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Kiera Harrison

Hello

My name is Kiera Harrison I am doing a blog for my Sociology Class and the topic I chose to do is about People who Suffer from Depression, Anxiety, and Bipolar. Witch is very important to me because I for 1 can relate to these mental illnesses and would like to post stories, and helpful links and resources. So that people who suffer can know that they're not alone and that their is help.

In December 2005, right after I had my son I was diagnosed with Clinical Depression, an Anxiety. To this day I still suffer from Depression and Anxiety,but yet I am seeing help and it dose really work. I would like to talk about this issue because it's not a subject brought up and some people feel low or sad if they come out when really there is help standing in front of you.

Please take a moment to look over my blog and please leave comments, this is my first time doing a blog and I am hoping that I post enough information and stories to read.

Thank you.

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Kiera Harrison ∙ 30 weeks ago

To add to my blog I will be talking about Bullying in our Society today and how it effects are children and their schooling. Nearly half a million kids today stop going to school due to bullies, lets take a stand against Bullying. Please if you have any stories that you would like to share, I will be posting them on my blog for my Sociology Class.

Lisa Stillwell ∙ 30 weeks ago

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Kiera Harrison ∙ 31 weeks ago

Ms Moody Anxious Depressed BPD Person!!
More anxiety today. I am ‘Ms Anxiety’. I really hope that this doesn’t develop in to a thing of the future for me because it’s really unpleasant. My heart flutters, I feel faint, lightheaded, out of it, disconnected and I stop breathing for a few seconds.

It happens mainly when I have contact with others and I get all nervous and funny. I won’t lie and say that I have the best self-confidence and all the rest of it but this is still something pretty new for me to experience. I feel the need to quickly run from the situation and go and be by myself. Or go to the nurse’s station and ask for Clonazepam. Damn, I can’t keep relying on medications to do the trick for me.

As far as medications go, I have to say, it’s taken me 2 1/2 years to realise that medications, at least for me, hardly do much asides from take the edge off of symptoms. (Benzos work, but that’s about it). All along, my psychologists and psychiatrists kept saying that we’ll find something that is good for me and I put so much faith in to the medications it’s crazy. I’m upset and disappointed about this if I were to be honest. But then again, I hate having regrets about the past – I just want to feel good now in the present and make the right choices for myself.

As far as therapy goes… Well, it’s pretty much like the medications. I always thought that therapy would be this wonderful life changing experience and an eye opening thing for me. I can’t say that it’s been either to any degree. My psychologists have been very ‘talk-therapy’ based so I can’t say that I’ve gained so much from these 2-3 meetings a week for the last 2 1/2 years.

The only thing I can say that has healed me especially slowly but surely is time. That’s the only thing that has been constant. Like I say – Very slowly, but surely.

But how much time can one give to heal? It feels like a life sentence. It really does.

I’ve heard that you will start to have more good days than bad days and gradually over time it will tip the scales over in to the good corner and only what will be left is bad days like ‘normal’ people have also which is to be expected.

Sorry for going off on a tangent there. I had an old friend write to me to ask what’s going on with me, so I had to think about what’s been going on for the last year and that’s a little what I’ve gained from thinking about it.

I’m a misunderstood ‘gal. Yesterday I went twice to the nurse’s office because of anxiety. Yes, anxiety. And the next thing I know, today, I’m dragged in to the head nurse’s office and asked about the bad thoughts I was having yesterday about wanting to harm myself! Excuse me?! That’s what happens when you have a bad language barrier. But I still don’t know how what I was explaining to the nurse turns in to SI thoughts! I said I am feeling lightheaded and faint and that my heart was beating fast and breathing had even stopped for a few seconds. I said nothing about wanting to self-harm.

Anyway. Slightly annoying because my psychiatrist has now heard about this and now thinks that I want to hurt myself again. They’re getting me all wrong. I want to go to the mall tomorrow and I need a pass to leave – now I have to go and get the pass from my psychiatrist and explain the misunderstanding.

Over and out!

Ms Moody Anxious Depressed BPD Person!!

Kiera Harrison ∙ 32 weeks ago

Fear and anxiety in childhood
Posted on August 30, 2012 by raihan 0
From the early age all children are more or less trouble by fear, and some are so afraid that their freedom of action is seriously impaired. Adults too are usually afraid, many of them combat with unresolved problems that are established directly or indirectly in their childhood fears. Fears exists so generally in contemporary life that the present time has been called the “age of anxiety”. Thais probably does not mean that the present age is more fear ridden than earlier periods in history but that people recognize the inroads of fear more clearly and acknowledge them more openly than they did in the past. In earlier generations one make of a hero was that he was without fear. Now it is recognized that such a hero probably never existed. No one who is alert to currents in his own life and to circumstances in the world in which he lives can be wholly without fear. Some people are afraid to admit to others that they are scared, and there are some who are unwilling to grant to themselves more humbly and who face reality with more courage do not feel it necessary to play false in this regard. They accept the fact that fear has had, and still has, an important place in their lives.

Early signs of fear

During infancy, a child’s fears arise mainly in response to happenings in his immediate environment. As he grows older, the range of his fears grows wider. As he acquires the ability to dwell upon his past and to anticipate his future, a large number of his fears pertain to distant dangers, foreboding as to what the future may bring, and apprehensions concerning his own impulses and what he has done or might do.

There have been various theories as to what are original or unlearned fear stimuli. In an earlier day, there were theories to the effect that we are endowed with many instinctive fears, such as fear of animals, of the occult, of death, of large bodies of water, and so forth. Later a theory was advanced that there are only two original, “natural” fear stimuli, namely, loud noises and sudden displacement or less or support, but this account was as inadequate as it was simple. The circumstances that may give rise to so-called “unlearned” fears in the infant include not simply noises and less of support, but any intense, sudden, unexpected or novel stimulus or any condition which demands some kind of adaptation for which the organism is unprepared.

Moreover, the fear stimulus cannot be described as consisting as consisting simply of an isolated external stimulus like a noise, for example. Depending upon the condition of the organism of the time-weather, for example it is in a state of tension or relaxation-a certain noise may produce fear at one time but not at another. In like manner, a happening may produce fear one child and not in another. It is necessary to take a account not only the condition of the individual who is responding but also the setting of the external stimulus. A noise and a sudden movement, each of which alone elicits no response, may, in condition, produce fright; again a jolt may arouse fear who a child is with an unfamiliar person but not when a familiar person is near.