October 9, 2007 – 8:00 am
It all started on February 14, 2002, Valentine's Day. My wife wanted out, and the night just got worse for me. I wanted to end my life. I started to jump into a bottle of booze and filled a needle full of insulin. Then I had a blackout from the booze which went on for [...]
October 8, 2007 – 8:00 am
I grew up in a very abusive home where I learned to keep secrets, how not to trust or communicate, and that I had no self-worth. As a result, I have been diagnosed with chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PtSD), anxiety disorder as well as borderline personality disorder. On the positive side, I learned how [...]
October 7, 2007 – 8:00 am
As long as I can remember I have been anxious, or as some might say, a “worrywart.” My very first memories are of a child of four or five having stomachaches every morning before school. Sometimes they were so bad that my mother would allow me to stay home from school. This was a rare [...]
October 6, 2007 – 8:00 am
When I got married I assumed I’d eventually become pregnant and give birth to children. Two or three years later I learned that was not going to happen. So my husband and I adopted a baby boy and then, a few years later, a baby girl. We were happy and busy taking care of our [...]
October 5, 2007 – 8:00 am
The beginning of my struggle with mental illness started when I was molested at age 10. This started a downward spiral of depression that was diagnosed at age seventeen. A series of unfortunate events happened to me over the next ten years. The job that I had maintained for twenty-three years had suddenly closed; I [...]
October 4, 2007 – 8:00 am
I am forty-four years old, a father of four, and I have a fiancée. I was first diagnosed with a mental illness in my early twenties after a nervous breakdown. The local psychiatric hospital diagnosed me with a mood disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. I had daily thoughts of suicide and I [...]
October 3, 2007 – 8:00 am
Ever since I was a child it seemed that my life has been surrounded by conflict and drama. My father was a very abusive man in all aspects of the word. My mother would come home to him passed out from drugs and alcohol, and I was upstairs turning blue or having some sort of [...]
October 2, 2007 – 8:00 am
I was born into a beautiful family. My childhood was peaceful, secure and happy. I graduated from high school with honors, ranking 16th out of 450 students. I was involved in numerous activities. I have always been a leader. All my adult life I was an independent person. I have a husband of ten years [...]
October 1, 2007 – 8:00 am
Who Was I?
I live in the woods near Roscommon, Michigan, in the upper part of the Lower Peninsula. I am 62 years old and lived as a hermit for 12 years. I am now a consumer of Mental Health services served by Northern Lakes Community Mental Health (NLCMH). I came out of the woods to [...]
