i'll remember the days
Friday, August 27th, 2010 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erikaDue to popular demand, I'm writing a quick post to explain what's going on in my life. My life is like a popular soap: miss a couple entries or start reading late and you'll miss a lot, but hopefully you can think of this as your Soap Opera Digest.
(When I was upset sometime during 2008 I went through and privatized all my old entries, so trust me, I don't blame anyone for getting confused about events prior to that, nor do I expect that someone will have read my full public archive by the time they friend me!)
Firstly: I'm Erika. I'm 24 years old; I currently live with my parents in a suburb of Iowa City, IA. I have two beagles named Teyla (female, adopted as a puppy, 4 1/2 years old) and Ronon (male, rescue, somewhere between 7 1/2 and 9 years old).
I suffer from severe depression (duh). I write about it a lot. I also take a lot of medication for it. Due to my depression and comorbid (coexisting) anxiety, I haven't been able to work since 2007. I'm slowly starting to take classes again.
Major events in my life:
When I was 16 I was diagnosed with depression.
In 2004 my house burnt down; for a long time I believed it was my fault, which was not borne out by investigation or evidence.
3/04 Because of the house burning down, I freaked out and moved to California and in with Steve, where I tried to kill myself multiple times and was hospitalized twice over the course of the time I lived there.
5/05 Moved back to Iowa, hospitalized again once.
7/06 Got the job at gov't contractor.
11/06 Moved in with Chance.
7/07 Left my job at gov't contractor on disability.
Sometime in here: Applied for Social Security disability.
8/08 Moved in with my parents.
1/09 Chance moved back to Arizona.
6/09 I get a social worker who comes to my house every week and takes me out places and encourages me to do stuff.
10/09 I start volunteering.
1/10 I start back at school for a nursing degree.
If there's anything else I mention that you don't get, please let me know. Much like Ferris Bueller, my "life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
(I was going to go through and link entries to these things, but I thought that might just be more confusing.)
(When I was upset sometime during 2008 I went through and privatized all my old entries, so trust me, I don't blame anyone for getting confused about events prior to that, nor do I expect that someone will have read my full public archive by the time they friend me!)
Firstly: I'm Erika. I'm 24 years old; I currently live with my parents in a suburb of Iowa City, IA. I have two beagles named Teyla (female, adopted as a puppy, 4 1/2 years old) and Ronon (male, rescue, somewhere between 7 1/2 and 9 years old).
I suffer from severe depression (duh). I write about it a lot. I also take a lot of medication for it. Due to my depression and comorbid (coexisting) anxiety, I haven't been able to work since 2007. I'm slowly starting to take classes again.
Major events in my life:
When I was 16 I was diagnosed with depression.
In 2004 my house burnt down; for a long time I believed it was my fault, which was not borne out by investigation or evidence.
3/04 Because of the house burning down, I freaked out and moved to California and in with Steve, where I tried to kill myself multiple times and was hospitalized twice over the course of the time I lived there.
5/05 Moved back to Iowa, hospitalized again once.
7/06 Got the job at gov't contractor.
11/06 Moved in with Chance.
7/07 Left my job at gov't contractor on disability.
Sometime in here: Applied for Social Security disability.
8/08 Moved in with my parents.
1/09 Chance moved back to Arizona.
6/09 I get a social worker who comes to my house every week and takes me out places and encourages me to do stuff.
10/09 I start volunteering.
1/10 I start back at school for a nursing degree.
If there's anything else I mention that you don't get, please let me know. Much like Ferris Bueller, my "life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
(I was going to go through and link entries to these things, but I thought that might just be more confusing.)
