> really crazy at times and also very depressed.

> I agree with you that we are a strong group of people. Who knows maybe

> having a background like that and not doing one of those things is what

> brings on fibromyalgia, since emotional scars have to get out somehow.

> Marti

>

> Tigger wrote:

> I'm always amazed that more of us aren't alcoholics. I'm serious.

> With the

> physical and emotional pain we go through it truly is amazing. do you

> realize what a strong group we are?

>

> Tigger (Ruth) in Rhode Island